A Star is Born: Episode 34: Shania Twain: "I didn't want to get up in front of people"

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Today, Shania Twain turns 61.

She’s the woman who took country music into the pop mainstream, sold more than 100-million records and gave us some of the biggest singalong anthems of the 1990s.

But behind the leopard print and infectious confidence is an extraordinary story of poverty, violence, devastating loss, betrayal — and a battle to get her voice back.

HOT1027’s Tara Penny takes a look...
28 Aug English South Africa Entertainment News · Documentary

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