Artist: Celine Dion
Genre(s):
Vocal
Rock
Rock: Pop-Rock
Chanson
Pop
Classical
Rock: Soft Rock
Dance: Pop
Discography:
Taking Chances
Year: 2007
Tracks: 18
D'Elles
Year: 2007
Tracks: 13
1 Fille and 4 Types
Year: 2004
Tracks: 12
A New Day Has Come
Year: 2002
Tracks: 17
For You
Year: 2001
Tracks: 14
Greatest Ballads
Year: 2000
Tracks: 16
Gold
Year: 1999
Tracks: 15
All The Way... A Decade Of Son
Year: 1999
Tracks: 16
These Are Special Times
Year: 1998
Tracks: 16
S'il Suffisait D'Aimer
Year: 1998
Tracks: 12
The Reason (Maxi Single)
Year: 1997
Tracks: 3
Let's Talk About Love
Year: 1997
Tracks: 15
C'est Pour Vivre
Year: 1997
Tracks: 14
Ne Partez Pas Sans Moi
Year: 1996
Tracks: 14
A L'Olympia
Year: 1996
Tracks: 13
D'eux
Year: 1995
Tracks: 12
The Colour Of My Love
Year: 1993
Tracks: 15
Les Premieres Annees
Year: 1993
Tracks: 18
Celine Dion
Year: 1992
Tracks: 13
Dion Chante Plamondon
Year: 1991
Tracks: 10
Des Mots Qui Sonnent
Year: 1991
Tracks: 12
Unison
Year: 1990
Tracks: 10
Incognito
Year: 1987
Tracks: 8
One Heart
Year:
Tracks: 14
Miracle
Year:
Tracks: 13
Falling Into You
Year:
Tracks: 14
Best Ballads
Year:
Tracks: 16
Au Coeur Du Stade
Year:
Tracks: 11
A New Day - Live In Las Vegas
Year:
Tracks: 15
Rising from lowly beginnings in the small ithiel Town of Charlemagne, Quebec, Celine Dion became one of the biggest external stars in pop music history, merchandising more than C meg albums oecumenical. The youngest in Adhemar and Therese Dion's fellowship of 14 children, Dion grew up in an surround replete of the implicit in chaos and corporeal asceticism that comes with such a large blue-collar folk. However, the Dion house was besides one filled with love for children and music, and her parents and siblings were important figures in the early development of her telling career. Celine began telling in her parents' pianissimo bar when she was exactly basketball team days older. By the years of 12 she had written one of her number one songs, "Ce N'etait Qu'un Rêve" (It Was Only a Dream), which she recorded with the help of her mother and brother and shipped off to a manager named René Angélil, whose name they base on the support of an album by Ginette Reno, a democratic Francophone singer. After weeks with no response from Angélil, Celine's brother Michel phoned him and aforesaid, "I know you haven't listened to the tape, because if you had, you would've called right aside." Angélil dug up the tape and called the family back the same day to set up a meeting with Celine. When the 12-year-old performed in his office in Montreal, Angélil cried and rig in motion the process of making her a québécois, and later external, star. He mortgaged his house to pay for her number 1 iI albums, producing a local number one single. In 1983 she became the first Canadian to take a gold record in France and she south Korean won a gold ribbon at the Yamaha songwriting competition in Japan. Her worldwide report was in the making, merely success in the United States was not still upcoming.
When she was 18, Dion proverb Michael Jackson acting on idiot box and told Angélil that she wanted to be a star like him. Angélil's response was to order her to take on 18 months cancelled to remake her double. Dion underwent a physical shift, cutting her whisker, plucking her eyebrows, and having her dentition capped to cover up the incisors that had caused a Quebec humor magazine publisher to dub her "Canid Dion." She was too sent off to English school to gloss the speech that would help her to break into the American market. When she emerged from this march, she had made an astonishing transformation from teenager whizz to grownup chanteuse. The yield came almost immediately. Her 1990 discovery record album, Unison, was released in the U.S. by Epic Records and produced several run into songs, just it was her duet with Peabo Bryson on the subject strain of Disney's Beauty and the Beast that was her genuine breakthrough.
"Peach and the Beast" reached number unmatched on the pop charts and won both a Grammy and Academy award. The song was likewise featured on her indorsement English album, 1992's Celine Dion, which launched another Top Ten American hit with "If You Asked Me To," while spawning 2 additional Top 40 singles, "Cypher Broken But My Heart" and "Love Can Move Mountains." During this time thither were also important developments in Dion's personal life. In 1988 Angélil crossed the line from managing director to romantic partner when he kissed Dion one night later on a show up in Dublin. Fearful that fans would find the 26-year difference in their ages unsettling, the duet kept their relationship a secret for several old age. But their 1994 wedding in Montreal's Notre Dame Basilica was celebrated non solely by the 250 invited guests, merely by millions of fans world-wide.
