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After years out of the limelight*, Shania Twain is back with her fifth studio album.

Back then Shania — no surname required — was riding the crest of a wave. She’d had hit after hit, recorded the best-selling country album of all time (1997’s “Come On Over”) and been the half-time act at the “Super Bowl.”

Not long afterwards, though, it began to go wrong. Her marriage to producer Robert “Mutt” Lange collapsed and she developed debilitating* vocal problems that forced her to temporarily give up recording and performing.

The comeback trail began in Las Vegas with a two-year residency at Caesars Palace that paved the way for a “final” tour in 2015.

Now, 20 years on from “Come On Over,” Shania is back — with a new husband, a new album (called “Now”) and a new voice.

“It is different,” she says of the celebrated purry twang that brought tracks like “You’re Still the One,” “That Don’t Impress Me Much” and “Man! I Feel Like a Woman.” “I’ve got smokier sounds I never had before, and I’ve got a lower register than I used to have before.”

The singer blames Lyme disease for her dysphonia*, an ailment* that causes the vocal cords to seize up when speaking or singing.

“It’ll never be solved,” she tells the BBC. “It’s a permanent problem.

“But with a lot of physical and vocal therapy, I’ve got better at understanding my voice and better at managing it.”

The former are perhaps best illustrated by “Life’s About to Get Good,” a breezy singalong that serves as the album’s lead single.

The video for the song was shot in the Dominican Republic — thankfully before Hurricane Irma — and required the loan of a certain piece of headgear.

“I actually borrowed the ‘Man! I Feel Like a Woman’ outfit for the video, top hat and all,” she says of a costume that now has pride of place at Nashville’s Country Music Hall of Fame.

(SD-Agencies)’