Celine Dion Biography
Get to know Celine Dion
Who is Celine Dion
Céline Marie Claudette Dion CC OQ (born 30 March 1968) is a French Canadian singer. Noted for her powerful and technically skilled vocals, Dion is the best-selling Canadian recording artist, and the best-selling French-language artist of all time. Her music has incorporated genres such as pop, rock, R&B, gospel, and classical music. Born 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. 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. After learning to speak English, she signed on to Epic Records in the United States. 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. Her recordings since have been mainly in English and French although she has also sung in Spanish, Italian, German, Latin, Japanese, and Chinese.
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Her Life & Career
1968–1989: Early life and career beginnings
1990–1992: Unison, Dion chante Plamondon, and Celine Dion
1993–1995: The Colour of My Love and D'eux 1996–1999: Falling into You, Let's Talk About Love, and S'il suffisait d'aimer
2000–2003: Hiatus, A New Day Has Come, One Heart, and 1 fille & 4 types
2003–2007: A New Day... 2007–2010: D'elles, Taking Chances, and Taking Chances Tour
2011–2014: Celine, Sans attendre, and Loved Me Back to Life
2014–present: Husband's death, Encore un soir, Courage, and return to Vegas
Her Musical Style
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." Her francophone releases, by contrast, tend to be deeper and more varied than her English releases, and consequently have achieved more credibility.
