Shania Twain: The Life Story Behind Country's Queen

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Shania Twain, Canada singer, in a portrait photograph.
In this post
  1. Windsor to Timmins: A Childhood of Poverty and Music
  2. Singing in Bars at Eight and the Family That Raised Her
  3. Nashville, the First Album and the Long Apprenticeship
  4. The Woman in Me, Mutt Lange and the Breakthrough
  5. Come On Over: The Biggest Country Album Ever
  6. Up!, the Hiatus and the Voice That Went Quiet
  7. My Take:

Shania Twain was born on 28 August 1965 in Windsor, Ontario, Canada, and she became the best-selling female country artist of all time, with her album Come On Over selling more than forty million copies and making her a global star. She grew up in Timmins, a small mining town in northern Ontario, in a family that was poor, with a stepfather who worked in a tree-planting business and a mother who struggled to feed five children, and she began singing in bars at the age of eight to help support her family. Her breakthrough came in the 1990s, with the producer and songwriter Mutt Lange, who became her husband and her collaborator, and whose partnership produced three of the best-selling country albums ever made. Her career since has included a long hiatus caused by vocal problems and by divorce, a Las Vegas residency, and a comeback that has made her a symbol of resilience. Shania Twain’s story is about a girl from Timmins who became the Queen of Country Pop, and who did it by singing her way out of poverty, one bar at a time.

Windsor to Timmins: A Childhood of Poverty and Music

Eilleen Regina Edwards was born in Windsor, Ontario, the daughter of Sharon Morrison and Clarence Edwards, and she grew up in Timmins, a small town in northern Ontario, after her mother married Jerry Twain, an Ojibwe man who adopted Eilleen and her sisters and gave them his surname. The family was poor, with Jerry working in a tree-planting business and Sharon working to support five children, and Shania, as she later became known, has spoken about the experience of going hungry, of wearing hand-me-down clothes, and of living in a house without enough heat in the Ontario winter. She has three younger siblings, Jill, Carrie-Anne, and Mark, and the family lived in Timmins, where the winters were long and the work was hard. The Timmins childhood was difficult, but it was also musical, because Sharon, who sang in local bands, encouraged her children to sing, and Shania began performing at a young age, in bars and at community events, to help earn money for the family. The poverty was real, and it shaped Shania’s determination to succeed, because she knew, from childhood, what it was like to have nothing.

As a child Shania was drawn to music, listening to country singers and to rock bands, and she began singing in public when she was eight years old, performing in bars in Timmins, often late at night, after school, to earn money for her family. The experience of singing in bars as a child, in smoky rooms full of adults, was unusual, and Shania has spoken about the difficulty of it, about being a small girl on a stage, singing for tips, and about the fear and the excitement it brought. She also sang in church, in school, and at community events, and her voice, even as a child, was strong enough to be noticed. Her mother, Sharon, was her first manager, driving her to performances and encouraging her to sing, and her stepfather, Jerry, supported the family with his work in the forests. The Timmins years were the foundation, and the bar performances, which began at eight, were the training ground for a career that would take her from a small town in Ontario to the biggest stages in the world.

By the time Shania was a teenager, she was already a working singer, performing in bars and at events around Timmins, and she was also writing songs, filling notebooks with lyrics about her life, her family, and her dreams. She attended Timmins High and Vocational School, where she was a good student, and she continued to perform, with her mother managing her career and with her family supporting her. The teenage years were busy, with school, work, and performing all competing for her time, and Shania managed them with an energy that her friends and family remember. The family was close, and the support they gave her was the foundation of her career, even though the poverty made everything harder. The Timmins childhood was the foundation, and the songs she wrote there, about love, about hardship, and about hope, were the first drafts of the music that would make her famous. The small town gave her a voice, and the world would soon hear it.

Singing in Bars at Eight and the Family That Raised Her

In 1987, when Shania was twenty-one, her life changed in a single day, when her mother Sharon and her stepfather Jerry were killed in a car accident on a highway in northern Ontario, leaving Shania to raise her younger siblings, Jill, Carrie-Anne, and Mark, who were still teenagers. The tragedy was devastating, and Shania, who was working as a singer in Toronto at the time, returned to Timmins to take care of her family, putting her career on hold to be a mother to her siblings. The years that followed were difficult, with Shania working to support four children, singing in bars and at events, and trying to keep the family together, while grieving for her parents. The experience shaped her profoundly, giving her a sense of responsibility and a maturity that would define her music, and her songs about family, about loss, and about resilience, including the later hit You’re Still the One, are rooted in this period. The tragedy is the most painful part of Shania’s story, and it is the reason her success, when it came, felt like a triumph over circumstances that might have broken her.

