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| Shania Twain |
Today, The Grandma is preparing new material for future English classes. Before this, she has been studying two more lessons of her Intermediate Language Practice (Vocabulary 17 & 18).
The Grandma loves country music and she wants to congratulate Shania Twain for her anniversary. She was born on a day like today in 1965 and she is one of the most beautiful and important voices of country pop music. It's difficult to choose only one song of her successful career but The Grandma remembers the first Shania's song which she listened some years ago, The Woman in Me, a masterpiece.
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Shania Eilleen Twain (August 28, 1965) is a Canadian singer and songwriter. She has sold over 100 million records, making her the best-selling female artist in country music history and among the best-selling music artists of all time. Her success garnered her several honorific titles including the Queen of Country Pop.
Raised in Timmins, Ontario, Twain pursued singing and songwriting from a young age before signing with Mercury Nashville Records in the early 1990s. Her self-titled debut studio album saw little commercial success upon release in 1993.
After collaborating with producer and later husband Robert John "Mutt" Lange, Twain rose to fame with her second studio album, The Woman in Me (1995), which brought her widespread success; it sold 20 million copies worldwide, spawned widely successful singles such as Any Man of Mine, and earned her a Grammy Award.
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Her third studio album, Come On Over (1997), became the best-selling studio album of all-time by a female act in any genre and the best-selling country album, selling nearly 40 million copies worldwide.
Come On Over produced twelve singles, including You're Still the One, From This Moment On and Man! I Feel Like a Woman!, and earned Twain four Grammy Awards. Her fourth studio album, Up! (2002), was also certified Diamond in the United States.
In 2004, Twain retired from performing and began an indefinite hiatus from music, revealing years later that diagnoses with Lyme disease and dysphonia led to a severely weakened singing voice. She chronicled her vocal rehabilitation on the own miniseries Why Not? with Shania Twain in 2011 and released her first single in six years, Today Is Your Day, as well as publishing her autobiography, From This Moment On.
Twain returned to the concert stage the following year with an exclusive concert residency at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace, Shania: Still the One, which ran until 2014. In 2015, she launched the North American Rock This Country Tour, which was billed as her farewell tour.
Twain released her fifth studio album and first in 15 years in 2017, Now, and embarked on the Shania Now Tour in 2018.
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Twain has received five Grammy Awards, 27 BMI Songwriter Awards, stars on Canada's Walk of Fame and the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and an induction into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame. According to the RIAA she is the only female artist in history to have three consecutive albums certified Diamond by the RIAA. Altogether, Twain is ranked as the 10th best-selling artist of the Nielsen SoundScan era.
After graduating from Timmins High in June 1983, Twain was eager to expand her musical horizons. After the demise of the band Longshot, Twain was approached by a cover band led by Diane Chase called Flirt and they toured all over Ontario.
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| Shania Twain with Céline Dion |
Twain assembled a demo tape of her songs and her Huntsville manager set up a showcase for Twain to present her material to record executives. She caught the attention of a few labels, including Mercury Nashville Records, who signed her within a few months. During this time, she changed her name to Shania, which was said to be an Ojibwa word which means on my way.
Twain met producer Robert John "Mutt" Lange after he heard her original songs and singing from her debut album; he then offered to produce and write songs with her. They first met at Nashville's Fan Fair in June 1993 and quickly became close. They were married on December 28, 1993. Lange and Twain either wrote or co-wrote the songs that would form her second studio album, The Woman in Me.
Twain is a vegetarian and a devotee of Sant Mat, an Eastern spiritual philosophy. In 2009, she was reported as having the perfect face. The BBC reported on a study on this, led by the University of Toronto and the University of California, San Diego, which appeared in the journal Vision Research.
On May 15, 2008, it was announced that Twain and Lange were separating after Lange allegedly had an affair with Twain's best friend, Marie-Anne Thiébaud. Their divorce was finalized on June 9, 2010.
On December 20, 2010, it was revealed that Twain was engaged to Swiss Nestlé executive Frédéric Thiébaud, the ex-husband of Marie-Anne. They were married on January 1, 2011 in Rincón, Puerto Rico.
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Yes, you can lose somebody overnight, yes,
your whole life can be turned upside down.
Life is short. It can come and go like a feather in the wind.
Shania Twain
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