The Legend Of Celine Dion

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Born on March 30, 1968, in Charlemagne, Québec, Canada, Celine Dion is a living legend of the French-speaking country. Raised in a very humble but modest home, Dion was the 14th child of Thérèse Tanguay and Adhémar Dion. From her early school days, Celine was the first one on the list to sign up for any concerts near her home. She had the same fondness toward music as her family did and with time, she will soon grow to become an exceptional artist, now owner of five Grammys and the first Canadian to be awarded a gold album in France. Her dream of becoming a performer was in process and thanks to her mother’s insight and loving support, she wrote her first song when she was only 12 years old. A mother’s desire to see her daughter’s happiness went far and beyond when she mailed Celine’s cassette to a …show more content…

This masterpiece became a best-selling soundtrack in history with more than 30 million copies and a special piece of her career. Although this song brought her more fame, Celine Dion had a different feeling toward this song before it became so majestically successful. According to Mickey Rapkin’s article “The Oral History of Celine Dion’s ‘My Heart Will Go On’”, a special article for 2017 Billboard Music Awards, Celine was not really excited for this song. “When I recorded it, I didn’t think about a movie; I didn’t think about radio,” she told Billboard during her interview. For Celine, it seemed like she didn’t really want to sing the song. Yet twenty years later, this song still means a lot of her fans, and in honor of twenty years of the song’s influence, she angelically performed it at the 2017 Billboard Music Awards. The song keeps the same romantic and sentimental effect throughout the years. Not only this song was created to make Titanic even more heartbreaking, but also to give Celine’s career an everlasting

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