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12 Riveting Shania Twain Facts

By Sarah Netemeyer | Country Fancast | August 24, 2016

Canadian country music superstar Shania Twain has been in the music industry for nearly three decades. During her career, the 50-year-old talent has sold over 85 million records, making her the best-selling female artist in the history of country music and one of the best-selling artists of all time.

Get to know the “You’re Still the One” songstress through the collection of interesting facts below!

1) Her birth name is actually Eilleen Regina Edwards. The surname “Twain” came from her stepfather Jerry Twain and she adopted the first name “Shania” at age 24.

2) At the age of 10, Shania began exploring songwriting and penning her own tunes.

3) The country starlet co-wrote the song “Don’t Let Me Be the Last to Know” on pop princess Britney Spears’ record Oops! I Did It Again.

4) Twain’s songs have appeared on the soundtracks of “Gilmore Girls” and “The Big Bang Theory.”

5) During her 1998-99 Come On Over Tour, Shania shared the stage with future “Complicated” singer Avril Lavigne.

6) In true diva style, Shania announced her Las Vegas residency by shutting down The Strip and arriving on horseback while accompanied by a herd of 40 other horses.

7) If Twain hadn’t pursued music, she says she would have been a veterinarian or an architect.

8) Her success has garnered her several honorific titles including the “Queen of Country Pop.”

9)  As a child, she learned to hunt and to chop wood in order to help her financially struggling family.

10) Since money was scarce, Twain would clean the home of her voice coach in order to pay for singing lessons.

11) According to a 2009 study by the University of Toronto and the University of California-San Diego, Twain was reported as having the “Perfect Face” due to its measurements.

12) Shania is a devotee of Sant Mat, an Eastern spiritual philosophy which calls for daily meditation as well as abstinence from alcohol, drugs, and premarital sex.

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