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A short Article about Celine Dione
- Subject: A short Article about Celine Dione
- From: Rangoonp@xxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 19:00:00
Subject: A short Article about Celine Dione and Burma from E! Online
The diva dishes on Motown, her May-December marriage and "Yo, mama, yo"
by Phillip Zonkel
You think people would've had enough
of silly love songs, but when
schmaltz queen Celine Dion talks
about love, her fans just gobble it
up.
The biggest Canadian export since
Wayne Gretzky, Dion has racked up
sales of 50 million albums and
captured three
Grammys...so far.
And if you haven't
heard "My Heart
Will Go On"--her
ubiquitous
chart-topping
Titanic love
theme--you haven't
been living on this
planet.
Surprised by her
mega success? Dion isn't. The
30-year-old Montreal native with the
five-octave soprano has been
dreaming of, and working toward,
this moment since she was a child.
The youngest of 14 children in a
family of performers, Dion started
singing professionally at 12. That's
when she met manager Rene Angelil,
who mortgaged his house to finance
her debut album. (It was a hit,
naturally.)
In 1990, Dion released her first
English-language album, Unison, and
that hit (go figure) proved her
place in the U.S. and worldwide
market. As her career grew, so did
the feelings between her and
Angelil. They began dating when she
was 20 and, after a six-year
courtship, married in 1994.
Today, Dion is arguably the top pop
performer in the world, and she gets
to reinforce that status with her
Let's Talk About Love tour of North
America, which kicked off August 21
in Boston.
Although tour sponsor Ericsson,
which has ties to the Myanmar
government, drew protesters on
opening night, the shows will go
on...well into 1999.