Shania Twain in June 2023.Photo:Jeff Hahne/Getty Images
Jeff Hahne/Getty Images
Shania Twainrefuses to conform to one set thing.
“If I feel like I’m being put in a box, I start to panic,” Twain, who stars in aCoffee mate adfor the2025 Super Bowl, says. “I run in any direction I can because I don’t want to be contained. I have to be able to find my own way.”
“Sometimes I’m not even sure where I’m going myself. How can somebody else tell me that, right? So I need the freedom to explore and to land wherever that exploration takes me,” she adds.
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Shania Twain in July 2023.Scott Legato/Getty Images
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Twain’s music career began in April 1993, when she released her self-titled debut album, though it was a commercial flop.
The star later rose to fame with her second studio album, 1995’sThe Woman in Me, which featured hit country singles including “Any Man of Mine” and “Whose Bed Have Your Boots Been Under?”
Two years later, Twain released her follow-up album,Come on Over, including hit singles that showed off more of her pop side and cemented her as a crossover artist, such as “You’re Still the One,” From This Moment on," “That Don’t Impress Me Much” and"Man! I Feel Like a Woman!"
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Up!, released in 2002, did the same, with singles including “I’m Gonna Getcha Good!” and “Forever and for Always.”
Twain later went on to releaseNow(2017) andQueen of Me(2023) and has toured across the globe, as well as taken part innumerous Las Vegas residencies.
Over the course of her illustrious career, Twain has received five Grammy Awards, two World Music Awards and 39 BMI Songwriter Awards, as well as inductions into Canada’s Walk of Fame and the Hollywood Walk of Fame, plus the Canadian Music Hall of Fame and Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame.
Shania Twain in October 2023.Erika Goldring/FilmMagic
Erika Goldring/FilmMagic
Looking at other musicians who have refused to be contained to one genre — includingBeyoncé, who recently released her country album,Cowboy Carter, andwon album of the yearfor it at the2025 Grammys— Twain tells PEOPLE “It’s really great to see.”
“We get bored too, if we’re not allowed to stay open and channel things outside of what would be considered our normal or what’s expected of us,” adds themother of one.
source: people.com
