Download or read book From This Moment On written by Shania Twain and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-03-27 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in paperback from superstar Shania Twain, a poignant, heartfelt, and beautifully told account of her hard-scrabble childhood, rise to worldwide fame, and recent personal tragedies. The world may know Shania Twain as many things: a music legend, a mother, and recently, a fixture in the news for her painful, public divorce and subsequent marriage to a cherished friend. But in this extraordinary autobiography, Shania reveals that she is so much more. She is Eilleen Twain, one of five children born into poverty in rural Canada, where her family often didn’t have enough food to send her to school with lunch. She’s the teenage girl who helped her mother and young siblings escape to a battered woman’s shelter to put an end to the domestic violence in her family home. And she’s the courageous twenty-two-year-old who sacrificed to keep her younger siblings together after her parents were tragically killed in a car accident. Shania Twain’s life has evolved from a series of pivotal moments, and in unflinching, heartbreaking prose, Shania spares no details as she takes us through the events that have made her who she is. She recounts her difficult childhood, her parents’ sudden death and its painful aftermath, her dramatic rise to stardom, her devastating betrayal by a trusted friend, and her joyful marriage to the love of her life. From these moments, she offers profound, moving insights into families, personal tragedies, making sense of one’s life, and the process of healing. Shania Twain is a singular, remarkable woman who has faced enormous odds and downfalls, and her extraordinary story will provide wisdom, inspiration, and hope for almost anyone.
Download or read book Shania Twain written by Dallas Williams and published by ECW Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Country and pop music star Shania Twain's 95 album, THE WOMAN IN ME, has sold more than 9.5 million copies worldwide and if officially the biggest seller ever by a female country artist. She has won almost every music-industry accolade. This first ever complete biography traces Shania's life from childhood poverty to international superstardom, and offers a rivetting account of the talent, passion and determination behind Shania's remarkable Cinderella story.
Download or read book Shania Twain written by Robin Eggar and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-06-15 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Incredible Rags-to-Riches Story of One of the Bestselling Female Artists of All Time Shania Twain has risen from humble beginnings in a dirt-poor mining town in Northern Canada to amazing heights of superstardom. At the age of eight her mother was taking her to sing in lumberjack bars; now she shares a Swiss mansion and an estate in New Zealand with her record-producer husband and is worth more than $100 million. Hits such as "Man! I Feel Like a Woman" and "That Don't Impress Me Much" ensured that her third album, Come On Over, became the bestselling album in country-music history and her astounding crossover to mainstream music swiftly followed. Her life, however, has remained the subject of speculation and controversy. British music journalist Robin Eggar has talked to Shania's close friends, family, business associates -- and to Shania herself -- to build an insightful, rounded portrait of a woman whose Cinderella tale has become a fable for our times.
Download or read book Shania Twain Greatest Hits Songbook written by Shania Twain and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2005-02-01 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Piano/Vocal/Guitar Artist Songbook). 20 of the biggest hits from this pop/country crossover diva: Any Man of Mine * Come on Over * From This Moment On * Honey, I'm Home * Man! I Feel Like a Woman! * That Don't Impress Me Much * Up! * You're Still the One * and more.
Download or read book Shania Twain written by Jim Gallagher and published by Childs, Md. : Mitchell Lane Publishers. This book was released on 2000 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of the popular Canadian singer, from her early days on the music scene to her transformation into an award-winning superstar.
Download or read book Shania Twain Guitar Collection written by Shania Twain and published by Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation. This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 14 of Shania's biggest hits in note-for-note guitar transcriptions. Includes: Honey I'm Home • Man! I Feel Like a Woman! • Any Man of Mine • From This Moment On • You're Still the One • That Don't Impress Me Much • and more.
Download or read book Shania Twain written by Jim Brown and published by Kingston, Ont. : Fox Music Books. This book was released on 2015-02-25 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Up and Away is the story of Shania Twain's remarkable achievement and undaunted spirit. Shania Twain has established a new standard in country music, not only for popularity but also for creativity, as she crossed over from country to pop and rock and then back again.
