Facts about Shania Twain:
Listed in "People Weekly"s
"Most Intriguing People" list. (December 25, 1995/January 1, 1996
issue)
Voted "sexiest vegetarian
alive" by PETA
(12 August 2001) Gave birth to
first child, a son, Eja (pronounced "Asia").
Name "Shania" means
"I'm on my way" in Ojibwa.
Has scored six 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.
Personal quotes:
"I feel sexy when I get out
of the tub - your skin is fresh and you've put up your hair without looking."
Shania Twain - FHM. May/June 2000.
I have arm-wrestled here and there...
guys seem to want to test my strength."
Shania Twain - FHM. May/June 2000.
