Celine Dion (Celine Marie Claudette Dion) was born March 30, 1968, in Quebec, Canada. French Canadian pop singer, known for her vocal prowess and her passionate showmanship, who achieved international superstardom in the 1990s.
Working primarily in the pop ballad tradition, she recorded numerous hit albums in both French and English and was the recipient of several prestigious awards. The youngest of 14 children, Dion began singing with her musically inclined family when she was five years old.
At age 12 she came to the attention of impresario René Angélil and he launched her career with the album La Voix du bon Dieu (1981) married him in 1994. Invited to represent Switzerland at the Eurovision Song Contest in 1988, Dion won with her performance of ”Ne partez pas sans moi” / ”Do Not Leave Without Me”. By the end of the 1980s, she had recorded eight studio albums in French. During the 1990s, she achieved worldwide fame after releasing several best-selling English-language albums in music history, such as Falling into You (1996) and Let’s Talk About Love (1997). She also scored a series of international number-one 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 releasing French albums between each English record, D’eux (1995), S’il suffisait d’aimer (1998), Sans attndre (2012), and Encore un soir (2016), were all certified diamond in France.
Dion is also one of the best-selling music artists of all time, with record sales of more than 200 million worldwide. She has won five Grammy Awards, including Album of the Year and Record of the Year.
Billboard named her the “Queen of Adult Contemporary”. Dion is the second-best-selling female artist in the US during the Nielsen SoundScan, the 8th all-time best-performing top female artist in the United States. The sixth all-time best-performing female soloist in Billboard 200 history. In 2003, she was honoured by the International Federation of the
Phonographic Industry (IFPI) for selling over 50 million albums in Europe. In 2008, Dion was recognized as the best-selling international artist in South Africa.