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04-11-2004, 06:51 PM
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CNN PEOPLE IN THE NEWS
Profile of Rod Stewart, Shania Twain
Aired February 7, 2004 - 11:00 ET
ANNOUNCER: Up next...
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
TWAIN: Up, up, up, can only go up from here...
(END VIDEO CLIP)
ANNOUNCER: ...she's come a long way from her humble roots.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
TWAIN: I really am sincere when I say that my intentions were never to be a star.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
ANNOUNCER: The ups and downs of country's queen of pop, Shania Twain, ahead on PEOPLE IN THE NEWS.
(COMMERCIAL BREAK)
ZAHN: Welcome back to PEOPLE IN THE NEWS.
She is one of the most successful female artists in country and pop and Shania Twain isn't slowing down. Her multi-platinum CD, "Up," has earned Twain three Grammy nominations, just the latest icing on a life that has seen equal parts of great joy, unimaginable success, and unbearable sorrow. Sharon Collins has her profile.
[size=2](BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
TWAIN: Man!
CROWD: I feel like a woman!
TWAIN: Let's go girls.
SHARON COLLINS, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): With an explosive mix of sass and sex, she shimmied her way into pop music history. More Mariah than Minnie Pearl and offering a bold invitation to come on over, Shania Twain decimated the wall, which divided the worlds of country and pop.
TWAIN: That don't impress me much.
JOE LEVY, ASSISTANT MANAGING EDITOR, "ROLLING STONE": Her country records are made like opera records. It's one little melody piled on top of another piled on top of another. It's catchier than a cold. :lol:
COLLINS: With six hit singles, 1997's "Come on Over" was a success beyond her wildest dreams, and as Nashville scratched its head...
TWAIN: Here we go.
COLLINS: ...man, did she sell records.
VINCE GILL, COUNTRY SINGER: Thirty-five million records. I have been working for 30 years and haven't done that good.
(LAUGHTER)
COLLINS: But the road to riches has been anything but smooth.
LEVY: Nashville has been hostile to Shania. They don't like the fact that she doesn't wear a gingham shirt and cowboy boots. They don't like the fact that she's Canadian. They don't like the fact that her model was more Barbara Streisand and Madonna than it is Patsy Cline or Loretta Lynne.
COLLINS: Disappearing from the public eye in 2000, she returned this past November with a baby boy and her first studio album in five years.
TWAIN: Let's go.
COLLINS: Immediately, she broke records. The first week alone, "Up!" sold 874,000 copies, the largest female debut of all time. 8)
TWAIN: Don't want you for the night...
COLLINS: But it's been a long, rough ride for this 38-year-old superstar, from poverty, death and scandal to a successful career rooted in her parent's dream.
TWAIN: Music was all I had. It's what I knew, and that's what my parents told me I was best at, so that's what I did.
Look how far we've come now, baby.
COLLINS: Shania Twain's story begins on August 28, 1965, in Windsor, Canada. She was born Eileen Regina Edwards, and following her parents' divorce, relocated with her mother and two sisters to the mining town of Timmins.
COLLINS: In June of 1970, Shania's mother, Sharon, remarried. His name was Jerry Twain, a full-blooded Ojibwe Indian.
COLLINS: But times were tough at #44 Montgomery. When he could find employment, Jerry Twain logged timber. He worked hard, dreamed big, but made little money.
TWAIN: Not a lot of normalcy and not a lot of stability all of the time either growing up. We didn't always have enough money to eat properly or to keep the heating on through the winter.
CARRIE ANN BROWN, SISTER: We ate something called goulash a lot. Everything mixed in your fridge, you put macaroni, hamburger and it's a mixture, right? But our goulash was warm milk and bread.
COLLINS: Keeping the family afloat weighed heavily on Shania's mother, who often sank into deep depression.
BROWN: You know she would stay in bed for a lot of hours in a day. And we wouldn't -- we would sometimes not even see her, unless we would go in and say, you know, "Hi, mom."
TWAIN: We built a love so strong...
COLLINS: Music became the family's only solace. Free and abundant in a home where even school lunch was a luxury.
