Shania Twain
Shania Twain ( [ ʃənaɪ.ə tweɪn ]; born August 28, 1965 in Windsor, Ontario; civil Eilleen Regina Edwards) is a Canadian singer and songwriter who is as a crossover artist in the country music and pop music in the home. By 2010, Twain was five times awarded the Grammy and 27 times with the BMI Songwriter Award. Your 1997 released album Come on Over is the best-selling album to date a solo artist. Twain sold to date a total of 75 million records worldwide.
Life
Shania Twain was born as the daughter of Clarence Edwards in Windsor, Ontario. Your real name is Eilleen Regina she later changed into Shania - originally a word from the language of the Ojibwa Indians, the "I 'm on my way " means. The last name of Twain comes from her stepfather Jerry Twain. She grew up in the Canadian town of Timmins, where now a street was named after her and a Shania Twain Museum exists. On November 1, 1987 and her mother and stepfather died in a car accident. From this time on, they had to take care of their younger siblings.
By 2008, Twain lived with her husband, music producer Robert John " Mutt" Lange, and the common 2001 -born son in La Tour -de- Peilz on Lake Geneva in Switzerland. The closed in 1993 were divorced in June 2010. In January 2011, Twain married in Puerto Rico the Swiss Nestlé managers Frédéric Thiébaud.
Career
Twain's first album Shania Twain published in 1993 and sold in the United States a million times. From their next album in 1995, The Woman in Me sold there for more than twelve million copies.
1997 appeared the album Come on Over and was a great success. The singles You're Still the One, From This Moment On That Do not Impress Me Much and 1998 were not only leaders in the country charts, but also reached the top 10 of the official U.S. Billboard charts, while the album to number two climbed.
For distribution in Europe the album was re-mixed in a pop version, took first place in 1999 in the UK and there was the biggest selling album of the year. Both in the UK and in Australia, the album was sold more than a million times each. As in the U.S. were here re-arranged ballad You're Still The One and From This Moment On to Top 10 hits in the UK. The breakthrough in Europe brought in early summer 1999, the Dancemix of Single That Do not Impress Me Much, who finished in third place, not only in Britain but also the Top 10 in Germany and reached almost all European countries. The successor Man! I Feel Like a Woman! , Republished as Popmix, consolidated its European success, reaching number 3 in autumn 1999 in the UK and France. The album Come on Over remained both in the U.S. and in the UK more than two years in the charts and has been with the world some 34 million copies sold, the best-selling album by a solo artist of all time.
The following album Up! appeared in 2002 in three versions. In addition to the pop version for Europe a Country version was produced for the U.S., a remix with sounds of world music was released for the rest of the market. Up! was sold ten million copies in the U.S. until December 2003. Meanwhile, the album reached there eleven times platinum status. In other countries, especially in Europe was up! very successful, the album was number one in Germany and the top five in the UK and France. Again, there were again numerous hit singles that made the album to be perennial favorites: I'm Gonna Getcha Good (Top 10 in the UK, Top 15 in Germany and France), Ka -Ching! ( Third place in Germany, Top 10 in the UK), Forever and for Always ( Top 10 in the UK and Germany ) and Thank You Baby ( Top 20 in the UK and Germany ). In the U.S., except for the top 20 listing of Forever and for Always, none of the local extractions was commercially successful, the album sold there still very good. Shania Twain is the only artist whose three consecutive albums were sold in the USA Diamond Status for ten million copies. In Germany 2004, she earned both the echo and the Bambi as a successful singer.
In the fall of 2004, also successful album Greatest Hits by Shania Twain, which also contains three new titles released. Of the Single Party for Two was another top 10 hit in the UK and Germany as a duet with Sugar Ray singer Mark McGrath. In the U.S., the single was released as a country duet with Billy Currington version in.
2005, the soundtrack was released for the series Desperate Housewives, to which the title Twain Shoes contributed. In 2007, Twain with the Canadian singer Anne Murray duet You Needed Me Anne Murray Duets for the album Friends & Legends on. 2009 Twain was Gastjurorin on American Idol.
In June 2011, Twain was ( 6270 Hollywood Boulevard) honored on the Hollywood Walk of Fame with an asterisk in the category of music recordings.