The years after her parents’ deaths were a period of sacrifice, in which Shania put her own ambitions aside to raise her siblings, working as a singer in Toronto and in Timmins, and saving money to support the family. She performed in a stage show, in Toronto, and she worked as a backup singer, taking whatever jobs came, while her siblings finished school and began their own lives. The period lasted for several years, until her siblings were old enough to care for themselves, and Shania was able to focus on her own career again. The experience taught her patience, resilience, and the importance of family, lessons that would show up in her music, in songs about love, about home, and about never giving up. The tragedy also gave her a story that resonated with audiences, because her songs, which are often about overcoming hardship, come from a life that actually knew hardship. The girl who lost her parents at twenty-one and raised her siblings became a star, and the journey from Timmins to Nashville is a measure of her strength.

By the early 1990s Shania was ready to pursue her career in earnest, and she moved to Nashville, Tennessee, the centre of country music, where she signed with Mercury Records and released her debut album, Shania Twain, in 1993. The album, which was a traditional country record, with songs written by others, sold modestly, and its singles, What Made You Say That and Dance with the One That Brought You, reached the lower reaches of the country charts. The debut was not a breakthrough, but it gave Shania a record deal, a presence in Nashville, and a chance to be heard by the industry. The album’s failure to sell was a disappointment, but it also taught Shania that she needed to write her own songs, and to find a producer who understood her vision. The Nashville years began slowly, but they led to a meeting that would change her life, with the producer Robert John Mutt Lange, a man who had produced AC/DC, Def Leppard, and Bryan Adams, and who would become her husband and her collaborator. The debut album was the apprenticeship, and the breakthrough was about to come.

Nashville, the First Album and the Long Apprenticeship

The meeting with Mutt Lange happened in 1993, when Lange heard Shania’s debut album and was impressed by her voice, and he contacted her, beginning a collaboration that would become one of the most successful in music history. Lange, who was born in South Africa and who had become one of the most successful rock producers in the world, saw in Shania a singer who could cross over from country to pop, and he began writing songs with her, in a partnership that was both professional and personal. The two married in December 1993, in a ceremony in Canada, and their collaboration, in which Lange produced and co-wrote, and Shania wrote and sang, produced three albums that would sell tens of millions of copies. The partnership was intense, with the couple working together in their home studio in Switzerland, and their songs, which mixed country, pop, and rock, were crafted with a precision that few albums achieve. The Woman in Me, released in 1995, was the first fruit of the collaboration, and it became a breakthrough, selling more than twenty million copies and winning the Grammy Award for Best Country Album.

The Woman in Me, released in February 1995, included the singles Any Man of Mine, whose video, with Shania in a short skirt and boots, became iconic, Whose Bed Have Your Boots Been Under?, (If You’re Not in It for Love) I’m Outta Here!, and You Win My Love, all of which topped the country charts, and the album’s success made Shania a star in country music. The album’s sound, with its pop production, its rock guitars, and Shania’s confident vocals, was a departure from traditional country, and its crossover appeal, to pop audiences as well as country fans, was a major part of its success. The album won the Grammy for Best Country Album in 1996, and its sales, of more than twenty million copies worldwide, made it one of the best-selling country albums ever. The Woman in Me’s success was built on Shania’s songwriting, which was funny, direct, and feminist, with songs about women who knew what they wanted, and on Lange’s production, which gave the songs a polish that radio loved. The album is a landmark in country music, and it is the record that made Shania a star.

The breakthrough years also brought Shania a new level of fame, with the album’s singles dominating country radio, with her videos on CMT and on MTV, and with her tours drawing large audiences in the United States and Canada. The success was also personal, because Shania and Lange had a son, Eja, born in 2001, and the family lived in Switzerland, in a home that was also a studio, where they wrote and recorded together. The partnership, which was both a marriage and a business, was intense, and its success made Shania and Lange one of the most powerful couples in music. The Woman in Me’s success set up the next album, Come On Over, which would be even bigger, and which would make Shania the best-selling female country artist of all time. The breakthrough was complete, and the biggest years were still to come, with a record that would sell more than forty million copies and that would define country pop for a generation.

