Shania Twain

While it's not known if Marie-Anne and Robert stayed together, Shania, incredibly, went on to get engaged to Marie-Anne's ex-husband Frédéric, a businessman, in ...

When you get older, you have so much experience at falling and getting up. But you will get better at getting up and brushing yourself off. I was in quicksand. I panicked, like everybody does, but I didnt surrender. She's my past." Shania explained that the failure of her marriage and that of Frédéric's caused the pair to bond and eventually fall in love.

Shania Twain is one of the most successful singers of her generation. In the 1990s, Shania crossed over from country to the international pop market in a way ...

She remembered seeing drag performers working at the resort and has credited them as the source of her inspiration. The third single from Shania's huge Come on Over album, this was the song that took her from the country charts in America to everyone's radios around the world. It was Shania's third consecutive number-one hit on country radio, and fourth overall. My husband loves sports. Another country ballad from Come on Over, it was written during a soccer game in Italy. Shania said: “We were in Italy at a soccer game. The second single from The Woman in Me, this was Shania's first country number one in America, and also her first to crack the mainstream top 40.

In the new Netflix documentary Not Just a Girl, Shania Twain looked back on her divorce from Robert "Mutt" Lange and shared how she slowly healed from the ...

"When I lost Mutt, I was thinking that the grief of that was similarly intense to losing my parents and it was like a death," Shania shared in the new doc. "I'm going to not only get back in the studio without him," she said. "Now is my favorite recorded work that I've done so far that I enjoy listening to still." "All I can do is determine how I'm going to carry on from there. Now I'm at a whole other low and I don't see any point in going on with a music career." "In that search to determine what was causing this lack of control with my voice and this change in my voice, I was facing a divorce," she said.

In a new documentary Not Just A Girl (on Netflix July 26), the legendary Shania Twain opens up about thinking she would never sing again as a result of her ...

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Shania Twain opens up about grief, her painful divorce from Robert "Mutt" Lange, and more in her new documentary "Not Just a Girl".

“It was a great experience,” she reveals. How am I going to crawl out of this hole that I’ve fallen in, just like that.” Twain adds of Lange, who reportedly had an affair with Twain’s friend, although they both denied it when the allegations surfaced in 2008, “My husband leaves me for another woman.

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“ “ Twain added Lange, who reportedly had a relationship with Twain’s friends, but when the allegations surfaced in 2008, they both denied it.

Shania Twain said in Not Just a Girl that losing ex-husband Robert "Mutt" Lange felt "like a death," and she was "petrified" to record music again without ...

It was an exercise of saying, 'Okay, look, you can't just not ever make music again because you don't have Mutt. You gotta just dive in.' And I was petrified, I really was." "It was like the death was the end, a permanent end to so many facets of my life. "When I lost Mutt, I guess I thought…I was thinking that the grief of that was… And I just don't see any point in going on with a music career." "In that search to determine what was causing this lack of control with my voice and this change in my voice, I was facing a divorce. "My voice was never the same again," she said in the documentary.

The Canadian country-pop star has released Not Just a Girl on Netflix, looking at her nearly 40-year career.

My point of view in relationships, the way I felt that women should be treated, respected, and I still feel the same way, so I'm just going to carry on that message." "I was always very bold and straightforward about what I thought and my point of view on things as a woman particularly. "To me, Shania Twain is a superstar that I had the privilege of singing with onstage when I was 14 years old. "When I lost Mutt I guess I was thinking that the grief of that was similarly intense to losing my parents. And I think when you can find a musician who can tap into that and write a song that speaks to that, and also do it in a way that is colourful and camp and playful and even humorous, like even laughing at oneself, I think that is also a very important experience of gay culture as well. "I think that Shania takes these universal ideas of love and of confidence and of discovering who you are as a young woman, and of the push and pull of bad days and good days and life, and all these things that are universal topics for songwriting, and she makes them sound like they've never been written about before.

However, her parents divorced when she was just two years old, and her mother moved to Timmins, Ontario, alongside her daughters. Shania Twain ...

