  Celine Dion was born the
youngest of 14 children in Quebec on March
30, 1968. Although she was a famous musical
voice in Canada and France since her teens,
she didn't crack the U.S. charts until her
early twenties in 1991 when she released an
LP in English. The Top 10 song that broke
through with American audiences was "Where Does My Heart
Beat Now." Since that American
breakthrough, Celine has risen to worldwide
superstar status with a string of hits on pop
and adult contemporary radio. Celine began
singing when she was 5 and had recorded her
first demo ("Ce N'etait Qu'un Reve"
or "It Was Only A Dream") by the
time she was 12 years old. Two years later,
Celine was wining contests, recording
singles, working with Rene Angelil, and had
become a star in Quebec. Her only obstacle
for success beyond Canada and France was her
French lyrics. By the late 80s, Celine had
learned English and signed a deal with Sony
Records.
 Dion's first LP, Unison, was released. Celine
had her first Top 10 U.S. hit with "Where Does My Heart
Beat Now" and also hit big with
"(If There Was) Any
Other Way."
 # 42
Singles Artist of the Year
Celine hit the Top 40 with
"Where Does My Heart
Beat Now."
Celine hit the Top 10 with "Where Does My Heart
Beat Now."
Celine hit the Top 40 with
"(If There Was) Any
Other Way."
Celine won 2 Juno Awards for
Album of the Year (Unison) and Female Vocalist
of the Year, and a MuchMusic Award for Best
MOR Video ("Can't Live Without You,
Can't Live Without You (with Billy
Newton Davis)).
 # 15
Singles Artist of the Year
Celine hit the Top 40 along with
Peabo Bryson with "Beauty And The Beast."
 Celine won 4 more Juno Awards
for Best Dance Recording ("Love Can Move Mountains"), Best-Selling
French-Speaking Album (Chante
Plamondon), Female Vocalist of the Year,
and Single of the Year ("Beauty And The Beast" (with Peabo Bryson)).
Celine released Celine
Dion and hit the Top 10 with a duet with Peabo
Bryson, "Beauty And The Beast" from the
soundtrack of Beauty
& The Beast.
Celine hit the Top 40 and Top 10 with "If You Asked Me To."
The single "Beauty &
The Beast" was certified gold.
Celine topped the Billboard
Adult Contemporary chart for 3 weeks with
"If You Asked Me To."
Celine
Dion was certified gold.
Celine hit the Top 40 with
"Nothing Broken But My
Heart."
Celine topped
the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart for 1
week with "Nothing Broken But My
Heart."
Celine hit the Top 40 with
"Love Can Move Mountains."
Celine also took home a
MuchMusic Award for Best Adult Contemporary
Video ("Je Danse Dans Ma Tete") and
a World Music Award for Best-Selling Canadian
Singer, Female.
 # 77
Singles Artist of the Year
 Celine won her first Grammy
Award for Best Pop Vocal Performance by a
Duo or Group ("Beauty & The
Beast" with Peabo Bryson) and was
nominated for Record of the Year and Best Female Pop Vocal
Performance (Celine
Dion).
"Beauty And The Beast" went on to win
an Academy Award.
Celine
Dion was certified platinum.
Celine hit the Top 40 helped out
by Clive Griffin with "When I Fall In Love" from the film Sleepless
In Seattle.
 After touring with Michael
Bolton, Celine released Colour
Of My Love. The LP went on to become
Celine's first multi-million selling LP in
the U.S.
Celine began humanitarian work
in 1993 for the Canadian Cystic Fibrosis
Foundation after her niece died from the
disease.
Celine won the Billboard
International Creative Achievement Award and
the Juno Award for Female Vocalist of the
Year.
 Celine hit the Top 40 with
"The Power Of Love."
 # 13
Singles Artist of the Year
Colour
Of My Love was certified gold.
Celine hit the Top 10 with "The Power Of Love."
Celine hit #1 for a week with "The Power Of Love."
