Eilleen Regina Edwards, known by her stage name Shania Twain, was born on August 28, 1965 in Windsor, Ontario. She is the daughter of Clarence Edwards and his wife Sharon Morrison. Her parents divorced when she was two, and her mother then moved with Eileen and her sister Jill to Timmins, Ontario, where she married Jerry Twain. He adopted the girls, legally changing their last name to Twain. Shania Twain wrote her first songs at the age of ten. Early in 1990 she assembled a demo tape of her songs, and her manager set up a showcase for Shania Twain to present her material to record executives. She caught the attention of a few labels, including Mercury Nashville Records, who signed her within a few months. In 1993 she released her self titled debut album. Though not originally a hit it would later find success with her fans. In 1995 she released The Woman in Me. It spawned singles including the hit "The Woman in Me (Needs the Man in You)" and has gone platinum twelve times over. Since then she has released three more albums, Come On Over in 1997, The Complete Limelight Sessions in 2001 and Up! in 2002. Shania Twain has sold over 65 million albums worldwide to date including 48 million in the USA alone.
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