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According to Jam Music - 9/9/99, Canada's biggest musical export - Celine Dion - is the latest to record a duet with Frank Sinatra. A spokesperson for Sony Music Canada confirmed that Dion will duet with Sinatra on the song 'All the Way' which will appear on an album of the same name. The legendary American crooner passed away in May 1998. The duet was recorded using the same technology that enabled Natalie Cole to duet with her deceased father Nat King Cole on 'Unforgettable'. According to a report from Canadian Press, Sinatra was a big fan of Dion's work and the project has the blessing of his widow. 'All the Way' was originally planned as a greatest hits album, but will now consist of a mix of new songs and Dion's hits.
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Celine Dion is an internationally acclaimed French Canadian singer/songwriter. She was born Celine Marie Claudette Dion in Charlemagne, Quebec on March 30, 1968 to Therese and Adhemar Dion. She is their youngest and fourteenth child. Celine grew up singing with her brothers and sisters at the family's piano bar. With family help, she wrote her first lyrics for her song "Ce n'etait qu'un reve", English -- "It Was Only a Dream", at the age of 12. One of her brothers sent a recording of the song to Rene Angelil, a music manager in Quebec.
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By 1992, Unison, Celine Dion and media appearances had propelled Dion to superstardom in the North America. She had achieved one of her main objectives: wedging her way into the anglophone market and establishing fame. Apart from her rising success, there were ... changes in Dion's personal life, as René Angélil would make the transition from manager to lover. However, the relationship was kept a secret as both feared that the public would find the twenty-six-year difference between their ages incongruous.
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From humble beginnings in a rural French Canadian home town, Celine Dion has risen to international superstardom like a shooting star. Celine has been called the premiercontemporary pop vocalist of the Nineties. She has earned music industry accolades from around the world: Grammy Awards in the US, Juno and Felix Awards in Canada, and World Music Awards in Europe. The entire world has seen Celine Dion literally transform herself from a gifted pre-adolescent into an international superstar. Born in Charlemagne (a small town 30 miles east of Montreal,Quebec,Canada), Celine is the youngest of 14 children of a highly musical family. Her parents, both musicians, operated a small club, and on weekends, the entire family performed and entertained the local population.
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Rising from humble beginnings in the small town of Charlemagne, Quebec, Celine Dion became one of the biggest international stars in pop music history, selling more than 100 million albums worldwide. The youngest in Adhemar and Therese Dion's family of 14 children, Dion grew up in an environment full of the inherent chaos and material austerity that comes with such a large working-class family. However, the Dion household was ... one filled with love for children and music, and her parents and siblings were important figures in the early development of her singing career. Celine began singing in her parents' piano bar when she was just five years old. By the age of 12 she had written one of her first songs, "Ce N'etait Qu'un Rêve" (It Was Only a Dream), which she recorded with the help of her mother and brother and shipped off to a manager named René Angélil, whose name they found on the back of an album by Ginette Reno, a popular Francophone singer. After weeks with no response from Angélil, Celine's brother Michel phoned him and said, "I know you haven't listened to the tape, because if you had, you would've called right away." Angélil dug up the tape and called the family back the same day to set up a meeting with Celine.
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Celine Dion was born in Charlemagne, Quebec in 1968, one of 14 children of a very musically inclined family. Celine recorded her first demo at the mere age of 12 and it was not long before she had become a local star. Celine learned to speak English so that she could become well known in the U.S. By 1990 she had already been signed by Sony and released her first album, Unison. For the next few years, Celines career started to skyrocket by doing movie theme songs for blockbusters such as the Disney film Beauty and the Beast and Sleepless in Seattle.
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