![]() ![]() ![]() Bailey became Twain’s manager and also took her to Nashville, where she sang as a backup singer and recorded more demos. During a performance in Sudbury, she crossed paths with Ontario country singer Mary Bailey, for whom Twain had opened in 1978. She also joined a country cover band and toured throughout Ontario. She took voice lessons with classical singer Ian Garrett, whom she credits as her only voice teacher, and caught the attention of Toronto DJ and record producer Stan Campbell, who landed her gigs as a backup vocalist and took her to Nashville to record some demos. Early CareerĪfter graduating from high school in 1983, Twain moved to Toronto to pursue a career in music. Throughout the early 1980s she spent summers working as a tree-planting supervisor in her father’s reforestation company. In high school she played trumpet in her school band, worked part-time at McDonald’s and sang in a Top 40 rock band called Longshot. In 1980, the family moved back to Timmins, where her parents started a reforestation company, and her performance opportunities became more limited. In 1978, at age 13, she appeared on CBC TV’s The Tommy Hunter Show. Her mother arranged several television appearances on such Canadian shows as Opry North, Easy Country and The Mercey Brothers Show. She began writing songs at age 10, entered talent contests and performed on local radio. In 1973, the family moved to Sudbury, where the eight-year-old Twain sang in her school choir, at community centres, senior citizens’ homes and late nights at a local bar once alcohol was no longer served. ![]() Her parents introduced her to such country music artists as Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson and Tammy Wynette, and nurtured her early interest in singing and performing. The second eldest in a blended family of five children, Eilleen Edwards was raised in poverty in Timmins, Ontario, by her mother, Sharon, and her Ojibwa stepfather, Jerry Twain, a forestry worker, who adopted Eilleen and her two sisters as children their surnames were changed to Twain and they were legally registered as “ Status Indian.” She was an official band member of the Temagami First Nation, and her family spent weekends and summers at the nearby Mattagami reserve, where she lived a rugged lifestyle, learning to hunt, chop wood, and track and snare rabbits. International awards, including multiple Juno, Grammy, SOCAN and Canadian Country Music Association (CCMA) An Officer of the Order of Canada and a member of the Canadian Music Hall of Fame, she was the first non-American to be named Entertainer of the Year by the Academy of Country Music Awards. Third album, Come On Over (1997), is the best-selling country album of all time, the biggest-selling album of the 1990s and the sixth biggest-selling in US history. She is the only female artist to have three consecutive albums sell more than 10 million copies in the United States. Buoyed by sassy lyrics, a sexy image and slick production values, her smash hit recordings fromġ995 to 2004 defied country music conventions, breaking numerous sales records and establishing her as an international superstar. Nicknamed the “Queen of Country Pop,” Shania Twain rose from rags to riches to become the biggest-selling female country artist of all time. Shania Twain (born Eilleen Regina Edwards), aka Eilleen Twain, OC, singer, songwriter, guitarist, (born 28 August 1965 ![]()
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