History

CELINE DION'S CHILDHOOD
Céline Dion was born on March 30, 1968 in Le Gardeur Hospital in Repentigny. Her family lives in the city of Charlemagne, Quebec. It is a song by French author-compositor-singer Hugues Aufray entitled Céline which inspired Thérèse and Adhémar Dion to name their daughter Céline.
The youngest of fourteen children and coming from a very musical family, Céline's brothers and sisters soon discover that some notes make Céline cry.
On August 18, 1973, Céline sings Du fil, des aiguilles et du coton, for the first time in public at her brother Michel's marriage.
Furthermore, Céline listens to the members of her family singing and playing music at the Vieux Baril, an inn belonging to her father and her sister Claudette. Occasionally, Céline also sings at the Vieux Baril and captivates the public with her voice. Appreciated a lot by the customers who fill the restaurant, Céline accepts politely the special demands and the applausses which are reserved for her.
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1981
An audio tape of demonstration recorded when she was twelve fall in the hands of a manager, René Angélil. The audio tape includes the song Ce n'était qu'un rêve, written by Thérèse Céline's mother, her brother Jacques and Céline herself. At once, René is taken by the magnificent voice and a little time after he mortgages his house to be able to finance the recording of Céline's very first album, La Voix Du Bon Dieu. The first extract of the album is Ce n'était qu'un rêve.
On June 19, Céline makes her first broadcast appearance. She sings to what is in the time a very popular french canadian broadcast animated by Michel Jasmin. Céline is fairly serious before the recording, but after some notes of Ce n'était qu'un rêve, she feels already comfortable.
Early in December, a Christmas album is aired, Céline Dion chante Noël.