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Page 3 • Wednesday, September 9, 1998
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After selling 20 million
records and topping
Billboard's charts with
such hits as ‘‘You Win
My Love, ”
Shania Twain stops in
Aggieland tonight on
her first world tour.
Photos Courtesy of Pace Concerts
BY KYLE WHITACRE
The Battalion
S he has sold 20 million records worldwide,
received a Grammy, won awards from The
Academy of Country Music and tops Bill
board charts on a regular basis.
What’s next on Shania TWain’s list? Leaping tall
buildings in a single bound?
No, the diva of pop-country is in on her first
world tour.
Twain is stopping in College Station tonight as
she enters the third month of her first world tour,
which is scheduled to last through May 1999.
Leahy, a Celtic dance and musical group, is
opening for Twain. The group of five sisters and
four brothers was hand-picked by Twain to open
during her debut tour.
Performing with Twain tonight for one song
will be the Texas A&M Singing Cadets. The Cadets
will accompany Twain on “God Bless The Child”
from her first album.
David L. Kipp, director of the Singing Cadets,
said he was very excited about the opportunity.
“We got a call from Reed Arena saying they
had been in contact with Shania Twain’s people.
They were looking for nine people to help sing
backup for her,” Kipp said. “We were glad to
meet that need.”
Kipp said choosing only nine members of the
group to perform was a difficult task.
“It was hard choosing among our many, tal
ented members, but we decided on the merit of
experience and seniority,” he said.
With recent performances at Carnegie Hall and
on the “CBS This Morning Show,” Kipp said the
Singing Cadets get their fair share of the spotlight.
“We get opportunities like this all the time,”
Kipp said.
For the past several years the Canadian singer
has topped charts and become one of the hottest
female acts in the country today. She also ap
peared on the cover of the September issue of
Rolling Stone magazine, making her the first fe
male country artist to appear on the cover of
Rolling Stone since Dolly Parton in 1980.
The pop-country superstar was born in Tim
mins, Ontario on Aug. 28, 1965.
Her parents were divorced when she was two,
and she was raised by her mother and stepfather.
who was an Ojibway Indian.
In 1987 tragedy struck when both her mother
and step-father were killed in an automobile ac
cident. Shania Twain spent the next three years
taking care of her three younger siblings by
singing at a local resort six nights a week.
When her youngest brother was able to care for
himself. Twain was finally able to venture out on
her own.
In 1990 she recorded a demo and headed to
Nashville, where she recorded her first self-titled
album in 1993. She was only able to write and
produce one of the songs on the album and re
ceived little attention from it.
That changed when she was noticed by Mutt
Lange, producer of internationally famous acts
Michael Bolton, Bryan White and Def Leppard.
The two met in 1993 and were married less
than a year later.
The couple wrote and produced The Woman in
Me, which was released in February 1995 and has
sold 10 million copies since.
see Twain on Page 4.
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