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PostHeaderIcon Shania Twain

Shania Twain (born August 28, 1965 in Windsor, Ontario Kinston Eilleen Regina Edwards) is a Canadian singer and songwriter, which as a crossover artist in country music and pop music at home.

Life

Shania Twain was born as the daughter of Clarence Edwards in Windsor (Ontario). Your real name Eilleen Regina changed it later in Shania – originally a word from the language of the Ojibwa Indians, the “I’m on my way” means. The last name “Twain” comes from her stepfather, Jerry Twain. She grew up in the town of Timmins, Ontario, where a road has since been named after her and a Shania Twain museum exists. Twain’s life was at 1 November 1987, a sudden turn when her mother and stepfather were killed in a car accident. She had to take care of this time alone with their younger siblings.

Shania Twain has its roots in country music. The collaboration with Robert John Lange – a music producer (including AC / DC and Bryan Adams), with whom she was married since 1993 and lived together until 2008 – changed her musical style with great commercial success in the direction of pop music.

In May 2008 it became known that Twain has separated from her husband. Until then, she lived with him and the common 2001-born son at La Tour-de-Peilz on Lake Geneva in Switzerland. In October 2004 she bought a ranch in New Zealand.

Musical Career

Twain’s first album, Shania Twain was published in 1993 and has sold a million copies in the U.S. in 1995 from their next album, The Woman in Me where she sold more than 12 million copies.

PostHeaderIcon Outkast

Outkast is a duo of hip hop group from the United States, which was founded in Atlanta, Georgia in 1992. What kind of music they were originally a mixture of Dirty South and G-Funk, but then also mixed with funk, soul, electronica, and rock.

Outkast consists of André ‘André’ Benjamin 3000, before it became known as Dre) and Antwan ‘Big Boi’ Patton, both from Atlanta.

Their album consists of Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik (1994), ATLiens (1996), Aquemini (1998), Stankonia (2000), Big Boi And Dre Present … Outkast (2001), Speakerboxxx / The Love Below (2003) and Idlewild (2006) . Single Outkast has successfully released dozens of singles, including What About Your Friends and Walk It Out.

PostHeaderIcon Jamiroquai

Jamiroquai is an acid jazz band from London. Band led by Jay Kay (vocals), Derrick McKenzie (drums), Sola Akingbola (percussion), Rob Harris (guitar), Matt Johnson (keyboards), and Paul Turner (bass) founded in the early 1990s in London.

Jamiroquai music genre brought funk, disco, acid jazz, and jazz fusion makes Jamiroquai to a level with other great bands such as Incognito.

Jamiroquai has produced 7 studio albums since 1993. The premiere is the album EMERGENCY ON PLANET EARTH in 1993. And followed with the albums: THE RETURN OF THE SPACE Cowboy (1994), TRAVELING WITHOUT MOVING (1996), SYNKRONIZED (1999), A FUNK Odyssey (2001), Dynamite (2005) and HIGH TIMES: SINGLES 1992-2006 (2006 ).