Céline Marie Claudette Dion (OC,
OQ) (born March 30, 1968) is a French
Canadian Grammy and Juno award winning
pop singer and occasional songwriter.[1]
She began her career in the early 1980s
as a French singer before breaking into
the international music scene in the 1990s.
Dion was born to a large, impoverished
family in Charlemagne, Quebec. As a teen,
she achieved success in Francophone Canada
after her manager and future husband,
René Angélil, mortgaged
his home in order to finance her first
record. She later gained recognition in
parts of Europe and Asia after she won
both the 1982 Yamaha World Popular Song
Festival and the 1988 Eurovision Song
Contest. In 1990 Dion established a foothold
in the anglophone music market with the
release of Unison, published by Epic Records.
During the 1990s she achieved worldwide
fame and success with several English
and French records, of which her most
successful were Falling into You (1996)
and "My Heart Will Go On" (1998),
the theme to the 1997 film Titanic. In
1999 she announced a temporary break from
entertainment in order to focus on her
husband, who was diagnosed with throat
cancer. Buy
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