Download or read book Woman Walk the Line written by Holly Gleason and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2017-09-20 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Full-tilt, hardcore, down-home, and groundbreaking, the women of country music speak volumes with every song. From Maybelle Carter to Dolly Parton, k.d. lang to Taylor Swift—these artists provided pivot points, truths, and doses of courage for women writers at every stage of their lives. Whether it’s Rosanne Cash eulogizing June Carter Cash or a seventeen-year-old Taylor Swift considering the golden glimmer of another precocious superstar, Brenda Lee, it’s the humanity beneath the music that resonates. Here are deeply personal essays from award-winning writers on femme fatales, feminists, groundbreakers, and truth tellers. Acclaimed historian Holly George Warren captures the spark of the rockabilly sensation Wanda Jackson; Entertainment Weekly’s Madison Vain considers Loretta Lynn’s girl-power anthem “The Pill”; and rocker Grace Potter embraces Linda Ronstadt’s unabashed visual and musical influence. Patty Griffin acts like a balm on a post-9/11 survivor on the run; Emmylou Harris offers a gateway through paralyzing grief; and Lucinda Williams proves that greatness is where you find it. Part history, part confessional, and part celebration of country, Americana, and bluegrass and the women who make them, Woman Walk the Line is a very personal collection of essays from some of America’s most intriguing women writers. It speaks to the ways in which artists mark our lives at different ages and in various states of grace and imperfection—and ultimately how music transforms not just the person making it, but also the listener.
Download or read book The Best of Shania Twain written by Shania Twain and published by Warner Bros. Publications. This book was released on 2001-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fourteen songs including: Any Man of Mine * Come on Over * From This Moment On * Home Ain't Where His Heart Is Anymore * Honey, I'm Home * (If You're Not in It for Love) I'm Outta Here! * Love Gets Me Every Time * No One Needs to Know * Whose Bed Have Your Boots Been Under? * The Woman in Me (Needs the Man in You) * You're Still the One and more.
Download or read book Shania Twain written by Michael McCall and published by St. Martin's Griffin. This book was released on 2015-09-15 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shania Twain is not your average pop star. She has mega-hits like "You're Still the One", multi-platinum albums (Come on Over)...but she's much more than merely the sum of her success. Growing up in rural Canada amidst great poverty. Shania spent summers working for her father in a reforestation crew, learning how to handle an axe and wield a chainsaw as well as any man. At age 21, both her parents were killed in a magic car crash, and she was left to raise three younger siblings alone. The discipline and diligence she was forced to learn was then turned to her music career, with astounding results. From the cover of Rolling Stone to Country America, this cross-over wonder has charmed millions of music lovers around the world, and her fan base continues to grow Here, finally, is her whole story, complete with never-before-seen photos and insider information. This is the book Shania fans have been waiting for.
Download or read book We Oughta Know written by Andrea Warner and published by . This book was released on 2015-04 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Andrea Warner's debut book, We Oughta Know: How Four Women Ruled the '90s and Changed Canadian Music.... Equal parts music criticism, cultural analysis, and coming-of-age memoir, We Oughta Know chronicles the careers of Alanis Morissette, Shania Twain, Sarah McLachlan, and Céline Dion. - Eternal Cavalier Press.
Download or read book Her Country written by Marissa R. Moss and published by Henry Holt and Company. This book was released on 2022-05-10 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In country music, the men might dominate the radio waves. But it’s women—like Maren Morris, Mickey Guyton, and Kacey Musgraves—who are making history. This is the full and unbridled story of the past twenty years of country music seen through the lens of these trailblazers’ careers—their paths to stardom and their battles against a deeply embedded boys’ club, as well as their efforts to transform the genre into a more inclusive place—as told by award-winning Nashville journalist Marissa R. Moss. For the women of country music, 1999 was an entirely different universe—a brief blip in time, when women like Shania Twain and the Chicks topped every chart and made country music a woman’s world. But the industry, which prefers its stars to be neutral, be obedient, and never rock the boat, had other plans. It wanted its women to “shut up and sing”—or else. In 2021, women are played on country radio as little as 10 percent of the time, but they’re still selling out arenas, as Kacey Musgraves does, and becoming infinitely bigger live draws than most of their male counterparts, creating massive pop crossover hits like Maren Morris’s “The Middle,” pushing the industry to confront its racial biases with Mickey Guyton’s “Black Like Me,” and winning heaps of Grammy nominations. Her Country is the story of how in the past two decades, country’s women fought back against systems designed to keep them down and created entirely new pathways to success. It’s the behind-the-scenes story of how women like Kacey, Mickey, Maren, Miranda Lambert, Rissi Palmer, Brandi Carlile, and many more have reinvented their place in an industry stacked against them. When the rules stopped working for these women, they threw them out, made their own, and took control—changing the genre forever, and for the better.
Download or read book On Her Way written by Scott Gray and published by New York : Ballantine Books. This book was released on 1998 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Donation.
