History Music / CelineDion

-->-- "My Heart Will Go On"

-->"My Heart Will Go On"

** Her song "Des mots qui sonnent" ("Words That Resonate") includes a lyrical shout-out to both Creator/MichaelJackson and Creator/{{Sting}}, with the narrator ordering a songwriter to write her a song with the best qualities of both performers.

* SesameStreetCred: Céline guest-starred on a 1998 episode of ''Series/SesameStreet'', singing the song "Happy to Meet You" with a StarstruckSpeechless Herry Monster, Big Bird, and Elmo.

Céline had her heart set on international stardom from the beginning, and it in fact began even before she could speak a word of English. Before she was old enough to drive, she'd already won an award at the Yamaha Popular Song Festival in Tokyo and become the first Canadian female to earn a gold record in France. Then she represented [[GuestFighter Switzerland]] in the Series/EurovisionSongContest 1988, winning with the song "Ne Partez Pas Sans Moi".[[note]]Meaning "Don't Leave Without Me"; she also recorded the song in German as "Hand in Hand".[[/note]] [[CanonDiscontinuity She's never performed it since]].

Prior to her international breakout, she represented [[GuestFighter Switzerland]] in the Series/EurovisionSongContest 1988, winning with the song "Ne Partez Pas Sans Moi".[[note]]Meaning "Don't Leave Without Me"; she also recorded the song in German as "Hand in Hand".[[/note]] [[CanonDiscontinuity She's never performed it since]]. Her first taste of international fame came even farther back, in 1982, when she represented France at the Yamaha World Popular Song Festival in Tokyo with "Tellement j'ai d'amour pour toi"[[note]]meaning "I Have So Much Love for You"[[/note]], which won the Outstanding Song award.

** It started early in her career, with her song "Tellement j'ai d'amour pour toi" ("I Have So Much Love for You") winning an award at the Yamaha Popular Song Festival in Tokyo when she was 14. Six years later, she won Eurovision with "Ne partez pas sans moi" ("Don't Leave Without Me"), which represented Switzerland. ''WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast'' continued the trend once her English recording career started, and she went on to sing a few more, winning some Grammys (such as "Because You Loved Me") and Oscars ("My Heart Will Go On") along the way. Parodied with "Ashes" in ''Film/Deadpool2.''

* FauxFluency: Céline started singing phonetically in other languages early in her career, when she still spoke only French fluently. She recorded in German as early as 1983 and made her first English recording ("Listen to the Magic Man" from ''Film/ThePeanutButterSolution'') in 1985 and was already performing English-language hits like "Film/{{Flashdance}}... What a Feeling" in concert before she learned to speak the language. However, Rene insisted she become fluent in English before he'd agree for her to do an English album, so she took a Berlitz course and by 1988 was comfortable enough with the language to hold her own in interviews.

* FauxFluency: Céline started singing phonetically in other languages early in her career, when she still spoke only French fluently. She made her first English recording ("Listen to the Magic Man" from ''Film/ThePeanutButterSolution'') in 1985 and was already performing English-language hits like "[[Film/{{Flashdance}}]]... What a Feeling" in concert before she learned to speak the language. However, Rene insisted she become fluent in English before he'd agree for her to do an English album, so she took a Berlitz course and by 1988 was comfortable enough with the language to hold her own in interviews.

*** On the same album (''Dion chante Plamondon'' aka ''Des mots qui sonnent'' in Europe), the song "Des mots qui sonnent" ("Words That Sound") has quite a bit of this ("Come on baby", "Right on", "Number one") in addition to [[ShoutOut name-dropping]] Music/MichaelJackson and Music/{{Sting}}.

* IncrediblyLongNote: Very common. Listen to "If You Asked Me To", "The Power Of Love", "All By Myself", "D'amour ou d'amitié", and "My Heart Will Go On" for some examples. Sometimes she even adds long notes to her live performances of songs that normally don't have them, such as "Tous Les Blues Sont Ecrits Pour Toi".

* WhatDoesSheSeeInHim: The narrator of "Everybody's Talkin' My Baby Down" on ''The Colour of My Love'' is determined to stay true to her man despite criticism from friends and relatives wondering why she stays with him. This foreshadows her relationship with René, see MayDecemberRomance entry above.

