
Music had always been a major part of the Dion family, and she was named after the song "Céline", which French singer Hugues Aufray had recorded two years before her birth. She was raised a Roman Catholic in a poor but, by her own account, happy home in Charlemagne. Life and career 1968–1989: Early life and career beginningsĭion was born in Charlemagne, Quebec, 24 kilometres (15 mi) northeast of Montreal, the youngest of 14 children of Thérèse (née Tanguay, 1927–2020), a homemaker, and Adhémar Dion (1923–2003), a butcher, both of French-Canadian descent.


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She also scored a series of international number-one hits, including " The Power of Love", " Think Twice", " Because You Loved Me", " It's All Coming Back to Me Now", " My Heart Will Go On", and " I'm Your Angel". Her recordings since have been mainly in English and French although she has also sung in Spanish, Italian, German, Latin, Japanese, and Chinese.ĭuring the 1990s, she achieved worldwide fame after releasing several best-selling English-language albums in music history, such as Falling into You (1996) and Let's Talk About Love (1997), which were both certified diamond in the US and over 30 million sales worldwide each. In 1990, Dion released her debut English-language album, Unison, establishing herself as a viable pop artist in North America and other English-speaking areas of the world. After learning to speak English, she signed on to Epic Records in the United States. She first gained international recognition by winning both the 1982 Yamaha World Popular Song Festival and the 1988 Eurovision Song Contest, where she represented Switzerland. Her music has incorporated genres such as pop, rock, R&B, gospel, and classical music.īorn into a large family from Charlemagne, Quebec, she emerged as a teen star in her home country with a series of French-language albums during the 1980s.

Dion is the best-selling Canadian recording artist, and the best-selling French language artist of all time.

She is noted for her powerful and technically skilled vocals. Céline Marie Claudette Dion CC OQ ( / s eɪ ˌ l iː n d i ˈ ɒ n/ born 30 March 1968) is a Canadian singer.
