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Shania Twain
Eilleen Regina "Shania" Twain is a Canadian singer and songwriter. She has sold more than 100 million records, making her one of the best-selling music artists of all time and the best-selling female artist in country music history. She received several titles including the "Queen of Country Pop". Billboard named her as the leader of the 1990s country pop crossover stars.
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2026· 53 entries
“She’s the last person on the planet I want to run into. Ever.”
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Stephen Thomas Erlewine | Substack: Reviews: Phoebe Bridgers, Charli xcx, Shania Twain, Lenny Kaye, Gracie Abrams and Carly Simon
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WGME: Shania Twain opens up about the 'very unhealthy things' she did to lose weight
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SiriusXM: Listen to Shania Twain’s SiriusXM Concert at Racket NYC on Little Miss Twain Radio
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Published video “‘Down The Middle' is all about that kinda love that knocks you off your feet.”.
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parade.com: 1999 Hit Inspired by Brad Pitt's Infamous Photos Became One of Shania Twain's Biggest Hits
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Woman's World: Shania Twain Shows Fans What’s On Her Bookshelf—From Memoirs to Romance!
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myMotherLode.com: Celebrity birthdays for the week of Aug. 23-29 includes Shania Twain and Chris Pine
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ellecanada.com: Shania Twain's Homecoming is Here
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Published video “🎵 Shania Twain - I’d Be Loving Me 🎵”.
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Newser: Gen Z's Unlikely Feminist Hero: Shania Twain
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AOL.com: Shania Twain says 'my body is not shameable' at 60
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Published video “🎵 Shania Twain - Little Miss Twain 🎵”.
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Yahoo: What You Never Knew About Shania Twain
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People.com: Shania Twain Recalls ‘Rampant’ Sexism Early in Her Career: ‘I Was Insulted, I Was Patronized, All of It’
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Published video “The musical mood of the whole album 🥰”.
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Audacy: Is Shania Twain A Legend?
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ellecanada.com: Shania Twain Is Our September 2026 Cover Star!
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People.com: All About Shania Twain’s Son Eja Lange
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Published video “The response to Little Miss Twain in the room at Racket and Horseshoe Tavern meant a lot to me 🫶”.
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Published video “🎵 Shania Twain - Faded Blue Jeans 🎵”.
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Published video “🎵 Shania Twain - Stranger Things 🎵”.
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Published video “Same truck, same me… 30 years apart.”.
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Published video “🎵 Shania Twain - Dirty Rosie 🎵”.
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Public attention spiked: 27,125 Wikipedia readers in one day, 4.8× the usual 5,692, with 7 article edits. Editors noted: 2022–present: Not Just a Girl, Queen of Me, and third Las Vegas residency Copyedit adapting new information available, and source.
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Published video “Shania Twain - Down The Middle (Visualizer)”.
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Published video “Shania Twain - Take It To The River (Visualizer) ft. The War And Treaty”.
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Published video “Shania Twain - Quit My Life (Visualizer)”.
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Published video “Shania Twain - Scary Little Thing (Visualizer)”.
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Published video “Shania Twain - Problematic (Visualizer)”.
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Published video “Shania Twain - I'd Be Loving Me (Visualizer)”.
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Published video “Shania Twain - Right Time (Visualizer)”.
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Published video “Shania Twain - New Love (Visualizer)”.
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Published video “Shania Twain - Northern Town (Visualizer)”.
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Published video “Shania Twain - Stranger Things (Visualizer)”.
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Released album “Little Miss Twain”.
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Little Miss Twain, reflects her "pre-Shania" youth as Eilleen Regina Twain growing up in the rustic mining town of Timmins, Ontario
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Public attention spiked: 55,388 Wikipedia readers in one day, 9.7× the usual 5,692, with 2 article edits. Coverage that week: “Shania Twain: Little Miss Twain review – rootsy revival strays from the dirt track to the middle of the road” (The Guardian).
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Public attention spiked: 19,758 Wikipedia readers in one day, 3.5× the usual 5,692, with 0 article edits.
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Twain agreed to perform over 12 dates with Harry Styles on the European leg of his world tour, both in London and Amsterdam
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Twain stated she is a vegetarian
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In 2026, Twain stated she is a vegetarian.
