Pop songbird Céline Marie Claudette Dion (1968– ) was born in Charlemagne, Québec, the youngest of fourteen children. Raised in a musical family filled with laughter and song, Dion learned early that gratitude and music belong together.

She once reflected on her childhood with humor: “I seem to have been a good baby. I didn’t cry too much and I quickly began sleeping nights. Of course, I had fifteen people at my beck and call.”

Nurtured by music, Dion recorded her first demo at the age of twelve. Music promoter René Angélil was so moved by her voice that he mortgaged his home to finance her first album, La Voix du Bon Dieu (1980). The two later married in 1994.

After years of success in Canada and Europe, Dion broke through in America with the album Unison (1990), which featured the hit Where Does My Heart Beat Now. “It's the moment you think you can't that you realize you can,” she once said.

During the 1990s she became one of the most successful pop vocalists in the world. Her duet Beauty and the Beast with Peabo Bryson won both an Oscar and a Grammy, and her soaring ballad My Heart Will Go On from the film Titanic became an international anthem.

Known for protecting her remarkable five-octave voice, Dion avoids smoking and drinking and often speaks very little while touring or recording. Her powerful stage presence and heartfelt sincerity continues to draw millions of listeners around the world.

Despite global fame, Dion returns to a simple truth: gratitude. Through the gifts she shares in music, the world hears rising notes of joy.