I had a nervous breakdown and wound up in the hospital for a time. To have referred to him as my step-father would have been the worst slap across the face to him." "My father [Jerry] went out of his way to raise three daughters that weren't even his. "I had to be home all the time. On top of that, Shania's mom was a very jealous, possessive person. "I was married to Shania's mother for seven years, and I was there with Eilleen and her sister Carrie-Ann until they were 5 or 6.

Twain met Thiébaud in Switzerland back in the '90s when the singer and her then-husband Lange hired Thiébaud's wife, Marie-Anne, to assist the family and help ...

"The other day I was showering and he had to go out," she said. In March 2022, the pair stepped out together again, this time for a UFC match. It's just really a beautiful love story." "He knew I hadn't eaten yet, and I had to go somewhere too. Fred and I are happy to announce, our ENGAGEMENT!" "[He] has been the most constant companion and support," Twain explained in 2010. In February 2010, Twain posted another video on her website. "I am excited to share some personal news with you; I'm in love!" So it was really a beautiful and perfect friendship." "She's finally doing things she always wanted to do, emotionally freeing things," the friend said. "That is where I fell in love with him, because he was so exemplary in every way." The couple began officially dating in 2009 and got engaged in December 2010.

Shania Twain is reflecting on the “surreal” experience of filming a documentary about her own career, as the project finally premiers on Tuesday (July 26).

The documentary goes hand-in-hand with an 18-track album, Not Just A Girl (The Highlights). Watch the full trailer here: She continued: “...while trying to film as much as we could during the moments when the world opened up a little more and people were able to travel. It reflects on Twain’s legendary career, including “enormous risks” and her path to becoming a “global pop phenomenon” while breaking down stereotypes of “what it took to be a country star,” among other notable moments.

The 'Any Man Of Mine' singer is a loving mom to one son Eja Lange. Find out everything you need to know about Eja and his relationship with Shania Twain here.

I have a beautiful step-daughter and I have a beautiful son. I just love being a parent and I would have loved to have had more kids,” she said in a 2017 appearance on Lorraine, per The Statesman. With a producer father and a country superstar mama, it’s no surprise that Eja has followed in both of their footsteps in a way and become a musician. “ I play the guitar, and he uses synthesizers, and maybe someday, we’ll come up with something really great.” Unfortunately, Shania and Robert divorced in 2010, and she’s since remarried Frédéric Thiébaud in 2011, and the pair have been together ever since! Shania Twain has been one of the biggest names in country music for decades.

Shania Twain detailed her split from ex-husband Robert 'Mutt' Lange in the Netflix documentary 'Not Just a Girl' — read more.

“For the first week after finding out about the affair, I was ready to die,” Twain wrote in her 2011 memoir, From This Moment On. “To go to bed forever and never wake up. Twain contracted Lyme disease after being bitten by a tick in 2003, and the illness caused damage to her vocal cords that prevented her from touring and recording new music. Shania Twain and her ex-husband, Robert John “Mutt” Lange, were once one of the music industry’s biggest power couples — and their split later became one of its biggest scandals.

In her new Netflix documentary Not Just a Girl, Shania Twain looked back on the making of her fourth studio album, released one year after she gave birth.

"I didn't realize how powerful and how attached people would become to the meaning of that song in their lives." "It was a powerful song that people bonded to and reminisced to," she said. "I never wanted to be a mother that was absent and distracted by career," Shania said in the doc.

The Netflix documentary Shania Twain: Not Just A Girl dropped on July 26 and it's an inspirational story that may have you admiring the artist on a whole ...

When she wasn’t working and taking care of her siblings, she spent her time writing songs. "I learned to respect and appreciate that I did have a talent that would be a shame to throw away and not pursue,” Twain says, referring to her time spent at the resort. After the tragic death of her parents in 1987, Twain moved back home to take care of her younger siblings.

'I had a different ear for music than other kids,' Shania Twain says says. · Twain and Mutt Lange. · Twain has now lived all of it.

