See How The Rumour Of The Legendary Singer, Cellne Dion’s Death Broke The Internet
Celin Dion, the best-selling Canadian recording artist, who also doubled as the best-selling French-language artist of all time has built a great legacy to beat with her powerful and technically skilled vocals.
Her music has incorporated genres such as pop, rock, R&B, gospel, and classical music. Her recordings have been mainly in English and French, although she has also sung in Spanish, Italian, German, Latin, Japanese, and Chinese.
However, a disturbing story for Dion’s fans has evolved on the internet claiming that the 54-year-old actress might have passed away. Celine Dion’s death story started trending on the internet and making headlines on Twitter.
Investigations carried out by Saturday INDEPENDENT has confirmed that though Celin Dion is struggling with ill health, she is still alive and kicking.
But how did her death story evolve on the internet? The rumours sparked when the actress spoke up openly about her illness, asserting that she has been diagnosed with Stiff Person Syndrome.
Meanwhile, this news added fuel to her death rumours and became viral on the internet.
On her Instagram page, she said: “I’ve been dealing with problems with my health for a long time, and it’s been really difficult for me to face these challenges and to talk about everything that I’ve been going through… It hurts me to tell you that I won’t be ready to restart my tour in Europe in February.”
Recently, Celine Dion’s sister Claudette Dion gave an update on how Celine Dion is dealing with her illness. Claudette said, while having an interview with Le Journal De Montreal that Celine Dion is undergoing treatment and dealing well with the disease in Denver. She added, “I am confident that life will give her back what she gave because she is an extremely intelligent woman, very generous and talented, and in love with life as well.”
Claudette tried to send positive vibes by saying that her sister will go back on stage soon. She also said that rather than crying over Celine’s fate, she tried to send her positive vibes in the hope that she would go back on stage.
The Canadian singer Celine Dion is currently 54 years of age and she is suffering from a rare neurological condition known as stiff person syndrome.
Born into a large family in Charlemagne, Quebec, Dion emerged as a teen star in her home country with a series of French-language albums during the 1980s. She gained international recognition by winning the 1988 Eurovision Song Contest, where she represented Switzerland with “Ne partez pas sans moi”.
After learning to speak English, she signed with Epic Records in the United States. Her debut English-language album, Unison (1990), established her as a viable pop artist primarily in North America and several English-speaking markets, while The Colour of My Love (1993) gave her global superstardom.
Some of her bestselling English-language albums in history include Falling into You (1996), Let’s Talk About Love (1997), These Are Special Times (1998), and A New Day Has Come (2002), which were certified diamond in the US with more than 30 million sales worldwide each.
She also released a series of international number-one hits, including The Power of Love, Because You Loved Me, It’s All Coming Back to Me Now, My Heart Will Go On, I’m Your Angel and I’m Alive. Dion continued releasing French albums between each English record; D’eux (1995) became the best-selling French-language album of all time, while S’il suffisait d’aimer (1998), Sans attendre (2012), and Encore un soir (2016), were all certified diamond in France.
During the 2000s, she built her reputation as a successful live performer with A New Day… on the Las Vegas Strip (2003–07), the highest-grossing concert residency of all time, and the Taking Chances World Tour (2008–09), one of the highest-grossing concert tours of 2000s.
Dion has been named one of the greatest singers in music.
At age 12, she collaborated with her mother and her brother Jacques to write and compose her first song, “Ce n’était qu’un rêve”, whose title translates as It Was Only a Dream or Nothing But A Dream. Michel sent the recording to music manager René Angélil, whose name he discovered on the back of a Ginette Reno album.
Angélil was moved to tears by Dion’s voice and decided to make her a star. In 1981, he mortgaged his home to fund her first record, La voix du bon Dieu, which later became a local No. 1 hit and made her an instant star in Quebec. Her popularity spread to other parts of the world when she competed in the 1982 Yamaha World Popular Song Festival in Tokyo and won the musician’s award for Top Performer as well as the gold medal for Best Song with Tellement j’ai d’amour pour toi.
