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Céline Dion
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Céline Dion
Céline Marie Claudette Dion OC, OQ (born March 30, 1968
in Québec, Canada) is a Grammy, Juno and Oscar
award winning popular singer-songwriter, and entrepreneur.
Signed to Sony Records in the late 1980s,
Dion, with the help of manager and husband, René Angélil, rose from humble beginnings to
become one of the best-selling
female artists of all time. [1]
Her music has been influenced by a myriad of genres, ranging from pop, rock and roll, and soul, to gospel and classical, and she has often been noted by fans
and industry critics alike for her vocal abilities, lyricism, and her ability
to express the text of her songs.
Dion has become a prominent figure in both the English and French popular music world. During the 1990s,
she released a string of number-one singles, including "Because You Loved
Me", "It's All Coming Back to Me Now", and "My Heart Will Go On",
the latter being the successful love theme from the 1997
blockbuster
film
Titanic.
After taking a career break in 1999 for personal reasons, she
returned in 2002 with the album A New Day Has Come
and, as of 2003, performs nightly in her show A New
Day...Live in Las Vegas at Caesars Palace, Las Vegas.
Early life
and career beginnings
Dion was the youngest of fourteen children, born to
Adhemar and Therese Dion in a poverty stricken home in Charlemagne, a
small town thirty miles east of Montréal, Québec, Canada.
The family was always surrounded with music, and Dion honed her talents by
singing with her siblings from the age of five in the small pianobar belonging
to her parents. On weekends, the entire family performed and entertained the
local population.
At the age of twelve, together with her mother and one of
her brothers, Dion composed her first song, "Ce n'etait qu'un rêve"
("It Was Only a Dream"), which her brother Michael sent to René Angélil, a manager whose name he had found
on the back of an album by popular Francophone singer, Ginette Reno. Angélil, who was brought to tears
by Dion's voice, immediately decided to make her an international success. He mortgaged his home to help finance Dion's career
and in 1981, they released her first record in her
native French language,
"La Voix du
bon Dieu" ("The Voice of God"), which became a local number-one
single, making her an instant star in Québec.
At eighteen, Dion saw Michael Jackson performing on television and she
told Angelil that she wanted to be a star like him. Dion then underwent a
physical transformation to remake her image: she cut her hair, shaved her
eyebrows, and had her teeth capped to cover up the incisors that had caused a Québec humor magazine to dub her "Canine Dion" [2]. She was also sent off to an English language school which would polish her
language enable her to break into the anglophone North American market.
Commercial success
Career breakthrough:
1987 to the early 1990s
In 1987, Dion produced the album Incognito,
which became a huge success in francophone Canada. She enjoyed superstar
status, racking up multiple sales and receiving numerous Felix Awards. She was later approached by Swiss
songwriters Atilla Şereftuğ
and Nella Martinetti,
who asked her to represent Switzerland in the 1988 Eurovision
Song Contest. By singing "Ne partez pas sans moi", Dion
won the contest in Dublin on April 30, 1988,
receiving a large boost to her career not only in Europe, but also in the USSR,
the Middle-East, Japan,
and Australia. Her recognition in the US, however, was still limited.
Dion's first English album, Unison, released in 1990,
was declared as "a fine, sophisticated American debut" by Stephen
Thomas Erlewine, of All Music Guide [3].
The album, largely influenced by rock music, initiated her recognition in America with the breakthrough top five single,
"Where Does My Heart Beat Now". Other singles were not as successful
in the American or World market. The album earned Dion her first certification
from RIAA as it went platinum in the
United States. The album's international
success, however, was limited.
Dion's real international breakthrough came when she
recorded the title track for the soundtrack to the animated Disney hit
film Beauty and
the Beast with Peabo Bryson. The song topped the U.S. charts for five weeks and earned the duo the Academy Award for Best Song Written
for a Motion Picture or Television, and the Grammy Award for Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal.
In Canada,
at an awards show, Dion won a Felix Awards for the "English Speaking
Artist of the Year". Dion openly refused to accept the award on the
grounds that she was a French and not an English artist [4].
Shortly after her Unison album was released, Dion
acted in a television mini-series called Des fleurs sur la neige
(Flowers on the Snow). She played a young woman named Elisa who lived a
very difficult, abused life. Dion enjoyed her role and has since expressed interest
in acting in a film.
Dion's 1992 eponymous album also featured the single
"Beauty and the Beast". The album incorporated music from a myriad of
genres and sub-genres including rock, soul, and adult contemporary,
and Erlewine believed that it was "even stronger and more accomplished
[than her debut]". It produced four more hit singles; the gospel tinged "Love Can
Move Mountains",
"Water from the Moon", "If You Asked Me To", and "Did
You Give Enough Love". The album was certified double platinum in America
and six times platinum in Canada, winning her many Juno Awards and the World Music Award for being the "World’s
Best selling Canadian Female Recording Artist of the Year".
