Céline Dion

Céline Marie Claudette Dion OC, OQ (born March 30 1968 in Charlemagne, Quebec, Canada) is a Grammy, Juno and Oscar award-winning popular singer and songwriter. She became a teen star in Francophone Canada and France after her manage

Céline Marie Claudette Dion OC, OQ (born March 30 1968 in Charlemagne, Quebec, Canada) is a Grammy, Juno and Oscar award-winning popular singer and songwriter. She became a teen star in Francophone Canada and France after her manager and future husband, René Angélil, mortgaged his home to finance her career. She also gained recognition in parts of Europe and Asia by winning both the 1982 Yamaha World Song Festival and the 1988 Eurovision Song Contest. Her first English album, Unison (1990), released on Sony Records, enabled her breakthrough to the Anglophone music market.

Dion's music is influenced by various genres, ranging from Pop and Rock and Roll, to Gospel and Classical. During the late 1980s and 1990s, she released many chart-topping English and French records, her most successful being "My Heart Will Go On", the love theme to the 1997 blockbuster film Titanic. After announcing a temporary break from the spotlight in her 1999 album, All the Way... a Decade of Song, she returned to the music scene in 2002 with the album A New Day Has Come. She is currently performing nightly in her show, A New Day...Live in Las Vegas at Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, under a contract that extends to 2007.