Nope. Near the end of a massive tour, she realized she had Lyme disease and part of the impact was serious damage to her voice. Yet for all the upward movement toward the end, you realize that Shania Twain had a comeuppance that had nothing to do with her own actions. A disruptive figure and an icon, in a short period her life collapsed. Both her parents died in a car crash and she had to look after her three siblings. It’s just the trajectory of her life and the extraordinary twists and turns in it. Shania Twain: Not Just a Girl (streams Netflix from Tuesday) is about her life up to now, and boy that life has more hurt than a hatful of country songs.

Shania Twain's current husband is Frédéric Thiébaud. Plus, why she split from ex-husband Mutt and a preview of her new Neflix documentary, 'Not Just A Girl.

Shania talked about her grief and divorce from her first husband in an interview with People. "When I lost Mutt…it was similarly intense to losing my parents," she said. Destinations have included NYC shopping sprees and a beautiful lakefront cottage in Canada. The couple met in 1993 when Mutt reached out to Shania after hearing songs from her debut album. He is a music composer and producer from Zambia who has worked on various notable soundtracks and hit singles, according to IMDb. She worried she would never recover or "crawl out of this hole." After Shania's vocal cords began to falter, she believed her career was over and devoted her time to raising Eja in Switzerland, according to AARP.

The veteran singer and songwriter, winner of five Grammy Awards, and one of the best-selling artists in music history sits in her home in Lake Geneva, ...

It puts a satisfying spin on the vigor and flash of something like “Man! I Feel Like a Woman,” a song that is still rightly upheld for its feminist shorthand swagger, but deserves to live in the real world, too. As Not Just a Girl accelerates to its finish, Twain’s son Eja is born, her third hit album Up! is released, she contracts Lyme Disease, suffers from dizziness and issues with her singing voice, and gets divorced in 2010, after Lange cheated on her with Twain’s best friend. What Movies Will It Remind You Of? The recent Sheryl Crow documentary has a similar rags-to-riches framing to Not Just a Girl, as well as an empowering message of dogged self-determination. Shania Twain: Not Just a Girl (Netflix) covers the “Any Man of Mine” and “Man! I Feel Like a Woman” singer and songwriter’s career from its earliest beginnings, singing in Ontario bars while still a grade schooler, to her records defining a dynamic hybrid of country music and pop flash and selling millions and millions of copies. But tragedy struck in 1987 when her parents were killed in a car accident, and Twain took a singing job at a Canadian resort in order to support her younger siblings. The Woman in Me, released in February 1995, was Twain’s first album with producer Mutt Lange, whose extensive background in rock music informed her sound.

The 'That Don't Impress Me Much' singer split from first husband Robert 'Mutt' Lange in 2008 after he had an affair with her best friend, Marie-Anne Thiébaud, ...

In her new documentary, "Not Just a Girl," Shania Twain details her battle with Lyme disease and how she thought it would end her career as a singer.

“In that search to determine what was causing this lack of control with my voice and this change in my voice, I was facing a divorce. She told Extra in 2019, “I had to have an operation that was very intense and it’s an open-throat operation, very different from a vocal cord operation. “My voice was never the same again,” she recalled.

The 'That Don't Impress Me Much' singer split from first husband Robert 'Mutt' Lange in 2008 after he had an affair with her best friend, Marie-Anne Thiébaud, ...

"It was really more about taking independence, [and] just being able to listen to myself back on my writing tapes was difficult… I thought that was it, [and] I would never, ever sing again." I was losing my balance, I was afraid I was gonna fall off the stage… And I never got over my parents' death. And you know, it was like a death. It was similarly intense to losing my parents.

From his first marriage, Frederic has a daughter named Johanna. He worked for the Swiss company Nestlé as a business executive. Living in Corseaux, a Swiss town ...

