Céline Dion

Céline Dion is a Canadian singer, entrepreneur and philanthropist from Charlemagne, Canada. She is known for her vocal range and technical ability, and builds a career across both French-language and English-language pop. She is among the best-selling recording artists of all time, with worldwide sales estimated at more than 200 million records, and is the best-selling Canadian and French-language artist.

Early life and French-language career

Born in 1968 into a large family in Charlemagne, Quebec, Dion is managed from an early age by René Angélil, whom she later marries. During the 1980s she releases eight French-language albums and becomes a prominent teen performer in Canada. Her French-language recording career continues alongside her English-language work, and the album D'eux becomes the best-selling French-language album of all time.

International breakthrough

Dion gains wider attention after representing Switzerland and winning the Eurovision Song Contest in 1988 with “Ne partez pas sans moi”. She then establishes a major English-language career, releasing twelve English-language studio albums. Her notable albums include The Colour of My Love, Falling into You, Let's Talk About Love and All the Way... A Decade of Song, each of which ranks among the best-selling albums worldwide.

Recordings, touring and residency work

Her catalogue includes major singles such as “Beauty and the Beast”, “The Power of Love”, “Think Twice”, “To Love You More”, “Because You Loved Me”, “It's All Coming Back to Me Now”, “All by Myself”, “I'm Your Angel”, “That's the Way It Is”, “I'm Alive” and “My Heart Will Go On”. The last of these is the theme song for the film Titanic and becomes one of the best-selling singles by a female artist. Dion is also recognised as a live performer: Let's Talk About Love World Tour and Taking Chances World Tour rank among the highest-grossing tours of their decades, and her Las Vegas residency A New Day... becomes the highest-grossing concert residency at the time.

Awards and recognition

Dion receives numerous awards, including five Grammy Awards and twenty Juno Awards. Seven of her albums sell at least ten million copies worldwide. She appears on Forbes lists of the highest-paid female musicians, is ranked by media outlets such as VH1 and MTV among prominent women and vocalists in popular music, and accumulates more than US$1 billion in concert revenue.

Honours and later career

She receives honorary doctorates in music from Berklee College of Music and Université Laval. Dion is appointed to the Order of Canada at the rank of Companion and receives the Legion of Honour in France. In 2022, she cancels the remaining dates of her Courage World Tour after a diagnosis of stiff-person syndrome.