* MedalOfDishonor: In 1990, she won "Best English Speaking Artist" in Felix Award (the Quebec Grammys). She rejected the award - ''on live television'' - because, despite the pride she felt in her English-language recordings, she felt she has always been a French-speaking artist, not English. Instead, she suggested that the award's name be changed into "''Quebec Artist Achieving Most Success in A Language Other Than French''".

Céline Marie Claudette Dion [[UsefulNotes/KnightFever CC]] (born 30 March 1968) is one of the most popular [[CanadaEh Canadian]] singers of all time. Born in [[UsefulNotes/{{Quebec}} Quebec]], ''the'' Canadian province whose majority of populace speak French[[note]]Canadian French, that is. It has evolved in a different direction compared to European French since it stopped being a French colony[[/note]]. Thus, she spent her early years speaking and singing only French. Met her future husband, music manager René Angélil in 1981, who became her manager for the rest of his life (at least until he officially stepped down as his health deteriorated later on). She made her first English recording in 1985 (and recorded in German as early as 1983), but didn't learn to speak the language until several years later. In 1990, with a slew of awards already under her belt in Quebec and internationally, she released her first English album, and to this day has maintained successful careers singing in both French and English and has recorded in several other languages, including Spanish and even Japanese. Married René in 1994 and lived happily together along with three sons despite [[MayDecemberRomance the two's age difference]] until René passing due to throat cancer on January 14, 2016, 21 years into their marriage.

* IncrediblyLongNote: Very common. Listen to "If You Asked Me To", "The Power Of Love", "All By Myself" and "My Heart Will Go On" for some examples. Sometimes she even adds long notes to her live performances of songs that normally don't have them, such as "Tous Les Blues Sont Ecrits Pour Toi".

Céline Marie Claudette Dion [[UsefulNotes/KnightFever CC]] (born 30 March 1968) is one of the most popular [[CanadaEh Canadian]] singers of all time. Born in [[UsefulNotes/{{Quebec}} Quebec]], ''the'' Canadian province whose majority of populace speak French[[note]]Canadian French, that is. It has evolved in a different direction compared to European French since it stopped being a French colony[[/note]]. Thus, she spent her early years speaking and singing only French. Met her future husband, music manager René Angélil in 1981, who became her manager for the rest of his life (at least until he officially stepped down as his health deteriorated later on). Started singing English in the late 1980s and released her first English album in 1990, and to this day has maintained successful careers singing in both French and English and has recorded in several other languages, including Spanish and even Japanese. Married René in 1994 and lived happily together along with three sons despite [[MayDecemberRomance the two's age difference]] until René passing due to throat cancer on January 14, 2016, 21 years into their marriage.

Her first American hit song was "Where Does My Heart Beat Now" and she attracted even more attention through her Oscar- and Grammy-winning theme song to Creator/{{Disney}}'s 1991 [[Franchise/DisneyAnimatedCanon animated classic]] ''WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast'', but it was a [[BreakthroughHit pair of movie themes]] later in the '90s that made her a true household name: "Because You Loved Me" from ''Up Close and Personal'' and "My Heart Will Go On" from ''Film/{{Titanic 1997}}''. She's also dabbled in acting, appearing as herself on shows like ''Series/TouchedByAnAngel'' and taking a dramatic role in ''Des fleurs sur la neige'' (Flowers Under the Snow), a 1991 [[Creator/{{CBC}} Radio-Canada]] miniseries.

** TranslatedCoverVersion: Her early French songs exhibit several French-translated English songs, and some of her English albums contain songs that are translated from French songs, some hers, some others'. She has also occasionally sung in other languages such as Japanese, Spanish, and even Chinese.
*** One particularly interesting case is the song "Have a Heart" on Dion's first English-language album, ''Unison''. The song was originally written in English and was one of the first songs she learned while preparing for her English-language debut, but Dion had Eddy Marnay write French lyrics to the song and recorded it in that language first, on her 1987 album ''Incognito''.

