Shania Twain reunites with Newfoundland fan on stage — 40 years later
Each on occasion, you meet a buddy that you simply received’t quickly neglect. For Canadian nation singer Shania Twain, that buddy occurs to be a Newfoundland native she met on tour 40 years in the past.
Whereas performing on the Churchill Park Music Pageant in St. John’s, N.L., over the weekend, Twain referred to as her buddy Gloria to the stage. She informed the gang she met Gloria on her first-ever tour of Jap Canada when she was 17 years outdated.
Twain stated she and Gloria had “a really fast, candy friendship” that she hasn’t forgotten. In reality, the singer stated she nonetheless treasures a polaroid of she and Gloria, taken throughout their time collectively within the Nineteen Eighties.
“She was very form, and he or she was an area and he or she confirmed me round,” Twain described.
The Man! I Really feel Like a Girl singer then invited Gloria to the stage and the pair embraced to the sound of cheering.
Twain, 58, shared a clip of the second on social media.
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“The hospitality and sentiment of Newfies is unmatched — thanks for, as soon as once more, displaying me such a heat welcome!” she wrote within the caption.
Although Gloria turned weepy on stage, Twain continued her excessive reward.
“You had been so form to me,” she stated. “On these excursions, while you’re the one woman within the band, you by no means meet any women. The one women you meet are the ladies which can be attempting to hook up with the band.”
That crowd of girls, in accordance with Twain, didn’t embody Gloria. As a substitute, the Newfoundland native hosted Twain at her household dwelling and took the singer to see the entire native sights, together with the seaside.
“She handled me like one of many household,” Twain gushed.
“The humorous factor is that I’m nonetheless doing precisely the identical factor as I did once I met you,” she laughed. “I’m nonetheless in Newfoundland on a stage singing.”
Although she will not be from Newfoundland (Twain was born in Windsor and raised in Timmins, Ont.), Twain’s journey to play the music competition noticed her “screeched in” as an honorary native — an unofficial ceremony that entails a shot of rum, a style of fried bologna and a kiss to a codfish.
Final yr, Twain launched her sixth studio album, Queen of Me.
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