CELINE DION
Céline Dion (born 30 March 1968) is a Canadian singer, songwriter, entrepreneur and occasional actress. During the 1990’s, with the help of her husband René Angélil, she achieved worldwide fame after signing with Epic Records and releasing several English albums along with additional French albums, becoming one of the most successful artists in pop music history. Dion has won five Grammy Awards, including Album of the Year for Falling Into You and Record of the Year for “My Heart Will Go On”. She is the second best-selling female artist in the US during the Nielsen SoundScan era. In 2004, after surpassing 175 million in album sales worldwide, she was presented with the Chopard Diamond Award at the World Music Awards for becoming the best-selling female artist of all time. Dion remains the best-selling Canadian artist in history and one of the best-selling artists of all time with record sales of more than 200 million copies worldwide. (More from Wikipedia)
The newest member of Trillion, CJ Vanston has also performed on the last two albums by Steve Lukather of Toto and the recent tour by Tears For Fears, as well as a remarkably varied list of other artists like Joe Cocker, Ringo Starr, Bob Seger, Prince, Tina Turner, Barbra Streisand, Richard Marx, Celine Dion, and ’NSync.
(October 2012)
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We were in Europe for my first (and probably only) trip in April 1995; I can always pinpoint the time because the Oklahoma City Bombing took place while we were there. At that time, Celine Dion was being widely promoted for a concert appearance in Paris. I remembered wondering at the time what the big deal was; I knew that she spoke French and just assumed that she was from France. Actually, Celine Dion – who has one of the purest singing voices of her generation – is French Canadian; and this was her first concert in France, so it really was a big deal. A DVD and album of a concert by her that was recorded in October of that year, Live à Paris was released the following year.
(April 2013)
