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Trivia
Birth name: Eilleen Regina Edwards
Date of birth: 28 August 1965
Place of birth: Windsor, Ontario, Canada
Nickname: Shania Twain
Height: 5' 4" (1.63 m)
Spouse: Robert John Lange (28 December 1993 - present) 1 child.
Listed in "People Weekly"s "Most Intriguing People"
list. (December 25, 1995/January 1, 1996 issue)
Voted "sexiest vegetarian alive" by PETA
Gave birth to first child, a son, Eja (pronounced "Asia"). [12
August 2001]
Name "Shania" means "I'm on my way" in Ojibwa.
Has scored seven No. 1 hits on Billboard magazine's country singles
chart. Her biggest hit is the country-pop smash "You're Still the
One" (1998, No. 1 country, No. 2 Hot 100); the song won Grammy
Awards for Best Country song and Best Female Country Performance.
Another of her biggest hits, 1997's "Love Gets Me Every Time,"
became the first country No. 1 released by a female country artist to
spend five weeks atop Billboard's country chart since Dolly Parton's
1977 hit "Here You Come Again."
Named the Country Music Association's Entertainer of the Year in 1999.
She also received the CMA's International Achievement Award that same
year.
Is one of only four native Canadians to reach the peak of Billboard's
country chart since its inception in 1944. The other top hitmakers are
Hank Snow (who first turned the trick in 1950), Anne Murray (first No. 1
hit in 1974), and Terri Clark (first and only No. 1 hit in 1999).
Her other country No. 1 hits: "Any Man of Mine" (1995);
"(If You're Not in it for Love) I'm Outta Here!" "You Win
My Love" and "No One Needs to Know" (1996); and
"Honey I'm Home" (1998). Other big hits include "Whose
Bed Have Your Boots Been Under" and "The Woman in Me (Needs
the Man in You)" (1995); "Don't Be Stupid," "From
This Moment On" and "That Don't Impress Me Much" (all
1998, the second a duet with country singer Bryan White); and "Man!
I Feel Like a Woman," "You've Got a Way" and "Come
On Over" (all 1999).
Has sold 19 million copies of "Come On Over" domestically.
Uses her married (and legal) name Eilleen Lange in the credits for her
latest CD, titled 'Up.' It is her first release since 1997's
multi-platinum effort 'Come on Over.'
Will host the 2003 Juno Awards (Canadian Grammy Awards) in Ottawa,
Ontario, Canada on April 6.
Performed at the National Football League's Super Bowl half-time show
where it was well known that she had been lip-synching the song.
[January 26, 2003]
Won three 2003 Juno Awards: Juno Fan Choice Award, Artist of the Year
and Country Recording of the Year.
She received a star on the Canadian Walk of Fame in Toronto, Ontario,
Canada (June 25, 2003).
Her German Shepherd dog Tim is named after her hometown of Timmins,
Ontario, Canada.
Her heritage is Irish and French-Canadian. She was raised in the Ojibway
Indian culture by her stepfather, a full blooded Ojibway native.
She owns a cottage near the town of Huntsville in the Muskoka region of
Ontario, Canada.
Shares a birthday with LeAnn Rimes.
Her parents were killed in a car crash when she was 22.
The album, tour and merchandising for the album "Come On Over"
made over $40,000,000 in Australia alone, where it still remains one of
the longest charting albums in Australia.
Her name is correctly pronounced 'Shu-nye-ah'.
Received the "Order of Canada", Canada's highest honor on
November 18, 2005.
Named #39 on the Maxim magazine Hot 100 of 2005 list.
Lives in Switzerland with her husband and son.
Her album "Up!" (2002) sold two million copies in the United
States during its first month of release.
Named #33 in FHM's "100 Sexiest Women in the World 2005"
special supplement. (2005)
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