Shania Twain, OC (born Eilleen Regina Edwards, August 28, 1965, Windsor, Ontario) is a Canadian singer and songwriter in the country and pop music genres. Her third album Come on Over is the biggest-selling album of all time by a female artist, and the best-selling album in the history of country music. She is the only female artist to have three albums certified Diamond by the RIAA, and has earned five Grammy awards and nearly forty BMI Songwriter awards. She is married to rock producer Robert John "Mutt" Lange, and they have a five-year old son, Eja. Twain and her family currently reside in Switzerland and New Zealand.
Twain gave birth to her only child - a boy, named Eja (pronounced Asia) D'Angelo Lange on August 21, 2001, and he is being raised a vegetarian like Twain and Lange. Twain is also known for passionately standing up for what she believes in and these include raising awareness for hungry children across North America; her favorite charities being America's Second Harvest Food Bank (USA) and Kids Cafe (Canada).
Twain and Lange bought some land near Wanaka in New Zealand in 2005, at a 170 km² sheep station and just finished building their new house and two guest homes. Shania and Mutt's Swiss château, Château de Sully, in La Tour-de-Peilz was sold in October 2006 to a Russian couple. The Langes have since moved into a more modest residence in Corseaux, Switzerland. Twain has always been athletic, and especially loves power-walking, hiking, swimming, and horseback riding.
In 2003, Shania performed Man! I Feel like a Woman! and Up! during the Super Bowl XXXVII halftime show at Qualcomm Stadium in San Diego, California. Later in 2003, she was inducted into Canada's Walk of Fame. A television biopic of Twain, Shania: A Life in Eight Albums, aired on CBC Television on November 7, 2005, with Meredith Henderson starring as Twain. The biopic was released on DVD on April 24, 2007.
In November 2005, Twain appeared on an episode of the reality show The Apprentice, riding horses around Central Park and having dinner with two contestants who had successfully marketed her fragrance on the show. On November 18, 2005, Twain was invested as an Officer in the Order of Canada.
In 2005, Shania Twain partnered with COTY for the creation of her fragrance Shania by Stetson. In September 2007, Twain will release a second fragrance from COTY called, "Shania Starlight by Stetson". Shania has been confirmed as one of the recipients of a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, to be awarded sometime this year or next.
At the 2007 Academy of Country Music Awards in Las Vegas on May 16 2007, Shania said that she was currently writing songs for a new album, and that she is doing a "lot of soul searching" and "indulging in the writing". When asked about a future release date for new material, Shania said that 2008 is the earliest new material can be expected. Wikipedia |
