Shania Twain on Larry King Live
LARRY KING, HOST: Tonight, sexy country superstar Shania Twain tells all from growing up poor to the tragedy that killed her parents to the fairy tale life she lives today in a Swiss castle. Shania Twain for the hour is next on LARRY KING LIVE.
It's a great pleasure to welcome to LARRY KING LIVE one of the truly great talents in American recording, Shania Twain. The top selling female recording artist of all-time. The only artist to have three consecutive albums sell 10 million or more copies. Her 1997 CD "Come On Over" sold over 20 million, more than any album by any other female artist in the world.
How does that make you feel? Is that like humbling?
SHANIA TWAIN, SINGER: Privileged. Yeah. It makes me feel very privileged, very lucky.
KING: How do you explain it to yourself? What do you think it is that you do?
TWAIN: I don't think it's anything I do. It's such a combination of things. It's a combination of people, you know, producers, songwriting, of course, singing is a part of it, the performance, record label is a huge part of it. How much support you have there. Oh, gee, what's going on in the music industry at the time, what the climate is, what's going on in music culture in general.
KING: So there's many factors. Luck, timing, talent.
TWAIN: Many, many factors. Yes.
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LARRY KING, HOST: Tonight, sexy country superstar Shania Twain tells all from growing up poor to the tragedy that killed her parents to the fairy tale life she lives today in a Swiss castle. Shania Twain for the hour is next on LARRY KING LIVE. It's a great pleasure to welcome to LARRY KING LIVE one of the truly great talents in American recording, Shania Twain. The top selling female recording artist of all-time. The only artist to have three consecutive albums sell 10 million or more copies. Her 1997 CD "Come On Over" sold over 20 million, more than any album by any other female artist in the world.
How does that make you feel? Is that like humbling?
SHANIA TWAIN, SINGER: Privileged. Yeah. It makes me feel very privileged, very lucky.
KING: How do you explain it to yourself? What do you think it is that you do?
TWAIN: I don't think it's anything I do. It's such a combination of things. It's a combination of people, you know, producers, songwriting, of course, singing is a part of it, the performance, record label is a huge part of it. How much support you have there. Oh, gee, what's going on in the music industry at the time, what the climate is, what's going on in music culture in general.
KING: So there's many factors. Luck, timing, talent.
TWAIN: Many, many factors. Yes.
Read the complete transcript.

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