Hey guys, Willie Geist here with another episode of the Sunday Sit Down Podcast.

My thanks is always for clicking and listening along.

This week I have for you as my guest nothing short of a music icon.

Shania Twain.

Shania has one of the most extraordinary stories I can think of in all of music, all of

show business for that matter.

She of course became one of the most successful artists, male or female in the history of music.

Her 1997 album Come On Over, which featured big hits like that don't impress me much.

Man I feel like a woman, you know all those jams from 97.

Remains to this day, the best selling album of all time by a female artist has sold more

than 40 million copies.

But her long road to that point started in remote Northern Ontario, a town called Timons

Ontario up in Canada where she grew up in poverty, legit honest to goodness washing your

clothes in the river, chopping wood to keep the house warm poverty.

She started singing in bars at eight years old.

She tells great stories about that.

She had a talent for it.

Her parents took her because an eight year old was only allowed in the bar after they stopped

serving booze, which was at midnight.

So on school nights, this third or fourth grader was taken by her parents to sing in a bar.

And that's how she began to make her name and get a reputation.

She eventually went to Nashville to try to make it.

...