The famous Canadian singer and songwriter Shania Twain has lived with her husband Lange in a large 40-room castle "Sully" on the shores of Lake Geneva in La Tour-de-Peilz.
Just lately, the couple relocated with their son Eja to the neighboring town of Corseaux in a much smaller and simpler villa. They sold the castle to a wealthy Russian for an estimated 30 Million Swiss Francs.
She is one of the better-known celebrities in the Geneva Lake area and involved in many beneficent purposes.
Shania Twain was born August 28, 1965 as Eileen Regina Edwards in the small own of Timmins in Canada. She has enjoyed a lot of success as a country/pop singer and songwriter.
The history of Shania Twain reads almost like a fairy tale. Her childhood in north of Canada was in miserable conditions. After her parents separated when she was about two, she grew up as Eileen Twain. It was because her mother remarried to Jerry Twain who was a full-blooded member of the Ojibwa First Nation.
During high school in Timmins, she was the vocalist for a local band "Longshot" which covered Top 40 music. On November 1, 1987, her mother and adoptive father died in a car crash. Shania Twain, at that time called Eileen, took her two younger brothers, Mark and Daryl, and sister Carrie-Ann to Huntsville, Ontario. There she supported her brothers and sister by performing at a local resort, called Deerhurst resort.
Frank Dick, an entertainment lawyer from Nashville, Tennessee discovered young Shania at the Deerhurst resort in 1991. He invited her to record a demo tape. That same year, she signed her first recording contract with Richard Frank of Mercury Nashville Records. That is when she changed her name to Shania, which is an Ojibwa (American Native Indian Tribe) word meaning "I'm on my way".
Shania lacked the passion from her self-titled album for country music and left the Nashville music scene. Everything changed when musician and at that time successful producer Robert "Mutt" Lange heard Shania's original songs and they met in person at Nashville's Fan Fair in June 1993. It did not take long until their professional relationship took a romantic turn, and they got married on December 28, 1993.
In 1995, "the Woman in Me" caught fire due to singles like "any Man of Mine" and "Whose Bed have Your Boots Been Under". The Woman in Me went on to win the Grammy Award for Best Country Album as well as the Academy of Country Music award for Album of the year.
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