The Woman in Me, Mutt Lange and the Breakthrough

Come On Over, released in November 1997, is the best-selling country album of all time, and one of the best-selling albums of any genre, with sales reported at more than forty million copies worldwide, and it made Shania Twain a global superstar. The album included the singles You’re Still the One, a ballad that became a crossover hit, Man! I Feel Like a Woman!, a joyful, feminist anthem with a video that became iconic, That Don’t Impress Me Much, with its famous line about Brad Pitt, and From This Moment On, a wedding favourite. The album’s success was extraordinary, because it topped charts in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Australia, and its singles dominated both country and pop radio, making Shania a star in every market. Come On Over won four Grammy Awards, including Best Country Song for You’re Still the One, and its tour, the Come On Over Tour, drew millions of fans. The album’s sound, with its pop production, its rock energy, and Shania’s warm, confident vocals, defined country pop, and its songs are still played on radio, at weddings, and in films, more than twenty-five years later.

The album’s singles are among the most famous in pop history, and each one tells a part of Shania’s story. You’re Still the One, released in 1998, is a love song, written for Mutt Lange, about a relationship that survived doubt, and its success, reaching the top ten in the United States, made it a crossover hit. Man! I Feel Like a Woman!, released in 1999, is a celebration of female freedom, with a video that showed Shania in a top hat and tails, a reference to Robert Palmer’s Addicted to Love, and its chorus, Let’s go girls, became a catchphrase. That Don’t Impress Me Much, also from 1999, is a funny, sassy song about a man who brags, with its mention of Brad Pitt becoming one of the most quoted lines in pop. From This Moment On, a ballad about commitment, became a wedding standard, played at ceremonies around the world. The album’s songs, together, form a portrait of a confident, funny, romantic woman, and Shania’s performances, with their warmth and their humour, made them unforgettable. Come On Over is a perfect pop album, and it is the reason Shania is a legend.

The Come On Over era was the peak of Shania’s commercial success, with the album’s tour, which ran from 1998 to 1999, drawing large audiences, and with Shania becoming one of the most famous women in the world, with magazine covers, award wins, and a level of fame that was intense. The album’s success also brought her a new level of wealth, and the couple’s home in Switzerland, with its studio, became a symbol of their success. The era’s impact on country music was enormous, because it proved that a country artist could sell forty million albums, could top pop charts, and could become a global star, and it opened the door for a generation of country-pop artists, from Faith Hill to Taylor Swift, who have cited Shania as an influence. The album’s legacy is secure, and its songs are part of the shared memory of the late 1990s, played on radio, in films, and at karaoke, around the world. Come On Over is not only Shania’s best album; it is one of the best-selling albums in history, and it is the record that defines her.

Come On Over: The Biggest Country Album Ever

Shania’s next album, Up!, released in November 2002, was another major success, debuting at number one in the United States and selling more than twenty million copies, with singles including I’m Gonna Getcha Good!, Up!, and Forever and for Always. The album was released in three versions, a country version, a pop version, and an international version, a novel approach that reflected Shania’s crossover appeal, and its success confirmed that Come On Over was not a one-off. The Up! Tour, which followed, was a major production, with elaborate staging and costumes, and it drew large audiences in North America and Europe. The album’s success, however, was followed by a long hiatus, because Shania began to experience vocal problems, with dysphonia, a condition that affects the vocal cords, making it difficult for her to sing, and because her marriage to Mutt Lange ended in divorce in 2010, after Lange had an affair with the couple’s housekeeper, Marie-Anne Thiébaud. The divorce was a public scandal, and Shania’s vocal problems, combined with the personal upheaval, led her to step back from music for nearly a decade.

The hiatus, from 2004 to 2012, was a period in which Shania rarely performed, rarely recorded, and rarely appeared in public, focusing instead on her health, her son Eja, and her personal life. She underwent vocal therapy, worked with specialists, and slowly regained her voice, a process that took years and that she has described as one of the hardest of her life. She also dealt with the aftermath of the divorce, including the pain of betrayal and the challenge of rebuilding her life as a single mother. The hiatus was frustrating for her fans, who wanted new music, but it was necessary, because Shania’s voice, which is her instrument, needed time to heal, and her personal life needed time to recover. The period also brought a new relationship, with Frédéric Thiébaud, the former husband of Marie-Anne, whom Shania married in 2011, in a relationship that began in shared grief and that became a happy marriage. The hiatus ended in 2012, when Shania returned to the stage with a Las Vegas residency, Still the One, at Caesars Palace, a triumphant return that was greeted with emotion by her fans.

