All rare and exclusive stuff from the Old Fanclub!!!

[Moonmaid]

I think there was tons of great stuff in the Fan club Magazines that Shania produced in the beginning of her career. For some reason, most of this stuff seems to have been lost today. You can only find a fraction of it online. I'm on a search for those old magazines. Did anyone here use to be a member of the fanclub? Or have you aquired the merchandise somewhere else? If we work together we should be able to find those old articles and photographs so that all Shania fans can share them! :)

[Shaniabomber99]

Sorry I don't have the old Mags from the fan club I became a fan after the fan club closed:cry: I was gonna join...:(


Carley

[razorbac]

e-bay has some stuff :)
I have some '95 counrty weeklys :D

[SHANIANUTS!]

Originally posted by Moonmaid
I think there was tons of great stuff in the Fan club Magazines that Shania produced in the beginning of her career. For some reason, most of this stuff seems to have been lost today. You can only find a fraction of it online. I'm on a search for those old magazines. Did anyone here use to be a member of the fanclub? Or have you aquired the merchandise somewhere else? If we work together we should be able to find those old articles and photographs so that all Shania fans can share them! :) Hey, Raul, you forgot to post those Shania fan club mag covers, buddy!!!!!!!:shocked: :shocked:

[Curti]

i have a few of the magazines while i was a member...issue 2 until umm issue 8 or something but i dunno theyre in storage i think....

[Logan]

Originally posted by SHANIANUTS!
Hey, Raul, you forgot to post those Shania fan club mag covers, buddy!!!!!!!:shocked: :shocked:

Sorry, don't think I've ever seen them :)

-Vega-

[SHANIANUTS!]

Originally posted by Vega


Sorry, don't think I've ever seen them :)

-Vega- spock may have them online somewhere - you might wanna check with him to make your collection more complete, eh?!:p

[SHANIANUTS!]

..or Slaney!

[Curti]

Originally posted by SHANIANUTS!
..or Slaney! yea she has some of them :D

[SHANIANUTS!]

Originally posted by Curti
yea she has some of them :D You gonna go for it Raul?:)

[Logan]

I don't know this Slaney person, so nopes :)

-Vega-

[SHANIANUTS!]

Originally posted by Vega
I don't know this Slaney person, so nopes :)

-Vega- You gonna check w spock?

[Logan]

Nope.
Feel free to do so yourself, if you wish.

-Vega-

[SHANIANUTS!]

Originally posted by Vega
Nope.
Feel free to do so yourself, if you wish.

-Vega- OK :p

[shania x 64]

Originally posted by Vega
Nope.
Feel free to do so yourself, if you wish.

-Vega- Spock tells me he has all these early mags but not the time to scan them nor does he know if or where they might me available online, Raul - I have seen some of these early fan club mags scanned online at one time or another but have no clue where.. anyone out there have any clues?

[SHANIANUTS!]

He just said he may post them when he gets his site going.

[Shaniabomber99]

Originally posted by SHANIANUTS!
He just said he may post them when he gets his site going.

Those who want to be in a Shania fan club could join Marrianne's fan club..She only sents letters out...So just PM Her and she'll tell you what to do!:)

Carley

[SHANIANUTS!]

http://www.nt.net/media4/shania/news.html

[Shaniabomber99]

For you guys to read:)

Carley

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Shania Twain Newsletter


Shania (shu-Nye-uh), an Ojibway name meaning, "I'm on my way" -- an appropriately beautiful moniker for an extraordinary talent who is definitely on her way. Her phenomenal success story includes record-breaking sales figures, eventhough she's yet to launch a major tour. In fact, Shania has been on a musical path practically since she could walk. Born in Windsor and raised in the great northland of Timmins, Ontario, (about 500 miles due north of Toronto) where both her father (an Ojibway Indian) and her mother were raised, her's was not the typical upbringing one would expect from living in a rural environment. The second oldest of five children, the talented little girl's life was not filled with Barbie dolls and fingerpaints.


"I pretty much missed my childhood," she says. "I've always been focused. My career has always been very consuming. It probably consumes me less now than it did as a child. I liked to escape my personal life through my music. Music was all I ever did. I spent a lot of time in solitude with just my guitar, writing and singing away for hours. I would play 'til my fingers were bruised, and I loved it! But I never enjoyed the pressure of being a performer. My parents forced me to perform, which in the long run was the best thing because I was naturally quite a recluse. If not for my parents I'd still be singing in my bedroom and be quite content, mind you."


Although being "forced" is a rather harsh description, nonetheless her folks were, let's say, "enthusiastic" about their daughter's obvious gifts.


"I used to be dragged out of bed at 1:00 in the morning and they'd bring me to the local club to play with the band. You see, they couldn't allow me in a liquor premise before 1:00 a.m. when they stopped serving. I'd get up and sing a few songs with the band and before I knew it, I was actually doing clubs professionally. From the age of eight, I was doing weekends, the odd gig here and there. I did everything my parents could get me on. Every T.V. station, every radio station, every community center, every senior center," she laughs. "They had me doing everything!"


One would wonder why her parents, as Shania puts it, "were so obsessed" with creating a musical career for their child.