Jerry legally renamed Shania and her sisters Twain after adopting them. He was going to kill her one of these days. It would have been the hardest smack in the face for him if you had called him my step-father.” She didn’t enjoy the fact that I would go out for a beer with my buddies or other typical stuff. In the National Enquirer, Clarence was quoted as stating, “But it kills my heart that she’s cut me off. Shania claimed in an AARP interview that she emerged from her difficult divorce stronger. At a young age, Twain adopted her stepfather Jerry Twain’s last name. Marie-Anne sadly claimed she had nothing to hide from her or a relationship with her husband. Frédéric is Swiss and was born there. “I gave her a call and asked, “Why don’t you come over? She was born in Windsor, Ontario, on August 28, 1965. Frédéric Thiébaud, the husband of country music icon Shania Twain, first merely saw himself as a friend, but fate had other plans for them.

A new documentary about Twain's life and towering career is part of a trend towards the reappraisal of women's impact on music.

The attention Twain has paid to her music videos has served her own career but also pushed the boundaries for others in pop. Another place where she was always able to express creatively, however, was in her music videos – even now, it is hard to think of Twain without conjuring up the brilliant imagery for her biggest songs. When Twain got her first recording deal in 1992, this was the case for her, too. In 2017, she released a new album, Now, which, though solid (it charted globally, at number one in many cases), didn’t reach the heights of her dizzying peak. There was a time when Shania Twain was one of the biggest names on the planet. But in 2003, after she contracted Lyme disease while horse riding, the her ascendancy came to an end.

TWAIN's FIRST MANAGER: Twain gives credit to Canadian country singer Mary Bailey for helping her find her footing in the music scene. The two met when an 11- ...

“I was out horseback riding and I was bit by a tick,” she says of the pivotal moment that led to having Lyme disease. I was afraid I was going to fall off … I was having these millisecond blackouts, regularly, like every minute or every 30 seconds.” Twain says in the years that followed, she struggled with how the illness affected her vocal cords: “I thought I’d lost my voice forever. DOWNSIDE OF ‘UP!’: Twain reflects on the dark times that befell her in the early 2000s as she wrapped a massive tour for “Up!,” her chart-topping fourth album. “I was in the wings and went, ‘Oh my, I can’t believe this.’” Their professional relationship would strengthen in the years that followed, after Twain’s parents died in a car accident, leaving the young artist to care for her two brothers at 22. The two met when an 11-year-old Twain opened for Bailey’s concert in Sudbury. “(Her) guitar was larger than she was, actually,” Bailey remembers. “It was crazy, I had school in the morning,” she says.

Shania Twain detailed her 20-year battle with Lyme disease that led to blackouts on stage and also discussed the emotional toll her 2008 divorce took on her ...

And it wasn't just the potential end of her career that Twain was facing in that moment, but also the end of her marriage to Lange. She and the rock producer had a professional relationship before marrying in 1993. But even though her personal life was back on track, the singer confessed she was still unsure about returning to the studio without Lange by her side. “When I lost Mutt, I guess I thought…I was thinking that the grief of that was… They also had one son together named Aja. But she said, “In that search to determine what was causing this lack of control with my voice and this change in my voice, I was facing a divorce. I was losing my balance, I was afraid I was gonna fall off the stage… The country star explained, “My voice was never the same again.

TWAIN's FIRST MANAGER: Twain gives credit to Canadian country singer Mary Bailey for helping her find her footing in the music scene. The two met when an 11- ...

DOWNSIDE OF ‘UP!’: Twain reflects on the dark times that befell her in the early 2000s as she wrapped a massive tour for “Up!,” her chart-topping fourth album. “When I lost Mutt, I was thinking the grief of that was similarly intense to losing my parents. “I was out horseback riding and I was bit by a tick,” she says of the pivotal moment that led to having Lyme disease. “It was crazy, I had school in the morning,” she says. “It was simple as that.” “I was in the wings and went, ‘Oh my, I can’t believe this.’” Their professional relationship would strengthen in the years that followed, after Twain’s parents died in a car accident, leaving the young artist to care for her two brothers at 22.