Shania Twain bounces back with Now

Life has been tough for Shania Twain in the past decade, but the Canadian country-pop artist who ruled the charts in the late 1990s is hitting a high note again in her career.Twain, 52, will release her first studio album in 15 years this week.“The album is really about a place that I’ve come to, and I’ve been for longer than I’d like in a transition period,” Twain said in an interview. “I’m just so relieved that I’m finally here now on the other side of that ... so I thought it was really fitting to call the album ‘Now’ as this is where I’ve landed.”With hit songs like Man! I Feel Like a Woman! and the romantic You’re Still the One, Twain won four Grammys for her 1997 best-selling album Come on Over.But in 2004, her vocal chords were damaged by Lyme disease.Four years later she split with her husband and musical partner Robert Lange, alleging that he had cheated on her with her best friend.Twain, who remarried in 2011, said she now aims to balance her career and personal life.“I’ve been through a marriage already and I don’t ever want to be divorced again so I’m invested in my relationship in a different way now,” she said. “I have to spread myself out and organise my mental energy and my physical time differently and I can’t just be only working on my career all of the time.”Although Twain spent two years doing a nightly show in Las Vegas from 2012-2014 and toured North America in 2015, Now is her first album of new music since Up! in 2002.