The full name of Celine Dion is, Céline Marie Claudette Dion and was born on 30 March, 1968. She is a well known name and her fans all over the world. Her father was Adhémar-Charles Dion, who was a butcher and her mother was Thérèse Tanguay Dion was a homemaker. This singer is also a businesswoman. By the time she turned 18 she had won numerous awards and had recorded 9 French albums. In 1992, she recorded for Disney’s hit movie Beauty and the Beast. This turned out to be her biggest break in pop music. Such success has propelled her to become among the celebrity and singer elite, especially with it comes to highest paid singers in the world today.
Early childhood and work:
Celine Dion was born and brought up in Charlemagne, Quebec. She was born in a large family with 14 siblings. Celine was the youngest of them all. Music run into her family. Her family loved music so much that she was named after a French song “Celine”. In her early childhood years she used to perform and sing in family weddings. When she was 12, she wrote and composed her first song along with her mother and brother which was, “ce n’était qu’un rêve” which means “it was nothing buta dream”. When her manager René Angélil listened to this song he liked it so much that he went into tears. Later in 1981, he mortgaged his home to release her debut studio album ‘La voix du bon dieu’. Which turned out to be huge success for her in Quebec.
Education:
When Celine was in Quebec, she used to go to Ecole St. Jade for schooling, which was a local elementary school. However, when she was around 12 years old, she dropped out of her school to focus and pursue her career in music. She studied in École Berlitz to polish her English speaking and writing skills in
Known for:
Celine is a popular singing star in pop, soft rock, chanson and R&B music genres. She has also bagged numerous prestigious awards for her singing and music.
Net worth $400 million:
The current net worth of Celine Dion is around $400 million. She is among the highest grossing self made women in the Forbes list. She has been ranked for having the second highest net worth in the Forbes list. She has remained on top of the list of highest earning women since quite long. Celine luxurious home in Henderson, Nevada in US is worth $18.6 million. She bought this house in 2002 and currently lives here. The luxury cars collection of Celine Dion is quite large. She owns luxurious wheels from Mercedes-Benz, Rolls Royce, Maserati, Audi and Bentley. Her songs and albums have been a huge hit and were commercially successful. Millions of copies of her hit singles and albums have been sold and she has grossed huge amount from them.
Personal life:
Celine Dion fell in love with her manager René Angélil. On December 17th 1994, they married each other in a sacred ceremony. Together they spent loving and happy years with each other and had three kids. But Angélil died due to cancer on 14 January, 2016. The beautiful life story of these two cans to a tragic end.