Celine Dion- Case Study

Céline Marie Claudette Dion

March 30, 1968 (1968-03-30) (age 43)

Origin: Charlemagne, Quebec, Canada

Genres: Pop, Dance-Pop, Pop Rock, Soft Rock, Adult Contemporary

Singer, Song- Writer, Composer, Actress

Year’s active 1980-present

Music Labels: Sony Music Canada, Epic, 550, Columbia

Website: celinedion.com

Celine Dion first was first recognised internationally in the 1980s when winning both the 1982 Yamaha World Popular Song Festival and the 1988 Eurovision Song Contest. Her music genre influences include the ranging from rock and R&B to gospel and classical. Although often her music receives mixed critical reactions from meanings and opinions, she is particually known for her technically skilled and very powerful vocals. Dion is the best-selling Canadian artist of all time, and is the second best-selling female artist in the US during the Nielsen Sound Scan era. She is the only female artist to have two singles sells more than a million copies in the UK.

Two years after learning English, Dion made her debut into the Anglophone market with Unison in 1990. She incorporates the help of many musicians, including Vito Luprano and Canadian producer David Foster. This particular album was influenced by by the genre soft rock in the 1980's this music quickly found a niche within the adult contemporary radio format. Unison also was a famous hit with the critics, Jim Faber wrote that Dion's vocals were "tastefully unadorned", and that she never attempted to "bring off styles that are beyond her. On the album the singles which are included are, "(If There Was) Any Other Way", "The Last to Know", "Unison", and "Where Does My Heart Beat Now". Establishing Celine Dion as a rising star was her next album, her first single to reach the top-ten on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100.

In 1991,  a tribute to American troops fighting in Operation Desert Storm was made including Dion, she was also a soloist in Voices That Care. The real international breakthrough  for Celine Dion came when she duetted with Peabo Bryson on the title track to Disney's animated film Beauty and the Beast  in 1991. The song captured a musical style that Dion would utilize in the future: sweeping, classically influenced ballads with soft instrumentation. This song became her second U.S. top-ten single, and won the Academy Award for Best Song, and the Grammy Award for Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal. Overall she released and promoted altogether thirteen albums during the 1990s, however then Dion began to settle down, and released her latest album All the Way... A Decade of Song and then annocenced the needing of  a break and the step back she needed from the spotlight to enjoy life.

While even on break she could not escape the spotlight that followed her career success. After undergoing fertility treatments, Dion gave birth to a son, René-Charles Dion Angélil, on January 25, 2001, in Florida. Following the September 11 attacks, Dion returned to the music scene, and in a televised performance sang "God Bless America" at the benefit concert America: A Tribute to Heroes. In December 2001, Dion published her autobiography, My Story, My Dream which chronicled her rags to riches story. Dion's aptly titled A New Day Has Come, released in March 2002, ended her three-year break from the music industry. The album was Dion's most personal yet, and established a more mature side of Dion with the songs "A New Day Has Come", "I'm Alive", and "Goodbye's (The Saddest Word)", a change that resulted from her new-found maternal responsibilities, because, in her own words, "becoming a mother makes you a grown-up."

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