111 Facts About Celine Dion

Celine Marie Claudette Dion was born on 30 March 1968 and is a Canadian singer.

Celine Dion gained international recognition by winning the 1988 Eurovision Song Contest, where she represented Switzerland with the song "Ne partez pas sans moi".

Celine Dion went on to release twelve English-language albums, including The Colour of My Love, Falling into You, Let's Talk About Love, and All the Way.

Celine Dion continued releasing French-language albums between each English record, with D'eux becoming the best-selling French-language album of all time.

In 2022, Celine Dion canceled her tour due to a diagnosis with stiff-person syndrome.

Celine Dion's accolades include 5 Grammy Awards, 20 Juno Awards and a recognition from the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry for selling over 50 million albums in Europe.

Celine Dion was ranked among the greatest women in music by VH1 and the greatest voices in music by MTV.

Celine Dion is one of the highest-grossing touring artists in history and the second woman to accumulate US$1 billion in concert revenue.

Celine Dion received honorary doctorates in music from the Berklee College of Music and the.

Celine Dion was bullied at school and called "Vampire" due to her teeth and skinny frame.

Celine Dion often spoke of running home from school to play music in the basement with her brothers and sisters.

Celine Dion was raised a Roman Catholic in a poor but, by her own account, happy home in Charlemagne.

Celine Dion continued to perform with her siblings in her parents' small piano bar called Le Vieux Baril, "The Old Barrel".

Celine Dion suffered a number of accidents as a young child, including an incident at five years old when she was struck by a car as her father and brother Clement looked on.

At age 18, after seeing a Michael Jackson performance, Celine Dion told Angelil she wanted to be a star like Jackson.

Celine Dion withdrew from the spotlight for a number of months, during which she underwent dental surgery to improve her appearance, and was sent to the Ecole Berlitz in 1989 to improve her English.

Celine Dion consulted the otorhinolaryngologist William Gould, who gave her an ultimatum: have immediate surgery on her vocal cords or do not utilize them at all for three weeks.

Celine Dion chose the latter and underwent vocal training with William Riley.

Two years after she learned English, Celine Dion made her debut into the Anglophone market with Unison, the lead single having originally been recorded by English singer Junior in 1983 and later Laura Branigan.

Celine Dion incorporated the help of producers including Vito Luprano and David Foster.

In 1991, Celine Dion was a featured soloist on "Voices That Care", a tribute to American troops fighting in Operation Desert Storm.

Also during this time, Celine Dion released the Francophone album Celine Dion chante Plamondon.

Celine Dion had achieved one of her main objectives: wedging her way into the Anglophone market and achieving fame.

In 1993, Celine Dion announced her feelings for her manager by declaring him "the colour of [her] love" in the dedication section of her third English-language album The Colour of My Love.

Celine Dion kept to her French roots and continued to release many Francophone recordings between each English record.

Celine Dion released A l'Olympia, a live album recorded during one of her concerts at the Paris Olympia in 1994.

Celine Dion recorded a bilingual version of "Petit Papa Noel" with Alvin and the Chipmunks for the 1994 holiday album A Very Merry Chipmunk.

Celine Dion collaborated with writers and producers such as Jim Steinman and David Foster, who helped her to develop a signature sound.

Celine Dion followed Falling into You with Let's Talk About Love, which was publicized as its sequel.

Horner and Jennings won the Academy Award and Golden Globe for Best Original Song, while Celine Dion herself garnered two Grammy Awards for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance and the most coveted, Record of the Year,.

Celine Dion ended the 1990s with three more extremely successful albums: the Christmas album These Are Special Times, the French-language album, S'il suffisait d'aimer, and the compilation album All the Way.

Celine 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 advertising deal was met with criticism, with some stating Celine Dion was trying to cater to her sponsors.

Celine Dion recruited Jean-Jacques Goldman, Gildas Arzel, Eric Benzi, and Jacques Veneruso, with whom she had previously worked on two of her best-selling French albums S'il suffisait d'aimer and D'eux.

Stephen Thomas Erlewine wrote Celine Dion's vocals were "back at top of their game" and she was "getting back to pop basics and performing at a level unheard in a while".

In early 2002, Celine Dion announced a three-year, 600-show contract to appear five nights a week in an entertainment extravaganza, A New Day.

Celine Dion conceived the show after seeing O by Franco Dragone during her break from recording, and it premiered on 25 March 2003, in a 4,000-seat arena specifically designed for her show and modelled after the Roman Colosseum.

Reviewer Mike Weatherford felt that, at first, Celine Dion was not as relaxed as she should be, and at times, it was hard to find her among the excessive stage ornamentation and dancers.

