Céline Dion

Céline Dion

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  • Let's Talk About Love
    Let's Talk About Love
    Let's Talk About Love

    After 1996’s Falling Into You became her first album to go No. 1 in the US (and no fewer than seven other countries), Celine Dion pulled out all the stops to ensure 1997’s Let’s Talk About Love was an instant blockbuster on arrival. With a list of featured collaborators that reads like an encyclopedia of 20th-century musical history—Barbra Streisand, George Martin, the Bee Gees, David Foster, even Luciano Pavarotti—the album was seemingly scientifically engineered to transform Dion from mere singing star to eternal icon. And yet, not only did Let’s Talk About Love surpass those stratospheric expectations to become one of the top-selling albums of all time, it set the unsurpassable bar for adult-contemporary opulence. Much of its legend, of course, rests upon its soaring centrepiece, “My Heart Will Go On”—aka the inescapable theme song to the film Titanic. But while the album comes fully loaded with similarly emotive soft-focus ballads, Let’s Talk About Love also proved that Dion was a diva for all occasions, flexing dancehall swagger on “Treat Her Like a Lady”, slipping into the discotheque for the house-blessed “Just a Little Bit of Love” and transporting us beachside with the sensuous Spanish serenade “Amar Haciendo El Amor”. This is the album where Celine Dion officially became Celine—a single-name shorthand for pop elegance and extravagance of the highest level.

  • Falling Into You
    Falling Into You
    Falling Into You

    Celine Dion had plenty of career momentum going into the release of 1996’s Falling Into You. The Quebec native had been a superstar in Canada since the ’80s thanks to a string of French-language albums, and she was gaining ground in the U.S. thanks to her multiplatinum 1993 English-language effort The Colour of My Love. But Falling Into You ended up becoming a bona fide global phenomenon, selling more than 30 million records worldwide and winning a GRAMMY® Award for Album of the Year. The album’s appeal largely stems from its heart-on-sleeve romanticism and Dion’s talent as a vocal interpreter. Although she’s without question a singular belter—witness the anguished wails ending a majestic, orchestrated take on Eric Carmen’s "All By Myself", or her brassy spin on the Tina Turner-popularized “River Deep, Mountain High”—her sense of dynamics is even more impeccable. For example, the Jim Steinman-penned power ballad “It’s All Coming Back to Me Now” amasses melodrama at a leisurely pace, aided by moments of tranquility—plaintive piano melodies and heavenly harmonies featuring (among others) Todd Rundgren—alternating with periodic surges of crashing chords and intense vocal emoting. Although Falling Into You’s success was accelerated by this kind of blockbuster single, the album’s range gives it endurance. Dion moves easily from upbeat pop songs—the splashy, horn-peppered soul-rocker “Declaration of Love” and the guitar- and sax-heavy “I Don’t Know”—to more delicate numbers such as the sparkling R&B ballad “Dreamin’ of You" or the Spanish guitar-driven "Call the Man”. Falling Into You rightfully catapulted Dion permanently into the soft-rock stratosphere.

  • D'eux
    D'eux
    D'eux

    Celine Dion was already an international star by 1995, when D'eux became the best-selling French language album of all time. But the best was yet to come. There is something wonderfully innocent about this release, which finds her at home in her native tongue whilst testing her vast potential as a performer. She ranges from breathy emotion to unbridled passion on "Pour Que Tu M'aimes Encore", dips into soul-shakedown mode for "Regarde-Moi" and brings freewheeling spontaneity to "Destin".

  • The Colour of My Love
    The Colour of My Love
    The Colour of My Love

    Céline Dion’s 1992 self-titled album made her a household name in English Canada; its 1993 follow-up, The Colour of My Love, made her a global icon. In fact, Dion could already stake her claim as the most captivating voice in adult-contempory pop before the first song even hits its second verse. The opening cover of Jennifer Rush’s 1984 hit “The Power of Love” counts as one of Céline’s career-defining performances, its gently quivering verses gradually giving way to a stratospheric chorus that feels like the first rays of the morning sun beaming up over the horizon. The Colour of My Love features several more showcases of Dion’s power-ballad prowess, but it also highlights her ability to coax the big emotions from a variety of different settings: On “Think Twice,” her slow-burning vocals bridge the gap between smoky soft-rock synths and fiery blues-rock guitar solos, while her sweetly amorous duet with Clive Griffin on the Sleepless in Seattle theme “When I Fall in Love” shored up her stature as pop’s reigning soundtrack queen a good five years before “My Heart Will Go On,” from Titanic, won the Oscar for Best Original Song. With over 20 million copies sold worldwide, The Colour of My Love thrust Dion to the rarefied echelon of fame that she’d inhabit for decades to come. But even as her star was rocketing skyward, the funky R&B of “Misled” and Euro-club grooves of “Refuse to Dance” betrayed a lingering desire to get down on the dance floor.

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About Céline Dion

Born in the tiny town of Charlemagne, Quebec, in 1968, Céline Dion became renowned for having one of pop’s biggest voices, full of emotion and fire on songs that examine all of love’s most stirring facets. Dion released her first album at the age of 13, showing off her budding songwriting talent and establishing herself as a francophone star in her home province. She shifted to singing in English with 1990’s Unison, and her powerful voice, which fuelled hits like the mournful “Where Does My Heart Beat Now” and the slinky “If There Was Any Other Way”, fit in perfectly with early-’90s soft-rock trends. As the decade progressed, Dion honed her blend of chart-pop slickness and unabashed romanticism, adding a dash of prog-rock pomp to the sweeping “It’s All Coming Back to Me Now”. The slow-burning “The Power of Love” and the tender “Because You Loved Me” were smashes, but “My Heart Will Go On”, the love song from the 1997 romance Titanic, left the biggest impression on pop history. A flute-aided ballad that shows off the full bloom of Dion’s voice, it exemplifies the ’90s blockbuster ideal, its grandiosity matched only by its worldwide success. Dion has continued recording in French and English since, taking cues from modern pop by collaborating with of-the-moment artists like Ne-Yo (on 2007’s Taking Chances) and Sia (on 2019’s Courage), and thrilling audiences with concerts that show off her commanding voice and sincerely forthright—and, at times, charmingly goofy—stage presence at her two Las Vegas residencies and on multiple arena tours.

HOMETOWN
Charlemagne, Quebec, Canada
BORN
30 March 1968
GENRE
Pop

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