Photo by S Meddle/ITV/Shutterstock"In short, I was born Eilleen Regina Edwards, and then I was adopted and I became Eilleen Regina Twain. Then I became a professional singer and I needed a stage name that sounded a little less like my grandmother's name, because I'm named after my grandmother, both my grandmothers, Eilleen and Regina," the country star explained during an episode of her"Home Now Radio" on Apple Music Hits.
"I decided to change it to Shania Twain,” the singer continued. “I met somebody with the name Shania, thought it was beautiful, and Shania Twain was born.”The"Rain on Me" singer legally changed her name after music producer Rob Fusari's text message to her accidentally autocorrected Queen's hit"Radio Ga Ga" to"Lady Gaga," which is the song Fusari would sing whenever Gaga entered the studio, since her vocals reminded him of the late Freddie Mercury.
that, at the time, she realized that she"wanted a name that sounded sort of exotic and reminded me of like the seaside on the Floridian coast."In 2009, the rapper told: “As a kid born in the [1970s], mom used to put on a TV show called 'Charlie Brown'. And there was a character on there named Snoopy. And I used to love him to death. And my mama said I started to look like him so much ’cause I watched him all the time, and that’s what they used to name me.
"My first single was more of a soul track, and I thought Calvin Harris sounded a bit more racially ambiguous," he told the."I thought people might not know if I was Black or not. After that, I was stuck with it.
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