Also, she pursued with intention her dream of having a child. In 1999, she took a break from the music industry to take care of her husband who was diagnosed with throat cancer. 'My Heart Will Go On' was a metaphor for her successes going on, and album after album turned gold for Dion. It became the world's best-selling single in 1998 and went on to become one of the biggest hits in history. That year, it won an Academy Award for Best Original Song and swept up at the Grammy Awards winning four more awards. In 1997, Celine Dion was chosen to record 'My Heart Will Go On,' the theme song for the blockbuster movie, Titanic.

Celine Dion entered the Anglophone music market with a recording called 'Unison.' This recording paved the way to international fame bringing herįurther contracts for English recordings and collaborations with other world-class musicians such as producer, David Foster. At eighteen, after seeing a Michael Jackson performance, she told Angelil that she wanted to become a star like Jackson.įollowing her dream, Dion underwent a series of cosmetic alterations to improve her appearance and began an intensive program of learning English.īy 1990, her English had improved to fluency. When Dion was fourteen, she collaborated with her mother and brother in composing and recording her first song: 'It Was Only A Dream.' The recording was sent to a music manager, Rene Angelil who was so moved by the quality of Dion's voice, he mortgaged his house to finance her first record, 'The Voice of God.' It became an instant hit in Quebec.

In the small town of Charlemagne, Quebec, the Dions owned a small piano bar called Le Vieux Baril where the large family grew up singing and making merriment in Quebec-style. Songwriters: James Horner and Will Jenningsĭate released: 1997 by Celine Dion for the theme of the blockbuster movie, 'Titanic'īorn in 1968 the youngest in a poverty-stricken family of fourteen children, Celine Dion's is a true story of rags to riches.

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