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Shania along with Reba, George Straight, Alan Jackson and Dolly Parton, are endorsing the American Cancer society in its cause to learn more about Brest Cancer and to eventually eliminate it. Hope they can get enough people behind it.
McDonald's turned 49 last Friday and one past employee is non other than Shania Twain. Country singer Shania Twain. She was 14. In a series called "My First Job" in Reader's Digest, she told writer Daniel Levine that her manager's trust in her led her to take on new responsibilities. "I learned tons about the meaning of service there," Twain once said.
Another tour record has been set: Shania Twain (June 9), which sold out in a record 29 minutes in Saskatoon.
To say Shania Twain is a country-crossover sensation isn't sufficient. During her Monday concert at the Pensacola Civic Center,
she was unabashedly pop and a tad disco, heavy metal, and maybe even a little Caribbean. But 1980's parachute pants, powerful guitar riffs and gentle maracas didn't drown out her country roots: Three fiddlers often rallied audience members, who frequently rushed the stage to get autographs, to exchange "high-fives" or to give her flowers. The multi-platinum artist and her nine band members were constantly moving and interacting with the nearly sold-out crowd. They worked every inch of the platform in the center of the floor - and beyond. Twain and another band member performed one ballad, sitting among audience members in the stadium seats. She kicked off the concert with the hit "Man! I Feel Like a Woman," which was followed by "Up." Later, she sang "Whose Bed Have Your Boots Been Under," "Don't Be Stupid," and "You're Still the One." Pyrotechnics sporadically exploded around the stage, with the stomp of Twain's boot or the flip of her long brown hair. At least six video screens hung in the rafters, providing close-ups of her signature shimmy or her shoulder shaking. At one point, fireworks even seemed to shoot out of the
fiddles.
~Becca~
Shania told reporters at the CMT Flame Worthy Awards that she is likely not to film new videos until the new album is ready.
Shania Twain hopes to release a new album shortly after Up! has runits course. "I'm working on a new record right now," she told
reporters Wednesday night (April 21) at the CMT 2004 Flame Worthy Video Music Awards in Nashville. "It shouldn't be too long of a time. I'm not going to leave much of a gap at all. Pretty much when I get off the road, I'm gonna get right back into the studio." Twain will conclude her tour on July 10 in Sunrise, Fla. She also told reporters that she's unlikely to film another music video until the new album is ready.
Shania also told reporters at the CMT Flame Worthy Awards, that a new album is in the works. "I'm working on new music now. So it shouldn't be in too long of a time. I'm not gonna leave much of a gap at all. Pretty much when I get off the road I'm going to get right back into the studio, so I won't leave a gap this time. And I guess while I'm on a roll and singing every night I want to get back into the studio."
Shania Twain has become the first artist to achieve RIAA Diamond Award status for selling 10 million copies each of three consecutive albums. Universal Music Group Nashville chairman Luke Lewis presented Twain a plaque commemorating her latest career achievement Wednesday night (April 21) in Nashville on the red carpet at the CMT 2004 Flame Worthy Video Music Awards. With Twain's 2002 album Up! now hitting the 10-million level, 1995's The Woman in Me is certified for shipments of 12 million copies and her 1997 follow-up Come on Over for 19 million.
Shania gave another great concert in Atlanta, one bit of news from the show is that Shania revealed she had been bitten by a horse when she went riding while she had been staying in Atlanta. A reviewer in Knoxville had this to say : Saturday night at Thompson-Boling Arena Twain and her nine-piece band gave a performance that combined big-arena pop spectacle and county fair casualness.
By SONIA MURRAY The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Published on: 04/24/04
So this is where all the country fans went.
The last time Shania Twain took her show on the road, she was
promoting her now 7-year-old multimillion-seller "Come on Over," and
the world was a great place for a country music artist with an
almost greasy-to-the-touch pop varnish. Garth, Faith � shoot, country was in every way cool.
But as the beloved Canadian import performed on the second night of the U.S. leg of her "Up!" tour, artists of her origins were nowhere in sight, at least not in the upper regions of the pop music charts.Even over on the country list things are looking a bit staid and dusty, with three albums in the Top 10 that have been released a combined 261 weeks. Holding down the No. 11 spot, however, after a remarkable 74 weeks in stores, is the highest-ranking solo female act: Shania Twain.
And Friday night in Philips Arena, it was quite evident why she endures. Twain has the whole work-the-crowd thing down pat, even if pacing is something she could greatly benefit from.
The singer's in-the-round stage setup in the center of Philips was ideal for an arena, giving the all-ages crowd a direct view with
screens overhead to amplify the experience even more.
Most of Twain's four-album, 11-year-old catalog surges with as much '80s guitar rock as burgeoning Brit-rock phenomenon the
Darkness. It revved up the near-capacity audience but, at the same time, often overpowered Twain's standard-issue vocals.
Not that there weren't flourishes of country in opening cheer "Man, I Feel Like a Woman," "Honey, I'm Home" or "Whose Bed Have Your Boots Been Under?" � but it was provided mostly by the somewhat surferlike three fiddlers in Twain's nine-piece band.
But you know what? On second thought, there isn't much that's as down-home and welcoming as allowing your audience to run up and circle the stage so you can high-five them, sign your $15 poster books and take their "Jesus Loves You" signs as you walk around and sing. Every two or three or songs.
That is, when Twain wasn't graciously stopping to thank people for contributing to the Second Harvest Food Bank.
Then stopping to take a picture with two girls who'd won a raffle of sorts, and a few minutes onstage.Then stopping to share a horse bite she had suffered the day before in our fair city.
As endearing as all that obviously was, what really works for Twain are her still very pop-savvy hooks. No matter how a tune started off, be it with a slight Caribbean sway, a bit of disco bombast or in the fine, easygoing fashion of the endearing ballad "You're Still the One," by the time the often similarly arranged songs hit the chorus, it was clear, often cheerlike ("Don't Be Stupid," "I'm Gonna Getcha Good!") and usually fun.
~Becca~