Shania Twain

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Birth Name: Eilleen Regina Edwards

Age: 47, born 28 September 1965

Country of origin: Canada

Height: 5' 4"

Ethnicity: White / Caucasian

Relationship Status: Married

Partner: Frederic Thiebaud

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About: Eilleen Regina Edwards,(Shania Twain, born August 28, 1965) is a Canadian country pop singer-songwriter. She rose to fame in the mid 1990s with her album The Woman in Me (1995), and achieved worldwide success with her 1997 album Come On Over, which became the best-selling album of all time by a female musician in any genre, and the best-selling country album of all time. It has sold over 40 million copies worldwide and is the 9th best-selling album in the U.S. Her 4th album, titled Up! was relea Eilleen Regina Edwards,(Shania Twain, born August 28, 1965) is a Canadian country pop singer-songwriter. She rose to fame in the mid 1990s with her album The Woman in Me (1995), and achieved worldwide success with her 1997 album Come On Over, which became the best-selling album of all time by a female musician in any genre, and the best-selling country album of all time. It has sold over 40 million copies worldwide and is the 9th best-selling album in the U.S. Her 4th album, titled Up! was released late 2002. To date it has sold 20 million copies worldwide.
A five-time Grammy Award winner, Twain has also achieved major success as a songwriter, winning 27 BMI Songwriter awards. Twain is one of the only female musician to have three albums certified Diamond by the Recording Industry Association of America and is also the second best-selling artist in Canada, behind fellow Canadian Céline Dion, with three of her studio albums being certified double diamond by the Canadian Recording Industry Association. Twain has sold over 80 million albums worldwide, and is ranked as the 10th best-selling artist of the Nielsen SoundScan era. She was also ranked the 72nd Artist of the 2000–10 decade by Billboard. Most recently, Twain will have her own series, Why Not? with Shania Twain, that premiered on the OWN: The Oprah Winfrey Network on May 8, 2011. She received a coveted star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on June 2, 2011 in recognition of her star-studded career.

The discography of Canadian country pop singer Shania Twain consists of four studio albums, one compilation album, and three unofficial albums and has issued 35 singles. According to the RIAA she has sold over 48 million records in the United States alone.

Signed to Mercury Nashville in 1993, Twain made her debut that year with her self-titled album, Shania Twain. It didn't fare well on the charts, only reaching #67 on the Billboard Top Country Albums chart. The album produced three singles, "What Made You Say That", "Dance with the One That Brought You", and "You Lay a Whole Lot of Love on Me". The first two peaked at #55 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart, while the latter failed to chart.

Twain met rock producer Robert John "Mutt" Lange at the 1993 Fan Fair and married him in December. Lange produced Twain's second album, The Woman in Me, released in 1995. The Woman in Me fared much better than the previous album, produced seven Top 40 hits on the Billboard country charts. In addition, the album's second single, "Any Man of Mine", became Twain's first entry on the Billboard Hot 100. The album itself peaked at #1 on the Billboard country albums chart and #5 on the Billboard 200.

Come on Over followed in 1997, producing eleven Top 40 hits on the Billboard country charts and six Top 40 hits on the Billboard Hot 100. Five singles ("You're Still the One", "From This Moment On", "That Don't Impress Me Much", "Man! I Feel Like a Woman!", and "You've Got a Way") crossed over to the adult contemporary format. To date, the album is the best selling album by a solo female artist, selling over 20 million copies in the United States.

After a two-year hiatus from the charts, Twain returned with 2002's Up!, which produced five top 40 singles on the Billboard country charts. The album's first single "I'm Gonna Getcha Good!" debuted at #22 on the Billboard country charts, breaking a record for the highest debut for a female country artist on that chart. Twain was later surpassed by Gretchen Wilson in 2005 and Carrie Underwood in 2007. The album debuted at #1 on the Billboard country albums chart and the Billboard 200.

In 2004, Twain released her first greatest hits album. The album contained 17 of her biggest hits from three of her four studio albums. The album also contained four new songs, most notably "Party for Two" which was recorded in two versions. The first featured country singer Billy Currington while the second version featured Sugar Ray lead singer Mark McGrath. In late 2005, Twain released her single, "Shoes", which was recorded for the album Music from and Inspired by Desperate Housewives, which was the soundtrack for the ABC television series, Desperate Housewives. In 2011, Twain released Today Is Your Day, her first single in six years and first song following her divorce from Lange. This song serves as the lead single from her fifth studio album.

To date, Twain is the only female artist in history to have the most (four) Diamond certifications in the RIAA. ... (more)