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Céline Marie Claudette Dion (OC, OQ) (born March 30, 1968) is a Canadian Grammy and Juno award winning pop singer, and occasional songwriter[1] and actress.[2]

Born to an impoverished family in Charlemagne, Québec, Dion achieved success in francophone Canada after her manager and future husband, René Angélil, mortgaged his home in order to finance her career. She later gained recognition in parts of Europe and Asia after she won both the 1982 Yamaha World Popular Song Festival and the 1988 Eurovision Song Contest. In 1990 Dion established a foothold in the anglophone music market with the release of Unison, published by Epic Records. During the 1990s she achieved worldwide fame and success with several English and French records, of which her most successful was "My Heart Will Go On", the theme to the 1997 film Titanic. In 1999 Dion announced a temporary break from entertainment in order to focus on her husband, who was diagnosed with throat cancer.

Dion returned to the music scene in 2002 with the release of A New Day Has Come. By 2004 she had accumulated record sales of 175 million, and was presented with the Chopard Diamond award from the World Music Awards show for becoming the Best-selling Female Artist of all time.[3] As of 2003 Dion has performed nightly in her show A New Day at Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, under a contract that extends through 2007. Dion's music has been influenced by various genres, which range from pop and rock to gospel and classical, and she is noted for her technically skilled and powerful vocals.