Celine Dion Essay

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Celine Dion, the youngest of 14 children, was born on March 30th, 1968 in

Charlemagne, Quebec, Canada. Charlemagne is on the north shore of the St.

Lawrence River, on the east end of the Montreal Island. Celine Dion began

singing in her parents' piano bar when she was just five years old. By the age of

12 she had written one of her first songs, "Ce N'etait Qu'un Rêve" ("It Was Only a

Dream"), which she recorded with the help of her mother and brother and shipped

off to a manager named Rene Angelil, whose name they found on the back of an

album by Ginette Reno, a popular Francophone singer. After weeks with no

response from Angelil,

Celine's brother Michel phoned him and said, "I know you haven't listened to the

tape, because if you had, you would've called right away." Angelil dug up the tape and called the family back the same day to set up a meeting with Celine. When the
12-year-old performed in his office in Montreal, Angelil cried and set in motion

the process of making her a Quebecois, and later international star. He mortgaged

his house to pay for her first two albums, producing a local number one single. In

1983 she became the first Canadian to have a gold record in France and she won a

gold medal at the Yamaha songwriting competition in Japan. Her worldwide

reputation was in the making, but success in the United States was not yet

forthcoming.

When Celine Dion has just turned 18, she saw Michael Jackson performing on

stage, and at that moment she decided she wanted to be a star. Celine told Angelil

about her desire and Angelil’s response was