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    Celine Dion Biography, Life and Career
    Celine Dion Biography, Life and Career
    Celine Dion Biography, Life and Career
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    Celine Dion Biography, Life and Career

    By Diana Atkinson

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    Celine Dion is a Canadian singer, actress, songwriter, and entrepreneur. Dion is known for her powerful, technically skilled vocals. As a child Celine Dion dreamed of being a performer, emerging as a teen star in the French-speaking world after Rene Angelil, her manager and future husband, mortgaged his home in order to finance her first record. In the 1990s Dion achieved worldwide fame after signing with Epic Records, becoming one of the most successful artists in pop music history. Dion's international breakthrough began in 1991 with Disney's animated film Beauty and the Beast when she duetted with Peabo Bryson on the title track of the film. Between 2000 and 2010 Celine Dion was the highest grossing entertainer in the world. When you add up ticket sales, record sales, merchandise and every other source of income, Celine grossed over $720 million! Of that amount $500 million came from worldwide ticket sales. Of that $500 million, $350 million came from her Las Vegas show alone.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherXinXii
    Release dateMay 29, 2014
    ISBN9781304922069
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      Canadian Star

      Celine Marie Claudette Dion was born in Charlemagne, Quebec, Canada. The youngest of 14 children of Adhemar and Therese Dion, she grew up in a close-knit musical family. Her parents formed a singing group, Dion's Family, and they toured Canada when Celine was still an infant. They later opened a piano bar, where the 5-year-old Celine would perform to the delight of customers.

      At the age of 12, Celine Dion recorded a demo tape of a song she had written with her mother. They sent the tape to the manager and producer Rene Angelil, who handled the career of popular French singer Ginette Reno. After hearing the tape and inviting Dion to perform for him in person, Angelil signed her immediately under the condition that he would have complete control over her career. He mortgaged his own home to finance her debut album, La Voix du bon Dieu (The Voice of God).

      By the age of 18, Dion had recorded nine French albums and won numerous Felix and Juno awards (the Canadian equivalent of a Grammy Award). In 1988, she won the Eurovision Song Contest in Dublin, Ireland, and her performance was broadcast live in countries throughout Europe, the Middle East, Australia and Japan. After this taste of international acclaim, she began looking to the south, and American stardom.

      Dion recorded her first English language album, Unison, in 1990. Like most of her English language albums, it was collaboration with the songwriter-arranger-musician David Foster. Driven by the Top 5 single Where Does My Heart Beat Now, Unison sold more than 1 million copies worldwide.

      Dion's real breakthrough into pop music stardom came in 1992, when she recorded the theme to Disney's hit

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