Shania Twain was born as Eilleen Regina Edwards in 1965, the middle of three daughters to Clarence and Sharon Edwards sister Jill is two years older and Carrie-Ann three years younger. When she was six, her mother remarried Jerry Twain, a full-blooded Ojibwa native from Timmins, Ontario, who adopted her as his own, making her 50% native in the eyes of the law. She started out singing in bars as a child after hours, and, at 13, appeared on "The Tommy Hunter Show" . When she was 22, her parents were killed in an accident, and she became the legal guardian of her half-brothers and sister, putting her musical career on hold to raise her family. In 1991 she changed her name to Shania meaning "I'm on my way" in Ojibwa, it was the name of a co-worker, and signed a contract with Mercury Nashville that same year. Her first album went by without notice, but her second album produced with Robert John Lange, who she wed in 1993 broke world records with its sales
A five-time Grammy Award winner, Twain has also achieved major success as a songwriter, winning 27 BMI Songwriter awards. Twain is one of the first country artists to achieve major crossover success in pop music. She is the only female musician to have three albums certified Diamond by the Recording Industry Association of America and is also the second best-selling artist in Canada, behind fellow Canadian Céline Dion, with three of her studio albums being certified double diamond by the Canadian Recording Industry Association. Twain has sold over 80 million albums worldwide to date, including 48 million in the U.S. She is ranked as the 10th best-selling artist of the Nielsen SoundScan era, with approximately 33.5 million in sales through April 2008, Twain was ranked the 72nd Artist of the 2000–10 decade by Billboard
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