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Céline Marie Claudette Dion
Angélil, OC, OQ, (born March
30, 1968) is a Canadian Grammy
and Juno award winning pop
singer and occasional
songwriter. Born to a large,
impoverished family in
Charlemagne, Quebec, Dion
became a young star in
francophone Canada after her
manager and future husband,
René Angélil, mortgaged his
home to finance her first
record. She later gained
recognition in parts of Europe
and Asia after she won both the
1982 Yamaha World Popular Song
Festival and the 1988
Eurovision Song Contest.
In 1990 Dion made her English
language debut with the
anglophone album Unison,
published by Epic Records.
During the 1990's, under the
guidance of her husband, she
achieved worldwide fame and
success with several English
and French records, and ended
the decade as one of the most
successful artists in pop
music. After releasing over
twenty-five albums during the
1980s and 1990s, Dion announced
in 1999 that she was taking a
break from entertainment in
order to start a family and to
focus on her husband/manager,
who had been diagnosed with
throat cancer. She returned to
the music scene in 2002 with a
more mature, exclusively adult
contemporary, sound, but her
album sales suffered a decline,
and she signed a lucrative
four-year contract to perform
nightly in a five-star
theatrical show at the
Colosseum at Caesars Palace,
Las Vegas.
Dion's music has been
influenced by various genres,
which range from pop and rock
to gospel and classical, and
while her releases have often
been given mixed critical
reception, she is renowned for
her technically skilled and
powerful vocals. In 2004, after
accumulating record sales in
excess of 175 million, she was
presented with the Chopard
Diamond Award from the World
Music Awards show for becoming
the Best-selling Female Artist
in the World.
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