TWAIN: Well, I would just, you know, pack up my guitar and walk five minutes up the road, and I would be in a bush somewhere, and I would start up a little campfire, and I'd sit out there all day and just write music, sing songs.
COLLINS: With the need to make money and a child who loved to sing, Sharon Twain booked 8-year-old Shania at every open mike she could find. Soon, newspapers took notice, and a local telethon put her on the air.
TWAIN: Mama never wanted anymore than what she had...
My mother had the performing bug. She wanted me to get up on stage. I was really the type of kid who wanted to just stay in my bedroom and sing with the door closed, and write songs and never tell anybody about them.
COLLINS: A blurry-eyed grade schooler by day, pint-sized lounge singer by night, no booking was off-limits.
NATASHA STOYNOFF, CORRESPONDENT, PEOPLE MAGAZINE: They would drive her around, wake her up in the middle of the night to go play after last call at the local bars, because she was not allowed into the bars until there was no alcohol being served.
COLLINS: In 1978, the late nights paid off. Thirteen-year-old Shania made her Canadian TV debut.
Billed as Ellie Twain, the appearance only fueled her passion for music, but getting Shania to these performances was becoming expensive.
BROWN: Getting Eileen to the gigs and doing these things always -- was always a struggle. But they just found a way to do it because my mom was very, very determined that something was going to happen with Eileen.
COLLINS: In the spring of 1983, the 17-year-old got her first break, hired as a lead singer for a rock band in Toronto. With the blessing of her parents, she headed out on her own.
TWAIN: While everybody was planning on their -- you know, making college plans and off to university, and I was basically just going to be a singer.
COLLINS: Coming up, Shania raises eyebrows, going toe-to-toe with the good old boys of country music.
LEVY: Famously, Shania exposed her belly button. This is not a very Nashville thing to do, apparently.
COLLINS: But first, late night news shatters the Twain family.
BROWN: I don't think there could have been a worse day for any of us.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
(COMMERCIAL BREAK)
ANNOUNCER: Now back to PEOPLE IN THE NEWS.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
TWAIN: My parents' goal was for me to always sing country music, and that was what I considered more of the music of my childhood. And as a teenager, I moved on to these, whatever the bars were hiring, that's what I did.
COLLINS (voice-over): And by 1982, 17-year-old Shania had moved on to rock 'n' roll and the city of Toronto, fronting the band Longshot. Ironically, it was. The group flopped.
Back in Timmins, the Twains were doing well. Having received a small business loan, they now oversaw a tree replanting business, and every summer, Shania returned home to work alongside her parents in the Canadian bush. Times were good, but they wouldn't last.
BROWN: Well, I didn't find out until 10:00. Our friend came to pick me up and told me, so I don't think there could be have been a worse day for any of us.
TWAIN: God bless the young without mother's...
COLLINS: In the cold afternoon of November 1, 1987, Shania's parents were heading to a work site on a remote logging road in northern Ontario. The last thing heard was a horn.
BROWN: It was a head-on collision with a loaded log truck. You know they didn't have much of a chance. The sun was in my dad's eyes, and he just couldn't see, couldn't see where he was going, I guess.
COLLINS: Jerry and Sharon Twain died instantly. Carrie Ann made the call to Shania in Toronto. :cry:
BROWN: She just screamed and cried and you know, screamed and cried, because you just don't want to believe it.
TWAIN: Now that my parents were gone, I thought, OK, they're not here to care whether I carry on with music or not. All these years, I'd spent doing music and working as a songwriter, and now the very people whose wish and dream it really was, is gone. It was a very strange, strange feeling and very strange time in my life.
STOYNOFF: Shania was thrust into this world of being an adult and being a mother and father to her siblings, so she took care of the mortgage, she paid the bills, she did the laundry, she got the kids to the school.
COLLINS: But eight months later, money was running out. A friend pulled a deeply depressed Shania aside.
TWAIN: She just said, "Look, you can't just quit. Please don't, you know, don't throw your talent away, don't quit." She said, "Look, there's a place called Deerhurst. If you can get in there, then you can live in one town and bring in a weekly paycheck." So I went and auditioned.
