Best and Rare Celine Dion Childhood Photos
Dion was born in Charlemagne, Quebec, Canada, the youngest of 14 children of Thérèse (née Tanguay), a homemaker, and Adhémar Dion, a butcher, both of French-Canadian descent. Dion was raised a Roman Catholic in a poverty-stricken, but, by her own account, happy home in Charlemagne
Music had always been a major part of the Dion family; indeed, Dion herself was named after the song “Céline,” which French singer Hugues Aufray had recorded two years before her own birth
On 13 August 1973, at the age of five, the young Céline made her first public appearance at her brother Michel’s wedding, where she performed Christine Charbonneau‘s song “Du fil des aiguilles et du coton
Thereafter, she continued to perform with her siblings in her parents’s small piano bar called Le Vieux Baril, “The Old Barrel.” From an early age, Dion had dreamed of being a performer.
in a 1994 interview with People magazine, she recalled, “I missed my family and my home, but I don’t regret having lost my adolescence. I had one dream: I wanted to be a singer.
At age 12, Dion collaborated with her mother and her brother Jacques to write and compose her first song, “Ce n’était qu’un rêve,” whose title translates as “It Was Only a Dream” or “Nothing But A Dream
Her brother, Michel Dion, sent the recording to music manager René Angélil, whose name he discovered on the back of a Ginette Reno album. Angélil was moved to tears by Dion’s voice, and decided to make her a star.[7] In 1981, he mortgaged his home to fund her first record, La voix du bon Dieu, which later became a local No. 1 hit and made Dion an instant star in Quebec.
Her popularity spread to other parts of the world when she competed in the 1982 Yamaha World Popular Song Festival in Tokyo, Japan, and won the musician’s award for “Top Performer” as well as the gold medal for “Best Song” with “Tellement j’ai d’amour pour toi“.
