A helping hand from Shania
By Joyce Hunter
Saturday, August 09, 2003 - 07:00
Local News - Hearing someone sing on the radio can be a life changing experience.
If you don’t believe it, just ask Natasha Mrkovich of Ancaster, Ont., a petite adolescent girl who is confined to a wheelchair.
Mrkovich said she first heard Shania on the radio 10 years ago. Since then her life has taken a turn for the better. In fact, her art career was launched because of a meeting with Twain during the country superstar’s November visit to the Much Music Environment in Toronto.
was able to meet her there and give her an original water colour portrait that I’d done of her from her Man! I Feel Like a Woman video,” Mrkovich said. “She spent about 20 minutes with me and my parents and was really gracious.”
When it came time for Shania to do her VH1 The Return of Shania special, Twain was adamant to the producers that the video clip of Mrkovich making the presentation be included in the show.
“Because of the quality of the portraits my daughter is able to reproduce, she was immediately licensed as an artist by Graceland in Nashville to do portraits of Elvis once they saw that,” said Natasha’s mother, Dana Mrkovich. “My daughter will be going to the Country Music Hall of Fame on Aug. 16, where she will make a presentation to Montgomery Gentry of a portrait she was commissioned to do of them during the Country Music Association Golf Tournament held in L.A.”
Mrkovich said her interest in Shania was there since day one.
“I’ve been a fan of hers since What Made You Say That? in 1993,” she said.
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