Canadian born country music legend Shania Twain turns 51 today.
The stunning record breaking singer who’s birth name is Eileen Regina Edwards was born in Canada on August 28th, she later changed her name to Eileen Twain before becoming known worldwide as Shania Twain the a multi-million selling country/pop star.
To celebrate the legendary stars birthday we here at Celeb Mix have put together a list of Twain’s five best music videos.
1: You’ve Got A Way
Shania released the official music video for her huge hit ‘You’ve Got A Way’ back in 1999! The song was used for the Notting Hill movie starring Hugh Grant and Julia Roberts.
2: Forever And For Always
This stunning video was released back in 2002 and showed a couple growing from childhood sweethearts into an old happily married couple.
3: Don’t Be Stupid (You Know I Love You)
In 1999 Twain released the video for her massive worldwide hit ‘Don’t Be Stupid (You Know I Love You) and the clip showed the fun side of the singer! We also get to see her doing a spot of Irish dancing.
4: The Woman In Me (Needs The Man In You)
Back in 1995 the music video for ‘The Woman In Me (Needs The Man In You) was released and it is an absolute cracker. The visuals are simple and beautiful and truly last the test of time.
5: (If You’re Not In It For Love) I’m Outta Here!
Who doesn’t love this fun clip? This video was released back in 1995 and once again showcases Shania’s fun personality.
Why not continue celebrating Shania Twain’s birthday by taking our fun quiz?
Happy 51st birthday Shania Twain, we hope you have the best day.
Shan has a lot of great videos but I'm not sure any of these are her best. Maybe Forever and For Always--it's cute. Personally, I would have included I'm Gonna Getcha Good, Ka-Ching, and Any Man of Mine. Those have always stood out to me.
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"I'm a maker of love songs! A chanteuse!" - Shannie
I am surprised Shania didn't post anything about thanking her fans for the birthday wishes on her Facebook and Twitter. She has always done that. Strange.
Happy Birthday Shania!!! every year for like 18 years I play all of Shania's albums all day in celebration for her birthday...anyone who knows me dear knows I'm a ST geek...can't help it she's the queen!❤️❤️❤️
Wishing a very happy birthday today to my co-panelists @ShaniaTwain and @jakeowen on #RealCountryTV! They both share a birthday today and I wish them both all the success, happiness and love in the world. May you both have many more to come! 🎂🎊🎉
I'm a little late Shania, but I want to wish you a very happy 55th! By the way, I saw you on GMA a couple of weeks ago, what a beautiful place you have. Also, loved the guitar. Whenever you have a birthday, I am only 3 days away from mine. Love your new duet with O/P.
LONG-TIME FAN: STEVE F
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It is always fun every year when this happens! What I mean is that right now I am wishing you a wonderful Birthday today on the 28th of August, and then my granddaughter Brenna's 20th is tomorrow the 29th, and then mine is on Sept. 1st. So, there you have it, 4 days and 3 birthdays. It is so cool to have it that way. Okay, enough said!!!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY EILLEEN REGINA EDWARDS or alias SHANIA TWAIN!!!
Can't believe it was 2004 the last time I saw you in the 2nd row in Montreal.
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From her SKC kids to her many fans around the world, she inspires us all to reach for the stars and rule the world. ✨ Join us in wishing Shania Twain a happy birthday! ❤️ #HappyBirthday #ShaniaTwain #Shania
Cory and Fred stopped the show last night so everybody could sing me happy birthday, it was sooooo sweet and you all sounded BEAUTIFUL! Such a wonderful surprise. Thank you ❤️
It's my birthday and I’m feeling like a queen!! 👑 We started the celebrations early, with a beautiful birthday singalong during my show - THANK YOU!!! ❤️ And a little get together with some of my nearest and dearest after. Thank you for all the birthday love! 😘
.@ShaniaTwain Birthday wishes going out to dear friend Shania Twain born on the 28th day of August! Check out her new documentary Not Just A Girl on Netflix out now!🎥🎵🎈🎁 👑
Today I’m celebrating another trip around the sun! I’m so grateful for a wonderful year and excited for what’s ahead. This song becomes more and more about me and you guys - still together and still going strong! Happy Birthday to me and lots of good health and happiness to you all (and thank you for all the birthday messages already). I love you!
Hey, Shania!!! Hope today is a great ending for your trip around the sun. Mine is in a couple of days, and 20 years more than yours. ENJOY TODAY!!!
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Today is my birthday and I’m feeling like a badass queen! Thank you for all the love and birthday messages, I love you guys! AND I can’t wait to celebrate with you all in Vegas this week! Who’s coming out to a show? Let’s go totally crazy and have a s**t kicking time!! 💥
By now, if you say “country-pop,” the instant answer comes wrapped in leopard print and bellows from stadium speakers: Shania Twain, global disruptor, prairie survivor, and avatar of empowerment for bank-tellers, rodeo queens and karaoke fiends alike. On August 28, Shania turns 60, and the world gets to ponder an inflection point: What do you do after you’ve sold 100 million records, burned down every genre boundary, survived heartbreak and disease, and outlasted the judgements of cowboys, critics and record-company “suits”?
