Shania Twain will always be remembered, at least in our hearts, as the best-selling female singer in country music history and among the greatest-selling musicians of all time.
In the 1990s, she became a worldwide superstar and was frequently referred to as the “Queen of Country Pop.”
However, few are aware of the difficulties she has had in her life. Prior to her breakthrough, she was first a hungry and impoverished child. Not to add that at the age of 22, an unfathomable tragedy compelled her to take on new duties, radically altering her life.
maintained a “survivor mode”
In the meantime, Sharon and Jerry had a difficult marriage. Shania once persuaded her mother to flee Jerry, so Shania, her mother.
Shania described how the instability of her childhood home caused her to live in “survivor mode” into adulthood. She didn’t think she could count on her parents to be reliable caregivers or to safeguard her.
By the time Shania reached eight, she was singing in bars to help support her family. For a little girl, it was a bold action, and Shania wasn’t really fond of carrying it out. However, she may make up to $20 every night at the same time, which would be a huge financial boost for her family’s struggling home.
“Music was my greatest passion, and it was beneficial. There were times when I felt like, “I detest this.” I detested being around inebriated people in pubs. However, I adored.
Shania was also able to explore her gift and hone her stage language by performing at elderly homes and rural taverns in Canada. She was soon prepared for a larger scene.
Shania had the opportunity to appear on the renowned country music variety show, the Tommy Hunter Show, which ran on CBC Television for 27 years, when she was 13 years old. It provided Shania with a great chance to market herself as a country artist and was hosted by Tommy Hunter, dubbed “Canada’s Country Gentleman.”
Shania was a struggling singer-songwriter attempting to make a name for herself in the music business in the middle of the 1980s. At the age of 16, she joined her first band, Longshot, but at the age of 21, she moved to Toronto.
Over time, a growing number of people became aware of the gifted and stunning singer. Mary Bailey, a well-known country singer, was in a state of shock when she saw Shania perform in Sudbury, Ontario.
“I was really blown away when I saw this young girl playing a guitar up on stage. She sang “I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry” by Hank Williams and “Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain” by Willie Nelson. Her voice had a lot of emotion, strength, and character, and it made me think of Tanya Tucker. Bailey, who would go on to manage Shania, remembered, “She’s a star, she deserves an opportunity.”
I asked myself, “This kid is like nineteen years old, where does she get this?” when she sang a few of her own songs.
Shania had every chance to succeed as a country music performer in 1987, and the road was open for her. Big money and Nashville were waiting for her.
Then disaster struck, altering everything.
Parents dying
Shania’s parents were traveling to a job site on a rural logging road in the afternoon of November 1, 1987.
Regretfully, they ran into a truck that was carrying lumber. Two sons and three girls were left behind after Jerry and Sharon perished in the collision.
After thirty years of being this tree with strong, healthy roots, Shania remarked, “I feel like someone is trying to cut me down, cut a part of me off.”
Shania was devastated to hear the news. She made the decision to go back to Timmins, her hometown. Shania had to care for her younger siblings, who were then 13, 14, and 18, rather from concentrating on her music career.
It was an extremely challenging period. However, it also marked a turning point in my life that, in my opinion, helped me evolve and get to where I should have been at that age in the first place, she told CBC.