Transcript of a French TV show: Fréquenstar

[Victorine]

Hi everyone! I thought it'd be cool to make english-speaking people discover a French interview. Here is now a TV show, aired on M6, and hosted by Laurent Boyer. It was taped on July 30, 1998 in her home in Florida, in Palm Beach. In this show, you see a very simple Celine, on the shooting of the clip of Zora Sourit, when she went to see a doctor for her voice in New York (he puts a little camera inside Celine's throat and we see onscreen her vocal cords: it's so weird cuz while the whole room is in the dark, there's light in her throat !), exclusive footage of Celine recording the album S'il Suffisait D'aimer, the wonderful clip of Celine recording The Reason (when she yells so beautifully in the studio), we see her in a limo with René...

To me, it's so refreshing to see Celine back then and I really hope this TV show will, one day, be shared with all of you cuz it changes from the "american" Celine we've been watching on TV for a few years now, always hearing the same things (sorry to say that, but it's true).

As usual, I'll tell you it's not a perfect English, but I think it can be understood by everyone. By the way, it's quite long to do this, so it won't be updated everyday, so... Just enjoy!!!

 

 

[Jingle]

 

Adhémar: When she was very young, we’d see her grow up… we can’t even believe, we can’t believe yet that she’s here!

 

[My Heart Will Go On clip]

 

Laurent Boyer, the host: Here, at the summit of glory and success. With 220 million albums sold in the world, Celine Dion, the Titanic’s singer, allowed Fréquenstar an exclusive interview in Florida, where she lives with her manager and husband René Angélil. Radiant after 2 weeks of holidays, she let us join her on the shooting of her new clip from her new album written by Jean-Jacques Goldman, 3 years after the album D’eux. Goldman tells us their incredible complicity and opens the doors of the recording studio.

Celine, infant prodigy, 14th child of the family, was already a star at 13. She sang for the Pope, Bill Clinton, Barbra Streisand and Luciano Pavarotti, till her wedding, which rivaled Princess Diana’s. Celine speaks about this fairytale, opening her photo book and revealing a star you’ve never seen before. Always close to people, she confides today in Fréquenstar.

 

Laurent: Celine Dion! You’ve never blown your top, you’ve always stayed…

 

Celine: I think it’s due to… and fortunately, the way I was brought up, with the true values, the family. I think the family is an incredible richness. It gives you tools to be able to face the extraordinary moments, the harder times, the ups and downs.

 

[The song Destin is being played, with pictures from Celine’s childhood]

 

Thérèse: Right from her birth, Celine’s given us happy moments, it’s a big healthy baby.

 

[Destin]

 

Laurent: Born in Charlemagne, a village of 3,000 inhabitants near Montreal, Quebec, Celine is the last of 14 children, raised with love and music. At 13, Celine was already a national star with her first album La Voix Du Bon Dieu. In the Dions, the family gatherings, where they are, at times, a hundred, turns into choral. Her first audience, her first fans: her family.

 

Thérèse: When she was very young, she began singing, she impressed me almost as much as today. Everytime Celine comes to me, her personality, her songs, everything… it’s always more and more… it’s emtion. So she always amazes me.

 

[Tellement J’ai D’amour, singing for one of her niece will all the family around]

 

Laurent: What was the song you performed for your brother’s birthday, at 5 ?

 

Celine: It was…

 

Laurent: A classic ?

 

Celine: No… well it was a classic for us, Quebecers, yes. It was a song by France Castel (or Castelle), who was a female singer from Quebec, very popular at that time. And it was a song… I don’t even remember the title, but it was… it said (Celine sings) “Donnez-moi un peu de fil, des aiguilles, du coton, Il n’en faut pas plus pour réparer un coeur en pièces » (Give me some thread, needles and cotton, nothing more is needed to heal a broken heart) Well, it was simple, but I was only 5 years old.

 

[Extract from Radio Canada, in 1981, hosted by Michel Jasmin]

 

Michel Jasmin: The lady we introduce to you is 13, and she has a wonderful voice. It’s up to you to judge. Here is Celine Dion!

 

[Ce N’était Qu’un Rêve, live by Celine, with her pink dress]

 

Laurent: Celine, at 13, performs for the first time on Canadian TV the song Ce N’était Qu’un Rêve, written by her family. And it’s thanks to this song that Celine will be signed by René Angélil. Of the Dion children, all musicians, Celine is the only one who lives today on music. Thanks to the affection and support of her family, she’s made everyone’s dream come true.

 

Celine: I was lucky to have parents who were willing to help me open this book of dreams and try to give me some tools, to help me fulfill my dream. My mother who wrote my first song, for me… still today, more than ever, it’s so amazing. My parents didn’t go to school, they write down the way they hear, but at the same time, they have all the talents in the world. Very generous people, they’ve raised 14 children with nothing… but with everything at the same time.

