Celine Dion Dion was born in Charlemagne, Québec, Canada, the youngest of 14 children of a homemaker, and Adhémar Dion, a butcher, both of French-Canadian descent. 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 On 13 August 1973 the young Céline made her first public appearance at her brother Michel’s wedding, where she performed Christine Charbonneau’s song Du fil des aiguilles et du coton. Thereafter, she continued to perform 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. Dion ended her three-year sabbatical from the music industry with the aptly titled album A New Day Has Come, released in March 2002. The album was Dion’s most personal yet, with songs focusing on her motherhood and maturation as a woman such as «A New Day Has Come», and «Goodbye’s (The Saddest Word)». She stated: «becoming a mother makes you a grown-up. On 21 May 2007, Dion released the French-language album D’elles (About Them), which debuted at the top of the Canadian album charts, selling 72,200 copies in its first week. It marked her tenth number-one album in the SoundScan era, and her eighth to debut at the top position. In Canada, the album has been certified 2× platinum, and within the first month had already shipped half a million units worldwide. D’Elles also reached No. 1 in France and Belgium. Dion has faced considerable criticism from critics, who state that her music often retreats behind pop and soul conventions, and is marked by excessive sentimentality. According to Keith Harris of Rolling Stone magazine, «[Dion’s] sentimentality is bombastic and defiant rather than demure and retiring….[she] stands at the end of the chain of drastic devolution that goes Aretha-Whitney-Mariah. Far from being an aberration, Dion actually stands as a symbol of a certain kind of pop sensibility—bigger is better, too much is never enough, and the riper the emotion the more true Dion’s francophone releases, by contrast, tend to be deeper and more varied than her English releases, and consequently have achieved more credibility. Celine Dion is regarded as one of pop music’s most influential voices. Height – 1.71 m
In my opinion she is a very good singer in my life . I sing her songs and get energy of it . In her songs she is putting her all life singing perfect and I am enjoying every her songs lyrics and songs melody . there are so deep emotions that I can`t express . She is one and perfect .
Hovsep Abrahamyan 