A five-time Grammy Award winner Shania Twain honored on Hollywood Walk of Fame

Shania Twain

Shania Twain, Canadian country music singing star  a five-time Grammy Award winner, received the 2,442nd star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on Thursday, capping a successful career as a singer and a songwriter.

Calling the dedication "a small miracle," Twain said at an event in front of the W Hollywood hotel that she still did not know "why I am here today."

"I mean, why is a girl from Timmins, Ontario, standing here, getting a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame?" she said. "I really don't know."

Twain, 45, was joined by actress Bo Derek, a Golden Globe nominee and model, and other entertainers and fans at the ceremony held roughly a month after the release of her best-selling memoir "From This Moment On" and the premiere of a documentary series "Why Not? With Shania Twain" on OWN: The Oprah Winfrey Network on May 8.

Born Eilleen Regina Edwards on Aug. 28, 1965 into a poor family in Windsor, Ontario, Edwards changed her last name to Twain as she, along with her two sisters, was adopted by her mother's second husband. Twain began singing at bars when she was eight years old trying to help her family make ends meet. She wrote her first songs when she was 10 years old and performed on the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. television series the "Tommy Hunter Show" at the age of 13.

Twain, who changed her first name to Shania in the early 1990s, released her debut album, a self-titled production in 1993. The album, reached 67th on the U.S. country albums chart, received positive reviews from critics.

The singer first came to prominence with her second album, "The Women In Me." The 1995 album, unlike her first, featured songs she wrote herself and hit over 12 million copies, shattering the record previously held by "Patsy Cline's Greatest Hits," and winning a Grammy Award in 1996 for best country album.

Shania Twain

"Come on Over," her third album which was released in 1997, sold 20 million copies in the United States, the most by a woman in any genre of music and the best-selling country album of all time.

Twain is also a successful songwriter with 27 BMI Songwriter awards. She is the second best-selling artist in Canada, behind fellow Canadian Celine Dion.


Source : Xinhua, June 02, 2011, Thursday

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Shania Twain

Shania Twain was born Eilleen Regina Edwards in Windsor, Ontario, daughter of Clarence and Sharon Edwards. Her parents divorced when he was twelve and her mother later moved to Timmins, Ontario with Eilleen and her sister Jill and Carrie-Anne. Sharon married Jerry Twain, an Ojibwa, and two children, Mark and Daryl. Because of its connection with her stepfather in the past, was suspected in the Twin Ojibwa date, but said in an interview that her father is the biological part Cree. So good, but her mother is a descendant of Zachariah Cloutier. , Hagar and her mother and grandmother, Eileen Pearce, of Newbridge, Kildare, Ireland.

Shania Twain: I need time to heal my broken heart

But singer tells fans she will be back

Shania Twain is heartbroken over her split from husband Robert 'Mutt' Lange.

The couple, who have son Eja D'Angelo, 6, announced in May that their 14 year marriage was over.

And Shania, 42, is finding it hard to deal with the break up.

‘As I am sure you have seen or heard; I am going through a rough time personally in my life,’ Shania writes on her official site.

‘I have so much to say but I know the best way for me to speak is through my music.

'I need some time to heal this broken heart but make no mistake; I will be back and hopefully stronger than ever.’

It was rumoured Robert, 59, was having an affair with Marie Anne Thiébaud, a former secretary who worked for the couple.

But they have both strongly denied the claims.

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Shania Twain & husband separate

Shania Twain is the latest celebrity whose relationship has not worked out. She and her husband Robert "Mutt" Lange, a producer, have been married since 1993.

"Shania Twain and her husband, music producer Robert 'Mutt' Lange, are separating after 14 years of marriage," the singer's spokesman, Jason Owen, said in a statement. "This is a private matter and there will be no further comment at this time."

The 42-year-old singer and her 59-year-old husband have a six-year-old son, Eja D'Angelo.

"Our love has always been based on friendship and compatibility," Twain told People in 2002. But she added, "we are very different."

In 2007, she told Redbook: "I struggled a lot internally with my fame, and coping with it has been very difficult."

In other celebrity relationship news, on-again, off-again couple Kate Hudson and Owen Wilson have called it quits again. The duo had been facing rumors of an engagement, but their two month renewed relationship reportedly ran its course.

"It was a pretty bad breakup," a friend of Wilson said. "Owen said it was a tough one. He definitely doesn't want to dwell on it. He wants to put it behind him."