As a child, she often was sent to school without lunch because her parents couldn't afford groceries. In , she contracted Lyme disease which affected her voice. In order to regain her voice from the effects of dysphonia, which was caused by disease, she underwent multiple invasive surgeries.
She released her fifth studio album, "Now," in I don't always get it quite right, but I've never had any security issues. Sometimes they'll pee onstage or sometimes they'll poo. We just never know really what's going to happen. The unpredictability keeps us on our toes. It's important to give it all you have while you have the chance.
When you don't come from struggle, gaining appreciation is a quality that's difficult to come by. Horses calm me. I love being around them. They smell great, they are beautiful to look at, they are loving, demanding, temperamental, and they settle you. I really feel like life will dictate itself. You should allow it to unfold as naturally as possible. Just go with the flow. When you're really desperate, you say a few prayers and hope for the best.
That's the way I've always lived my life. I feel like I'm on top of the world. Honestly, I feel like I've climbed a very giant mountain, and I'm just standing right on top with my arms wide open and breathing rarified air. There were moments when I really just thought, I don't need anything and I don't need anyone. I just want to go away and disappear. I find that the very things that I get criticized for, which is usually being different and just doing my own thing and just being original, is the very thing that's making me successful.
Being betrayed is one of the most valuable lessons life can teach. I lost my sense of trust, honesty and compassion. I crashed down and became what I consider an emotional mess.
I've never been so miserable in my whole life. I just wanted to go to bed and never get up. Yes, you can lose somebody overnight, yes, your whole life can be turned upside down. Life is short. It can come and go like a feather in the wind. I feel sexy when I get out of the tub - your skin is fresh and you've put up your hair without looking.
Later in my life, I'm going to look back and smile and be very fulfilled. I know that if I don't give it my all right now I'll regret it later. That's very important to me, because I've worked all my life to have this. Life unravels the way it does, and it has an effect on you, but you have to take responsibility for dealing with it.
One day, someone said to me, "Do you want to go jump out of an airplane? Fortunately, when you're a mom, the responsibility of caring for your child can keep you going. I won't lie, I've had a lot of discouraging moments in the past years, moments I wasn't sure about things and doubted myself.
I'm more private than people realize. I'm not that easy to get to know. I do not see my family life in any way, shape, or form as an opportunity for a photo. My music must reflect whatever's going on in my mind, and my life needs to evolve for me to discover who it is I'm becoming. I want to be successful, but I don't really have what it takes to do it comfortably.
I don't want someone photographing my cellulite - I can't take it! I really admire artists that are willing to take a different approach and a different angle to their shows. Dysphonia is not a singing problem. It's a voice box issue in the muscle on the voice, very different from having a nodule on the vocal cords, which I've never had.
I'm lucky that I've never had that. It needs a long renewal time, and even today, I am still addressing it. Come on Over followed in She spent the next two years touring the globe in support of the album; by the end of , Come on Over had sold 36 million copies. Twain took a sabbatical and returned to her Swiss home for some down time with her husband.
The next summer, she and Lange welcomed their first child. A son, whom they named Eja, arrived August 21, During this time, Twain brainstormed for a fourth album. While balancing a domestic life and a career, the end result was Up! Those two albums sold over 10 million copies a piece in the U.
As Up! In the wake of Greatest Hits , Twain released a song called "Shoes" on the soundtrack to the TV soap opera Desperate Housewives , but otherwise she slowly slid into an extended hiatus. In , she announced her separation from husband Mutt Lange , and in the following year she wrote an open letter to her fans apologizing for the lack of new music. Despite this, new music wasn't imminent from Twain. She started to return to active status in via the reality series Why Not? With Shania Twain, which culminated with the release of a new single called "Today Is Your Day"; it peaked at 36 upon its July release.
Once that wrapped up, she embarked on a tour called Rock This Country in AllMusic relies heavily on JavaScript. Please enable JavaScript in your browser to use the site fully.
Blues Classical Country. Electronic Folk International. In her memoir, she describes an occasion when Jerry beat Sharon unconscious, then repeatedly plunged her head in the toilet. Twain grabbed a chair and smashed it across his back. He punched her in the jaw; she punched him back. Twain was 11 at the time. Her father often abused her. She stutters to a stop. Did he sexually abuse her?
How old were you when he started abusing you? I learned to block it out. She started writing songs as a young girl. Did she want to be a star? Violent home. Nothing to eat. And it really works. A lot of kids play with dolls and I played with words and sounds. By the age of eight, she was singing in bars to pay the family bills. After graduating from school in , she went to Nashville to sing country.
She was on the verge of a breakthrough in when she received terrible news. Jerry and her mother had been killed in a car crash. Despite everything, she loved them and she was devastated. She shelved her dreams and moved back home to become a surrogate mother to her four siblings. Twain never fully processed the tragedy, because she was too busy looking after the family.
She supported them by singing at a local resort. I was just out of myself. When you add shock to grief, it does crazy things to your mind. And that really helped me through — this was not nearly as bad as my parents dying. Looking after the family took six years out of her life. After one album, she hooked up with Lange and found global fame. I ask whether she thinks of herself today as Eilleen or Shania. No, she insists, they are one and the same person — Shania is just the professional front.
Actually, Twain concedes, there is a difference. Eilleen was a tomboy; possibly still is. She did not wear heels until she was in her 20s and she used to strap down her boobs so nobody would notice them. I was always very, very shy of my body. I do like solitude. When I was a teenager, I was energetic, but annoyingly energetic. It was a little bit hurtful. How influential was Lange on her career?
As a producer, he is very much a director as well; very hands-on and very talented. So, he was driving the direction of the sound.
He was never part of the creative development in that sense. He drove the instrument choices, the sound, the groove. He was a bass player as a musician and he was very driven by the rhythm. Was she worried that she would lose her creative edge without him? I was petrified of giving in this album. Can she and Lange talk to each other these days? Marie-Anne was pregnant at the same time as Twain.
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