Career summit—1996 to 1999
In March 1996, Falling into You
was released, and met with widespread critical and commercial success. A trend
with Dion's previous albums, Falling into You contained numerous pop,
rock, gospel, and adult contemporary tracks. Erlewine of All Music Guide
wrote that while the album was formulaic: "Falling into You is a
remarkably well-crafted set of adult contemporary pop and Dion's best
album." [7]
It spawned hits such as the title track, "It's All Coming Back to Me
Now", a remake of Eric Carmen's
"All by Myself", and the chart-topper "Because You Loved
Me". The album topped the charts in eleven countries, and won the Grammy
Award for Album of the Year
and Best Pop Album at the thirty-ninthth annual
Grammy Awards ceremony. It became her biggest-selling and most critically
acclaimed LP; it has been certified eleven times platinum in America, and
has sold approximately thirty-two million copies worldwide, becoming one of the
best selling albums of all time. .
Career
break—1999 to 2002
Things took a turn for the worse in Dion's personal life:
her husband, Rene Angelil, was diagnosed with throat cancer. Dion decided to put a new
emphasis on her family life and announced a temporary retirement so that she
could spend more time at home and have a child. On New Year's Eve 1999, in Montréal, Dion
gave her last public performance before beginning this break. After undergoing
fertility treatments, she gave birth to a son, René-Charles Angélil, in January 2001. Her son's baptism on 25 July was broadcast live throughout Canada. She has
decided to raise her son to be multilingual as she plans to send him to a
school where he will learn English, French, and Spanish.
Return
A New Day Has Come, released in
March 2002 ended her two-year break from the music
world. The album debuted at number one across seventeen countries, and sold
over 600,000 copies in the United
States in its first week. Stephen Thomas
Erlewine of All Music Guide
writes: "it's more ambitious than it needs to be... it's a balancing act
that nobody since Barbra Streisand
has been able to pull off", but noted that the album is forgettable [9].
Rob Sheffield of Rolling Stones was
less enthusiastic about the record, saying that "Dion's voice is still
just furniture polish." [10]
English releases
Céline Marie Claudette Dion OC, OQ (born March 30, 1968in Québec, Canada) is a Grammy, Juno and Oscar
award winning popular singer-songwriter, and entrepreneur.
Signed to Sony Records in the late 1980s,
Dion, with the help of manager and husband, René Angélil, rose from humble beginnings to
become one of the best-selling
female artists of all time. [1]
Her music has been influenced by a myriad of genres, ranging from pop, rock and roll, and soul, to gospel and classical, and she has often been noted by fans
and industry critics alike for her vocal abilities, lyricism, and her ability
to express the text of her songs.
Dion has become a prominent figure in both the English and French popular music world. During the 1990s,
she released a string of number-one singles, including "Because You Loved
Me", "It's All Coming Back to Me Now", and "My Heart Will Go On",
the latter being the successful love theme from the 1997
blockbuster
film
Titanic.
After taking a career break in 1999 for personal reasons, she
returned in 2002 with the album A New Day Has Come
and, as of 2003, performs nightly in her show A New
Day...Live in Las Vegas at Caesars Palace, Las Vegas.
Early life
and career beginnings
Dion was the youngest of fourteen children, born to
Adhemar and Therese Dion in a poverty stricken home in Charlemagne, a
small town thirty miles east of Montréal, Québec, Canada.
The family was always surrounded with music, and Dion honed her talents by
singing with her siblings from the age of five in the small pianobar belonging
to her parents. On weekends, the entire family performed and entertained the
local population.
At the age of twelve, together with her mother and one of
her brothers, Dion composed her first song, "Ce n'etait qu'un rêve"
("It Was Only a Dream"), which her brother Michael sent to René Angélil, a manager whose name he had found
on the back of an album by popular Francophone singer, Ginette Reno. Angélil, who was brought to tears
by Dion's voice, immediately decided to make her an international success. He mortgaged his home to help finance Dion's career
and in 1981, they released her first record in her
native French language,
"La Voix du
bon Dieu" ("The Voice of God"), which became a local number-one
single, making her an instant star in Québec.
At eighteen, Dion saw Michael Jackson performing on television and she
told Angelil that she wanted to be a star like him. Dion then underwent a
physical transformation to remake her image: she cut her hair, shaved her
eyebrows, and had her teeth capped to cover up the incisors that had caused a Québec humor magazine to dub her "Canine Dion" [2]. She was also sent off to an English language school which would polish her
language enable her to break into the anglophone North American market.
