Summary
The youngest of 14 children, Celine Dion grew up performing in her parents' club in a small town outside Montreal, Quebec, Canada. At age 12, she compiled a demo tape, which caught the attention of René Angélil, a manager who later mortgaged his house to finance her first album. Though she garnered local fame and international awards for her music, she performed mostly in French. Household name status would only come once she made the crossover to English-language music. Though she first broke onto the U.S. charts with the single "Where Does My Heart Beat Now," her star rose with the release of "Beauty and the Beast," the single that accompanied the Disney animated film of the same name. Other successes followed, including "Because You Loved Me" and "It's All Coming Back to Me Now." But her fame reached its fever pitch with the release of "My Heart Will Go On," the theme to the unprecedented blockbuster movie Titanic. The song, forever linked with Dion's soaring vocals, won a Grammy and an Academy Award. But Dion did not mark success only with awards. Married since 1994, Angélil and Dion welcomed son René-Charles in 2001 and twins Nelson and Eddy in 2010. With family as her focus, Dion has recently begun her second stint singing exclusively at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, Nevada. In Celine Dion, discover how this sultry songstress has belted out these tunes for so many years.