*** Céline also recorded Eric Carmen's "All by Myself" in Spanish under the title ''Sola otra vez'' (meaning "alone again").

** It started with ''WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast'', and she went on to sing a few more, winning some Grammys (such as "Because You Loved Me") and Oscars ("My Heart Will Go On") along the way. Parodied with "Ashes" in ''Film/Deadpool2.''

-->'''Céline Dion:''' Listen! ''(*points to her throat*)'' ''This'' thing only goes to eleven!

** Her 1987 French-language hit, "Lolita (Trop jeune pour aimer)" ("Too Young for Love"), includes the English phrase "I love you" a number of times, especially at the end of the song. Mind you, her English-language debut album was still three years away.

* AbsoluteCleavage: ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYjqojwp2hQ Then You Look At Me]]'', by Music/CelineDion, has Dion in [[SpyCatsuit tight metallic coveralls]] with the zipper down to her abdomen.

* ThreeMinutesOfWrithing: ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYjqojwp2hQ Then You Look At Me]]'', by Music/CelineDion, features Dion in [[SpyCatsuit tight metallic coveralls]] with the zipper [[AbsoluteCleavage down to her abdomen]]. She's dancing in place, mostly with her arms.

!!Celine and her songs provide examples of:

* UpToEleven: In her music video to the song ''Ashes'', ComicBook/{{Deadpool}} tells her the song is ''[[SelfDeprecation too good]]'' for his [[Film/Deadpool2 trashy superhero sequel]] and she should phone it in more - "You're at like, an eleven, we need to get you down to a five, five and a half tops." Celine's response? "This thing[[note]][[BadassBoast pointing to herself]][[/note]] ''only'' goes to eleven, so ''beat it'', [[AccidentalMisnaming Spider-Man]]!"

** Dion's set list on her 2019 ''Courage'' world tour included "You're the Voice," a song originally recorded in 1986 by former Music/LittleRiverBand lead singer John Farnham and later covered by Music/{{Heart}}. Neither Farnham's nor Heart's version was a hit in the U.S. despite big international success for Farnham's, and it's possible many of Dion's American fans didn't know the song until they heard her sing it.

** A non-French case: Her Japanese rendition of "Be The Man" has a few English lines, such as the song title, "I will follow you" and "I will run, I'll run to you", that are left untranslated.

The 2021 French-Canadian film ''Film/{{Aline|2021}}'' is a NoCelebritiesWereHarmed {{biopic}} of her life, with the main character, played by Valérie Lemercier, being renamed "Aline Dieu".

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The 2021 French Canadian comedy film ''Film/{{Aline|2021}}'' is a NoCelebritiesWereHarmed {{biopic}} of her life, with the main character, played by Valérie Lemercier, being renamed "Aline Dieu".

The 2021 French Canadian comedy film ''Aline, the Voice of Love'' is a NoCelebritiesWereHarmed {{biopic}} of her life, with the main character, played by Valérie Lemercier, being renamed "Aline Dieu".

Céline Marie Claudette Dion [[UsefulNotes/KnightFever CC]] (born 30 March 1968) is one of the most popular [[CanadaEh Canadian]] singers of all time. Born in [[UsefulNotes/{{Quebec}} Quebec]], ''the'' Canadian province whose majority of populace speak French[[note]]Canadian French, that is. It has evolved in a different direction compared to European French since it stopped being a French colony[[/note]]. Thus, she spent her early years speaking and singing only French. Met her future husband, music manager René Angélil in 1981, who remained her manager ever since (although he officially stepped down as his health deteriorated later in his life). Started singing English in the late 1980s and released her first English album in 1990, and to this day has maintained successful careers singing in both French and English and has recorded in several other languages, including Spanish and even Japanese. Married René in 1994 and lived happily together along with three sons despite [[MayDecemberRomance the two's age difference]] until René passing due to throat cancer on January 14, 2016, 21 years into their marriage.

** Her rendition of Brahmm's Lullaby is English but has some French lines in the middle of the song.

* IdenticalStranger: Used in her old French video of ''Fais Ce Que Tu Voudras'' (''Do Whatever You Want''), where there are three Dions at different parts of a train station.