Celine Dion

Céline Dion is a Canadian singer who has sold more than two hundred million records worldwide, making her one of the best-selling music artists of all time. Her recording of My Heart Will Go On, the love theme from the 1997 film Titanic, won the Academy Award for Best Original Song and Grammys for Record of the Year and Song of the Year.

Born on March 30, 1968, in Charlemagne, Quebec, Céline Marie Claudette Dion is the youngest of fourteen children of Adhémar Dion, a butcher, and Thérèse Tanguay, a homemaker. The family ran a small piano bar called Le Vieux Baril in Charlemagne where Céline began performing at age five. Her mother and brother sent a demo tape to manager René Angélil in 1980, and Angélil mortgaged his house to finance her first French-language album.

She released her first record La voix du bon Dieu in 1981 at age thirteen and won the Yamaha World Popular Song Festival in Tokyo the following year and the Eurovision Song Contest for Switzerland in 1988.

Dion crossed into English-language pop with Unison in 1990 and topped the Billboard 200 with Falling into You in 1996 and Let's Talk About Love in 1997. She married Angélil in 1994 and they had three sons before his death in 2016. Her Las Vegas Colosseum residency at Caesars Palace ran from 2003 to 2019. In December 2022 she disclosed a diagnosis of stiff person syndrome and suspended touring.

Her name Céline derives from the Latin name Caelina, meaning heavenly. Céline is a common feminine name in French-speaking countries.