Download or read book Shania Twain written by Dwayne E. Pickels and published by Infobase Learning. This book was released on 2000 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the personal life and professional singing career of the award-winning country music star from Canada, Shania Twain.
Download or read book Summary of Shania Twain s From This Moment On written by Everest Media and published by Everest Media LLC. This book was released on 2022-07-24T22:59:00Z with total page 75 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 I was born in 1965. My birth wasn’t as noteworthy as the more history-making moments taking place that year, but for my mother, a miracle had happened. We both survived that difficult birth. I was named Eilleen Regina Edwards: Eilleen, after my mother’s Irish-born grandmother, Eileen Morrison; and Regina, after my biological father’s mother, whom we called Grandma Edwards. #2 I had a difficult childhood. My mother, Sharon May Morrison, had a difficult life. When she was sixteen, she lost all of her teeth in an accident at school while crouched behind home plate playing catcher during a softball game. She had to have dentures. I didn’t know my father, but I believed my mother when she told me that he didn’t want anything to do with me. #3 My mother was a single parent when she had me, and she turned to her mother for support. We moved into my grandmother Eileen’s tiny farmhouse just outside of Timmins, in a small district called Hoyle. I remember my grandmother making us Cream of Wheat cereal, which she’d boil to lumpless perfection and serve up with brown sugar and fresh whole milk. #4 I was born in 1960, two years before my sister. I was always eager to go, even if I didn’t know where I was going. I didn’t know what happened once my big sister disappeared on that huge, yellow bus, but I knew I didn’t want to be not going.
Download or read book Lightfoot written by Nicholas Jennings and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2017-09-26 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER A 2023 ROLLING STONE RECOMMENDED BOOK Shortlisted for the 2017 Legislative Assembly of Ontario Speaker's Book Award Nominated for the 2018 Heritage Toronto Award - Historical Writing: Book “The preeminent account of the late singer's life.” —Rolling Stone The definitive, full-access story of the life and songs of Canada's legendary troubadour Gordon Lightfoot’s name is synonymous with timeless songs about trains and shipwrecks, rivers and highways, lovers and loneliness. His music defined the folk-pop sound of the 1960s and ‘70s, topped charts and sold millions. He is unquestionably Canada’s greatest songwriter, and an international star who has performed on the world’s biggest stages. While Lightfoot’s songs are well known, the man behind them is elusive. He’s never allowed his life to be chronicled in a book—until now. Biographer Nick Jennings has had unprecedented access to the notoriously reticent musician. Lightfoot takes us deep inside the artist’s world, from his idyllic childhood in Orillia, the wild sixties, and his canoe trips into Canada’s North to his heady times atop the music world. Jennings explores the toll that success took on his personal life—including his troubled relationships, his battle with alcohol and his near-death experiences—and the extraordinary drive and tenacity that pulled him through it all. Rich in voices from fellow musicians, close friends, Lightfoot’s family and the singer’s own reminiscences, the biography tells the stories behind some of his best-known love songs, including “Beautiful” and “Song for a Winter’s Night,” as well as the infidelity and divorce that resulted in classics like “Sundown” and “If You Could Read My Mind.” Kris Kristofferson has called Lightfoot’s songs “some of the most beautiful and lasting music of our time.” Lightfoot is an unforgettable portrait of a treasured singer-songwriter, an artist whose work has been covered by everyone from Joni Mitchell, Barbra Streisand and Nico to Bob Dylan, Elvis Presley and Gord Downie. Revealing and insightful, Lightfoot is both an inspiring story of redemption and an exhilarating read.
Download or read book Franchise The Golden Arches in Black America written by Marcia Chatelain and published by Liveright Publishing. This book was released on 2020-01-07 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WINNER • 2021 PULITZER PRIZE IN HISTORY Winner • 2022 James Beard Foundation Book Award [Writing] The “stunning” (David W. Blight) untold history of how fast food became one of the greatest generators of black wealth in America. Just as The Color of Law provided a vital understanding of redlining and racial segregation, Marcia Chatelain’s Franchise investigates the complex interrelationship between black communities and America’s largest, most popular fast food chain. Taking us from the first McDonald’s drive-in in San Bernardino to the franchise on Florissant Avenue in Ferguson, Missouri, in the summer of 2014, Chatelain shows how fast food is a source of both power—economic and political—and despair for African Americans. As she contends, fast food is, more than ever before, a key battlefield in the fight for racial justice.