The Las Vegas residency, Still the One, which ran from 2012 to 2014, was a major success, with Shania performing her hits in a spectacular show, and it marked her return to live performance after nearly a decade away. The residency’s success led to a new album, Now, released in September 2017, her first in fifteen years, which debuted at number one in the United States and in Canada, and which included the singles Life’s About to Get Good and Swingin’ with My Eyes Closed. The album’s success, after such a long absence, proved that Shania’s audience was still there, and that her voice, although changed, was still powerful. The Now Tour, which followed, took her around the world, and her performances, with their energy and their emotion, were praised. The comeback was complete, and Shania, in her fifties, was a star again, with a new album, a new tour, and a new chapter in her life. The voice that had gone quiet was singing again, and the girl from Timmins was back on stage.

Up!, the Hiatus and the Voice That Went Quiet

Today Shania Twain lives in Switzerland and in Canada, works in music, in television, and in Las Vegas, where she has had a second residency, Let’s Go!, at Planet Hollywood, and she continues to record, with the album Queen of Me released in February 2023, which included the single Waking Up Dreaming. The album’s success, with its pop sound and its confident lyrics, showed that Shania, in her late fifties, was still willing to experiment, and her tours, including the Queen of Me Tour, drew large audiences. She has also appeared as a judge on television shows, including American Idol and Canada’s Got Talent, and her presence on television has introduced her to new audiences. Her fans, who span generations, from the teenagers who bought Come On Over to the young fans who discovered her on streaming, remain loyal, and her new work has brought her wider audiences as well. The story that began in Timmins, with a girl singing in bars at eight, became one of the great success stories of country music, and it continues, with the next chapter likely to include more music, more tours, and more of the resilience that has defined her career. Shania Twain’s story is about a girl who became the Queen of Country Pop, and who did it by singing her way out of poverty, one bar at a time.

My Take:

You’re Still the One is the song that defines Shania Twain, and it deserves its fame, because it is a perfect love song: a ballad about a relationship that survived doubt, with a melody that is simple and memorable, and a vocal that is warm and sincere. The song, written for Mutt Lange, became a crossover hit, reaching the top ten in the United States, and its video, with Shania in a black dress, became iconic. The track’s success, winning Grammy Awards for Best Country Song and Best Female Country Vocal Performance, confirmed its quality, and its place at weddings, where it is played as a first dance, shows that its message resonates. You’re Still the One is not a complicated song, and it does not need to be; it is a love song that says one thing, clearly, and that thing is commitment. The song’s power lies in its sincerity, and in Shania’s delivery, which is both tender and confident. It is a great song, and it is the reason Shania became a star.

Man! I Feel Like a Woman! is the song that shows Shania at her most joyful, because it is a celebration of female freedom, with a chorus that is impossible to forget and a video that became iconic. The song’s lyrics, about going out, having fun, and being a woman, are a feminist anthem, although Shania has said it was written as a party song, not as a political statement, and its energy, with its driving beat and its playful vocal, makes it a joy to hear. The video, with Shania in a top hat and tails, a reference to Robert Palmer’s Addicted to Love, is one of the most famous of the decade, and its imagery, with Shania and her band in matching outfits, became a cultural moment. The song’s catchphrase, Let’s go girls, became a rallying cry, and its success, as a hit around the world, made it one of Shania’s signature songs. Man! I Feel Like a Woman! is a great pop song, and it is the reason Shania is the Queen of Country Pop.

Come On Over as an album is a masterpiece of country pop, and it is worth listening to in full, because its songs, from You’re Still the One to Man! I Feel Like a Woman! to That Don’t Impress Me Much, form a coherent portrait of a confident, funny, romantic woman, and Shania’s performances, with their warmth and their humour, make the album unforgettable. The record’s production, by Mutt Lange, is polished and precise, with a mix of country, pop, and rock that was revolutionary in 1997, and its songs are crafted with a care that few albums achieve. The album’s sales, of more than forty million copies, make it the best-selling country album of all time, and its influence, on artists from Faith Hill to Taylor Swift, is enormous. Come On Over is not only Shania’s best album; it is one of the best-selling albums in history, and it is the record that defines country pop. A listener who only knows the singles should hear the whole album, because its depth is the reason it has lasted.

