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Celine Dion was born in Charlemagne, Quebec, Canada, on March 30, 1968. She was the youngest of 14 children and she got her start in music through a small club her parents owned. On the weekends, she and her brothers and sisters would regularly perform the current folk hits for the audience. When she was 12, her mother and brother put together a demo tape that they sent to Rene Angelil, a local promoter and manager. Celine’s performance on that demo was so incredible that Angelil mortgaged his house in order to finance her debut album, La voix du Bon Dieu, which was released in 1981. Her 1983 follow-up, Les chemins de ma maison, went gold in France making her the first Canadian performer to achieve that feat. Her career continued to grow in the 1980s with a series of record achieving platinum status along with numerous awards being won including the Eurovision Song Contest in 1988. She also signed a deal with Sony Canada in 1987 and celebrated by releasing the album Incognito.
In 1999, Dion issued All The Way . . . A Decade Of Song, a greatest hits collection that featured seven new songs. Following the release of the greatest hits collection, Dion went on a hiatus, which she announced following a 1999 New Year's Eve performance. During her time off, Dion gave birth to a son with her manager/husband Angelil. Following a two-year break, in which her rare public performances included her singing "God Bless America" at the America: A Tribute To Heroes telethon honoring victims of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, Dion re-emerged with A New Day Has Come. Naturally, the album debuted at number one, becoming Dion's first chart-topping debut, and fourth Number One album. Dion used the new album to propel herself back into the music scene and remind everyone that she wasn’t gone for good. The fourth number one album also put her in special company in the music business. Dion returned in March 2003 with another new studio effort, One Heart. However, the singer won't tour to support the album in the traditional sense. Instead, she's taking up residency at Caesars Palace Coliseum in Las Vegas, where she'll appear five nights a week through 2006. Sir Elton John is currently performing in Las Vegas, but Dion is ready to take the stage again and show that she still has more music in her body.
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