Eight months after the
passing of her beloved husband and manager, René Angelil, and her brother,
Daniel, to cancer, Céline Dion is—as the title of her newest single
says—recovering.
The pop icon, whose
next leg of her Las Vegas residency starts Sept. 20, sat down with Yahoo Global
News Anchor Katie Couric to speak about dealing with loss and moving forward
with her children. She also discussed her greatest hits, her new French
album, her upcoming English album, and her deep bond with her fans.
“It was
hard to go back on stage even when he was struggling with his last weeks,” Dion
said of Angelil. “Before leaving, he wanted to make sure that this thing had
started again. ‘She’s back on track. It’s working. People are responding.’ I
think he checked things out, made sure everything is OK.”
The biggest song of Dion’s
career, “My Heart Will Go On,” almost didn’t, in fact, go on. She didn’t like
the song at first, but Angelil persuaded her to at least make a demo. The rest
is history.
“That day, I did not warm up
my voice. I just took a black coffee with sugar,” Dion explained, demonstrating
how the caffeine affected her sound. But that didn’t stop her rendition from
becoming a worldwide smash hit. “I never re-sang the song. They took that
version, and they built an orchestra around it.”
With more than 20 years of
hits, Dion said that although she sometimes gets tired of her repertoire,
she’ll never stop singing the songs because of how happy they make her fans.
“I cannot erase what got me
here today,” she said. “I’m stuck with these songs for the rest of my life, in
a good way.”
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