That Don’t Impress Me Much is a song that shows Shania’s humour, because it is a funny, sassy track about a man who brags about his car, his looks, and his fame, and Shania’s response, that none of it impresses her, is a perfect put-down. The song’s famous line, about Brad Pitt, became one of the most quoted in pop, and its video, with Shania in the desert, in a leopard-print outfit, became iconic. The track’s success, as a hit around the world, showed that Shania could be funny as well as romantic, and that her songwriting, with its wit and its directness, was a major part of her appeal. That Don’t Impress Me Much is often overlooked in discussions of Shania’s work, because You’re Still the One and Man! I Feel Like a Woman! are more famous, but it is one of her best songs, and it shows a singer who is not afraid to laugh, even at a handsome man. The song is a joy, and it is still funny more than twenty-five years later.

The Woman in Me is the album that made Shania a star, and it deserves its place in her story, because it is a confident, funny, feminist record, with songs about women who know what they want, and with a production that was revolutionary for country music in 1995. Any Man of Mine, the album’s lead single, is a song about a woman who tells a man what she expects, with a video that showed Shania in a short skirt and boots, and its success, topping the country charts, made her a star. The album’s other singles, Whose Bed Have Your Boots Been Under? and (If You’re Not in It for Love) I’m Outta Here!, are equally strong, with a humour and a directness that were new in country music. The Woman in Me won the Grammy for Best Country Album, and its sales, of more than twenty million copies, made it one of the best-selling country albums ever. The album is a landmark, and it is the record that proved Shania could write, sing, and sell, all at once.

The hiatus, from 2004 to 2012, is the hardest part of Shania’s story, and it is important to discuss it honestly, because it involved a vocal condition, dysphonia, that made it difficult for her to sing, and a divorce, after her husband’s affair, that was a public scandal. The combination of a lost voice and a broken marriage would have ended many careers, but Shania’s response, with vocal therapy, with time, and with a new marriage, shows a resilience that is remarkable. The Las Vegas residency in 2012, Still the One, was a triumphant return, and the album Now in 2017, her first in fifteen years, proved that her audience was still there. The hiatus is not a footnote; it is central to her story, because it shows a woman who lost her voice and her marriage, and who found both again, on her own terms. Shania’s comeback is one of the great stories in music, and it deserves to be celebrated.

Now, the 2017 album, is a record that deserves more attention than it gets, because it is a personal, reflective work, made by a woman who had been through a divorce, a vocal crisis, and a long absence, and who was returning to music with a new perspective. The album’s lead single, Life’s About to Get Good, is an optimistic song about moving on, and its lyrics, about finding happiness after hardship, reflect Shania’s own life. The album debuted at number one in the United States, proving that her audience was still there, and its reception was warm, with critics praising its honesty. Now is not Shania’s most commercial album, but it is one of her most personal, and it is a useful introduction to the later Shania, a mature artist who is singing about her life with a new depth. The album’s success, after fifteen years away, is a testament to her resilience, and to the loyalty of her fans.

Queen of Me, the 2023 album, is a record that shows Shania in her late fifties, still willing to experiment, with a pop sound, confident lyrics, and a single, Waking Up Dreaming, that is both modern and classic Shania. The album’s success, with its tour, the Queen of Me Tour, drawing large audiences, proved that Shania’s career is not a nostalgia act but a living, evolving one. The record’s songs, about confidence, about love, and about being yourself, are a fitting statement for a woman who has survived poverty, tragedy, divorce, and vocal loss, and who is still standing. Queen of Me is not Shania’s best album, but it is a good one, and it is a sign that she is still creating, still touring, and still enjoying her work. The album is a useful reminder that a career can have many chapters, and that the later chapters can be as interesting as the early ones. Shania, at fifty-eight, is still the Queen, and the crown fits.

My honest assessment is that Shania Twain is one of the greatest country artists of all time, and that her career is defined by a remarkable ability to cross over from country to pop, without losing her roots, and by a resilience that has carried her through tragedy, divorce, and vocal loss. Her strength is her songwriting and her voice: she writes songs that are funny, direct, and emotional, and she sings them with a warmth that is unmistakable. Her weakness, if it can be called one, is that her output has been sparse, with long gaps between albums, and that her later work has not matched Come On Over’s success. That is not a failure; it is a reflection of a life that has had other priorities. Her legacy will be Come On Over, the best-selling country album ever, and the doors she opened for women in country music. She changed what was possible for a girl from Timmins, and she did it by singing her way out of poverty, one bar at a time.