LYNN HILL, FRIEND: I remember her audition here when she first came to Deerhurst, and the producer had brought her over there, and there was a whole huge room full of guests, and what better place to audition someone than in front of an audience? So she went up there, and everybody just went -- OK, we'll hire her now.
TWAIN: It was just a whole different experience. I'd never sung in high heels. I don't think I had ever worn high heels. You know girls were dancing in bikinis, and I never got the confidence to do that, but you know, I certainly learned how to wear fishnets and wear gowns, and just get more in touch with the feminine side.
LEVY: She was a showgirl.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Our lead vocalist, starting out with Eileen.
LEVY: She did three shows a day, singing the same songs time after time after time, and she learned a work ethnic like nothing else, that she sticks to to this day. The woman works hard.
COLLINS: And that's exactly what Richard Frank, a famous Nashville attorney thought, when he caught the 11:00 p.m. Deerhurst show in August of 1990.
With siblings now grown and with the backing of Richard Frank, the 25-year-old headed to Nashville. Just as her parents had dreamed, she was going country!
First order of business? A name change. Eileen became Shania, an Indian word meaning "on my way." And within two years, she was.
TWAIN: I thought, well, I'd better go out and get myself a recording contract, and that happened very quickly for me.
COLLINS: The debut album "Shania Twain" hit the stores in April 1993. It sold a disappointing 100,000 copies, a virtual dud in the record industry.
TWAIN: What made you say that?
COLLINS: That's because Nashville didn't know what to think. The midriff-bearing Canadian was almost too hot to handle, and CMT, Country Music Television, initially banned the debut video. :roll:
LEVY: Famously, Shania exposed her belly button. This is not a very Nashville thing to do, apparently. But you know, everyone in Nashville has a belly button. Maybe they don't show it, but they've got one. :lol:
COLLINS: Coming up, Shania survives her first taste of the tabloids.
TWAIN: I have never lied about who I am and where I come from.
COLLINS: And later, the phenomenon of "Come on Over" breaks the boundaries of country and pop.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
Continued........................
CNN PEOPLE IN THE NEWS
Profile of Rod Stewart, Shania Twain
Aired February 7, 2004 - 11:00 ET
ANNOUNCER: Up next...
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
TWAIN: Up, up, up, can only go up from here...
(END VIDEO CLIP)
ANNOUNCER: ...she's come a long way from her humble roots.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
TWAIN: I really am sincere when I say that my intentions were never to be a star.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
ANNOUNCER: The ups and downs of country's queen of pop, Shania Twain, ahead on PEOPLE IN THE NEWS.
(COMMERCIAL BREAK)
ZAHN: Welcome back to PEOPLE IN THE NEWS.
She is one of the most successful female artists in country and pop and Shania Twain isn't slowing down. Her multi-platinum CD, "Up," has earned Twain three Grammy nominations, just the latest icing on a life that has seen equal parts of great joy, unimaginable success, and unbearable sorrow. Sharon Collins has her profile.
[size=2](BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
TWAIN: Man!
CROWD: I feel like a woman!
TWAIN: Let's go girls.
SHARON COLLINS, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): With an explosive mix of sass and sex, she shimmied her way into pop music history. More Mariah than Minnie Pearl and offering a bold invitation to come on over, Shania Twain decimated the wall, which divided the worlds of country and pop.
TWAIN: That don't impress me much.
JOE LEVY, ASSISTANT MANAGING EDITOR, "ROLLING STONE": Her country records are made like opera records. It's one little melody piled on top of another piled on top of another. It's catchier than a cold. :lol:
COLLINS: With six hit singles, 1997's "Come on Over" was a success beyond her wildest dreams, and as Nashville scratched its head...
TWAIN: Here we go.
COLLINS: ...man, did she sell records.
VINCE GILL, COUNTRY SINGER: Thirty-five million records. I have been working for 30 years and haven't done that good.
(LAUGHTER)
COLLINS: But the road to riches has been anything but smooth.
