Posted by WM on 2/17/2005, 11:17 am Michael Jackson gave her the black fedora that he wore in his video "Billie Jean"; Prince wrote a song for her; and New York lover her, 'La p'tite
Celine Dion
Getting There - 1992
Quebecoise' is Quebec's hottest music export!
Making it to the top in the music industry is an almost impossible dream - but dreams can come true and you only have to look at Celine Dion's career to realize the truth of that statement.
But what does it take to do it? A five octave voice doesn't hurt of course, but there's a lot more involved in making it to the top that that. Determination, family backing, a manager who's looked after her career since she was 12, and an
early start singing at the age of five in her parents' restaurant - all these things have added up to make Celine Dion the star she is today. In Quebec they call her 'la P'tite Quebecoise' - they have watched her grow up and were her
first fans, but with the release of her album Unison in 1990, English Canada and then the whole of North America discovered Quebec's best kept secret.
In an interview with Macleans Magazine Rene Angelil, her manager, said that when she was 12 he asked her to pretend she was performing in front of 2,000 people, "When I handed her a pen to use as a microphone, she closed her eyes and she was
there. I had goose bumps listening to that voice."
At this years Academy Awards, Celine sang "Beauty & the Beast" and a TV audience of two billion people experienced those same goose bumps.
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