Shania Twain

Shania Twain a Canadian country music singersongwriter and actor was born on August 29 1965 as Eilleen Regina Edwards in Windsor Ontario Canada She is one of three daughters of Clarence and Sharon Morrison Edwards sister Jill is two years older and CarrieAnn three years younger When she was age six her mother remarried Jerry Twain a fullblooded Ojibwa native from Timmins Ontario who adopted her as his own She started out singing in bars as a child after hours and at thirteen appeared on The Tommy Hunter Show 1965 When she was 22 her parents were killed in an accident and she became the legal guardian of her halfbrothers 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 Im on my way in Ojibwa it was the name of a coworker and signed a contract with Mercury Nashville that same year Her first album went by without notice but her second album produced with Robert John Mutt Lange who she wed on December 28 1993 and divorced on June 9 2010 broke world records with its sales Referred to as The Queen of Country Pop she is one of the most commercially successful artists of all time having sold over 85 million albums Presently married to Frederic Nicolas Thiebaud on January 1 2011 present