LEVY: Nashville has been hostile to Shania. They don't like the fact that she doesn't wear a gingham shirt and cowboy boots. They don't like the fact that she's Canadian. They don't like the fact that her model was more Barbara Streisand and Madonna than it is Patsy Cline or Loretta Lynne.
COLLINS: Disappearing from the public eye in 2000, she returned this past November with a baby boy and her first studio album in five years.
TWAIN: Let's go.
COLLINS: Immediately, she broke records. The first week alone, "Up!" sold 874,000 copies, the largest female debut of all time. 8)
TWAIN: Don't want you for the night...
COLLINS: But it's been a long, rough ride for this 38-year-old superstar, from poverty, death and scandal to a successful career rooted in her parent's dream.
TWAIN: Music was all I had. It's what I knew, and that's what my parents told me I was best at, so that's what I did.
Look how far we've come now, baby.
COLLINS: Shania Twain's story begins on August 28, 1965, in Windsor, Canada. She was born Eileen Regina Edwards, and following her parents' divorce, relocated with her mother and two sisters to the mining town of Timmins.
COLLINS: In June of 1970, Shania's mother, Sharon, remarried. His name was Jerry Twain, a full-blooded Ojibwe Indian.
COLLINS: But times were tough at #44 Montgomery. When he could find employment, Jerry Twain logged timber. He worked hard, dreamed big, but made little money.
TWAIN: Not a lot of normalcy and not a lot of stability all of the time either growing up. We didn't always have enough money to eat properly or to keep the heating on through the winter.
CARRIE ANN BROWN, SISTER: We ate something called goulash a lot. Everything mixed in your fridge, you put macaroni, hamburger and it's a mixture, right? But our goulash was warm milk and bread.
COLLINS: Keeping the family afloat weighed heavily on Shania's mother, who often sank into deep depression.
BROWN: You know she would stay in bed for a lot of hours in a day. And we wouldn't -- we would sometimes not even see her, unless we would go in and say, you know, "Hi, mom."
TWAIN: We built a love so strong...
COLLINS: Music became the family's only solace. Free and abundant in a home where even school lunch was a luxury.
TWAIN: Well, I would just, you know, pack up my guitar and walk five minutes up the road, and I would be in a bush somewhere, and I would start up a little campfire, and I'd sit out there all day and just write music, sing songs.
COLLINS: With the need to make money and a child who loved to sing, Sharon Twain booked 8-year-old Shania at every open mike she could find. Soon, newspapers took notice, and a local telethon put her on the air.
TWAIN: Mama never wanted anymore than what she had...
My mother had the performing bug. She wanted me to get up on stage. I was really the type of kid who wanted to just stay in my bedroom and sing with the door closed, and write songs and never tell anybody about them.
COLLINS: A blurry-eyed grade schooler by day, pint-sized lounge singer by night, no booking was off-limits.
NATASHA STOYNOFF, CORRESPONDENT, PEOPLE MAGAZINE: They would drive her around, wake her up in the middle of the night to go play after last call at the local bars, because she was not allowed into the bars until there was no alcohol being served.
COLLINS: In 1978, the late nights paid off. Thirteen-year-old Shania made her Canadian TV debut.
Billed as Ellie Twain, the appearance only fueled her passion for music, but getting Shania to these performances was becoming expensive.
BROWN: Getting Eileen to the gigs and doing these things always -- was always a struggle. But they just found a way to do it because my mom was very, very determined that something was going to happen with Eileen.
COLLINS: In the spring of 1983, the 17-year-old got her first break, hired as a lead singer for a rock band in Toronto. With the blessing of her parents, she headed out on her own.
TWAIN: While everybody was planning on their -- you know, making college plans and off to university, and I was basically just going to be a singer.
COLLINS: Coming up, Shania raises eyebrows, going toe-to-toe with the good old boys of country music.
LEVY: Famously, Shania exposed her belly button. This is not a very Nashville thing to do, apparently.
COLLINS: But first, late night news shatters the Twain family.
BROWN: I don't think there could have been a worse day for any of us.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
(COMMERCIAL BREAK)
ANNOUNCER: Now back to PEOPLE IN THE NEWS.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
TWAIN: My parents' goal was for me to always sing country music, and that was what I considered more of the music of my childhood. And as a teenager, I moved on to these, whatever the bars were hiring, that's what I did.
