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Birthday – SHANIA TWAIN (55)
August 28, 2020
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Eilleen Twain OC (born Eilleen Regina Edwards; August 28, 1965), known professionally as Shania Twain, is a Canadian singer and songwriter.
She has sold over 100 million records, making her the best-selling female artist in country music history and among the best-selling music artists of all time. Her success garnered her several honorific titles including the “Queen of Country Pop”.
Twain has received five Grammy Awards, 27 BMI Songwriter Awards, stars on Canada’s Walk of Fame and the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and an induction into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame.
She is the only female artist in history to have three (consecutive) albums certified Diamond by the RIAA and is the sixth best-selling female artist in the United States.
Altogether, Twain is ranked as the 10th best-selling artist of the Nielsen SoundScan era.
