From This Moment On
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At the age of ten, singing with Lawrence Martin, a Native Canadian singer from Ontario.
Class photo, 1972.
Redwood Acres School, Hanmer, 1976. I’m the one in the middle holding the sign.
Singing in a bar in Sudbury, 1976.
Singing in a bar in Sudbury, 1976.
With my mom and Brent Williams, second from left, after singing in a bar in Sudbury, 1976.
Performing at an old-age home in Sudbury, around 1977.
Singing in a club in Ontario at the age of twelve.
My sixteenth birthday, just after leaving my boyfriend Daniel in Toronto and going home to Timmins.
On a four-wheeler with my mom, working on the tree plant, summer 1982.
Carrie stuffs my shirt with a pillow; goofing off on the tree plant.
At the tree plant, at the age of seventeen, with two of my crew members.
Tree-planting crew having a rare beer at camp to celebrate the end of a tree plant.
The tree-planting crew.
With Longshot onstage at J.P.’s Lounge, Timmins, July 1982.
Onstage with Longshot at Hollinger Park.
One of the last photos of my parents, a few weeks before they died, October 1987.
Last photo of my parents alive, October 1987.
My parents’ headstone in Timmins cemetery.
My writing cabin in the forest on the bank of Kenogamissi Lake.
Writing a song in the Kenogamissi Lake cabin.
At my spot in the dressing room at Deerhurst.
The early years in Nashville, with PolyGram’s Harold Shedd (left), Billy Ray Cyrus (middle), and Luke Lewis (right). (Courtesy of Mercury Records, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.)
Promo shot for the Four Winds Bar at Deerhurst.
Nashville studio. From left to right: Joe Cotton, Norro Wilson, my friend Laura, Harold Shedd, and Joe Scaife.
Triple Play with Toby Keith (left) and John Brannen (right). (Courtesy of Mercury Records, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.)
With my team of supportive Timmins friends at Fan Fair in Nashville 1993. In the background, my first booth, made by my friend Cynthia’s father.
During the video shoot of “Dance with the One That Brought You,” with actors Charles Durning (left) and Sean Penn (right). (Courtesy of Mercury Records, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.)
Sean Penn directing me in the video of “Dance with the One That Brought You.” (Courtesy of Mercury Records, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.)
Photo shoot with Tim.
In Cairo filming “The Woman in Me” video, July 1995. (Courtesy of Mercury Records, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.)
A John Derek picture of me wearing Bo Derek’s pink hat, California, 1995. (Courtesy of Mercury Records, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.)
Before a tour break, I played a prank on my band and had them wear spandex outfits.
With my band during the Come On Over tour.
Dancer in Central Park, after special permission was granted for me to bring him there to ride for the day during the Come On Over tour.
The first time I met Elton John, in 1998.
With Tim on the video shoot of “That Don’t Impress Me Much,” El Mirage Dry Lake, November 1998. (Courtesy of Mercury Records, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.)
Video director Paul Boyd, costume designer Marc Bouwer, and hairstylist Cyril Lanoir on the video shoot of “That Don’t Impress Me Much,” November 1998. (Courtesy of Mercury Records, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.)
With Marc Bouwer on the video shoot of “Man! I Feel Like a Woman!,” New York, January 1999. (Courtesy of Mercury Records, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.)
With Eja in Milan, fall 2001.
Eja’s first snow, Switzerland, winter 2001.
Eja and Tim at the chateau, Switzerland, winter 2001.
Taking a break with Eja from a photo shoot, spring 2002.
At the CMA Awards in 2003 with Jason Owen, my publicist at the time and my manager today. (Credit: Ed Rode/EdRode.com)
Performing in front of 50,000 great fans at a concert in Chicago’s Grant Park, July 27th 2003. (Credit: NBCU Photo Bank/Paul Drinkwater)
A cozy evening with Fred at the Canadian cottage, Lake of Bays, 2010.
Las Vegas, October 2010.
Me and Eja feeding a young moose, Christmas 2009 in Canada.
Pages spread out at the Blackstone House, Mustique, while writing my book, March 2010.
At home in Switzerland, happily back to songwriting, 2010.
Eja and I on a mountain hike, overlooking our hometown on Lake Geneva, 2010.
Eja and I, Lake Geneva, summer 2010.