COLLINS (voice-over): And by 1982, 17-year-old Shania had moved on to rock 'n' roll and the city of Toronto, fronting the band Longshot. Ironically, it was. The group flopped.
Back in Timmins, the Twains were doing well. Having received a small business loan, they now oversaw a tree replanting business, and every summer, Shania returned home to work alongside her parents in the Canadian bush. Times were good, but they wouldn't last.
BROWN: Well, I didn't find out until 10:00. Our friend came to pick me up and told me, so I don't think there could be have been a worse day for any of us.
TWAIN: God bless the young without mother's...
COLLINS: In the cold afternoon of November 1, 1987, Shania's parents were heading to a work site on a remote logging road in northern Ontario. The last thing heard was a horn.
BROWN: It was a head-on collision with a loaded log truck. You know they didn't have much of a chance. The sun was in my dad's eyes, and he just couldn't see, couldn't see where he was going, I guess.
COLLINS: Jerry and Sharon Twain died instantly. Carrie Ann made the call to Shania in Toronto. :cry:
BROWN: She just screamed and cried and you know, screamed and cried, because you just don't want to believe it.
TWAIN: Now that my parents were gone, I thought, OK, they're not here to care whether I carry on with music or not. All these years, I'd spent doing music and working as a songwriter, and now the very people whose wish and dream it really was, is gone. It was a very strange, strange feeling and very strange time in my life.
STOYNOFF: Shania was thrust into this world of being an adult and being a mother and father to her siblings, so she took care of the mortgage, she paid the bills, she did the laundry, she got the kids to the school.
COLLINS: But eight months later, money was running out. A friend pulled a deeply depressed Shania aside.
TWAIN: She just said, "Look, you can't just quit. Please don't, you know, don't throw your talent away, don't quit." She said, "Look, there's a place called Deerhurst. If you can get in there, then you can live in one town and bring in a weekly paycheck." So I went and auditioned.
LYNN HILL, FRIEND: I remember her audition here when she first came to Deerhurst, and the producer had brought her over there, and there was a whole huge room full of guests, and what better place to audition someone than in front of an audience? So she went up there, and everybody just went -- OK, we'll hire her now.
TWAIN: It was just a whole different experience. I'd never sung in high heels. I don't think I had ever worn high heels. You know girls were dancing in bikinis, and I never got the confidence to do that, but you know, I certainly learned how to wear fishnets and wear gowns, and just get more in touch with the feminine side.
LEVY: She was a showgirl.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Our lead vocalist, starting out with Eileen.
LEVY: She did three shows a day, singing the same songs time after time after time, and she learned a work ethnic like nothing else, that she sticks to to this day. The woman works hard.
COLLINS: And that's exactly what Richard Frank, a famous Nashville attorney thought, when he caught the 11:00 p.m. Deerhurst show in August of 1990.
With siblings now grown and with the backing of Richard Frank, the 25-year-old headed to Nashville. Just as her parents had dreamed, she was going country!
First order of business? A name change. Eileen became Shania, an Indian word meaning "on my way." And within two years, she was.
TWAIN: I thought, well, I'd better go out and get myself a recording contract, and that happened very quickly for me.
COLLINS: The debut album "Shania Twain" hit the stores in April 1993. It sold a disappointing 100,000 copies, a virtual dud in the record industry.
TWAIN: What made you say that?
COLLINS: That's because Nashville didn't know what to think. The midriff-bearing Canadian was almost too hot to handle, and CMT, Country Music Television, initially banned the debut video. :roll:
LEVY: Famously, Shania exposed her belly button. This is not a very Nashville thing to do, apparently. But you know, everyone in Nashville has a belly button. Maybe they don't show it, but they've got one. :lol:
COLLINS: Coming up, Shania survives her first taste of the tabloids.
TWAIN: I have never lied about who I am and where I come from.
COLLINS: And later, the phenomenon of "Come on Over" breaks the boundaries of country and pop.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
Continued........................