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Pop-country
singer Shania Twain was born in Windsor, Ontario in August
1965 and raised in the small town of Timmins, Ontario
where she began playing guitar as a child, strongly
encouraged by her parents. Tragically, her mother and
father died in a car crash when Twain was 21, forcing her
to put aside music to support her younger siblings.
In her
mid-20s Twain recorded a demo tape of country originals
and was quickly signed to Mercury Nashville, who released
her self-titled debut album in 1993. While working on her
next album, 1995's The Woman in Me, with hard rock
producer Robert John "Mutt" Lange, the couple
fell in love and married. In an almost storybook fashion,
her new album became a smash hit, launching "Whose
Bed Have Your Boots Been Under?," "Any Man of
Mine" and the No. 1 singles "The Woman in
Me," "No One Needs to Know," and "(If
You're Not In It for Love) I'm Outta Here!"
By
combining pop-country with rock stylings and sexy videos,
Twain became one of the most popular country stars of the
1990s, selling more than 12 million copies of The Woman
in Me.
Twain's
1997 release, Come On Over, is hailed as the Thriller
of the '90s for its massive record sales, number of hits,
and number of weeks in the Top 40. Come On Over
spawned no less than eight hit singles, including
"Love Gets Me Everytime," "You're Still the
One," "From this Moment On," Honey, I'm
Home," "That Don't Impress Me Much" and
"You've Got a Way".
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