By 1983, in addition to becoming the first Canadian artist to receive a gold record in France for the single “D’amour ou d’amitié” (“Of Love or of Friendship”), Dion had also won several Félix Awards, including “Best Female performer” and “Discovery of the Year”. Further success came when she represented Switzerland in the 1988 Eurovision Song Contest with the song “Ne partez pas sans moi” and won the contest by a close margin in Dublin.
At age 18, after seeing a Michael Jackson performance, Dion told Angélil she wanted to be a star like Jackson. Though confident in her talent, Angélil realised her image needed to be changed for her to be marketed worldwide. She receded from the spotlight for a number of months, during which she underwent dental surgery to improve her appearance, and was sent to the École Berlitz in 1989 to improve her English.
In 1989, during a concert on the Incognito tournée, she injured her voice. She consulted the otorhinolaryngologist William Gould, who gave her an ultimatum: have immediate surgery on her vocal cords or do not utilize them at all for three weeks. Dion chose the latter and underwent vocal training with William Riley.
Her real international breakthrough came when she duetted with Peabo Bryson on the title track to Disney’s animated film Beauty and the Beast (1991). It became her first top-ten hit in the UK and her second top-ten hit in the United States. The song earned its songwriters an Academy Award for Best Song and gave Dion her first Grammy Award for Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal. “Beauty and the Beast” served as the lead single from her 1992 self-titled album, which, like her debut, had a strong pop rock influence combined with elements of soul and classical music. Owing to the success of the lead-off single and her collaborations with David Foster and Diane Warren, the album was even well-received commercially than Unison; it was certified diamond in Canada and double platinum in the U.S. The album’s second single “If You Asked Me To” (a cover of Patti LaBelle’s song from the 1989 movie Licence to Kill) became her first number-one single in Canada and peaked at number four on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100.
After releasing and promoting 13 albums during the 1990s, Dion stated she needed to settle down, and announced on her latest album All the Way… A Decade of Song, she needed to take a step back from the spotlight and enjoy life. Angélil’s diagnosis with esophageal cancer also prompted her to hiatus.
While on break, she was unable to escape the spotlight. In 2000, the National Enquirer published a false story about Dion. Brandishing a picture of Dion and her husband, the magazine misquoted her, printing the headline, “Celine — ‘I’m Pregnant With Twins!’” She sued the magazine for more than $20 million. The editors printed an apology and a full retraction in the next issue, and donated money to the American Cancer Society in honour of her and her husband. A year after the incident, after undergoing fertility treatments, she 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. Chuck Taylor of Billboard wrote, “the performance … brings to mind what has made her one of the celebrated vocalists of our time: the ability to render emotion that shakes the soul. Affecting, meaningful, and filled with grace, this is a musical reflection to share with all of us still searching for ways to cope.”
She performed it again in 2003 during pregame festivities for Super Bowl XXXVII in Qualcomm Stadium. In December 2001, she published her autobiography, My Story, My Dream, which chronicled her rags-to-riches story.
Dion ended her three-year sabbatical from the music industry with the aptly titled album A New Day Has Come, released in March 2002. The album was her most personal yet, with songs focusing on her motherhood and maturation as a woman such as “A New Day Has Come”, and “Goodbye’s (The Saddest Word)”. She stated: “Becoming a mother makes you a grown-up.”
On her health struggles, on January 15, 2022, a statement posted to Dion’s website and social media accounts announced the U.S. and Canadian concert dates for March–April 2022 were canceled because of “severe and persistent muscle spasms” preventing Dion from performing onstage.
On December 8, 2022, Dion announced she had been diagnosed with stiff-person syndrome, a rare neurological disease, and that it was the cause of her spasms. All future tour dates were cancelled as a result.
While there is no cure for it, there are treatments to slow down the progression, and Céline says she is doing everything within her power to minimise symptoms.
She also announced she would have to cancel her upcoming European Courage tour again, but hoped to resurrect it again in 2024. She had only recently announced that the tour was back on after postponing several times already due to her poor health.
Her fans rushed to give her their support with many sending love and wishes on social media.
The first sign of trouble on the health front came in October last year when Céline announced unexpectedly that she had to cancel new shows for her Las Vegas residency, which has been running for 19 years.
(Independent)