Many of Shania Twain's fans have been missing the cross over star. After all, it's been 11 years since her last on-stage tour (not counting performances in Las Vegas).

So why would she start this North American tour only to stop again?

Well, the answer is simple: To make more music.

“This is certainly not my retirement from music,” Twain, 49 — born Eilleen Regina Edwards in Windsor, Ont. — says by phone while vacationing in the Bahamas. “I will be doing music for sure until the day I die. But I’ve done a lot more live performing than I have recording, so I want to do a lot more (recording).”

Twain has, in fact, released just four albums during her 22-year career, though they made her the first female artist in history to release three consecutive Diamond-certified albums for sales of more than 10 million copies each.

“As much as I’m overdue for the touring, I’m overdue for new music,” continues Twain, whose last album, “Up!,” came out in 2002. “I want to write more. … I’ve got a bunch of albums I want to make that have been backed up in my own mind. I’ve got to get them out of my system and that could take a while.

“I’m 50 this year (on Aug. 28). I’ve been on stage since I was 8 years old, and I’ve really put in my fair share of performance. So I see this as an evolution in my career, really.”

“I want to write songs for other artists that are coming up,” Twain notes. “I want to sit back and enjoy them having their moment on the stage and being proud that I’m part of their success and watching my music as the observer from the audience. I could be the creator of things and other people could be the performers of my creations and I would be fulfilled. I don’t need to be the one performing what I create.

“So that’s a whole other exciting phase for me that I look forward to.”

If taking a break from touring means that we can get more music from Shania Twain, we're all for it. She's managed to sell 85 million records and has snagged herself 5 Grammy Awards. Clearly she knows what she'd doing (and she has our full support)!

Article Source: The Oakland Press

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