Celine topped the Billboard Hot
100 Singles chart for 4 weeks, the Hot 100
Singles Sales chart for 5 weeks, and the
Adult Contemporary Singles chart for 4 weeks
with "The Power Of Love."
Celine was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Pop
Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal
("When I Fall In Love" with Clive
Griffin).
 Celine released Chante
Plamondon.
Celine married Rene Angelil, her
manager since her preteens. Angelil, who is
26 years older than Celine, began his
relationship with her when she was 19.
Celine won another Juno Award
for Female Vocalist of the Year and was
nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Pop
Performance by a Duo or Group ("When I Fall In Love" (with Clive
Griffin)).
Colour
Of My Love was certified 2x platinum and
the single "The Power Of Love" was certified
platinum.
Celine hit the Top 40 with
"Misled."
 Celine hit the Top 10 with "Misled."
Celine topped the Billboard Hot
Dance Music Club Play chart for 2 weeks with
"Misled."
Unison was certified gold.
Celine was nominated for an American Music
Award for Favorite Pop/Rock Single
("The Power Of Love").
Colour
Of My Love was certified 3x platinum.
Colour
Of My Love topped the UK Albums chart for
6 weeks.
Celine topped the UK Singles
chart for 7 weeks with "Think
Twice."
Celine was nominated for a
Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal
Performance ("The Power Of Love").
 Celine released French
Album.
Celine contributed the track
"(You Make Me Feel Like A) Natural
Woma" to the Carole King
tribute LP, Tapestry
Revisited.
Celine won a World Music Award
for Best-Selling Canadian Singer, Female and
2 Juno Awards for Album of the Year (Colour
Of My Love) and Best-Selling Foreign or
Domestic Artist.
 # 2
Singles Artist of the Year
 Celine hit worldwide
super-stardom with the released of Falling
Into You. Celine topped the ARC Weekly
Top 40 with three #1 hits: "Because
You Loved Me" (hitting the Top 40 and Top 10 in March) from the
film, Up Close And Personal, "It's All Coming Back To
Me Now,"
and "All By Myself."
Celine topped the Billboard Hot
100 Singles chart and the Hot 100 Singles
Sales chart (both for 6 weeks), and the Hot
Adult Contemporary Singles & Tracks chart
for 19 weeks with "Because
You Loved Me."
Falling
Into You topped the UK LP charts for a
week.
Awards for Celine during the
year included an Irish Recorded Music Award
for Best International Female Singer, a Juno
Award for Best-Selling Francophone Album (D'eux), a World Music Award
for Best-Selling Canadian Singer, Female, and
was named VH1's Artist of the Year.
 "Because
You Loved Me" hit #1 for 6 weeks.
Celine topped the Billboard Hot
100 Singles Airplay chart for 14 weeks with
"Because
You Loved Me."
The single "Because
You Loved Me" was certified platinum.
Falling
Into You was certified 2x platinum.
Falling
Into You was certified 3x platinum.
Celine
Dion was certified 2x platinum.
 Falling
Into You was certified 4x platinum.
Celine hit the Top 40 with
"It's All Coming Back To
Me Now."
Celine hit the Top 10 with "It's All Coming Back To
Me Now."
Colour
Of My Love was certified 4x platinum and Falling
Into You was certified 5x platinum.
The single "It's All Coming Back To
Me Now"
was certified platinum and hit #1 for 5 weeks.
Falling
Into You topped the Billboard
Top 200 Albums chart for 3 weeks.
Falling
Into You was certified 7x platinum.
Celine topped the Billboard Hot
100 Singles Airplay chart for 2 weeks and the
Hot Adult Contemporary Singles & Tracks
chart for 5 weeks with "It's All Coming Back To
Me Now."
 # 12
Singles Artist of the Year
 Celine was nominated for 2 American Music
Awards for Favorite
Female Artist Rock/Pop and Favorite Adult
Contemporary Artist.
Falling
Into You was certified 8x platinum.
