Few artists can say they’ve secured a Las Vegas residency – but Shania Twain has achieved not one, not two, but three in her career. So it’s only fitting that the 58-year-old star secured the Pyramid Stage’s legends slot for her Glastonbury debut over the weekend. And Shania – who was born Eilleen Regina Edwards – was ready to bring the fun, admitting ahead of her performance that she had even packed her wellies.
“So many of my heroes have done it,” she gushes. “Honestly, I feel like it’s well, I don’t know if this is the right language, but it feels like an accolade of sorts, really something that you have to earn, it’s just very rewarding, it’s a really beautiful feeling.” Completing the line-up alongside Cyndi Lauper, Dua Lipa and Coldplay – to name but a few – at the Somerset-based festival, the Queen of Country Pop is treating this, justifiably, as a career-highlight.
But as she approaches her fifth decade in the music industry, just how does she do it? “Fluids,” she laughs. “I am an athlete, I have to breathe, I have to project. I have to pace everything,” says Shania as she insists she is far from ready to slow down. “I only drink fluids all day until after the show. I will have a glass of champagne after the show – I like to celebrate.
After leaving high school, the star toured around Ontario with a cover band called Flirt but soon released her debut, self-titled album in April 1993. But it was in February 1995, when Shania released her second studio album The Woman In Me, that she started to gain momentum.
Shania said that “for six or seven years” she saw doctors and nobody could figure out why her voice was changing and fading. Finally, a doctor made the connection to Lyme disease. “After I had the surgery, I was petrified to make a sound. I didn’t know what was going to come out,” she explains. “It did scare me, but I just had to take a leap and make a sound. And I was so excited about what came out. It was a connection to the vocal cords and it came out very easily.
The singer has spoken about how music got her through her darkest times, from her health struggles to her painful 2010 divorce from husband Robert Lange, after he had an affair with her friend Marie-Anne Thiébaud, all of which was covered in Netflix documentary Not Just A Girl. Shania, who went on to marry Marie-Anne’s ex-husband Frédéric in 2011, says music “heals” her and is a way of “escaping”.
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