Celine Dion
Céline Marie Claudette Dion (born 30 March 1968) is a Canadian singer. She is one of the best-selling artists of all time with record sales of over 200 million worldwide. Dion’s music has been influenced by genres ranging from rock and R&B to gospel and classical. Her recordings are mainly in French and English, although she also sings in Spanish, Italian, German, Latin, Japanese, and Mandarin Chinese.
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Céline Marie Claudette Dion (born 30 March 1968) is a Canadian singer. She is one of the best-selling artists of all time with record sales of over 200 million worldwide. She won the 1982 Yamaha World Popular Song Festival and the 1988 Eurovision Song Contest, where she represented Switzerland. Dion’s music has been influenced by genres ranging from rock and R&B to gospel and classical. Her recordings are mainly in French and English, although she also sings in Spanish, Italian, German, Latin, Japanese, and Mandarin Chinese. During the 2000s, she built her reputation as a highly successful live performer with A New Day… on the Las Vegas Strip. She has won five Grammy Awards, including Album of the Year and Record of the year. In 2003, she was honoured by the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry for selling over 50 million albums in Europe. In a 1994 interview, she recalled, “I don’t regret having lost my adolescence. I had one dream: I wanted to be a singer. At 12, I wrote and composed my first song, It Was Only a Dream or A Dream or a Dream” Her brother Michel mortgaged his home to fund her first record, La voix du Dieu, which became an instant No. 1 hit and made her an instant star. Her music has often received mixed critical reception, but she is regarded as one of pop music’s most influential vocalists.
She was born in Charlemagne, Quebec, 24 kilometres northeast of Montreal, and is the youngest of 14 children of Thérèse, a homemaker, and Adhémar Dion, a butcher, both of French-Canadian descent. At age 12, she collaborated with her mother and her brother to write and compose her first song,. The title translates as “It Was only a dream or a dream, or adream” Her first public appearance was in 1973, at the age of five, when she performed Christine Charbonneau’s song “Du fil, des aiguilles et du coton” She continued to perform with her siblings in her parents’ small piano bar called Le Vieux Baril, The Old Barrel, until she was 13. In 1981, her music manager René Angélil, whose name was Ginette Reno, discovered her and moved her back to a back of a back room of a house. She moved to Quebec to live with him and his wife. In 1987, she released her debut English-language album, Unison, establishing herself as a viable pop artist in North America and other English-speaking areas of the world. In 1990, she achieved worldwide fame after releasing several best-sellers, such as Falling into You and Let’s Talk About Love, which were both certified diamond in the US. She also scored a series of international number-one hits, including “Because You Loved Me” and “My Heart Will Go On”
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