If a new listener wants to understand Shania, the order is straightforward: start with Come On Over in full, then listen to You’re Still the One, Man! I Feel Like a Woman!, and That Don’t Impress Me Much as singles, then move to The Woman in Me for Any Man of Mine, and then to Now for the comeback. The order matters, because it shows the arc from a girl in Timmins to a global star to a survivor, and it avoids the temptation to judge her by a single song. Shania’s career is a long one, and it repays patience, because each album adds a layer to the last, and the whole is a portrait of a singer who grew up in poverty, lost her parents, raised her siblings, and became the Queen of Country Pop. She is one of the best, and her best is still coming.

One final point about Shania is that her influence on Taylor Swift is enormous, and it is visible in Swift’s early country-pop albums, which followed the template that Shania created with Come On Over. Swift has cited Shania as an inspiration, and the younger singer’s mix of country, pop, and confessional songwriting is a direct descendant of Shania’s work. The influence is not only musical but also cultural, because Shania showed that a woman in country music could be a global pop star, and be rewarded for it. That lesson is still being learned, and Shania is still teaching it, every time a young country singer releases a pop single.

Shania’s Las Vegas residencies deserve a last word, because they are a major part of her later career, with Still the One from 2012 to 2014 and Let’s Go! at Planet Hollywood, both of which were successful and which showed that Shania could draw audiences in Las Vegas, the capital of entertainment. The residencies allowed her to perform in one place, without the exhaustion of touring, and they gave her fans a reason to travel to Las Vegas to see her. The model, which Celine Dion pioneered, suits Shania, because it balances her health, her family, and her career. The Las Vegas Shania is a star, and the city is lucky to have her.

Twain’s Queen of Me Tour, which began in 2023 and took her across North America and Europe, was her first major world tour in years, and it showed a singer in her late fifties who could still draw large audiences, with a setlist that spanned her career, from The Woman in Me to Queen of Me. The tour’s staging, with its costumes, its lighting, and its energy, was a celebration of her career, and its success, with sold-out shows in arenas, proved that her audience, which spans generations, remains loyal. The tour also brought Twain to new audiences, in Europe, where her popularity has always been strong, and her performances, with their warmth and their humour, were praised. The Queen of Me Tour is a major part of her later career, because it shows that a comeback is not a single moment but a process, and that Twain, after a long hiatus, is touring again, on her own terms, and enjoying it.

Twain’s memoir, From This Moment On, published in 2011, tells the story of her life in her own words, from her childhood in Timmins, where she sang in bars at eight to help support her family, to her parents’ deaths in 1987, to her marriage to Mutt Lange and its ending, and to her vocal problems and her recovery. The book, which was a bestseller, was published alongside a documentary series, Why Not? with Shania Twain, on the OWN network, in which she documented her return to music, her vocal therapy, and her personal life. The memoir’s honesty, about poverty, about loss, and about betrayal, earned her praise, and its account of her early life, which had been known only in outline, gave her fans a fuller picture of the woman behind the songs. From This Moment On is a useful introduction to Twain, because it shows a singer who has lived a difficult life, and who has written about it with grace and with humour.

Frequently Asked Questions

Where was Shania Twain born?

Shania Twain was born Eilleen Regina Edwards on 28 August 1965 in Windsor, Ontario, Canada, and she grew up in Timmins, Ontario. Her stepfather Jerry Twain, an Ojibwe man, adopted her and gave her his surname.

What is Shania Twain’s best-selling album?

Her best-selling album is Come On Over, released in 1997, which sold more than forty million copies worldwide, making it the best-selling country album of all time and one of the best-selling albums of any genre.

Who was Shania Twain married to?

Shania Twain was married to the producer Robert John Mutt Lange from 1993 to 2010. The couple collaborated on her biggest albums, and they divorced after Lange had an affair. She married Frédéric Thiébaud in 2011.

Why did Shania Twain stop singing?

Shania Twain stepped back from music for nearly a decade, from 2004 to 2012, because of dysphonia, a condition affecting her vocal cords, and because of her divorce from Mutt Lange. She underwent vocal therapy and returned with a Las Vegas residency in 2012.

What is Shania Twain’s most famous song?

Her most famous songs include You’re Still the One, Man! I Feel Like a Woman!, and That Don’t Impress Me Much, all from Come On Over in 1997. Other well-known songs include Any Man of Mine and From This Moment On.

What is Shania Twain doing now?

Shania Twain continues to record and tour, with the album Queen of Me released in 2023 and a Las Vegas residency, Let’s Go!, at Planet Hollywood. She has also appeared as a judge on television shows including American Idol and Canada’s Got Talent.

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