On 21 May 2007, Celine Dion released the French-language album D'elles, which debuted at the top of the Canadian album charts, selling 72,200 copies in its first week.

Celine Dion was nominated for six Juno Awards in 2008, adding to her 53 previous nominations.

Celine Dion's nominations included Artist of the Year, Pop Album of the Year, Francophone Album of the Year and Album of the Year.

On 22 August 2008, Celine Dion presented a free outdoor concert, mostly in French, on the Plains of Abraham, for the 400th anniversary of Quebec City.

On 17 February 2010, Dion released into theatres a documentary film about her Taking Chances Tour, titled, Celine: Through the Eyes of the World.

At the 52nd Grammy Awards in February 2010, Celine Dion joined Carrie Underwood, Usher, Jennifer Hudson, and Smokey Robinson to perform the song "Earth Song" during the 3-D Michael Jackson tribute.

Furthermore, in a May 2010 Harris Poll, Celine Dion was named the most popular musician in the United States, ahead of U2, Elvis Presley, and The Beatles while factoring in gender, political affiliations, geographic region of residence, and income.

Celine Dion stated the show will feature, "all the songs from my repertoire people want to hear" and will contain a selection of music from classic Hollywood films.

In 2018, Billboard stated her residency Celine Dion is the second most successful residency of all time.

Celine Dion began recording songs for her next English and French albums during April and May 2012.

Celine Dion embarked on the Sans attendre Tour in November 2013 and performed in Belgium and France.

On 13 August 2014, Celine Dion announced the indefinite postponement of all her show business activities, including her concert residency at Caesars Palace, and the cancellation of her Asia Tour, because of the worsening of her husband's health after he underwent the removal of a cancerous tumor in December 2013.

In October 2015, Celine Dion announced on social media she had begun working on a new French album, posting a photo by the side of Algerian singer Zaho.

Celine Dion performed "The Show Must Go On" at the 2016 Billboard Music Awards on 22 May, and received the Billboard Icon Award in recognition of her career spanning over three decades.

In 2016 and 2017, Celine Dion toured Europe and Canada with two sold-out concert tours.

Celine Dion recorded "How Does a Moment Last Forever" for the Beauty and the Beast: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, released in March 2017.

Celine Dion then started working on a new English album.

Celine Dion announced a new English-language album of the same name, released in November 2019.

Thanks to Courage, Celine Dion has collected number-one albums in each of the last three decades, being the fourth woman to achieve the feat after Janet Jackson, Barbra Streisand and Britney Spears.

On 26 February 2020, Celine Dion released two songs as exclusive Spotify singles: an acoustic version of Imperfections, and a cover of Chris Isaak's "Wicked Game".

On 10 June 2020, Celine Dion announced her Courage World Tour will kick off again in 2021, after the tour was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Celine Dion contributed vocals to the song "Superwoman" on Diane Warren's 2021 album Diane Warren: The Cave Sessions Vol.

On 15 January 2022, Celine Dion canceled her North American tour dates because of severe muscle spasms.

Celine Dion said the disease affected every aspect of her life, making it difficult to walk, and affected her vocal cords.

In 2023, Celine Dion starred as herself in Love Again, her first acting appearance in a feature film.

On 26 July, Celine Dion sang "Hymne a l'amour" from the Eiffel Tower to conclude the 2024 Summer Olympics opening ceremony.

Celine Dion cites idols as varied as Michael Jackson, Aretha Franklin, Charles Aznavour, Carole King, Anne Murray, Barbra Streisand, Whitney Houston and the Bee Gees.

Celine 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.

Occasionally, Celine Dion has contributed to the writing of a handful of her English and French songs, as well as writing a few songs for other artists such as Marc Dupre.

Celine Dion is often the subject of media ridicule and parody and is frequently impersonated on shows such as MADtv, Saturday Night Live, South Park, Royal Canadian Air Farce, and This Hour Has 22 Minutes for her strong accent and onstage gesticulations.

Celine Dion even invited Ana Gasteyer, who parodied her on SNL, to appear onstage during one of her performances in New York City.

In discussions of opera projects, Celine Dion said she was a mezzo-soprano.

Kent Nagano, maestro of the Munich Symphony Orchestra, remarked, "All you just sang was soprano", after Celine Dion auditioned with two solos from Carmen, wanting to know if she could sing opera.

Celine Dion is often compared to Houston and Carey for her vocal style, and to her idol Barbra Streisand for her voice.

Celine Dion can deliver tricky melismas, produce expressive vocal catches and sustain long notes without the tiniest wavering of pitch.

Celine Dion is credited for introducing Francophone music to many non-Francophone countries around the globe.

Celine Dion signed a $100 million contract for a residency in Vegas, which is considered one of the most lucrative and risky residency contracts in the touring industry.

