Céline Dion Net Worth, Biography And Health

Céline Marie Claudette Dion was born on March 30, 1968 and she is a Canadian singer. 

Céline Dion Biography

Dion was born in Charlemagne, Quebec, 24 kilometers northeast of Montreal, the youngest of 14 children born to Thérèse (born Tanguay, 1927-2020), a homemaker, and Adhémar Dion (1923-2003), butcher, both of French-Canadian descent.  She was raised Catholic in a poor but, by her own account, happy home in Charlemagne. 

Music had always been an important part of the Dion family, and she was named after her from the song “Céline”, which French singer Hugues Aufray had recorded two years before Dion’s birth. 

On August 13, 1973, at the age of five, young Céline made her first public appearance at her brother Michel’s wedding, where she performed the Christine Charbonneau song “Du fil, des aiguilles et du coton”. 

She continued to perform with her brothers at her parents’ small piano bar called Le Vieux Baril , “The Old Barrel”. From an early age, she had dreamed of being a performer. 

In an interview with People magazine , she was recalling, “I missed my family and home, but I don’t regret losing my adolescence. I had a dream: I wanted to be a singer.” 

As a child in Quebec, she was participating in Girl Guide programs as a member of the Girl Guides of Canada. 

At age 12, she was collaborating with his mother and brother Jacques to write and compose his first song, “Ce n’était qu’un rêve”, whose title translates as “It was just a dream” or “Nothing but a dream sleep”. 

Her brother Michel de Ella was sending the recording to music manager, whose name she was discovering on the back of a Ginette Reno album. Angélil was moving to tears by Dion’s voice and decided to make her a star.

In 1981, she was mortgaging her house to finance her first album, La voix du bon Dieu , which later became a local number one hit and made her an instant star in Quebec.

Her popularity was spreding to other parts of the world when she was competing at the 1982 Yamaha World Popular Song Festival in Tokyo, Japan, and she was winning the award from musician to “Best Artist”, as well as the gold medal for “Best Song” with “Tellement j’ai d’amour pour toi”.

Céline Dion Filmography

• Touched by an angel
• The babysitter
• All my kids
• Celine’s Rage
• Flowers on the snow
• Quest for Camelot as Juliana (singing voice)
• Celine on the Plains
• Celine: through the eyes of the world
• On the Marsupilami’s trail
• Hell’s kitchen
• Muppets Most Wanted

Céline Dion Health

At 53, the singer of My heart will go on has regretted having to change some events due to serious muscle spasms that prevent her from carrying out the high volume of work with total normality. 

For this reason, Celine Dion has had no choice but to make the decision to postpone her tour of Europe from 2022 to 2023.

Céline Dion Career

She is known for his powerful and technically skilled voice, and remains the best-selling Canadian artist and one of the best-selling artists of all time with record sales of over 200 million worldwide. 

Born into a large family in Charlemagne, Quebec, emerged as a teen star in his home country with a string of French-language albums during the 1980s.

She first gained international recognition by winning the 1982 Yamaha World Popular Song Festival and the 1982 Eurovision Song Contest 1988 , where she represented Switzerland . 

After learning to speak English, she signed up with Epic Records in the U.S. In 1990, she released her debut album in English, Unison , establishing herself as a viable pop artist in North America and other English-speaking areas of the world.

During the 1990s, she rose to worldwide fame after releasing several best-selling English-language albums including Falling into You (1996) and Let’s Talk About Love (1997), both of which were certified diamonds in the US.

She also earned a number of number one international hits, including “The Power of Love”, “Think Twice”, “Because You Loved Me”, “It’s All Coming Back to Me Now”, “My Heart Will Go On”, and “I’m Your Angel”. 

Dion continued to release French albums between each English record; D’ eux (1995) became the best-selling French album of all time, while S’il suffisait d’aimer (1998),(2016) were certified diamonds in France. 

During the 2000s, she built her reputation as a highly successful live performer with A New Day on the Las Vegas Strip (2003-2007), which remains the highest-grossing concert residency of all time, as well as Taking Chances. World Tour (2008-09), one of the highest-grossing concert tours of all time.

Dion’s music has been influenced by genres ranging from rock and R&B to gospel and classical music. Her recordings are primarily in French and English, although she has also sung in Spanish, Italian, German, Latin, Japanese, and Mandarin Chinese. 

While her releases have often received mixed critical reception, she is considered one of the most influential vocalists in pop music. She has won five Grammy Awards, including Album of the Year and Record of the Year. 

Billboard named her the “Queen of Adult Contemporary” for having the most number one songs in the radio format for a female artist.

She is the second best-selling artist women in the US during the Nielsen SoundScan era. In 2003, she has been honored by the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) for selling over 50 million albums in Europe. 

Furthermore, she was the first artist since Michael Jackson to sell 10 million albums in Europe, a feat that no artist has achieved except her. 

Céline Dion Discography

Céline Dion My Heart Will Go On

Her star power reached new heights as his song, ‘My Heart Will Go On‘ became part of the Titanic soundtrack. The song won Best Original Song at the Oscars and became part of the best-selling soundtrack in history.

While her success has faltered slightly since the early 2000s, Dion remains an extremely popular and successful recording artist. She continued to release music and has had numerous residencies in Las Vegas.

Céline Dion Dance With My Father

“Dance with My Father” is a song by Luther Vandross and it’s title was tracking to his thirteenth studio album. It has been released in May 2003 as the album’s lead single.

With Richard Marx, Vandross was writing  the song based on his personal experience. The lyrics are recalling his childhood memories with his father, who used to dance with him and his mother.

Despite the lack of promotion due in part to his hospitalization, “Dance with My Father” was becaming one of the most requested songs at the time. During the 2004 Grammy Awards, “Dance with My Father” was earning Vandross the Song of the Year and Best Male R&B Vocal Performance accolades.

Singer Celine Dion was agreeing to perform with this song.

Céline Dion Net Worth

According to Forbes , Dion’s net worth is $430 million. According to reports, most of her fortune comes from her Las Vegas show, A New Day, which began in 2003. She has earned an estimated $400 million performing about 70 times a year in Las Vegas.

Céline Dion Personal Life

She met René Angélil, her future husband and manager, in 1980, when she was 12 and he was 38, after her brother, Michel Dondalinger Dion, sent him a demo recording of “Ce n’était qu’un rêve”. (“It Was Only a Dream / Nothing But A Dream”), a song that she, her mother Thérèse, and her brother Jacques Dion had co-written. Over the next few years, Angélil guided her to stardom in Francophone territories.

In May 2000, Dion underwent two minor operations at a fertility clinic in New York to improve her chances of conceiving, after deciding to use in vitro fertilization due to years of failed attempts to conceive. Her first child, René-Charles Angélil, was born on January 25, 2001. Dion suffered a miscarriage in 2009.

In May 2010, Angélil announced that she was 14 weeks pregnant with twins after a sixth IVF treatment vitro. 

On Saturday, October 23, 2010, at 11:11 and 11:12 a.m. respectively, she gave birth to fraternal twins by cesarean section at St. Mary’s Medical Center in West Palm Beach, Florida.

The twins were named Eddy, after Dion’s favorite French composer Eddy Marnay, who had also produced her first five albums, and Nelson, after former South African President Nelson Mandela. 

She was appearing with her newborn children on the cover of the December 9, 2010, issue of the Canadian edition of Hello! magazine.