If there’s an answer, Twain is living it out loud. And in the most Shania way: with openness, mid-chorus reinvention and zero tolerance for BS.
From Timmins to transcendence
Shania’s story isn’t just rags-to-riches; it’s more like rags-to-chart-topper-to-pop-icon-to-a-walk-in-the-wilderness-and-back. Raised in a struggling family in Timmins, Ontario, Eilleen Regina Twain (the original moniker has since ceded to “Shania,” an anthemic name with Ojibwa roots) learned resilience as her native language. Her self-titled 1993 debut album fizzled quietly, but the world would soon over-correct.
After teaming up with producer and future husband Robert “Mutt” Lange, the follow-up, The Woman in Me, detonated like a lariat wrapped around the globe. Sales soared past 20 million; the Grammys arrived, and so did the realisation that Twain was rewriting not just country, but pop culture.
Her 1997 record-busting album, Come On Over, confirmed the vault: over 40 million copies worldwide, crown for best-selling solo female album, best-selling country album, and fuel for karaoke nights the world over. With each new record, Twain shed more of the “Nashville darling” skin and walked ever bolder into the sun.
The cost of crossing lines
But commercial transformation is expensive. Twain endured more than superficial barbs about “popification” – she absorbed the jibes, the industry’s doubts and, after a mystifying cascade of vocal and health issues, the existential dread that comes for even the most bulletproof artists. In interviews, she has never sugarcoated the toll. “I say you should look in the mirror and be fine with that. I am only going to get older and saggier – if I hate myself now, then what state am I going to be in in five or 10 years?” she told the Mirror, in a line as honest as the bridges she writes for her best songs.
Aging, unfiltered
Shania’s 60th is less a victory lap than an encore. There’s no bitterness, no performative nostalgia for a youth painfully earned and bravely left behind. If there’s a word for Twain at this milestone, it’s unfazed. She’s ditched the expectation to edit herself for polite society. “The older I get, the more confident I feel … The filters are just coming off,” she’s stated.
She has also admitted the hardships. “I think as we get older especially, we do tend to get more shy or more critical of our bodies. Our skin starts to sag, it’s just part of growing old,” Twain confessed, a line that’s either defiance or the most gentle kind of self-forgiveness. Whether she’s lighting up a Las Vegas residency or experimenting for the sheer hell of it, the message is unchanged: Vitality doesn’t have a timestamp, and for a woman in an industry that wants to shrink you with every decade, that’s revolution.
Her perspective on letting go is clear-eyed. “What a waste of energy to live with fears about aging … It just takes so much time and effort away from enjoying your life. Menopause taught me to quickly say, ‘You know, it may only get worse. So, just love yourself now. Just get over your insecurities – they’re a waste of your energy’,” Twain said recently.
Reinventions, returns, and raising a racket
Twain’s recent years are a greatest hits setlist of creative pivots. After battling Lyme disease and the resulting dysphonia, she clawed back to the spotlight, mounting two massive Vegas residencies and torching the notion of “retirement” with albums like Now (2017) and Queen of Me (2023). The energy on stage: ferocious. The songwriting: reflective but never regressive.
During the pandemic, Shania told Today, “I found more energy. I’m choosing happiness and enjoying life more as I get older.” That joy radiates everywhere, in her willingness to experiment – with both the music and the self – long after she could have coasted on nostalgia tours.
Glance at Twain’s Instagram or tour footage and you’ll see an artist straddling confidence and humility, poking fun at herself, dropping wisdom like, “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.”
Outlasting the Trends
Maybe it comes down to survival – literal and figurative. Twain’s songs are temples to resilience. “You’re Still the One” became a staple at weddings; “Man! I Feel Like A Woman!” is both bachelorette fuel and a coded ode to freedom. The costumes got louder, the hooks sharper. Each anthem carried an undercurrent for anyone ever told to wait their turn: Go get it. Do what you dare. Don’t apologise for insisting on more.
It’s hard to think of a living artist who’s navigated as many existential pivots – a child lost in poverty, an ingenue dismissed as an industry experiment, an icon felled by disease, and yet still unbowed. Twain’s career is a Teflon miracle, proof that the best art transcends not just genre, but generation.
“Still the One” at 60
At 60, Shania Twain moves differently – but she’s still moving, and still not impressed by the things that used to rattle her. “Now, I look at myself naked and I like the honesty about myself,” she said. “If I hate myself now, then what state am I going to be in in five or 10 years?”. This isn’t a battle cry. It’s a survival guide.
In a culture obsessed with perpetual youth, Twain is flipping the script: The best years are always the ones where you quit being scared. For Shania – and for the millions who still belt out her songs in traffic jams and stadiums – that’s what being 60 looks like. Proud. Energised. Original. Absolutely, still the one.