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2025· 1 entry
Twain became a judge on the fifth season of Canada's Got Talent
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2024· 5 entries
As part of the Netflix special, Shania played Mrs Claus in a skit and performed Santa Baby with Sabrina Carpenter
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Announced she would be extending her Las Vegas residency, Shania Twain: Come On Over – The Las Vegas Residency – All The Hits
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Released album “Shania: The Queen of Country Pop”.
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Released album “Love Songs”.
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Appeared on the first episode of the Netflix series A Man in Full, a six-episode limited television series adaptation of the novel with Regina King as director and executive producer and David E
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2023· 10 entries
Announced her third Las Vegas residency, Shania Twain: Come On Over – The Las Vegas Residency – All The Hits
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The title track from Anne-Marie's third studio album
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Released ep “Still the One”.
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Released ep “Let’s Go Girls!”.
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Released ep “So, You’ve Got a Car”.
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Released ep “Rock This Country”.
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Released album “Queen of Me”.
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Released the second single off the album, "Giddy Up
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And she became only the third woman to have top ten albums in the US Billboard 200 in the 1990s, 2000s, 2010s and 2020s
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Appeared on the panel for the second series of ITV's Starstruck, a revived and reformatted version of Stars in Their Eyes, replacing Sheridan Smith
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2022· 5 entries
Twain announced the Queen of Me Tour across North America and Europe to promote the album
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Twain signed with Republic Nashville and released "Waking Up Dreaming" as the lead single from her sixth then-upcoming studio album, Queen of Me
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Following several postponements due to the COVID-19 pandemic
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Released album “Not Just a Girl: The Highlights”.
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Released ep “I AM WOMAN”.
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2021· 2 entries
Released ep “Celebrating Pride: Shania Twain”.
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Released ep “Women to the Front: Shania Twain”.
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2020· 1 entry
Played the role of the mother of singer Jeremy Camp in the biographical film I Still Believe
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2019· 1 entry
Appeared in the film Trading Paint, co-starring alongside John Travolta
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2018· 1 entry
Underwent laryngoplasty to have Gore-Tex stabilizers implanted in her throat to reduce the workload on her vocal muscles
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2017· 3 entries
Released album “Now”.
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And debuted at number one on the Billboard 200, becoming her second album to do so
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Now it reached number one on the US Billboard 200 and several other charts
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2015· 4 entries
Twain provided an update on the album's progress, stating: "I have to finish my new album this winter
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Twain announced on Good Morning America that she would embark on her first tour in eleven years
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Released album “Still The One: Live From Vegas”.
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And that it would lead to the release of a new album
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2011· 6 entries
Awarded star on Hollywood Walk of Fame (2011).
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Awarded Canadian Music Hall of Fame (2011).
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At a press conference at the Country Music Hall of Fame in Nashville, she announced that she would headline Caesars Palace in Las Vegas for two years
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Released album “Bite My Lip”.
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Released album “The First Time... For The Last Time”.
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"Today Is Your Day", and published an autobiography, From This Moment On
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2010· 4 entries
It was reported that Twain was engaged to Swiss Nestlé executive Frédéric Thiébaud, Marie-Anne's former husband
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Twain created Shania Kids Can, a charity designed to address the needs of neglected children who are frequently overlooked by social assistance programs
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Released album “2 for 1: Come on Over + The Woman in Me”.
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Carried the Olympic Torch through her hometown as part of the 2010 Winter Olympics torch relay
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2009· 1 entry
Served as a guest judge on American Idol, for the show's August 30 and 31 episodes, and in April 2010 she announced plans for her own TV show, titled Why Not
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2008· 4 entries
Made her first television appearance since her split from Lange, where she appeared as a surprise presenter at the 42nd CMA Awards
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It was announced that she and Lange were separating
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It was announced that they were separating after Lange had an affair with Twain's best friend, Marie-Anne Thiébaud
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Released album “The Will of a Woman”.
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2007· 1 entry
Released album “All Fired Up, No Place to Go”.
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2005· 3 entries
Twain was invested as an Officer in the Order of Canada
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Awarded Officer of the Order of Canada (2005).
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Released album “Send It... With Love”.
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2004· 5 entries
Released album “Greatest Hits”.
