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  • The Legacy Behind Shania Twain

    No wonder Shania Twain is not producing more music! After what she has been through I think the girl needs a break. However, the pressure from her large fan-base could be having her itch for a come back.

    Can you believe how life was before Shania Twain became famous?

    Take a look at these fun-filled facts below!

    She once was asking, “Would you like fries with that?”

    In high school, Shania Twain no doubt uttered this phrase hundreds of times as she worked the counter at McDonald's. In 2002, she told Time Magazine that she learned about the meaning of service while spending time beneath the golden arches. To this day, she calls french fries the only junk food she'll touch.

    Her stage fright once caused an embarrassing puddle.

    In her new memoir, ‘From This Moment On,' Twain admits she struggles with stage fright. In fact, she once wet her pants in school, but covered the mess by spilling a glass of water. ”As far as the trumpet players on either side of me knew, the puddle … was nothing more than H2O!” Twain writes. On the list of things the singer has overcome, this one seems pretty minor.

    She wanted to be a rock star.

    In the mid-'80s, Twain insisted that she wanted to be a pop or rock singer, not country. In early 1987, she performed at the National Aboriginal Achievement Foundation with Bernadette Peters. Somehow this show convinced her boyfriend/manager that she should steer her music towards country. Nine months later, her parents were killed in a car accident, putting all of her musical ventures on hold. In a 2005 biography, writer Robin Eggars explains how Twain cared for her siblings until they were old enough to move out in the early '90s.

    She was presumed dead on arrival.

    Twain shares that doctors gave up on her before she had a chance to take her first breath. In her memoir, she writes, ”While [Sharon, her mother] lies on the delivery table, the doctor quietly hands her a cigarette and lights it … She's delivered a blue baby, stillborn. Except, miraculously, the baby girl is alive!” That quote is also a glimpse into birthing rooms in the 1960s. Doctors were lighting cigarettes for patients?

    She's gone intergalactic.

    Twain's song ‘Up!' was used to wake up astronauts, specifically Canadian astronaut Dave Williams in 2007. It's not the first time a Shania song has been blasted into the cosmos. In 2001, her hit ‘Honey, I'm Home' woke up members of the Space Shuttle Atlantis crew.

    What was your favorite song or album?

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    1 Comment

    1. Joey Furr says:

      Beautiful with a great voice!

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