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Shania Twain
Windsor, Ontario, Canada
Shania Twain, a Canadian country music singer-songwriter and actor, was born on August 28, 1965 as Eilleen Regina Edwards in Windsor, Ontario, Canada. She is one of three daughter…
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Shania Twain, a Canadian country music singer-songwriter and actor, was born on August 28, 1965 as Eilleen Regina Edwards in Windsor, Ontario, Canada. She is one of three daughters of Clarence and Sharon (Morrison) Edwards (sister Jill is two years older and Carrie-Ann three years younger). When she was age six, her mother remarried Jerry Twain, a full-blooded Ojibwa native from Timmins, Ontario, who adopted her as his own. She started out singing in bars as a child after hours, and, at thirteen, 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 Robert John (Mutt) Lange, who she wed on December 28, 1993 and divorced on June 9, 2010) broke world records with its sales! Referred to as "The Queen of Country Pop," she is one of the most commercially successful artists of all time, having sold over 85 million albums. Presently married to Frederic Nicolas Thiebaud on January 1, 2011 - present.
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2025
Easy's Waltz
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2024
A Nonsense Christmas with Sabrina Carpenter
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2024
Andrea Bocelli 30: The Celebration
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2024
Doctor Odyssey
TV show Heather
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2024
Twisters
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2023
Superfan
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2023
Love Songs at the BBC: Volume Two
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2022
Beauty and the Beast: A 30th Celebration
Movie Mrs. Potts
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2022
Who's Talking to Chris Wallace?
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2022
For Love
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2022
The Jennifer Hudson Show
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2022
Shania Twain: Not Just a Girl
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2022
Women Who Rock
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2022
The Kardashians
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2022
Canada's Got Talent
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2022
Starstruck
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2021
Anne Murray: Full Circle
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2021
Canadian Hits at the BBC
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2021
This Is Pop
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2020
The Drew Barrymore Show
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2020
Stronger Together, Tous Ensemble
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2020
I Still Believe
Movie Terry Camp
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2019
The Kelly Clarkson Show
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2019
Trading Paint
Movie Becca
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2019
Rob & Romesh Vs
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2018
Real Country
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2018
Reel Stories
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2018
American Idol
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2018
The Launch
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2017
Drop the Mic
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2017
Shania Twain: BBC Radio 2 Live in Hyde Park
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2017
Jalen Vs. Everybody
Movie Sè stessa
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2016
Shania Twain: Empowerment
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2015
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
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2015
Lip Sync Battle
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2015
The Late Late Show with James Corden
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- 2015
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2014
Shania: Still the One - Live from Vegas
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