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FILE – Shania Twain appears during a portrait session in New York on June 14, 2019. Twain is celebrating the 25th anniversary of the album that turned her into a global superstar. She is releasing a deluxe reissue set of her 1995 breakthrough album “The Woman in Me,” which became the best-selling record by a woman in country music at the time.
FILE – Shania Twain appears during a portrait session in New York on June 14, 2019. Twain is celebrating the 25th anniversary of the album that turned her into a global superstar. She is releasing a deluxe reissue set of her 1995 breakthrough album “The Woman in Me,” which became the best-selling record by a woman in country music at the time.
FILE – Shania Twain appears during a portrait session in New York on June 14, 2019. Twain is celebrating the 25th anniversary of the album that turned her into a global superstar. She is releasing a deluxe reissue set of her 1995 breakthrough album “The Woman in Me,” which became the best-selling record by a woman in country music at the time.
FILE – Shania Twain appears during a portrait session in New York on June 14, 2019. Twain is celebrating the 25th anniversary of the album that turned her into a global superstar. She is releasing a deluxe reissue set of her 1995 breakthrough album “The Woman in Me,” which became the best-selling record by a woman in country music at the time.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The record that turned Shania Twain from a struggling singer-songwriter from Canada into a global superstar also changed country music for years to come.
Twain is celebrating the 25th anniversary of the release of “The Woman in Me” with a deluxe reissue set out Friday that includes remastered versions of the original 12 songs, remixes, live versions from her Las Vegas show and early recordings of the songs.
Twain’s self-titled debut album in 1993, which she largely didn’t have a hand in writing, failed at the charts. But her life changed after “The Woman in Me,” her Grammy-winning second album released in February 1995, which was the best-selling release by a woman in country music at the time.
“I was a poor kid and then a struggling artist all of those years until this finally happened,” said Twain in an interview with The Associated Press from her home in Switzerland, near Lake Geneva. “It was life changing for me and career changing as well.”
The determined singer overcame an early childhood marred by violence and helped raise her siblings after her parents died in 1987.
After her debut album sank, Twain met rock producer-songwriter Robert “Mutt” Lange and they married in 1993. Lange was mostly known for crafting hit albums and songs for AC/DC and Def Leppard, but he was the first to recognize that she had a distinctive voice as a songwriter that others had overlooked. Songs like “Any Man of Mine,” which became her first country No. 1 and her first crossover onto pop charts, showed off her sassy, flirty and confident side. The record centered around Twain’s point of view on songs like ”(If You’re Not in It for Love) I’m Outta Here!,” “The Woman in Me (Needs the Man in You)” and “Whose Bed Have Your Boots Been Under?”
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