Biografie

On November 1, 1987, her mother and stepfather were killed in a car crash, and she became the legal guardian of her younger siblings, putting her musical career on hold to raise her family.

The album, tour and merchandising for the album "Come On Over" (1999) made over $40,000,000 in Australia alone, where it still remains one of the longest charting albums in Australia.

Her music video Shania Twain: Man! I Feel Like a Woman (1999) paid tribute to Robert Palmer: Addicted to Love (1986) reversing the gender roles, with Twain fronting a band of five male models playing guitars, drums and a keyboard (as Palmer fronted a band of five female models playing guitars, drums and a keyboard).

She has English, Irish, French-Canadian and Northern Irish ancestry. She was raised in the Ojibway Indian culture by her stepfather, a full-blooded Ojibway Native.

Shy as a child, was a tomboy and hated performing. Started writing songs when she was eight years old.

[on inviting audience members to join her onstage] I do try to assess "Is this person drunk?" or "Is this person going to be hysterical and not manageable?" And so I do watch the body language. I don't always get it quite right, but I've never had any security issues.

[on incorporating live animals into her act] They have a mind of their own. 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.