The story so far!
She has been called the premier contemporary popvocalist of the nineties, blessed with one of
music's truely great voices. She has crossed all barriers- even that of language - with her electrifyring series of international hits.
She has earned music indrustri accordlades since her very biginning: " F�lix " and " Juno Awards " in Canada ," Grammy Awards " in US , " World Music Awards " and " Victories de la musique " in Europe.
since the release of her landmark album " The colour of my love " in November 1993, she has sold nearly 18 million album (thats just TCOML) and become an international superstar.
The youngsest of 14 children in an highly musical family in Charlemagne south of Quebec Celine was born on March 30th 1968.
When she was 5 she gave her first puplic performance in traditional French-Canadian folk music.
In 1980, her mother and brother wrote her a song and sended a demo tape to a music entrepreneur Ren� Ang�li, who dedided to mortgage his house in order to finace Celine's debut album.
He chose France's famous lyricist Eddy Marnay to write the winning songs which would follow. In 1982 she won the gold medal at the " Yamaha World Music Song Festival " in Tokyo and was showered with Quebec's own Music Award called " F�lix ".
In 1985 she became the first Canadian to recieve a gold record in France when her debut single " D'amour ou d'amiti� " sold over 700,000. WOWOWOWOWOW!!!!
In 1988 she won the prestigious " Eurovison Song contest " in Dublin.
After signing a world wide contract with Sony Music she released her debut English-language album " Unison " in 1990 containing the breakthrough hit " Where does my heart beat now ", a top 5 single.
In 1991 Sony Music released " Dion chante Plamondon ", a collection of hits written by reknown songwriter Luc Plamondon.
Most of the material was taken from his famous " Starmania " (Tycoon) musical. The album was very succesful in France and was also released in the US.
In 1992 she capitalised on her sucess with the eponymously-titled LP/CD " C�line Dion ", featuring amoung its tracks her duet with Peabo Bryson on " Beauty and the Beast ", the " Grammy " and " Academy Award " winning theme of the animated Disney movie of the same name.
In july at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles, she began her US concert tour suoorting Michael Bolton.
"The Hollywood Reporter " wrote: " C�line's performanbe had "headliner" written all over it..."
It was with the release in the end of 1993 " The Colour Of My Love " that C�line furfilled her promise as one of the foremost pop artists of the era.
Again it included a film theme - this time a duet with british singer Clive Griffin on the much-loved standard " When I fall in Love " from the soundtrack " Sleepless in Seattle ". The album also included a cover version - her reading of Jennifer Rush's 1985 " The Power Of Love " becomming her first Us Nr 1 for four straight weeks and
winning her another " Grammy " nomination. Both album and single were certified platinum. An hour long " C�line Dion special " was scheduled on " The Disney Channel " and she began her first - ever headlining US TOUR in San Fransico with sold out in every city.
in the meantime the hit single " Think Twice " made astonishing chart and sales performance.
Since then Celine has made history time after time with her amazing voice and nothing seems to stop her!
Her lastest album is entitled " Let's talk about Love " and has already sold over 25 million so far!!! (and still counting!!)
"Let's talk about love" includs duets with Barbra Streisand and
Luciano Pavarotti and help from THE BEE GEES and Carol king and the
female rapper Diana King and rap-group Brownstone.
Can you guess who I'm talking about???????. Her name is Celine Dion, a female singer with a vocal range that spands over 5 octaves!!
No one can deny that Celine Dion is popular, NO ONE! She has sold over 90 million albums and as you look at this, she is selling 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10 thousand more albums.
Celine is here to stay and Thank God for that.
Last updated:99-01-12