Shania Twain is one of the highest-selling female music artists in the country and one of the best music artists of all time. She doesn’t have to live forever, but always in our hearts.
Meanwhile, she is also referred to as a ” Queen of country pop” and puts the whole world in a trance with the magic of her voice.
But only a few people know about the struggle she had in her life. She was a poor deprived-food child before this development.
An intolerable disaster changed her life at the age of 22, and she had to face more responsibilities.
Shania Twain was born Eilleen Regina Edwards in Windsor, Ontario on 28th August 1965. She changed her surname when her mother, Sharon re-wedded a man, Jerry Twain. Shina was not nurtured by her natural father and she never admits him her father publicly.
Jerry legally adopted Shania and her two sisters publicly and raised them.
”My father (Jerry) went out of his way to raise three daughters that weren’t even his. For me to acknowledge another man as my father, a man who was never there for me as a father, who wasn’t the one who struggled every day to put food on our table, would have hurt him terribly,” Shania once said.
All these things show that Shania had a difficult childhood. She grew up in deprivation in Timmins, rural Canada, and her family was not well-off. Her step-father Jerry, a full-blooded Ojibway faced a very difficult time supporting the family to earn little money.
That’s why Shania and her sisters didn’t always eat food. The only dish they eat is named “goulash”: dry bread with milk and brown sugar. During the frosty winter in Canada, Shania had to wear bread bags on her feet as her parent couldn’t afford proper boats.
But being an elder to her sisters she never told these hardships to anyone. She was afraid to tell the situation to anyone because she thought that supremacy would break the family.
The marriage between Sharon and Jerry was also rough. Shania said that one time her mother fled from Jerry and her mom and sister took a homeless shelter in Toronto. After that when she was 16 her mother returned to Jerry, and they decided to give things some space.
Since Shania turned 8, she started singing in the bars to support her family. She helped her parents to pay home bills.
It was really a bold step for a young girl, although she didn’t exactly like doing it. At the same time, though, she could earn as much as $20 a night, a big support to her hardly surviving family.
“My deepest passion was music and it helped. There were moments when I thought, ‘I hate this.’ I hated going into bars and being with drunks. But I loved the music and so I survived,” she said in Shania Twain: The Biography.
Singing in rural bars and retirement homes, she examined her talent and improved her stage language. Shortly, She was for this distraction.
She performed in the Tommy Hunter Show when she was 13, a famous country music variety show that telecast on CBC Television and ran for 27 years.
The show’s host Tommy Hunter well-known as “Canada’s Country Gentleman,” gave Shania a magnificent chance to boost herself as a country singer.
In the mid-1980s, Shania started the struggle as a songsmith to stand herself in the music industry. She had connected with her first band, Longshot, as a 16-year-old, but transferred to Toronto when she was 21.
As time passed more and more people saw her talent as well as her beauty. Famous country singer Mary Bailey saw Shania perform in Sudbury, Ontario, she was astonished.
“I saw this little girl up on stage with a guitar and it absolutely blew me away. She performed Willie Nelson‘s “Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain” and Hank Williams’ “I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry”. Her voice reminded me of Tanya Tucker, it had strength and character, a lot of feeling. She’s a star, she deserves an opportunity,” Bailey, who would later become Shania’s manager, recalled.
“She sang a few songs that she had written, and I thought to myself, this kid is like nineteen years old, where does she get this? This is from a person who’s lived sixty years”.
“I was just going to give up music,” Shania said in 1995.
“I thought, my family comes first. I have to take care of them. I didn’t even think of my future…. I’m lucky I got the job at Deerhurst because it was music. I didn’t know where I was going to go from there.”
The gorgeous and prettiest artist started to develop her skills as an entertainer at Deerhurst.
She succeeds in getting the attention of Mercury Nashville Records’ executive after adding together a demo tape of her song. She also invited Nashville and released her self-tittle debut album. That was not only profit-oriented commercially but also received optimistic reviews by critics.
A South African record producer Mutt Lange, really loved to hear her.
In June 1993, at Nashville’s fan fair the strong partnership, they became very close to each other. After 6 months they married . Although Shania was ten years younger than Mutt Lange, but they had very strong bounding. They wrote many famous songs together like The Woman in Me (1995) and Come On Over (1997).
”The Woman in Me ” turned Shania’s luck and the song caused by her overnight success. In 2007, The Woman in Me sold more than 12 million copies in the United States.
“We just took a stab in the dark, followed our instincts, and it worked out. I think there was something on that album for everybody,” Shania told The News Tribune in 1997.
Mostly Shania wrote lyrics and Mutt created music. While producing Come On Over, Mutt tried to slip in riffs from rock-n-roll; he had previously worked with AC/DC and Def Leppard.
”Mutt and I are an unlikely pair,” she said.
“There’s been talk in the tabloids that we’re divorcing, but we are very happy. We love each other in every way. We have a great creative relationship and a great personal relationship. We feel as strong as ever – and “Still the One” is sort of my own personal song about marriage.”
In 2008 she and her husband separated. The reason of the separation, Mutt Lange had a secret relationship with Shania’s best friend Marie-Anne Thiébaud.
She said she cried constantly and took five baths a day. According to the country star, she was ”ready to die”.
“I’ll be honest: when your husband leaves you and falls into the arms of your close friend, your self-esteem can really suffer,” she said.
In 2011 Shania married a businessman who was the former husband of Marie-Anne Thiébaud, name Frédéric Thiébaud.
They married in Puerto Rico, and only 40 people were invited, close friends and family.
“I don’t take any day for granted anymore. Fred has given me a new lease on love,” Shania told the Daily Mail.
Now, she’s doing a show in Las Vegas.
Now she is 59 years old and spends most of her time in meditation.
“I’m pretty insecure about my changing body… I’m letting ‘the girls’ hang loose under my sweat clothes around the house and when someone comes to the door, I cross my arms under them for support,” she told EW.
“For me personally, I’m sure it’s very different for everybody, but I just started with time. Stepping out of battles that I couldn’t win. I mean, you know, aging is a battle you can’t win,” she said in 2020, in the LadyGang podcast.
“That battle and the focus and energy it takes, is taking up too much space! In my life, my emotional state, my mental state. I’ve got songs to write. I’m not gonna sit around,” said Twain.
Shania Twain is still very gorgeous and no doubt a legendary personality of country music.