Filmography:
>> Party in the Park 1998 (1999) (V) .... Herself
>> Shania Twain: Man! I Feel Like a Woman (1999) (V) .... Herself
>> Winter Break (1999) (TV) .... Herself
>> 1998 Billboard Music Awards (1998) (TV) .... Herself
>> Shania Twain: Live (1998) (V) .... Lead Vocals
>> Divas Live: An Honors Concert for VH1 Save the Children (1998)
(TV) .... Performer
Mini Biography :
>> Shania Twain was born as Eilleen Regina Edwards in 1965,
the middle of three daughters to Clarence and Sharon Edwards (sister
Jill is two years older and Carrie-Ann three years younger). When
she was six, her mother remarried Jerry Twain, a full-blooded Ojibwa
native from Timmins, Ontario, who adopted her as his own, making her
50% native in the eyes of the law. She started out singing in bars
as a child after hours, and at 13, appeared on "The Tommy Hunter Show".
At 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 Mutt Lange, who she wed
in 1993) broke world records with it's ast!
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