Celine Dion is popularly referred as the reigning "Queen of Las Vegas" by various media outlets for her impact and legacy in the city.

Celine Dion has received various acclaims from fashion critics for reinventing her fashion style over the years.

Since her career's inception in 1981, Celine Dion has been cited as an influence by various music artists all over the world, as well as one of the greaest vocalists of all-time.

Celine Dion has been the subject of various tribute projects around the world, including a jukebox musical Titanique, which is a retelling of the events from the 1997 film Titanic from the perspective of Celine Dion, and a musical comedy biopic titled Aline.

Celine Dion has been the subject of numerous drag queens in their performance, and she has been referenced in music and films.

Celine Dion has received hundreds of accolades throughout her career, making her one of the most-awarded artists in popular music.

Celine Dion has won seven American Music Awards, nine Billboard Music Awards, fifty Felix Awards, five Grammy Awards, four Guinness World Records, twenty Juno Awards and twelve World Music Awards.

Celine Dion holds the Guinness World Record for the most Juno Awards won for Album Of The Year.

Celine Dion won 3 out of the 13 nominations she received in the category throughout her career.

Celine Dion has won the American Music Award for Favorite Adult Contemporary Artist four times from six nominations, the most of any artist.

Celine Dion has received two honorary doctorate degrees in music from Universite Laval and Berklee College of Music.

Celine Dion was presented with the Legion of Honour by former French president Nicolas Sarkozy in 2008 and was elevated to the Companion of the Order of Canada in 2013 by the governor general of Canada, David Johnston for her cultural contributions.

Celine Dion is the best-selling Canadian recording artist, the best-selling French-language artist and one of the best-selling music artists in history, with record sales exceeding 200 million worldwide.

Celine Dion has scored 16 number-one albums in Canada, six of which have been certified diamond, the most by any artist.

In France, Celine Dion has scored six diamond albums, including D'eux which is the best-selling French-language album in history, spending an all-time record of 44 weeks atop the French Albums chart.

Celine Dion is the second best-selling female album artist in the Neilsen Soundscan era with album sales of 53.2 million.

Celine Dion is the sixth most successful female artist in Billboard 200 chart history.

Celine Dion was the highest-grossing solo live music artist in North America of the 2000s with US$522.2 million.

Celine Dion is the highest-grossing residency act in history, earning a combined US$681 million from two of her residency shows A New Day.

Celine Dion became an entrepreneur with the establishment of her franchise restaurant Nickels in 1990.

Celine Dion has since divested her interests in the chain and is no longer affiliated with Nickels, as of 1997.

Celine Dion has promoted the Canadian Cystic Fibrosis Foundation since 1982, and became the foundation's National Celebrity Patron in 1993.

Celine Dion has an emotional attachment to the foundation; her niece Karine died from the disease at the age of sixteen, in Dion's arms.

Celine Dion is a member of Canadian charity Artists Against Racism.

In 2009, Celine Dion joined an effort with Leonardo DiCaprio, James Cameron and Kate Winslet to donate money to support the nursing home fees of the then-last living survivor of the sinking of the Titanic, Millvina Dean.

The romance was known to only family and friends for five years, though Celine Dion nearly revealed it in a tearful 1992 interview with journalist Lise Payette.

In May 2000, Celine Dion had two small operations at a fertility clinic in New York to improve her chances of conceiving, after deciding to use in vitro fertilization because of years of failed attempts to conceive.

In May 2010, Celine Dion announced that she was 14 weeks pregnant with twins after a sixth treatment of in vitro fertilization.

Celine Dion's funeral was held on 22 January 2016, in Notre-Dame Basilica in Montreal, where he and Dion wed 21 years earlier.

Celine Dion took up ballet under the guidance of her former dancer, Naomi Stikeman, who previously performed for The National Ballet of Canada and La La La Human Steps, and former Cirque du Soleil dancer-turned-fashion-illustrator, Pepe Munoz, who is part of her styling team.

Celine Dion is a skier and a regular at her son Rene-Charles' hockey games.

In December 2022, Celine Dion disclosed that she had been diagnosed with stiff-person syndrome, a neurological disorder affecting her muscles.

In June 2024, Celine Dion publicly disclosed in a People magazine cover story that she had struggled with a variety of mysterious symptoms for 17 years before her August 2022 diagnosis.

In 2023, Celine Dion sold her Summerlin, Nevada house for US$30 million.

Celine Dion previously owned a home on a private island in Montreal, which she sold for US$25.5 million in 2019.

In 2017, Celine Dion sold her Jupiter Island, Florida home for US$38.5 million After the death of her mother in 2020, Celine Dion listed her mother's Laval home for US$1.785 million.