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Shania Twain 1993

The Woman in Me 1995

Come on Over 1997

The Complete Limelight Sessions 2001

Up! 2002

Greatest Hits 2004

"CMT Insider"

42nd Annual Country Music Association Awards (2008) (TV)

CMT: 40 Sexiest Music Videos (2008) (TV)

Impact: Songs That Changed the World - Shania Twain: Any Man of Mine (2007)

The Kennedy Center Honors: A Celebration of the Performing Arts (2006) (TV)



CMT: The Greatest - 40 Days That Shaped Country Music (2006) (TV)


CMT Greatest Moments: Shania Twain (2006) (TV)

CMT: The Greatest - 20 Sexiest Women (2006) (TV)



"E! True Hollywood Story"

CMA Red Carpet Live from NYC (2005) (TV)

CMT: Class of 1995 (2005) (TV)

"Larry King Live"

"The Tony Danza Show"

"Strictly Come Dancing"

"Today with Des and Mel"

"Children in Need"

Bambi Verleihung 2004 (2004)

"The Frank Skinner Show"

"GMTV"

"Domino Day"

38th Annual Country Music Association Awards (2004) (TV)

"The Greatest Canadian" (2004) TV mini-series

"Wetten, dass..?"

I Heart Huckabees (2004)

"48 Hours"

Maxim Hot 100 (2004) (TV)

CMT Flame Worthy Video Music Awards Pre-Party (2004) (TV)

The 2003 Billboard Music Awards (2003) (TV)

VH1 Big in 03 (2003) (TV)

Gold, Gold, Gold (2003) (TV)

CMA Awards Red Carpet Preview (2003) (TV)



"Tinseltown TV"

"CD:UK"

"Patrick Kielty... Almost Live!"

Shania Up! Live in Chicago (2003) (TV)

"Star Search"

"200 Greatest Pop Culture Icons" (2003) TV mini-series

95.8 Capital FM's Party in the Park for the Prince's Trust 2003 (2003) (TV)

"CMT Stacked" (2003) TV series

"Intimate Portrait"



Willie Nelson & Friends: Live and Kickin' (2003) (TV)

VH1 Divas Duets (2003) (TV)

"Verstehen Sie Spaß?"

CMT Flame Worthy Video Music Awards (2003) (TV)

CMT Flame Worthy Video Music Awards Pre-Party (2003) (TV)

The 32nd Annual Juno Awards (2003) (TV)

"Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway"

50 Sexiest Video Moments (2003) (TV)

"HermanSIC"

"Stjerne for en aften"

Super Bowl XXXVII (2003) (TV)

Dolly Parton: Platinum Blonde (2003) (TV)

"VH1: All Access"

"TRL Italy"



The Royal Variety Performance 2002 (2002) (TV)

"Operación triunfo"

"Top of the Pops 2"

"Inside Fame"



Shania Twain: A Collection of Video Hits (2002)

2000 Much Music Video Music Awards (2000) (TV)

"Musikbutikken"

Winter Break (1999) (TV)



The Life and Times of the Women of Country (1999) (TV)

Shania Twain: Man! I Feel Like a Woman (1999)

Party in the Park 1998 (1999)

Bellini's Drive (1998)

"Behind the Music"

Canadian Country Music Awards (1998) (TV)

Divas Live: An Honors Concert for VH1 Save the Music (1998) (TV)

Shania Twain: Live (1998)

The 1998 Billboard Music Awards (1998) (TV)

The Gift of Song (1997) (TV)



The 38th Annual (1996) (TV)

1995 Billboard Music Awards (1995) (TV)

George Fox: Time of My Life (1995) (TV)

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Within the span of five years Shania Twain went from singing in a resort in the Canadian boondocks to becoming the biggest sensation to hit Nashville since Garth Brooks. Combining glossy pop hooks, arena-rock crunch, and turbo-charged twang with MTV-age marketing savvy, Twain has not only sold more records than any female country singer in history but has emerged as an international pop superstar.

Twain grew up poor in the small, rural outpost of Timmins, Ontario, where her birth father walked out on the family before Shania was out of diapers. She started singing early, getting plenty of encouragement from her mother and adoptive father, Jerry Twain, an Ojibway Indian in whose honor she took the name Shania, which is Ojibway for “I’m on my way”. By the time Twain was eight, she was performing at social events and talent contests and, after that, on radio, TV, and in bars. Tragedy, however, struck when her mother and stepfather were killed in an auto accident. Forced to put her budding career on hold to care for her four younger brothers, Shania, then 21, took a job singing show tunes, pop, rock, and country hits at a resort in Deerhurst, Ontario. She did that for three years until her brothers were old enough to live on their own. Then in 1991 she moved to Nashville, where she secured a contract with Mercury Records, which released her self-titled debut album (#67, C&W, 1993). Suffering from lackluster material and assembly-line production, it yielded only two minor singles.

Twain’s fortune changed when she met hard-rock producer Rober John “Mutt” Lange, who had produced Foreigner, AC/DC, Def Leppard, and other rock bands. Having seen one of Twain’s videos, he called to express an interest in collaborating with her. The two subsequently met, married, and embarked on the most successful musical and marital partnership of the ‘90s. For “The Woman in Me” (#5, pop, #1 C&W, 1995), the couple took Twain originals that Mercury had rejected for her debut, pumped up the volume, and burnished them with a metallic rock and pop sheen. The record also found Twain eschewing the wholesome, demure image she projected on her debut in favor of a bold, sexy new persona. The record produced seven hit singles, including “Any Man of Mine” (#31 pop, #1 C&W, 1995) and “(If You’re Not in It for Love) I’m Outta Here” (#74 pop, #1 C&W, 1995). Buoyed by a string of suggestive, midriff-baring videos, as well as Twain’s Madonna-like entrepreneurial flair, the album sold in excess of 12 million copies, consolidating the pop-country insurrection started by Garth Brooks, and all without a single tour date to support it.

Critics were divided about Twain’s music and image. Nashville boosters claimed that Twain brought country in step with pop, while feminists argued that she was pandering to male libidos to sell records. Fans, however, couldn’t get enough, and in 1997 Twain and Lange delivered again with the monumental, defiantly pro-woman “Come On Over” (#2, pop, #1 C&W). The album included a whopping nine hit singles, with “You’re Still the One” (#2, pop, #1 C&W, 1998), and “That Don’t Impress Me Much” (#7, 1999, #8 C&W, 1998), among others, crossing over into the pop Top 10.

Twain also toured for the first time, playing a string of sold-out dates that were long on bombast and spectacle but likely helped her to secure 1998 Grammy Awards for Best Country Song and Best Female Country Vocal Performance. A perennial Nashville outsider, Twain nevertheless took home Entertainer of the Year honors at the 1999 Country Music Association Awards as well. At sales of 18 million and counting, “Come On Over” has also now become the best-selling album in country music history. A collection of remixes titled “Come On Over: International Version” followed in 1999.