- Shania's third album Come on Over is the best-selling album of all time by a female musician and the best-selling album in the history of country music.
- Shania is the only female musician to have three albums certified Diamond by the Recording Industry Association of America and is also the second best-selling artist in Canada, behind fellow Canadian Céline Dion.
- Shania has achieved both critical and financial success, having received five Grammy awards, 27 BMI Songwriter awards, and she has sold over 65 million albums worldwide to date, including 48 million in the USA alone.
- Shania is ranked as the 10th best-selling artist of the Nielsen Soundscan era, with approximately 33,591,000 sales through April 5 2008, based on relatively few releases.
- Because of her connection to her stepfather, in the past, people had presumed Shania's ancestry was Ojibwa, but she stated in an interview that her biological father was part Cree.
- Shania's parents earned little, and there was often a shortage of food in the household as she was growing up.
- Shania did not confide her situation to school authorities, fearing they might break up the family.
- In the remote, rugged community of her youth, she learned to hunt and to chop wood.
- Aside from working at an Ontario McDonald's restaurant, Shania began to earn money by singing in local clubs and bars from a very young age to support her family.
- Shania was singing in bars starting at the age of eight to try to make ends meet, often earning twenty dollars between midnight and one in the morning performing for remaining customers after the bar had finished serving.
- Although Shania has expressed a dislike for singing in such a smoky atmosphere at such a young age, Shania believes that this was her performing arts school on the road to becoming a successful singer.
- Shania has said - I hated going into bars and being with drunks. But I loved the music and so I survived".
- Shania wrote her first songs at the age of ten.
- As a child, Shania has been described as "a very serious kid who spent a lot of time in her room.
- In the early 1980s Shania spent some time working on her father's reforestation business in northern Ontario, a business that the family was heavily involved in and employed some 75 Ojibwe and Cree workers.
- Although the work was very demanding and the pay very low, Shania has spoken of her experience - I loved the feeling of being stranded. I'm not afraid of being in my own environment, being physical, working hard. I was very strong, I walked miles and miles every day and carried heavy loads of trees. You can't shampoo, use soap or deodorant, or makeup, nothing with any scent; you have to bathe and rinse your clothes in the lake. It was a very rugged existence, but I was very creative and I would sit alone in the forest with my dog and a guitar and would just write songs".
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