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* Shania Twain, Canadian country singer-songwriter
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Shania and Twain
Shania Twain, OC (; born Eilleen Regina Edwards ; August 28, 1965 ) is a Canadian country pop singer-songwriter.
Shania Twain was born Eilleen Regina Edwards in Windsor, Ontario, daughter of Sharon ( née Morrison ) and Clarence Edwards.
On February 7, 2012, Lionel Richie's single " Endless Love " featuring Shania Twain was released to digital retailers.
* The city of Timmins ( located in Ontario, Canada ) renamed a street for her, gave her the key to the city, and built the Shania Twain Centre in her honour.
Shania and Canadian
During the early 1990s, Canadian country singer Shania Twain appeared in low jeans baring her midriff and navel in her music videos and performances.
Other Canadian artists with long-time international careers, like Anne Murray, Celine Dion, Avril Lavigne, and Shania Twain, have used recording studios in Canada specifically to maintain Cancon status.
Alanis Morissette, along with Shania Twain, are the only Canadian artists, male or female to have sold two million units in Canada, receiving the Double diamond award Other female Canadian musicians have achieved international success in the highly competitive world of popular music, including Joni Mitchell, Ginette Reno, Diane Dufresne, Diana Krall, Avril Lavigne, Loreena McKennitt, Amanda Marshall, Holly Cole, Chantal Kreviazuk, Diane Tell, Jann Arden, Deborah Cox, Sarah Harmer, Susan Aglukark, Melissa Auf der Maur, Emily Haines, Kittie, Bif Naked, Nelly Furtado, and Feist.
" is the title of a song by Canadian singer Shania Twain, it was the tenth single released to country radio in January 2000 from her 1997 album Come on Over.
Shania and country
Many of Toronto's wealthiest citizens own large country estates in the area, among them many members of the Eaton Family, Norman Jewison, Shania Twain, Elton John and the inventors of the board game Trivial Pursuit.
Rolling Stone commented on Jackson's style remarking, " If Garth and Shania have raised the bar for country concerts with Kiss-style production and endless costume changes, then Alan Jackson is doing his best to return the bar to a more human level.
" Over time, she developed a pop-styled crossover sound, similar to that of Faith Hill and Shania Twain, and has had a string of major hit singles on the Billboard country chart and occasionally on the adult contemporary chart.
Another country music superstar, Shania Twain, once performed her Come on Over Tour in the arena on September 12, 1998 and was filmed in her first DVD released Shania Twain Live.
In 2005, she appeared in Shania: A Life in Eight Albums, a biopic of country star Shania Twain, in which she played the lead role.
The former occurred when CHMT-FM / Timmins, ON played songs by Timmins native Shania Twain before changing from country to adult hits in March 2006 ; the latter occurred when WHLD / Niagara Falls, NY transitioned from brokered programming to adult standards by playing Frank Sinatra songs exclusively in August 2010.
A frequent criticism is that much post-1990s country music is inferior to that of classic country artists and that the newer music is little more than repackaged pop and rock music, particularly the music of artists such as Shania Twain, Faith Hill, and Rascal Flatts.
Also in 1998, White made a guest appearance on Shania Twain's Top Ten country and pop hit " From This Moment On " released on Shania's 1997 album Come On Over, there are several edits of the song, both country and pop.
Although she continued to record for Epic throughout the 1990s and into the early 2000s, her commercial momentum slowed down, as neotraditionalist artists like Loveless were eclipsed on country radio by flashier, trendier young performers like Shania Twain and Faith Hill ; none of the singles released from her 1997 album Long Stretch of Lonesome or 2000's Strong Heart reached the top ten.
She created a whole new breed of female country artists, such as Lynn Anderson, Crystal Gayle and Shania Twain, who gained prominence in later years.
The huge growth of country music as a radio format in the 1990s brought a number of new country crossovers onto the AC airwaves, including Martina McBride, Wynonna Judd, LeAnn Rimes, Shania Twain, Faith Hill, Lonestar, Mary Chapin Carpenter, and Garth Brooks.
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