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Canada, she skyrocketed to international success in the mid-'90s, with scores of hits, armfuls of awards (including Entertainer of the Year honors from the CMA and ACM) and a position as the best-selling
female country artist of all time....While Shania landed her record deal in large part because of her original material, her self-titled debut album in 1993 featured only one of her songs. But that changed after she met a long-distance admirer named Robert John "Mutt" Lange, a successful rock producer who loved her voice and her original songs. He soon became her biggest supporter and later her husband. Living today in Switzerland with their son, Eja, the power couple has
written, produced and recorded songs that have taken
The Dixie Chicks, Toby Keith and Shania Twain are among the 10 musicians who made the most money in 2003, according to Rolling Stone. The Chicks raked in $39.8 million to rank fourth on the list. Keith came in sixth, with $38.7 million, followed by Twain, in eighth place with $36.1 million. Other country artists in the Top 50 include Kenny Chesney ($21.9 million), Tim McGraw ($16.7 million) and Brooks & Dunn ($13.6 million). The Rolling Stones topped the list with $84.1 million, slightly ahead of Bruce Springsteen's $81.7 million. The Eagles nested in third place with $62.9 million.
That didn't impress me much Feb 24 2004
By Andy Coleman, Evening Mail
Birmingham NEC audiences are hard to please. If they're won over by an act they'll go wild; if they aren't, they'll sit back and say: "That don't impress me much."
Half-way through Shania Twain's spectacular 105-minute performance last night it seemed that she still had a lot of impressing to do.The huge stage in the centre of the arena was impressive, the fireworks accompanying the opening song dramatic and the sound pin-sharp. The nine-piece band was energetic and created a barrage of sound. But the audience seemed to be most excited when Shania ventured near the edge of the stage and there was a rush to request autographs. She duly obliged, continuing to sing as she signed everything thrust in front of her. Puzzled by the sold-out crowd's lukewarm reaction to hits like Man! I Feel Like A Woman and Ka-Ching!, the pint sized Canadian exclaimed: "Is there a rule here that says everyone has to stay seated?"
Maybe it was that drummer JD Blair was wearing a Birmingham City shirt or that five of the nine opening numbers were from the new album Up!But Shania's rant shook the fans out of their lethargy and, once on their feet, the party really started.
Shania redoubled her efforts, pulling some older songs like Come On Over out of the bag and even sitting at the back of the arena, in the midst of the audience, to sing Woman In Me.A sprint back to the stage for a sprightly That Don't Impress Me Much led to two more new tracks, I'm Gonna Getcha Good and In My Car (I'll Be The Driver).She wore an England rugby shirt for You're Still The One, Any Man Of Mine and Rock This Country which concluded with fireworks and so much confetti the NEC cleaners must have wept.So the show ended on an Up note - let's hope that when Shania returns on March 7 the crowd aren't in such a Mondayish mood.
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Shania's on fire! By Steven Johnstone
Shania Twain had a hard act to follow after the huge success of her previous release "Come on Over", which was a main staying in both the upper regions of the UK and US charts. And her most recent album 'UP' isn't doing too badly either. Shania is the only artist EVER to have 3 consecutive 10 times platinum albums - that's an astonishing 34 million copies world-wide.Strangely though, despite the sheer numbers, her audience seems to be the hardest aspect of Shania to define. From small children to grown
men, singles to couples even bopping Grandmother's are ambling into the arena in civilised expectation. Her infectious m�lange of pop and country is unique and has won her many plaudits and her expectant crowd isn't disappointed. Tonight's
set sees heavy rotation from her current album "UP!" with recent hit singles "I'm gonna get ya good!" and "Ka-ching!" setting the crowd off and ensuring that the seating in the S.E.C.C soon becomes redundant.A brief section of slower more soulful ballads brings down the tone and seems to elicit the best in her vocal range. "You're still the one" is a moving testament to a long-standing relationship that has survived the odds. It's one of her best tracks.In spite of this, the most warmly-received songs are the smash
hit `Man, I Feel like a Woman!'. This song harks back to many nights of badly sung karaoke renditions, yet still brims with a throwaway charm. "That don't impress me much" is another anthem which encourages the larger-than-life band to exhibit their musical craft and give the impression they really enjoy it, all at the same time. No wonder there are wide smiles everywhere you look.Thought provoking and hard-hitting? No. Catchy and assured to make you forget yourself in song for two hours? Definitely.
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~Becca~
The six guys of Emerson Drive had a blast touring with fellow Canadian Shania Twain and are eager to go again. The band talked
about hanging with Twain and played some songs from their new album, What If? at a recent Nashville press luncheon. They said that Twain and her husband, Mutt Lange, speak only French to their son, Eja, figuring it will be easy for him to pick up English later on. Since the band is bilingual as well, things went swimmingly backstage. And it was all very democratic. "We are integrated," explains fiddler David Pichette. "Shania comes and sits down with us. Mutt Lange is around all the time." The band will be going back on the road with Twain in April. Emerson Drive performed "Waitin' on Me," "November," "I'll Die Tryin'" and their current single, "Last One Standing." The album, due for release on May 18, was produced by Grammy-winning pop singer Richard Marx. Lead vocalist Brad Mates described "I'll Die Tryin'" as "the ballad we feel the strongest about." They all felt strongly about their new tour bus. Lamented keyboardist Dale Wallace, "We were traveling around in a '72 Greyhound with no toilet for a long, long time."
