Top 10 Celine Dion’s Incredible Life Facts

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Celine Dion was born in Quebec on March 30, 1968. At just 12 years old, she started her music career. She had already performed as much as possible in the first ten of her ten years. In her native French, she released nine albums over the next six years. After a brief hiatus, she returned with the intention of entering the English-speaking market.

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Celine Marie Claudette was born in Charlemagne Quebec, a village about 24 kilometers northeast of Montreal. She was the youngest of 14 children to Therese, a homemaker, as well Adhemar, a butcher. Music was already an important part of the Dion family before Celine arrived.

She was actually named after “Celine”, a song by French singer-songwriter Hugues Aufray that had been recorded two years prior to her birth. This song was one of Aufray’s most well-known and translated into English many years later.