C?line Marie Claudette Dion OC, OQ, (born March 30, 1968) is a Canadian singer and occasional songwriter and actress. Born to a large, impoverished family in Charlemagne, Qu?bec, Dion became a teen star in the French-speaking world after her manager and would-be husband Ren? Ang?lil mortgaged his home to finance her first record. In 1990 she released the anglophone album Unison, establishing herself as a viable pop artist in North America and other English speaking areas of the world.
Dion first gained international recognition in the 1980s after she won both the 1982 Yamaha World Popular Song Festival and the 1988 Eurovision Song Contest. After a series of French albums in the early 1980s, she signed on to Sony Records in 1986. Under the guidance of her husband, she achieved worldwide success with several English and French albums, ending the decade as one of the most-successful artists in pop music. After releasing over twenty-five albums over two decades, Dion announced a temporary retraction from entertainment in 1999 in order to start a family and spend time with her husband. She returned to the music scene in 2002, and a year later, she signed a four-year contract to perform nightly in a five-star theatrical show at the Colosseum at Caesars Palace, Las Vegas.
Dion's music has been influenced by various genres, which range from pop, soul and rock to gospel and classical, and while her releases have often received mixed critical reception, she is renowned for her technically skilled and powerful vocals. In 2004, after accumulating record sales in excess of 175 million, she was presented with the Chopard Diamond Award from the World Music Awards show for becoming the "Best-selling Female Artist in the World." In April 2007 Sony BMG announced that Celine Dion had sold over 200 million albums worldwide.
Contents [hide] 1 Life and music career 1.1 Childhood and early beginnings 1.2 1990–1992: Career breakthrough 1.3 1993–1995: Popularity established 1.4 1996–1999: Worldwide commercial success 1.5 2000–2002: Career break 1.6 2002–2003: Return to music 1.7 2003–2007: A New Day... Live in Las Vegas 1.8 2007-Present: Return to studio 2 Artistry and image 3 Other activities 4 Selected discography 4.1 Anglophone studio albums 4.2 Francophone studio albums 4.3 Singles 5 Tours 6 Filmography 7 See also 8 Bibliography 8.1 Notes 8.2 References 8.3 Further reading 9 External links
Life and music career
Childhood and early beginnings
Dion's performance at the Yamaha World Popular Song Festival won her the gold medal as well as the award for being the top performer.The youngest of fourteen children born to Adh?mar Dion and Th?r?se Tanguay, C?line Dion was raised a Roman Catholic in a poverty-stricken, but, by her own account, happy, home in Charlemagne. Music had always been a part of the family, as she grew up singing with her siblings in her parents' small piano bar called 'Le Vieux Baril.' From an early age Dion had dreamed of being a performer; In a 1994 interview with People magazine, she recalled, "I missed my family and my home, but I don't regret having lost my adolescence. I had one dream: I wanted to be a singer."
At age twelve, Dion collaborated with her mother and her brother Jacques to compose her first song, "Ce n'?tait qu'un r?ve" ("It Was Only a Dream"). Her brother Michel sent the recording to music manager Ren? Ang?lil, whose name he discovered on the back of a Ginette Reno album. Ang?lil was moved to tears by Dion's voice, and decided to make her a star. He mortgaged his home to fund her first record, La voix du bon Dieu (a play on words "The Voice of God/The Road to God," 1981), which became a local number-one record and made Dion an instant star in Quebec. Her popularity spread to other parts of the world when she competed in the 1982 Yamaha World Popular Song Festival in Tokyo, Japan, and won the musician's award for "Top Performer" as well as the gold medal for "Best Song," with "Tellement j'ai d'amour pour toi" ("I Have So Much Love for You"). By 1983, in addition to becoming the first Canadian artist to receive a gold record in France for the single "D'amour ou d'amiti?" ("Of Love or of Friendship"), Dion had also won several F?lix Awards, including "Best Female performer" and "Discovery of the Year." Further success in Europe, Asia, and Australia came when Dion represented Switzerland in the 1988 Eurovision Song Contest with the song "Ne partez pas sans moi" ("Don't Go Without Me") and won the contest in Dublin, Ireland. However, American success was yet to come, partly because she was exclusively a Francophone artist.
At eighteen, after seeing a Michael Jackson performance, Dion told Ang?lil that she wanted to be a star like Jackson. Though confident in her talent, Angelil realized that her image needed to be changed in order for her to be marketed worldwide. Dion receded from the spotlight for a number of months, during which she underwent a physical makeover, and was sent to the ?cole Berlitz School in 1989 to polish her English language. This marked the start of her Anglophone music career. According to an episode of VH-1's Behind The Music, she learned English in just three months.
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