>> Shania Twain was born as Eilleen Regina Edwards to Sharon and Clarence Edwards. She started singing at bars from the age of eight to earn money for her family.

>> In the early 1980s, she spent time working in her stepfather’s reforestation business. The work was physically demanding but Shania says that the
isolation in the forest helped her creatively.

>> Shania has won five Grammy Awards, with her albums selling more than 75 million albums worldwide. She is the second best selling artist in Canada after Celine Dion.

>> She has a son Eja D’Angelo from her first marriage. u00a0