KA-CHING! Stunning Shania Twain looked simply sensational when she presented Justin Timberlake with the Best International Male trophy at the Brit Awards.
And it's no wonder because the 38-year-old star, who plays Birmingham NEC Arena on Monday 23 February and March 7, was wearing £30,000 worth of jewellery.
The gems were supplied by jewellers Bulgari and looked spectacular on Shania who was wearing a dress designed by top British talent Ashley Isham.
It's all a far cry from Shania's early years when she had to overcome severe obstacles to make the grade.
Born Eileen Regina Edwards in Windsor, Ontario, she was the second of five children. Her father left home when she was two and her mother remarried, to Jerry Twain, an Ojibawa Indian. The family was so poor Shania had to eat mustard sandwiches.
She spent her summers working with her new dad in the Canadian forests and helped a friend at a stable in return for a horse ride.
She now owns five horses and plays 'horseball', a mounted cross between rugby and basketball.
But music was never far away, even in her childhood. 'When I was three years old I was experimenting with harmony, tone and resonance, and I was six when I joined my first choir,' she remembers.
'I was eight when I started singing professionally in clubs.'
But when she turned 21 there was tragedy. Her parents died in a car crash and Shania became mum, dad and sister to her younger siblings. But she maintained her musical dreams.
A move to Nashville led to a deal with Mercury Records and a meeting with future husband Robert John 'Mutt' Lange whose golden production and songwriting skills had been thankfully accepted by the likes of Def Leppard and Bryan Adams.
Initially a country act, her mainstream breakthrough album, Come On Over, contained a fair share of pop and rock.
'It's very difficult to categorise this music because there are so many influences coming from so many different places,' Shania says.
Worldwide sales of Shania Twain records have now passed 34 million, with latest album Up! adding to that figure every day.