"My mother lived for my career. We were extremely poor when I was a kid, and my mother was often depressed with five children and no food to feed them. She knew I was talented and she lived with the hope that my abilities were my chance to do something special."


Along with pursuing the music, Shania spent many a summer working with her dad as a foreman for a 13-man reforestation crew in the middle of the Canadian bush. This petite woman can wield an axe and handle a chainsaw as well as any man twice her size.


Her delicate appearance also belies a tough little survivor. That inner strength was put to the ultimate test at the tender age of 21 when both of her parents were killed in an automobile crash. This unfortunate incident propelled the young artist even further into her musical career. Now, however, it was not as an escape from, but as a headlong plunge right smack-dab into reality. "My personal life changed drastically. When my parents died, my brothers and younger sister were still living at home. My brothers were only 13 and 14 years old and I became sister/mom. I had responsibilities, so I couldn't just go around getting gigs here and there, or writing only when I felt like it. I took a job singing at a resort, I bought a house, a family truck and settled down - I thought, forever."


The position at the Deerhurst resort ended up to be the most educational period, as a performer, in her career. She did everything from musical comedy theater to Andrew Lloyd Webber to Gershwin. About three years later, one by one, her siblings got on their feet and went their own ways.


"When they left, I felt like a 45 year-old woman whose kids had gone away to college. I was like 'WOW!' I have my whole life to live now. I had all this time on my hands. I didn't have to cook and clean for anybody. Didn't have to pay any bills but mine," she explains, her voice picking up speed. "Didn't have to go to school meetings. Didn't have to pick them up after work and take them to teen dances. Drive 'em here. Drive 'em there. It was like 'I'm FREE!!' I said 'now what am I gonna do with my new life?' I decided I wanted to go for it!"


When it was time to really "go for it," Shania was packin' the goods.


"I put together a demo of original music and didn't even go to Nashville right away. My manager (longtime buddy Mary Bailey) arranged for Richard Frank, a Nashville lawyer, to come to a showcase in Canada. He got the ball rolling, setting up a meeting with producer Norro Wilson. He introduced me to Buddy Cannon, who was in A&R at Mercury Nashville at the time, and he handed my tape over to the head of the label. That was it!"


But with the extensive experience Shania had recently received in musical theater and a talent so versatile that she could handle just about any style of music, why did this Canadian native gravitate towards Nashville and country music?


"My parents were obsessed with country music," she explains. "I grew up listening to Waylon, Willie, Dolly, Tammy, all of them, but I also used to listen to the Mamas and the Papas, the Carpenters, the Supremes, the Jacksons, and such. But, as a child performer it was always country, so that's how I developed."


The tape and meetings resulted in a record deal and Shania's self titled debut album. Not only did the LP ***** up ears in the States, it also enjoyed a great deal of success overseas, earning Shania CMT Europe's Rising Video Star of the Year award.


This brings us to her release, The Woman in Me, which is truly an international project written in Spain, Italy, the Caribbean, England, Canada and the United States.


Once again as has been the case all her life, this step in Shania's musical career was intertwined with her personal life. Through her art she met the love of her life, producer Robert John "Mutt" Lange, who is now her husband. Here's how it happened:


"We ended up writing half the album, mind you, before we even became romantically involved. Creatively, romantically, it's a wonderful, wonderful marriage. My husband Mutt is the producer of my dreams and the love of my life. They are two separate entities, but at the same time what more could any girl ask for?"


As a songwriter, Shania's muse comes from a very childlike perspective.


"Writing's like coloring," she thoughtfully pauses. "Kids like to color, they don't need to have a reason to color - they just like it. Why do they use orange instead of pink, or green instead of blue? I don't know. . .they don't know - they just do. They have no inhibitions. They are totally open to be creative. That's how I feel about songwriting. It's a chance to just create without inhibitions."


Shania is very proud of the work she and Mutt put into this project, having together written or co-written every cut on it.


Shania's hope is to be perceived as an all around artist known not only for her singing but also for her ability to write.


"I don't want to be seen as just a pretty face with a pretty voice, that type of thing. For me, not singing my own material, is just so awkward. I'm in control of my career now. I enjoy it because I want to do it, not because I have to."


Shania has also come to a place in her life where she has found that delicate balance between her career and her personal life.


"I won't neglect my personal life. I wouldn't be able to write the songs or play the music, or even be a responsible artist in any way, shape or form if I'm not happy as a person. So my personal life comes first."


With a clear head and her smart new album The Woman In Me, Shania is well "on her way" to realizing her hopes and fulfilling her mothers dream for the little girl who grew up in her own magical musical world. Indeed, what more could a girl ask for.



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Awards
American Music Awards Favorite Female Artist 1997
American Music Awards Favorite New Artist 1996
Grammy Best Country Album 1995


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Articles
Shania Twain's THE WOMAN IN ME tops the 8 million mark by Oct 96 & over 13 million by end of 97

[Moonmaid]

Curti, Do you think you could scan the letters? I'd wanna read them so bad.
Also, does anyone have Slaneys emailadress?

[Curti]

well if i can find them alright...umm her address is churkofan@shaw.ca

[Moonmaid]

That would be so great if you could somehow did them out and scan them. Let me know how it goes :)