Shania Twain

Acting

Born 1965-08-28 Windsor, Ontario, Canada 100 credits Grammy Awards 5 American Music Award for Favorite Country Female Artist 3 Juno Award for Songwriter of the Year 1 Juno Fan Choice 1

Awards

Won 5 Grammy Awards

Grammy Awards 5 won · 13 nominated

2004 Best Female Country Vocal Performance Nominated
2004 Best Country Collaboration with Vocals Nominated
2003 Best Country Song Nominated Forever and for Always
2003 Best Country Album Nominated Up!
2003 Best Female Country Vocal Performance Nominated
1999 Song of the Year Nominated You've Got a Way
1999 Best Country Song Won Come On Over
1999 Album of the Year Nominated Come On Over
1999 Best Female Country Vocal Performance Won
1998 Song of the Year Nominated You're Still the One
1998 Best Country Album Nominated Come On Over
1998 Best Country Song Won You're Still the One
1998 Record of the Year Nominated
1998 Best Female Country Vocal Performance Won
1996 Best New Artist Nominated
1995 Best Country Song Nominated Any Man of Mine
1995 Best Country Album Won The Woman in Me
1995 Best Female Country Vocal Performance Nominated

American Music Award for Favorite Country Female Artist 3 won · 3 nominated

2003 Favorite Country Female Artist Nominated
2000 Favorite Country Female Artist Won
1999 Favorite Country Female Artist Won
1998 Favorite Country Female Artist Nominated
1997 Favorite Country Female Artist Won
1996 Favorite Country Female Artist Nominated

Juno Award for Songwriter of the Year 1 won · 3 nominated

2003 Songwriter of the Year Nominated I'm Gonna Getcha Good!
2000 Songwriter of the Year Won Man! I Feel Like a Woman!
1999 Songwriter of the Year Nominated You're Still the One
1996 Songwriter of the Year Nominated

American Music Award for Favorite Country Album 4 nominated

2003 Favorite Country Album Nominated Up!
1999 Favorite Country Album Nominated Come On Over
1997 Favorite Country Album Nominated The Woman in Me
1996 Favorite Country Album Nominated The Woman in Me

Juno Fan Choice 1 won · 2 nominated

2005 Juno Fan Choice Nominated
2004 Juno Fan Choice Nominated
2003 Juno Fan Choice Won

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Shania Twain, a Canadian country music singer-songwriter and actor, was born on August 28, 1965 as Eilleen Regina Edwards in Windsor, Ontario, Canada. She is one of three daughters of Clarence and Sharon (Morrison) Edwards (sister Jill is two years older and Carrie-Ann three years younger). When she was age six, her mother remarried Jerry Twain, a full-blooded Ojibwa native from Timmins, Ontario, who adopted her as his own. She started out singing in bars as a child after hours, and, at thirteen, appeared on The Tommy Hunter Show (1965). When she was 22, her parents were killed in an accident, and she became the legal guardian of her half-brothers (Mark, then 13, and Darryl, then 14) and sister, putting her musical career on hold to raise her family. In 1991 she changed her name to Shania (meaning "I'm on my way" in Ojibwa, it was the name of a co-worker), and signed a contract with Mercury Nashville that same year. Her first album went by without notice, but her second album (produced with Robert John (Mutt) Lange, who she wed on December 28, 1993 and divorced on June 9, 2010) broke world records with its sales! Referred to as "The Queen of Country Pop," she is one of the most commercially successful artists of all time, having sold over 85 million albums. Presently married to Frederic Nicolas Thiebaud on January 1, 2011 - present.