Shania Twain confirmed that her ethnicity includes, English, French and Irish. Through her maternal great-grandmother, she is a descendant of French carpenter, Zacharie Cloutier.
Her Irish maternal grandmother, Eileen Pierce, emigrated from Newbridge, County Kildare.
Twain has received five Grammy Awards, a World Music Award, 27 BMI Songwriter Awards, stars on Canada’s Walk of Fame and the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and inductions into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame and Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame.
Twain is ranked as the 10th best-selling artist of the Nielsen SoundScan era. Billboard listed Twain as the 13th Greatest Music Video Female Solo Artist of all time.