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Shania Twain
Age: 44
Height: 5' 4"
Birth Place: Windsor, Ontario, Canada
Born: Aug. 28th, 1965
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BIOGRAPHY: Shania Twain was born as Eilleen Regina Edwards in 1965, the middle of three daughters to Clarence and Sharon Edwards (sister Jill is two years older and Carrie-Ann three years younger). When she was six, her mother remarried Jerry Twain, a full-blooded Ojibwa native from Timmins, Ontario, who adopted her as his own, making her 50% native in the eyes of the law. She started out singing in bars as a child after hours, and, at 13, appeared on "The Tommy Hunter Show" (1965). When she was 22, her parents were killed in an accident, and she became the legal guardian of her half-brothers (Mark, then 13, and Darryl, then 14) and sister, putting her musical career on hold to raise her family. In 1991 she changed her name to Shania (meaning "I'm on my way" in Ojibwa, it was the name of a co-worker), and signed a contract with Mercury Nashville that same year. Her first album went by without notice, but her second album (produced with (Mutt) Robert John Lange, who she wed in 1993) broke world records with its sales!
TRIVIA:
- Named #33 in FHM's "100 Sexiest Women in the World 2005" special supplement. (2005)
- Uses her married (and legal) name Eilleen Lange in the credits for her latest CD, titled 'Up.' It is her first release since 1997's multi-platinum effort 'Come on Over.'
- (12 August 2001) Gave birth to first child, a son, Eja (pronounced "Asia").
- Listed in "People Weekly"s "Most Intriguing People" list. (December 25, 1995/January 1, 1996 issue)
- Her name is correctly pronounced 'Shu-nye-ah'.
- Her biggest country hit, 1997's "Love Gets Me Every Time," became the first country No. 1 released by a female country artist to spend five weeks atop Billboard's country chart since 'Dolly Parton' (qv)'s 1977 hit "Here You Come Again.".
- Named the Country Music Association's Entertainer of the Year in 1999. She also received the CMA's International Achievement Award that same year.
- Shy as a child, was a tomboy and hated performing. Started writing songs when she was 8 years old.
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