Country music sensation Shania Twain has revealed her “one diva demand” ahead of her appearance at the U.K.’s Glastonbury festival on June 30.
The 58-year-old discussed her upcoming performance on the Dish podcast on Wednesday. During the show, host Nick Grimshaw described Twain as “very un-diva-ish for an artist of her magnitude.” However, the English broadcaster wanted to know the Canadian singer’s “one diva demand.”
“It’s valid, she’s worked for it guys,” he declared.
After taking a second to think about it, Twain replied: “Definitely [a] no-smoking room,” which Grimshaw dubbed a “very un-diva demand.”
Shania Twain attends the 15th Annual Academy Of Country Music Honors at Ryman Auditorium on August 24, 2022, in Nashville, Tennessee. The country music star will be headlining for the iconic Pyramid stage at Glastonbury on June 30.
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Twain will be headlining the iconic Pyramid stage for the festival’s “Legends” spot. Since her debut album, The Woman in Me, became a global hit in 1995, Twain has broken multiple records.
The Woman in Me sold over 20 million copies worldwide and became the bestselling album by a female country artist. Her follow-up album, Come On Over, released in 1997, was an even bigger success. Featuring Twain’s chart-topping singles “Man! I Feel Like a Woman!,” “That Don’t Impress Me Much,” and “You’re Still the One,” more than 40 million copies have been sold globally, making it the bestselling album by a female artist in any genre. According to Guinness World Records, the album still holds that title, over 25 years since its release.
Her 2002 album, Up! sold three million copies in its first month, making Twain the only artist in history to have three consecutive Diamond RIAA-certified albums in the United States.
However, Twain worried that she’d never sing again following a battle with Lyme disease. The Grammy winner contracted the illness in 2003 after being bitten by an infected tick while horseback riding.
“You can’t sing, you can’t even yell out and so I couldn’t project, couldn’t scream or be really expressive [with her voice],” she said during an interview with the BBC on Wednesday.
By the time the cause of Twain’s symptoms was discovered, the disease had already damaged her vocal chords. However, she was eventually able to resume making music following an operation.
Twain returned to the stage in May for her hugely successful Come on Over residency at the Bakkt Theater in Las Vegas, her third residency in the city since 2012.
Twain also shared moment she knew she’d hit the big time with Grimshaw and his Dish co-host, Michelin star chef Angela Hartnett.
“There was a very specific moment where I’m at the airport,” Twain began. “I’m by myself, I’m starting to gain momentum, I’m in a phone booth, and I’m talking to my friend, waiting for my flight.”
“People are starting to look at me and stare at me a little bit more and walking around me and staying a bit too long,” she explained. “I’m saying to my friend, ‘I don’t know what’s going on. I don’t know whether they know who I am?”
Twain “didn’t know what to do” and began to freak out.
“I ran head of myself,” she continued. “‘I’m going to have to start traveling with a bodyguard. How is this going to work?’ I’m getting all ahead of myself.”
However, it turned out that the people were just “waiting for [her] to get off the damn phone.”
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