On ‘Little Miss Twain,’ Shania Twain reflects on her humble beginnings and her late mother - AP News
Country music star Shania Twain discusses her new album, 'Little Miss Twain,' which explores her early life and struggles before achieving fame. The album serves as a tribute to her late mother and a reflection on her formative years in Northern Ontario.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Before Shania Twain became Shania Twain, she was a child performing in Canadian bars, singing to miners, lumberjacks, fishermen and hunters drinking the night away.
“It was a bit more of a rugged crowd. And they were small crowds,” she says in a recent interview with The Associated Press. “I could only enter after the bar closed. That was after midnight because I was underage. And as long as the bar wasn’t still serving, then I could go in and play while everybody was finishing up their last call.”
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