Shania Twain's Lost 1993 Interview: 5 Weeks Into Her Debut Album | Dini Petty

Shania Twain, five weeks after releasing her debut album, sits down with Dini Petty in May 1993. Her first single "What Made You Say That" has stalled at #55 on Billboard. Seven months from now, she'll meet producer Mutt Lange and become the best-selling female artist in country music history. She doesn't know that yet.

What you see here is the woman before the transformation: 27 years old, still close enough to her tree-planting days that she bathes with a cup out of habit, still grounded in the tragedy that made her head of household at 22. This is Shania before "Come On Over," before 100 million records, before everything.

CHAPTERS

0:00 The trained wolf on her album cover (barely trained enough)
0:30 Her cabin in Timmins: 15 by 16 feet, wood stove, home
1:05 A year in Nashville, choosing 10 songs from over 100
2:00 The first single arrived the last day before the session
3:00 Meet Jack Daniels (the guitar player, not the whiskey)
3:30 Singing in cafes at age 3
4:00 Losing both parents at 22, becoming head of household
4:30 The Deerhurst Resort job that kept the family together
5:00 Sequin gowns at night, tree-planting crews by day
5:30 "I still bathe with a cup"
6:30 Dini's prediction: the next star

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