Showbiz I would like to be emailed about offers, event and updates from Evening Standard. Read our privacy notice . Shania Twain ’s lead guitarist has dished what it’s really like to work and travel the world with the Queen of Country Pop.
A singer-songwriter in her own right, Lindsay Ell, 35, says getting to perform with the Man! I Feel Like A Woman! hit-maker is “wild”. Speaking to the Standard backstage at BST Hyde Park ahead of Twain’s headlining performance , she said: “Playing with Shania has been like a full circle pinch me moment. I mean, I started singing because of Shania.
I think the first song I fell in love with Shania was Nobody Needs To Know, one of her very first singles and now, I play that song on stage with her. I’m like three feet away from her on stage and I’m like ‘this is a wild moment, this is so crazy!’” They say never meet your heroes but Ell is happy to report that Twain doesn’t disappoint. “She is so lovely and so wonderful,” the purple-haired musician gushed.
“It has just been so lovely getting to see how Shania works and really see how she empowers everybody in her crew and her band and she lifts us all up and challenges us to be better and so it has been such a beautiful experience. “You get to see how passionate she is and why she is the icon she is because she works so hard, every single day of her life. Like, decades into her career, she is still that passionate about every aspect of her show from wardrobe to t.