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Awarded Juno Award for Country Album of the Year for Up! (2004).
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Released album “The Rhythm Made Me Do It”.
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Twain released the Greatest Hits album, with three new tracks
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After releasing her Greatest Hits album, which produced three singles including "Party for Two", Twain entered a hiatus, stating years later that diagnoses with Lyme disease and dysphonia severely weakened her singing vo
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2003· 6 entries
Released album “Up - Live From Chicago”.
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Awarded Juno Award for Artist of the Year (2003).
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Awarded Juno Fan Choice (2003).
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Awarded Canada's Walk of Fame (2003).
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Performed in the Super Bowl XXXVII halftime show
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Twain received a maple leaf on Canada's Walk of Fame
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2002· 4 entries
Released album “Up!”.
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An entire special show was dedicated to her on sister show TOTP2, in which she herself introduced some past performances of her greatest hits and singles from Up
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Released album “Two Hearts, One Love”.
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Released album “Once Over”.
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2001· 3 entries
Released album “The Specials”.
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Released album “The Complete Limelight Sessions”.
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Released album “The Platinum Collection”.
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2000· 9 entries
Released album “Wild & Wicked”.
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Awarded Juno Award for Songwriter of the Year for That Don't Impress Me Much (2000).
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Awarded American Music Award for Favorite Country Female Artist (2000).
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Awarded American Music Award for Favorite Pop/Rock Female Artist (2000).
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Awarded People's Choice Award for Favorite Female Artist (2000).
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Was initially scheduled to release a Christmas album, but plans to release one were cancelled later in the year
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Released album “The First Album”.
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Released album “Impressions of a Woman”.
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Released album “Millenium Hits”.
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1999· 13 entries
Released album “Beginnings 1989-1990”.
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Released album “The Interview CD”.
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Released album “For the Love of Him”.
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Awarded Country Music Association Award for Entertainer of the Year (1999).
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Awarded American Music Award for Favorite Country Female Artist (1999).
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Awarded Country Music Association Award for International Achievement (1999).
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Awarded Grammy Award for Best Female Country Vocal Performance (1999).
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Awarded Grammy Award for Best Country Song for Come On Over (1999).
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Released album “Live”.
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Released album “The Very Best '99”.
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By the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), denoting sales of over 1 million copies
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Released album “Singles Collection '99”.
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Released album “On the Way”.
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1998· 6 entries
Released album “VH1: Divas Live”.
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Awarded Grammy Award for Best Country Song for You're Still the One (1998).
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Awarded Grammy Award for Best Female Country Vocal Performance (1998).
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And 1999 by Pollstar Concert Industry Awards
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Launched her first major concert tour, aided by her manager Jon Landau, a veteran of many large-scale tours with Bruce Springsteen
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Following the pop release of "You're Still the One", the Come On Over album was released in a remixed format for the European market as a pop album with less country instrumentation, and gave her the big breakthrough in
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1997· 4 entries
Released album “Come On Over”.
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Awarded Juno International Achievement Award (1997).
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Awarded American Music Award for Favorite Country Female Artist (1997).
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Twain released her follow-up album, Come On Over
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1996· 3 entries
Awarded Favorite Country New Artist (1996).
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Awarded Juno Award for Entertainer of the Year (1996).
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Newsweek defended her from detractors who attributed her refusal to tour at the time to her inability to replicate her studio singing live, describing it as "a warm, languid alto sweetened with a wisp of bedroom allure"
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1995· 2 entries
Awarded Grammy Award for Best Country Album for The Woman in Me (1995).
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Released album “The Woman in Me”.
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1993· 3 entries
And had a son, Eja (pronounced "Asia"), on August 12, 2001
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In North America and garnered her audiences outside Canada
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Released album “Shania Twain”.
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1991· 1 entry
Twain was offered a recording contract in Nashville and applied for immigration status into the United States
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1987· 1 entry
Her mother and adoptive father died in a car accident approximately 50 kilometres (31 mi) north of Wawa, Ontario
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1983· 1 entry
Studied at Timmins High and Vocational School (1983).
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1965· 2 entries
To Sharon (née Morrison) of Irish descent and railway engineer Clarence Edwards
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Born 1965-08-28.
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