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Birth name: Eilleen Regina Edwards. Also known as: -Eilleen Twain (1967-1992). -Shania Twain (1993-present). Born: August 28, 1965 Windsor, ON, Canada. June 6, 2008: "Shania Twain Opens Up About Split From Her Husband" Shania Twain needs time to mend her "broken heart" following her marriage breakdown. Shania Twain has thanked her fans for their support since she split from Robert 'Mutt' Lange after 14 years of marriage, and is hoping to express her emotions through her music. Shania Twain wrote on her official blog: "As I am sure you have seen or heard, I am going through a rough time personally in my life. I wanted you all to know that I could not be getting through this without you. Your letters, emails and words of encouragement give me strength. Your overwhelming support reminds me to smile, no matter how deep the pain and to always be grateful for all the beautiful blessings in my life." "I have so much to say but I know the best way for me to speak is through my music. This is my therapy, my passion, and my love. I look forward to sharing it with all of you as I begin this new journey. I need some time to heal this broken heart but make no mistake. I will be back and hopefully stronger than ever. Thank you my friends, from the bottom of my heart." *** May 15, 2008: "Shania Twain & Husband Split" Shania Twain and her husband, producer Robert "Mutt" Lange, have split, her rep confirmed. "Shania Twain and her husband, music producer Robert 'Mutt' Lange, are separating after 14 years of marriage," spokesman Jason Owen says in a statement. "This is a private matter and there will be no further comment at this time." Shania Twain met Mutt in the early 1990s. They married on December 28, 1993 and have a 6-year-old son. *** Shania Twain biography (bio): Shania Twain, OC is a Canadian singer and songwriter in the country and pop music genres. Her third album Come on Over is the biggest-selling album of all time by a female artist, and the best-selling album in the history of country music. She is the only female artist to have three albums certified Diamond by the Recording Industry Association of America, and has received five Grammy awards and nearly forty BMI Songwriter awards. At the age of 13, Eilleen Twain was invited to perform on CBC television's Tommy Hunter Show. While attending Timmins High and Vocational School in Timmins, Ontario, she was the vocalist for a local band called "Longshot" which covered Top 40 music. In early 1984, she took her first trip to Nashville with Toronto DJ and Record Producer, Stan Campbell to record three songs. After a falling out with Campbell's wife-partner, the recordings were never released. She also sang a duet performance on an album by Canadian artist (and present-day CKTB radio personality) Tim Denis. When her mother and adoptive father died in a car accident on November 1, 1987, the 22-year-old Twain put her musical career on hold and took care of her family. She and her half-brothers Mark and Darryl, and sister Carrie-Ann moved to Huntsville, Ontario, where she supported them by performing at the nearby Deerhurst Resort. After "Eilleen" becomes "Shania": 1993: Shania Twain: In 1991, she was invited to record a demo tape That led to her first recording contract with Richard Frank of Mercury Nashville Records, whereupon she changed her name to Shania [Shu-nye-uh] an Ojibwa word which means "On my way". Twain co-wrote only one of the songs ("God Ain't Gonna Getcha for That") on her self-titled debut album. The album's first two singles, "What Made You Say That" and "Dance with the One That Brought You" peaked at #55 on the Billboard Country Charts. By the end of 1993 the album had sold less than 250,000 copies. That same year, Twain sang harmony vocals on Sammy Kershaw's Haunted Heart album. 1995—1996: The Woman in Me: When rock producer, Robert John "Mutt" Lange, heard Twain's original songs and singing, he offered to produce her and to write songs with her. After many telephone conversations, they met in person at Nashville's Fan Fair in June 1993. Lange and Twain started working on a second album, and in 1995 The Woman in Me produced her first #1 single, "Any Man of Mine". The album topped the country charts for months and crossed over to mainstream charts, peaking at No. 5. As of 2007 it has sold over 12 million copies. The Woman in Me went on to win the Grammy Award for Best Country Album as well as the Academy of Country Music award for Album of the Year; the latter group also awarded Twain as Best New Female Vocalist. 