Incognito, an LP recorded that year, sold over 200,000 copies in Quebec. Dion began to sing music with very upbeat rhythms for young audiences, winning in 1987 the Eurovision prizeįor 'Ne partez pas sans moi,' and selling 200 000 copies of that single in Europe in two days. After she opened for Patrick Sébastien at the Olympia in Paris, she toured 15 Quebec towns.Īt 18, weary of her good-girl image, Céline Dion disappeared for a year and a half, and reappeared sporting short hair and tight sequinned dresses. Shortly thereafter, she was selected by the Quebec clergy to represent young people during the Pope's visit and sing 'Une colombe' beforeĦ5,000 youngsters in Montreal's Olympic Stadium. On 28 and 29 July 1984, she sang before a public of 40,000 at the Old Port in Quebec City. Also in 1983, she won several Félix awards, including those as best female performer andĭiscovery of the year. She was the star of a TV special on CBC's Les Beaux Dimanches. Of school at age 15 to concentrate on her career. In May, she performed with the Orchestre métropolitain at Place des Arts, before embarking on a recital tour throughout Quebec, in addition to receiving a gold record in France for her recording of 'D'amour ou d'amitié' (over 500,000 copies sold). The following year, she represented Canada at the MIDEM (International Music Market) in Cannes, and she sang on the program Champs-Élysées. In 1982, she took part in the Tokyo Song Festival with 'Tellement j'ai d'amour pour toi,' and won the musicians' prizeĪs well as a gold medal. Very quickly, her extraordinary voice and her simplicity conquered the province of Quebec, and her career experienced a meteoric rise. Angélil became Dion's first and only manager. 'La Voix du Bon Dieu,' and supervised the recording of Céline Dion's first single. Favourably impressed, Angélil (b 1942) commissioned French lyricist Eddy Marnay to write Her mother wrote her first song, 'Ce n'était qu'un rêve,' and sent a recording to René Angélil, then Ginette Reno's impresario. The last of 14 children (most of them active in show business), she sang the songs of Ginette Reno at seven at her parents' restaurant. Her mother was a violinist, and her father, an accordionist. Singer, actress, b Charlemagne, near Montreal, hon D MUS (Laval) 2008.

Celine dion titanic violin