Celine won 2 Grammy
Awards for Album of the Year and Best
Pop Album (Falling
Into You) and was also nominated for
Record of the Year and Best Female Pop Vocal
Performance ("Because You Loved
Me").
Celine hit the Top 40 with her
remake of "All By Myself."
Celine hit the Top
10
with "All By Myself."
Falling
Into You was certified 9x platinum.
Celine hit #1 with "All By Myself."
"All By Myself" topped the
Billboard Adult Contemporary chart for 3
weeks.
The single "All By Myself" was certified
gold.
Unison was certified
platinum.
Celine spent much of the year
picking up major awards including 2 Grammy
Awards, 4 Juno Awards for Best-Selling
Foreign or Domestic Album (Falling
Into You), Best-Selling French-Speaking
Album (Live A Paris), Female
Vocalist of the Year, and the International
Achievement Award, 3 World Music Awards for
Best-Selling Canadian Recording Artist,
World's Best-Selling Pop Artist, and World's
Overall Best-Selling Artist, and an Irish
Recorded Music Award for Best International
Female Album (Falling
Into You). Celine was also nominated for
2 other Grammy Awards: Record of the Year and
Best Pop Vocal Performance, Female ("Because
You Loved Me").
 Celine hit the Top 40 helping
out Barbra
Streisand with "Tell Him."
The next LP by Celine, Let's
Talk About Love, was released. Celine was
joined on the LP by the Barbra
Streisand (on the Top 40
hit "Tell Him"), the Bee Gees, Luciano
Pavarotti, Carole King,
and included the theme to the film, Titanic, "My Heart Will Go On."
Celine hit the Top 40 with
"My Heart Will Go On."
Falling
Into You was certified 10x platinum.
Let's
Talk About Love topped the UK Albums
chart for 5 weeks.
Celine hit the Top 10 with "My Heart Will Go On."
 # 8
Singles Artist of the Year
 Celine won an American Music
Award for Favorite
Female Artist Rock/Pop and was nominated for
Favorite Adult Contemporary Artist
Let's
Talk About Love hit #1 on the Billboard 200
Albums chart for a week.
Let's
Talk About Love was certified 4x
platinum.
"My Heart Will Go On" topped the
Billboard Hot 100 Singles Airplay chart for
10 weeks and the Adult Contemporary chart for
10 weeks.
Celine was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Pop Collaboration with
Vocals
("Tell Him" with Barbra
Streisand).
Let's
Talk About Love was certified 5x
platinum.
Celine hit #1 with "My Heart Will Go On" and stayed on
top for 6 weeks.
"My Heart Will Go On" topped the
Billboard Hot 100 Singles chart, the Hot 100
Singles Sales chart for 2 weeks, and the
Latin Tracks chart for 1 week. The single
also topped the UK Singles chart for 4 weeks.
 By March, Celine had topped the
pop charts with "My Heart Will Go On" (including 6
weeks at #1 on the ARC). The song almost
didn't make it on the soundtrack to Titanic. Originally, the
movie's director James Cameron was against a
song with vocals for the film. His composer,
James Horner, felt differently and secretly
had Dion record the song. Eventually, Cameron
was made privy to the recording, and the song
was included on the soundtrack and the film's
closing credits.
It was announced toward the end
of March that Celine will be made an officer
in the Order of Canada on May 1st. The honor
is bestowed on those who demonstrate
"the highest qualities of citizenship...
(with contributions that) enrich the lives of
their contemporaries."
Let's
Talk About Love was certified 7x
platinum and "My Heart Will Go On" was certified
gold.
Celine hit the Top 40 with
"To Love You More."
Let's
Talk About Love was certified 8x
platinum.
Celine hit the Top 10 with "To Love You More."
Celine topped the Billboard
Adult Contemporary chart with "To Love You More" for 8 weeks.
 Celine was nominated for a MTV Video Music
Award for Best Video from a Film and Viewer's Choice ("My Heart Will Go On").
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