Commercial success
Career breakthrough:
1987 to the early 1990s
In 1987, Dion produced the album Incognito,
which became a huge success in francophone Canada. She enjoyed superstar
status, racking up multiple sales and receiving numerous Felix Awards. She was later approached by Swiss
songwriters Atilla Şereftuğ
and Nella Martinetti,
who asked her to represent Switzerland in the 1988 Eurovision
Song Contest. By singing "Ne partez pas sans moi", Dion
won the contest in Dublin on April 30, 1988,
receiving a large boost to her career not only in Europe, but also in the USSR,
the Middle-East, Japan,
and Australia. Her recognition in the US, however, was still limited.
Dion's first English album, Unison, released in 1990,
was declared as "a fine, sophisticated American debut" by Stephen
Thomas Erlewine, of All Music Guide [3].
The album, largely influenced by rock music, initiated her recognition in America with the breakthrough top five single,
"Where Does My Heart Beat Now". Other singles were not as successful
in the American or World market. The album earned Dion her first certification
from RIAA as it went platinum in the
United States. The album's international
success, however, was limited.
Dion's real international breakthrough came when she
recorded the title track for the soundtrack to the animated Disney hit
film Beauty and
the Beast with Peabo Bryson. The song topped the U.S. charts for five weeks and earned the duo the Academy Award for Best Song Written
for a Motion Picture or Television, and the Grammy Award for Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal.
In Canada,
at an awards show, Dion won a Felix Awards for the "English Speaking
Artist of the Year". Dion openly refused to accept the award on the
grounds that she was a French and not an English artist [4].
Shortly after her Unison album was released, Dion
acted in a television mini-series called Des fleurs sur la neige
(Flowers on the Snow). She played a young woman named Elisa who lived a
very difficult, abused life. Dion enjoyed her role and has since expressed interest
in acting in a film.
Dion's 1992 eponymous album also featured the single
"Beauty and the Beast". The album incorporated music from a myriad of
genres and sub-genres including rock, soul, and adult contemporary,
and Erlewine believed that it was "even stronger and more accomplished
[than her debut]". It produced four more hit singles; the gospel tinged "Love Can
Move Mountains",
"Water from the Moon", "If You Asked Me To", and "Did
You Give Enough Love". The album was certified double platinum in America
and six times platinum in Canada, winning her many Juno Awards and the World Music Award for being the "World’s
Best selling Canadian Female Recording Artist of the Year".
Career summit—1996 to 1999
In March 1996, Falling into You
was released, and met with widespread critical and commercial success. A trend
with Dion's previous albums, Falling into You contained numerous pop,
rock, gospel, and adult contemporary tracks. Erlewine of All Music Guide
wrote that while the album was formulaic: "Falling into You is a
remarkably well-crafted set of adult contemporary pop and Dion's best
album." [7]
It spawned hits such as the title track, "It's All Coming Back to Me
Now", a remake of Eric Carmen's
"All by Myself", and the chart-topper "Because You Loved
Me". The album topped the charts in eleven countries, and won the Grammy
Award for Album of the Year
and Best Pop Album at the thirty-ninthth annual
Grammy Awards ceremony. It became her biggest-selling and most critically
acclaimed LP; it has been certified eleven times platinum in America, and
has sold approximately thirty-two million copies worldwide, becoming one of the
best selling albums of all time. .
Career
break—1999 to 2002
Things took a turn for the worse in Dion's personal life:
her husband, Rene Angelil, was diagnosed with throat cancer. Dion decided to put a new
emphasis on her family life and announced a temporary retirement so that she
could spend more time at home and have a child. On New Year's Eve 1999, in Montréal, Dion
gave her last public performance before beginning this break. After undergoing
fertility treatments, she gave birth to a son, René-Charles Angélil, in January 2001. Her son's baptism on 25 July was broadcast live throughout Canada. She has
decided to raise her son to be multilingual as she plans to send him to a
school where he will learn English, French, and Spanish.
Return
A New Day Has Come, released in
March 2002 ended her two-year break from the music
world. The album debuted at number one across seventeen countries, and sold
over 600,000 copies in the United
States in its first week. Stephen Thomas
Erlewine of All Music Guide
writes: "it's more ambitious than it needs to be... it's a balancing act
that nobody since Barbra Streisand
has been able to pull off", but noted that the album is forgettable [9].
Rob Sheffield of Rolling Stones was
less enthusiastic about the record, saying that "Dion's voice is still
just furniture polish." [10]
English releases
- 2004 Miracle 5.000.000
- 2004 A New Day... Live in Las Vegas
1,500,000 - 2003 One Heart 8,000,000
- 2002 A New Day Has Come
13,000,000 - 2000 The Collector's Series — Volume 1
3,000,000 - 1999 All The Way... a Decade of Song
20,000,000 - 1998 These Are Special Times
15,000,000 - 1997 Let's Talk About
Love 31,000,000± - 1996 Falling into You 32,000,000±
- 1993 The Colour of My
Love 20,000,000 - 1992 Celine Dion 5,500,000
- 1990 Unison 3,000,000
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