Shania Twain

Eilleen Regina Edwards grew up in Timmins, Ontario, singing from childhood, and signed with Mercury Nashville in the early 1990s. Her 1993 debut went nowhere. Then she met producer Mutt Lange, married him, and released The Woman in Me in 1995 - 20 million copies, a Grammy, and eight singles that rewired country radio. Come On Over followed in 1997 and became the best-selling studio album by any solo woman ever, spinning off twelve singles and four more Grammys on the strength of "You're Still the One" and "Man! I Feel Like a Woman!" Up! arrived in 2002 with another eight singles, then in 2004 she went silent. Lyme disease and dysphonia had wrecked her voice. She chronicled the rehabilitation on television, released a single in 2011, published a memoir, and returned to the stage with a Caesars Palace residency that ran until 2014. Her first album in 15 years, Now, hit number one in 2017; Queen of Me followed in 2023, making her only the third woman with top-ten albums across four decades on the Billboard 200.