C E L I N E D I O N

Celine Dion or her fullname Céline Marie Claudette Dion was born on 30th March 1968. Firstly she was popular as a Canadian singer. We love her because of her powerful and beautiful voice. She included as a Diva for woman singers category. In 1990 she released her first album titled Unison. She became popular because she won the 1982 Yamaha World Popular Song Festival and the 1988 Eurovision Song Contest. That was a great achievement for young singer like her. She returned to the top of pop music in 2002 and signed a three-year (later extended to almost five years) contract to perform nightly in a five-star theatrical show at the Colosseum at Caesars Palace, Las Vegas. She was the youngest in her family and really respect her parents, brothers, and sisters. At age twelve, Dion collaborated with her mother and her brother Jacques to compose her first song, "Ce n'était qu'un rêve" ("It Was Only a Dream") In 1991, Dion was also a soloist in Voices That Care, a tribute to American troops fighting in Operation Desert Storm. Dion's real international breakthrough came when she duetted with Peabo Bryson on the title track to Disney's animated film Beauty and the Beast (1991). The song captured a musical style that Dion would utilize in the future: sweeping, classically influenced ballads with soft instrumentation. Both a critical and commercial hit, the song became her second U.S. top ten single, and won the Academy Award for Best Song, and the Grammy Award for Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal. "Beauty and the Beast" was featured on Dion's 1992 self-titled album, which, like her debut, had a strong rock influence combined with elements of soul and classical music
Dion first met her husband and manager, Rene Angelil in 1980, when she was 12 and he was 38, after she and her mother sent him a demo tape of a song they had written. They began a relationship in 1987, and became engaged in 1991. They married on December 17, 1994, at the Notre-Dame Basilica in Montreal, Quebec. On January 5, 2000, Dion and Angelil renewed their wedding vows in Las Vegas.
In May 2000, Dion had two small operations at a fertility clinic in New York to improve her chances of conceiving, after deciding to use in-vitro fertilisation after years of failed attempts to conceive. Their first child, Rene-Charles Angelil, was born on January 25, 2001. In May 2010, Angelil announced that Dion was 14 weeks pregnant with twins after a sixth treatment of in-vitro fertilisation. On Saturday, October 23, 2010, at 11:11 and 11:12am respectively, at St. Mary's Medical Center in West Palm Beach, Florida, Dion, by Caesarean section, gave birth to two healthy fraternal twins weighing 5 pounds 10 ounces and 5 pounds 4 ounces. The twins were named Eddy, after Dion's favorite Algerian songwriter Eddy Marnay, and Nelson, after former South African President Nelson Mandela. Dion appeared with her new born sons on the cover of the December 9, 2010 issue of the Canadian edition of Hello! magazine.
On 15 October 2010, Céline Dion was nominated Goodwill Ambassador of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).
According to various sources, Celine Dion possesses a soprano vocal range that spans five octavesand is often regarded as one of pop music's most influential voices. She has been described as a reigning "Queen of Pop" for her influence over the record industry during the 1990s, alongside other female entertainers, including Whitney Houston and Mariah Carey. In a countdown of the "22 Greatest Voices in Music" by Blender Magazine and MTV, she placed ninth (sixth for a female), and she was also placed fourth in Cove magazine's list of "The 100 Outstanding Pop Vocalists." Dion is often compared to Mariah Carey for her vocal style and to her idol, Barbra Streisand for her voice. She is often praised for her technical virtuosity. The New York Times expressed similar sentiments, stating, "Ms. Dion is a belter with a high, thin, slightly nasal, nearly vibratoless soprano and a good-sized arsenal of technical skills. She can deliver tricky melismas, produce expressive vocal catches and sustain long notes without the tiniest wavering of pitch. And as her duets have shown, she is a reliable harmony voice."
Charles Alexander of Time adds, "Her voice glides effortlessly from deep whispers to dead-on high notes, a sweet siren that combines force with grace. And, according to Kent Nagano, maestro of the Munich Symphony Orchestra, Dion is "a musician who has a good ear, a refinement, and a degree of perfection that is envious.”
In her French repertoire, Dion adorns her vocals with more nuances and modulations, with the emotional intensity being "more tender and intimate." Additionally, Luc Plamondon, a French singer-songwriter who has written several works for Dion states that there are three "singers" that Dion uses: the Québécois, the French, and the English. Regarding her timbre, mezzo-soprano, Cecilia Bartoli and soprano, Joan Sutherland state that it is "thin" and has a "generally fast vibrato," with the low register being homogeneous and the middle register being "tight." They also expressed that she has a very good legato. In an interview with Libération, Jean-Jacques Goldman, who has also written several works for Dion, states that he has "never worked with a person on such a technical level" and expressed that she has "no problem of accuracy or tempo."
We really amazed with her concert titled That’s Just a Woman in Me. That showed her tribute to other woman. Her song mostly told us how to love other people. The soundtrack of box office movie Titanic, was sang by her. Titled My Heart Will Go On (1998). The song told us that love can make us do something impossible for someone we love.
The other song that amazed us is “The Power of Love” , “Beauty and The Beast” (featuring Peabo Bryso) “Because You Loved Me” , and her song featuring Josh Groban “The Prayer”
Now, Celine and her husband (also known as her own manager) , Rene Angelil live happily with their three sons.

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