Matchless of the hardest-working stars in register business, Dion continued to book and perform on a schedule that would kill almost people. She recorded sestet albums betwixt 1992 and 1996, when her album Dropping Into You took her to a new spirit level of stardom. The transcription was a runaway hit, taking Grammys for both Album of the Year and Best Pop Album. 1996 besides brought her another laurels; she was asked to perform at the opening ceremonies of the Atlanta Olympics. Dion's longest tenure on the pop charts would come the following year, yet, when she recorded "My Heart Will Go On," the melodic theme song for James Cameron's megahit moving-picture show Titanic. "My Heart Will Go On" became ubiquitous on the radio as Titanic fever swept the domain, and when it was featured on her album Let's Talk About Love, it helped actuate that recording to the top of the charts. By then, Dion had the force to gather a supporting cast of stars, and the album contained an astonishing collection of artists, including Barbra Streisand, Luciano Pavarotti, and the Bee Gees. The album would get ahead a host of awards and bring in Dion a unhurt modern existence of fans.
Her appearance on VH1's Divas Live special with Aretha Franklin, Gloria Estefan, Mariah Carey, and Shania Twain proven democratic as advantageously and helped solidify Dion's post among not but stream female pop up singers but historic greats like Franklin. The continuing popularity of her recordings and live performances made her 1999 sabbatical seem like a catastrophe to her fans, just Dion needful a break later more than a 10 and a half of breakneck pace. In 1999, her hubby Angélil was diagnosed with throat cancer. While the disease responded well to intervention and went into remission, the illness was a arouse call for Dion, wHO distinct to put a new stress on her family unit sprightliness and announced a temporary retirement so that she could spend more than time at home and have a kid. After undergoing fecundity treatments, she gave birth to a boy in January 2001. The Collector's Series, Vol. 1 was released during Dion's hiatus; it featured many of her favored songs, as well as a Spanish-language variant of "All by Myself."
Dion returned to the public eye in a large way in March 2002 with A New Day Has Come. The album debuted at number ane in over 17 countries, and was accompanied by a full-scale media linebacker blitzing. But Dion's sterling challenge was yet to come. Despite millions of albums sold, the worship of fans universal, and the validation of her peers, Dion's success was inactive hampered by image problems that had dour her since the days of "Canid Dion." While many Americans idolized her, but as many snickered at her québécois heritage and the relative the heterodoxy of her wedlock. There was besides the emergence of her relevancy to moneymaking audiences existent outside of her pop outspoken constituency. To fighting these issues, Dion and her management made a series of bold moves that attempted to solidify her calling and ensure its persistence as she entered her mid-thirties.
In former 2002, Dion proclaimed a three-year, 600-show condense to appear five nights a workweek in an amusement extravaganza at Caesers Palace, Las Vegas, called A New Day. The production would take place in a custom-built, 4,000-seat dramatic art and would feature Dion as the centrepiece of a multimedia program intentional and orchestrated by Franco Dragone, the Belgian dramaturgy showman behind the modern circus phenomenon Cirque du Soleil. The stick out united Dion, her label Sony Music, Dragone's production party Creations du Dragon, Caesars parent Park Place Entertainment, and promoter Concerts West in a turning point multi-million-dollar alliance that hinged on Dion's power to put fans in seating area five nights a workweek for three years. In conjunction with the rollout of A New Day was an endorsement deal with German carmaker DaimlerChryslter AG worth extra millions. The run set Dion in a series of stylish black-and-white advertisements promoting the stylish allure of Chrysler's line of upscale automobiles.
The performing artist as well recorded a brand-new song to accompany the floater. Debuting in other 2003, the run dovetailed into the March vent of One Heart, Dion's get-go album since 2001's A New Day Has Come, which in wrench heralded the opening of A New Day on March 25, 2003. That hot Las Vegas show was documented on the summer 2004 release New Day: Live in Las Vegas, which was followed a few months by and by by Miracle, a collection of family songs designed as a bicycle-built-for-two book/CD cast between Dion and photographer Anne Geddes. The two-CD compilation On Ne Change Pas appeared in 2005, featuring her most popular French-language songs and a new collaboration with the operatic pour down vocal quartet Il Divo, "I Believe in You (Je Crois en Toi)." A new French-language album, D'Elles, arrived in May 2007 and debuted at the top of the Canadian album chart. In November of that same yr, Dion released the English-language Pickings Chances and announced a tour of South Africa and Europe scheduled for 2008.
