Celine Dion Biography - Profile
Birth name: Celine Dion
Birthday: March 30, 1968
Place of birth: Charlemagne, Quebec, Canada
Nationality: Canadian
Raised in: Canada
Natural hair color: Dark Brown
Eye color: Brown
Height: 170 cm (5'7)
Nicknames:
la p'tite Quebeçoise
Education / Profession: Musician
Labels: Sony, Epic, 550 Music/Epic, Import, Columbia, Alex
Imports, Tristar
Music styles: Pop, Contemporary
Claim to fame: "Beauty and the Beast" (1991)
Awards:
> Juno Awards: 1991 (Unison - Album), 1991
(Vocalist), 1992 (Dion Chante Plamaondon - Album), 1993 (Beauty
And The Beast - Single), 1993 (Vocalist), 1993 (Love Can Move
Mountains - Mix), 1994 (Vocalist), 1995 ( Colour Of My Love -
Album), 1996 (D'EUX - Album), 1997 (Live a Paris - Album), 1997
(Vocalist), 1997 (Achievement), 1999 (Let's Talk About Love -
Album), 1999 (S'il Suffisait D'Aimer - Album), 1999 (Let's Talk
About Love - Album), 1999 (Vocalist), 1999 (Achievement)
> BMI Pop Awards: 1998 (All by myself), 1998 (It's
all coming back to me now)
> Grammy Awards: 1992 (Beauty and the beast -
single), 1996 (Falling into you - album), 1998 (My heart will go
on - single)
> World Music Awards: 2004
> American Music Awards: 1998, 1999, 2001, 2003
How it all started:
Céline Marie Claudette Dion was born in
Charlemagne, Québec, Canada, on March 30, 1968 as the youngest
of 14 children in a catholic family of
Adhémar Dion and
Thérèse Tanguay. The
family was very musical, making their living through a small
piano bar they owned, and when Céline was only five, she was
already singing to the delighted guests on weekends with her
sibblings.
When Céline
was 12, together with her mother and her brother Jacques she
composed and recorded her first song,
"Ce n'était qu'un rêve" ("It
Was Only a Dream") that her brother Michael sent to manager René
Angélil (he found the name on the cover of a Ginette Reno
album). Angélil, who was 13 years later to become Céline’s
husband, was so moved by the song and the voice and mortgaged
his house to finance her first record, La voix de bon Dieu
(1981), record which immediately turned Céline Dion into a
Québec star.
International recognition soon followed, in 1982 Dion won the
Yamaha World Song Festival in Tokyo, she became the first
Canadian to receive French Gold Record in 1983, collected
numerous music awards and capped the success in an 1988
Eurovision Song Contest in Dublin, Ireland, where she won gold
for Switzerland she represented.
She was a
real star of the French speaking world, yet full acceptance by
the anglophone world was still lacking. At the age of 18,
inspired by Michael Jackson’s performance, she decided she wants
to really make it worldwide.
She
stepped back and worked hard on her English and image, finally
rocketing off her English music career in 1990 with the release
of her first English-speaking (9th altogether) album
Unison.
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1981 - La Voix Du Bon Dieu
