Celine Dion

The Musician Celine Dion

Background information
Birth name: Céline Marie Claudette Dion

Born: March 30, 1968 (age 42)

Origin: Charlemagne, Quebec, Canada

Genres: Pop, pop rock

Occupations: Singer, songwriter, actress

Instruments: Vocals (Soprano)

Years active: 1980–present

Labels: Saisons, Super Étoiles,

TBS (1981–1986)

Sony Music Canada (1986–present)

Epic (1990–2007)

550 (1992–2000)

Columbia (2007–present)

Website: www.celinedion.com

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The one of the famous celebrities Céline Dion has turn out to be one of the all-time best singers. Céline Dion was born in 1968, the youngest of 14 children. She sang with her siblings in a minute club owned by her parents Céline gained the know-how to performing live with the help of her experience. Dion confident a song in her native French and sent it to a record company at the age of 12, where it acquired the awareness of René Angélil, a treasured manager. Angélil alleged in Céline so much that he in point of fact mortgaged his house in order to investment her debut album. Already very popular and successful worldwide, Céline burst onto the U.S. stage when she recorded the theme song to Disney's hit Beauty and the Beast (1991). The song garnered a Grammy and an Oscar. Her 'Falling into you' album, released in 1996, became the best-selling album of that year, selling more than 25 million copies worldwide. In 1999, Dion took a hiatus in order to begin a family. She returned to the spotlight in 2002, releasing yet another hit album. Starting in 2003, Céline began a three-year commitment to perform in an arena built for her in Las Vegas.

Awards for Celine Dion

Year	Award	Album
2008	World Music Awards	ARTIST : Celine Dion Lyrics World's Best Selling Canadian Artist
2003	American Music Awards	ARTIST : Celine Dion Lyrics Favorite Artist - Adult Contemporary
2002	American Music Awards	ARTIST : Celine Dion Lyrics Favorite Artist - Adult Contemporary
2000	American Music Awards	ARTIST : Celine Dion Lyrics Favorite Artist - Adult Contemporary
1999	Grammy Awards	SONG : My Heart Will Go On Lyrics Record of the Year
1999	Juno Awards	ARTIST : Celine Dion Lyrics International Achievement Award
1999	Grammy Awards	SONG : My Heart Will Go On Lyrics Pop Female Vocalist
1999	Juno Awards	ARTIST : Celine Dion Lyrics Best Female Vocalist
1999	Juno Awards	ALBUM : S'il Suffisait D'aimer Lyrics Best Selling Francophone Album
1999	Juno Awards	ALBUM : Let's Talk About Love LyricsBest Album
1999	Juno Awards	ALBUM : Let's Talk About Love Lyrics Best Selling Album - Foreign or Domestic
1998	Billboard Music Awards	ARTIST : Celine Dion Lyrics Soundtrack Single of the Year
1998	Billboard Music Awards	ARTIST : Celine Dion Lyrics Album of the Year
1998	Billboard Music Awards	ARTIST : Celine Dion Lyrics Soundtrack Album of the Year
1998	American Music Awards	ARTIST : Celine Dion Lyrics Favorite Female Artist - Pop / Rock
1998	Billboard Music Awards	ARTIST : Celine Dion Lyrics Adult Contemporary Artist of the Year
1998	Billboard Music Awards	ARTIST : Celine Dion Lyrics Female Albums Artist of the Year
1998	American Music Awards	ARTIST : Celine Dion Lyrics Favorite Artist - Adult Contemporary
1998	Billboard Music Awards	ALBUM : Let's Talk About Love Lyrics Female Album of the Year
1997	Juno Awards	ARTIST : Celine Dion Lyrics Best Selling Francophone Album
1997	American Music Awards	ARTIST : Celine Dion Lyrics Favorite Female Artist - Pop / Rock
1997	Juno Awards	ALBUM : Falling Into You Lyrics Best Selling Album - Foreign or Domestic
1997	Grammy Awards	ALBUM : Falling Into You Lyrics Pop Album
1997	Juno Awards	ARTIST : Celine Dion Lyrics International Achievement Award
1997	Grammy Awards	ALBUM : Falling Into You Lyrics Album of the Year
1997	Juno Awards	ARTIST : Celine Dion Lyrics Female Vocalist of the Year
1996	Juno Awards	ARTIST : Celine Dion Lyrics Best Selling Francophone Album
1995	Juno Awards	ARTIST : Celine Dion Lyrics Best Selling Album - Foreign or Domestic
1995	Juno Awards	ARTIST : Celine Dion Lyrics Album of the Year
1994	Juno Awards	ARTIST : Celine Dion Lyrics Female Vocalist of the Year
1993	Juno Awards	SONG : Love Can Move Mountains Lyrics Best Dance Recording
1993	Juno Awards	ARTIST : Celine Dion Lyrics Female Vocalist of the Year
1993	Juno Awards	ALBUM : Dion Chante Plamondon Lyrics Best Selling Francophone Album
1992	Juno Awards	ARTIST : Celine Dion Lyrics Female Vocalist of the Year
1991	Juno Awards	ALBUM : Unison Lyrics Album of the Year
1991	Juno Awards	ARTIST : Celine Dion Lyrics Female Vocalist of the Year

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Name: Celine Dion

Birth Name: Celine Marie Claudette Dion

Height: 5' 7"

Sex: F

Nationality: Canadian

Birth Date: March 30, 1968

Birth Place: Charlemagne, Quebec, Canada

Profession: musician

Husband/Wife: René Angelil (Celine Dion's manager; born on January 16, 1942;
married on December 17, 1994 in Montreal, Québec, Canada)

Father: Adhemar Dion

Mother: Therese Tanguay

Sister: Pauline, Manon, Linda, Ghislaine, Louise, Liette, Claudette, Clement,
Denise

Brother: Paul, Daniel, Jacques, Michel

Son: Rene-Charles Angelil (born on January 25, 2001 through in vitro fertilization in Florida)

Step son: Patrick Angelil

Claim to fame: The Single Where Does My Heart Beat Now (1991)

Celine Dion Biography

Céline 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, Québec, Dion emerged as a teen star in the French-speaking world after her manager and future husband René Angélil 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 more than 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 to 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 more than 200 million albums worldwide.

The youngest of fourteen children born to Adhémar Dion and Thérèse Tanguay, Céline 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."