From This Moment On

"From This Moment On" - big hit single from Shania Twain and the title of her autobiography.  I just finished the book which I read as I also watched her show "Why Not?" on the Oprah Winfrey Network.  Shania is Canada's sweetheart - a title she shares with Celine Dion I guess, but her true life rags to riches story has been one she has shared for years but her book goes into greater detail about her life growing up and getting her start in country music. 

She endured a rough childhood to say the least including poverty and domestic abuse.  After losing her parents at a young age Shania took over taking care of the family and moved everyone from Timmins to Huntsville to work at Deerhurst resort and eventually becoming the country superstar we know her as now.  Her journey was an interesting one as she battled record executives to write her own music and have more creative force behind her image. 

The book also deals with the sad end to her marriage to husband Mut Lang who was also her co-writer and producer for her albums.  She is in a happier place now recently re-married and starting to fire up her music career again, she has signed up to headline in Las Vegas in 2012.

I love biographies and Shania was truly honest about her life, her struggles and the depression that comes with divorce.  I was surprised to read the stories of some of her homes even later in life and how she roughed it in a house in Huntsville with no running water.  It's not what you expect from someone like her, but Shania is just the image that we have known for the past 10 years, it was Eileen, her real name who roughed it and it sounds like even the Eileen/Shania now is happiest back in nature how she grew up.

http://books.simonandschuster.ca/From-This-Moment-On/Shania-Twain/9781451620740