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Her mother and stepfather died in a car crash on November 1, 1987, prompting her to become legal guardian of her younger siblings and pause her music career.
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The album Come On Over 1999 and its tour made over $40,000,000 in Australia alone, where it remains one of the longest-charting albums.
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The music video for Man! I Feel Like a Woman 1999 reversed gender roles from Robert Palmer’s Addicted to Love 1986, with Twain fronting a band of five male models.
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She has English, Irish, French-Canadian, and Northern Irish ancestry and was raised in the Ojibway Indian culture by her stepfather.
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Shy as a child, she was a tomboy who hated performing but started writing songs when she was eight years old.
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In 2004, she retired from performing and retreated to her home in Switzerland.
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She has sold 19 million copies of Come On Over 1999 domestically.
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As a child, she often went to school without lunch because her parents could not afford groceries.
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In 2003, she contracted Lyme disease, which affected her voice; she underwent multiple surgeries for dysphonia caused by the disease.
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Her German Shepherd dog Tim is named after her hometown of Timmins, Ontario.
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She considers Gladys Knight one of her biggest influences.
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She has scored seven No. 1 hits on Billboard’s country chart, with You’re Still the One 1998 being her biggest hit, winning Grammys for Best Country Song and Best Female Country Performance.
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Her other country No. 1 hits include Any Man of Mine 1995, If You’re Not in it for Love I’m Outta Here!, You Win My Love, No One Needs to Know 1996, and Honey I’m Home 1998.
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She was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Recording at 6270 Hollywood Boulevard on June 2, 2011.
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She has a son, Eja D’Angelo Lange born August 12, 2001, with ex-husband Mutt Lange.
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Her album Up! 2002 sold two million copies in the United States during its first month of release.
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Her nephew, also named Twain, got his big break on Canada’s Much Music cable station in 2004.
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She was listed in People Weekly’s Most Intriguing People list in 1995.
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She was awarded the Officer of the Order of Canada on November 18, 2005.
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She owns a cottage near Huntsville in the Muskoka region of Ontario, Canada.
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She was awarded a star on Canada’s Walk of Fame in Toronto on June 25, 2003.
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She won three Juno Awards in 2003: Juno Fan Choice, Artist of the Year, and Country Recording of the Year.
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She was named #39 on Maxim’s Hot 100 Women of 2005 list.
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She was ranked #15 on VH1’s 100 Sexiest Artists.
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Her hit Love Gets Me Every Time 1997 became the first No. 1 by a female country artist to spend five weeks atop Billboard’s country chart since Dolly Parton’s Here You Come Again 1977.
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She was named #30 in FHM’s 100 Sexiest Women in the World 2006 supplement.
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On April 6, 2003, she hosted the Juno Awards in Ottawa, Ontario.
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Her name is correctly pronounced Shu-nye-ah.
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She was named #33 in FHM’s 100 Sexiest Women in the World 2005 supplement.
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She returned to music in 2011 with the Shania: Still the One Las Vegas residency 2012-2014, followed by the Rock This Country tour 2015, the Now tour 2018, and the Let’s Go! residency in Las Vegas since 2019.
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She released her fifth studio album Now in 2017.
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She was named CMA Entertainer of the Year in 1999 and received the CMA International Achievement Award that same year.
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She is one of only four native Canadians to reach No. 1 on Billboard’s country chart since 1944, joining Hank Snow, Anne Murray, and Terri Clark.
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She shares a birthday with LeAnn Rimes.
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Her stepfather and mother’s headstone bears the family name Twain with the epitaph Together Forever.
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She uses her married name Eilleen Lange in the credits for her album Up! 2002.
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She is a vegetarian and was voted sexiest vegetarian alive by PETA.
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She had a poster of Tony Danza on her wall when she was a little girl.
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On January 26, 2003, she performed at the Super Bowl halftime show, though she lip-synched.
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She was inducted into the Hair Fan’s Hall of Fame in 2005.
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Despite popular belief, she is not a direct descendant of Mark Twain; neither was born with that surname.
