


At that point, she hadn’t even married René.ĭion has achieved a reciprocal empathy with fans around the world (Marc Piasecki/Getty Images) I was just shy of seven, and the Charlemagne, Que., native was still unaware that her supernatural mezzo-soprano would spawn a 40-year career, 27 studio albums, two Vegas residencies, an abundance of critical eye-rolling and endless Saturday Night Live impressions.

I have a vivid memory of when Céline Dion entered my life-and not just because of the aggressively yellow branding of the Cambridge, Ont.-area Hy & Zel’s checkout where my mom impulse-bought The Colour of My Love. READ: Céline Dion, and why it’s all working out for her now Harmeet is gifted, but I know from a lifetime of experience who is really responsible for this. It is February 2020, the previous few months have been an uncharacteristically harrowing interpersonal time I very much hope to purge from my muscle memory, and I don’t know it yet, but lockdown (the first one) is less than a month away.ĭuring the opening notes of Because You Loved Me-“a jam,” per my new RMT-a stubborn knot near my right trapezius unglues, and I sob quietly for the next 50 minutes. The context isn’t an uncommonly successful date, but my first massage in a long while. When I hear this, I am face-down, shirtless and instantly ecstatic. “You can say no, but do you mind if I turn on my Céline Dion playlist?” 28, 2020 (Nina Westervelt/The New York Times/Redux Pictures) Dion during her performance at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, Feb.