1997—2000: Come on Over: In 1997, Twain released her follow-up album, Come on Over. This was the album that established Twain as a successful crossover artist. Selling 172,000 copies out of the gate, the album was seen by many at first as a disappointment, given the massive success of her last effort. But slowly, the album started racking up sales. It never hit the top spot, but with the multi-chart hit single "You're Still the One", sales skyrocketed. Songs like "Don't Be Stupid", "Honey, I'm Home", "Man! I Feel like a Woman!", "That Don't Impress Me Much" and "From This Moment On" joined the 12 songs that eventually saw release as singles. Over the next two years, the album stayed on the charts. When the dust finally settled, Come on Over had sold 20 million copies in the United States and 39 million worldwide, making it the biggest-selling album of all time by a female artist, and the biggest-selling country album of all time. Songs from the album won four Grammy Awards over the next two years, including Best Country Song for Twain and Lange for "You're Still the One" and "Come on Over" and Best Female Country Performance for "You're Still the One" and "Man! I Feel Like a Woman!". Despite the album's sale record it wasn't able to top the Billboard 200, reaching a peak of #2. It did however top the charts for 11 weeks in the UK. Additionally, the album set the record for the longest ever stay in the Top 20 of The Billboard 200, remaining in the Top 20 for 99 weeks. Twain's mainstream pop acceptance was further helped by her appearance in the 1998 first edition of the VH1 Divas concert, where she sang alongside Mariah Carey, Céline Dion, Gloria Estefan and Aretha Franklin and by VH1's 1999 heavily-aired Behind the Music treatment of her, which concentrated on the tragic aspects of her early life as well as her physical attractiveness and Nashville's early resistance to her bared-midriff music videos. In 1998, Twain launched her first major concert tour, aided by her manager Jon Landau, a veteran of many large-scale tours with Bruce Springsteen. The Come on Over Tour shows were enthusiastically received by audiences around the globe and answered critics who speculated that she could not perform live. 2002—2004: Up!: After the success of Come on Over, Twain revealed she was suffering from exhaustion and had decided to take a two-year break. After the break, Twain went back into the studio, along with a management change (Twain dropped Landau and went with QPrime), and recorded her latest CD. Up! was released on November 19, 2002. About a year later, she staged the Up! Tour to promote it. Up! was released as a double album, with three different "remix" discs - pop (a red CD), country (a green CD) and Indian/Latin (a blue CD). For North American markets, the pop disc was paired with the country disc and in international markets, the pop disc was paired with the Indian/Latin disc. The Indian/Latin disc was recorded in Mumbai, India. Up! was given 4 out of 5 stars by Rolling Stone magazine, and debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard albums chart, selling 874,000 in the first week alone. It charted at the top for five weeks. The first single from the album "I'm Gonna Getcha Good!", became a modest country hit that did not do much on the pop charts, however in the UK it peaking at #4 in the UK singles chart. The follow-up single "Up!" reached the top 15 in the country charts but failed to reach the pop top 40. The third single from the album would be the most successful. The romantic ballad "Forever and for Always" was released as a single in April 2003 and peaked at number four on the country chart and number one on the Adult Contemporary chart, spending six weeks there. "She's Not Just a Pretty Face" was a country top-ten hit, while the last North American single, "It Only Hurts When I'm Breathing", made the top 20 on both Country and AC. To date , Up! has sold 5.5 million copies in the U.S. (Certified by the RIAA as 11 times platinum due to the organization's rules regarding double albums, which are counted as 2 units for certifications) and over 17 million copies worldwide. In 2003, Twain participated in the Dolly Parton tribute album, Just Because I'm a Woman, covering Parton's classic "Coat of Many Colors". During the Super Bowl XXXVII halftime show Twain performed two songs. 2004—present: Greatest Hits: In 2004, she released the Greatest Hits album, with three new tracks. To date , it has sold over 3.5 million copies in the U.S., and over 7.5 million worldwide. The first single, the multi-format duet "Party for Two", made the country top ten with Billy Currington, while the pop version with Sugar Ray lead singer Mark McGrath made top ten in the United Kingdom and Germany. The follow-up singles, "Don't!" and "I Ain't No Quitter" didn't fare as well, the former made top twenty AC, while the latter didn't gain enough airplay to even crack the country top 40. In August 2005, when Twain hit 40, she released the single "Shoes" from the Desperate Housewives soundtrack; it barely entered the top 30 on the country charts and did not chart elsewhere. |