Shania Twain was born on August 28, 1965 in Windsor, Ontario, Canada. She has made albums on country music and pop music. Although his first album “Wild & Wicked” did not make much noise, his second album “The Woman In Me” sold 9 million copies in America alone and remained on the charts for more than 100 weeks.
1- Shania Twain co-wrote the song Don’t Let Me Be the Last to Know along with guitar player Keith Scott for popstar Britney Spears’ second studio album, Oops! I Did It Again.
2- She is one of the very few artists whose songs have been played in space
3- Shania Twain first wrote a song was when she was just a 10 year-old child
4- Shania Twain has two sisters, Jill and Carrie Ann
5- Shania appeared in the 1998 first edition of the VH1 Divas concert where she sang alongside Mariah Carey, Celine Dion, Gloria Estefan, Carole King, and Aretha Franklin.
6- Shania Twain’s favorite music video look is the one she sports in “From This Moment On.”
7- Shania played the trumpet while in high school.
8- Her parents divorced when she was two
9- As a child, Shania learned to hunt and to chop wood in order to help her financially struggling family.
10- Shania Twain’s songs have appeared on the soundtracks of “Gilmore Girls” and “The Big Bang Theory.”
11- At the age of 10-years-old, Shania began exploring songwriting and penning her own tunes.
12- Shania Twain is a vegetarian and a devotee of Sant Mat which is an eastern spiritual philosophy.
13- On December 28th, 1993, she got married to Robert John
14 – Shania Twain has been named “Queen of Country Pop. Among her many titles
15- Shania Twain has received five Grammy Awards, a World Music Award, and 27 BMI songwriter Awards.
16- Shania Twain wrote her first song at the age of 10. She tells ABC that the tune was titled “Mama Won’t You Come Out to Play,” and it sounds … well, pretty deep!
17 – Shania Twain’s song “Up!” has been used to wake up astronauts
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