 

Laurent: The heart is important, that’s the true value. What are the true values ?

 

Celine: Generosity, yes… I think that’s the most important thing. And it was given to us, and we have to try to take advantage of it, we have to build something around it.

 

Laurent: If I give you a pen and say to you “Sing now, it’s your microphone”.

 

(Celine laughs)

 

Laurent: Doesn’t it remind you anything ?

 

Celine: Yeah. It was maybe not as beautiful as this one, but it was worth it all the same! It was my very first important microphone I would say. When I met René for the first time, cuz René always says he discovered me but I it was who discovered him!

 

(Laugh)

 

Celine: Let’s get it straight! So I discovered René and to make a long story short, I came with my mother to meet René. I was 12 at that time and he asked me to sing in font of him cuz he had received, some weeks before, a tape with a demo of the song that my mother had written for me. And then, René took some time to listen to it. So my brother gave a call and told him “Mr. Angélil, I know you haven’t listened to the tape cuz you’ve would’ve phoned right away”. So he said “I’m gonna listen to it, I’ll call you right back”. So he listened to it and called back saying he was very interested in meeting us. So I went to René’s office with my mother.

 

René, in the 80’s: And she took a test, a test of artist: I asked her to sing the song right in front of me, in the office, alone. I knew it was very difficult, nothing’s harder than singing without any audience. So she said “You want me to sing, like that, with no microphone, no…” I said “Yes, yes, just like that”. And I showed her my pen and said “Here you are, this is your microphone. Do as if there were 1,000 people”

 

Celine: So he gave me this pen and said to me “Imagine there are many people here, you’re on stage, there are balconies everywhere, people looking at you, everywhere”. What he said to me was such a pleasure, I had people looking at me from everywhere and people shouting my name, I was… I loved him so much. He treated me as a grown-up, respectfully. I loved the way he talked to me, very seriously. Right from the start, I’d seen he was a person who thought big. So I sang the song Ce N’était Qu’un Rêve, the song my mother had written… and with a tear running down his cheek. My mother was very impressed and I watched her, saying to myself “I think I got him”, and that was the aim: to share the emotion I was feeling with another person, who could feel my emotion. And I thought “If it works, I can sing for an audience”. And we began our story together. And here we are in Florida, almost 17, 20 years later, I don’t even know…

 

Laurent: What a beautiful story!

 

Celine: Yes, wonderful!

 

[Footage of their wedding in 1994]

 

Host of the show airing live from the Basilica: Here we are, live, we can see Celine and René. I wonder if they’re really conscious of what’s going on, it’s so titanic, it’s very beautiful!

 

Laurent: You say “My private life is my career”.

 

Celine: Yes.

 

Laurent: That is to say there was an intimate blend between them, you could not dissociate the two of them.

 

Celine: I think that through the years, I’m able to make a difference. And more importantly, it’s a need. When I was 15 or 20, my private life and my show business life were one. I gave myself… But now, at 30, I want a family life, moments when I’m alone, with René… I need to have intimate moments. And I need to see the difference between work and private life. René and I, the family, the holidays, be at home, have a break, do other things. I need this more and more.

 

[Footage of houses, streets and golf courses in Florida]

 

Celine: I think it important, in everyone’s life, to have some spare time, some rest, some holidays. And golfing brought me good, in my life. To be in touch with the nature. It’s a concentration, all the same, for me it’s a meditation. I had no physical activities before, save shopping, which…

 

Laurent: Window-shopping, walking, shopping!

 

Celine: To enter some stores, and…

 

(Laugh)

 

[Footage seldom shown on TV, with Celine and her sister Manon, in a limo, in N.Y.]

 

Celine: Hello, I’m Celine Dion, live from New York with my sister Manon!

 

Manon: Hi!

 

Celine: Shopping!!

 

[We see Celine choosing some clothes, pulling a face when she doesn’t like]

 

Laurent: Did you manage to put aside this private life ? Did you manage to preserve it or have you always been harried ? Was there any moment you did preserve your private life. Now, when you talk about René, in addition you’re married and everything, so it’s a life even more, umm… But did you have to protect yourself, for some time ?

 

Celine: Well, at the very beginning of our relationship, we wanted to keep it secret a little bit. For us, because it’s… we tried to keep it secret. Cuz we thought “it’s the only thing we have, that we can control”.

 

[Celine and René in 1985, where they are backstage, before going on the stage of the Olympia. René’s reading letters and notes]

 

René: There is Nana Mouskouri.

 

Celine: AAHhh!

 

René: “I think about you. Kiss.” Michel Jasmin, René and Nathalie Simard.

 

Host at that time, introducing Celine: She’s only 16, an exceptional voice, it’s her first great appearance in Paris. Would you please welcome Mrs. Celine Dion!

 

[D’amour Ou D’amitié, live by Celine]

 

Laurent: At the Olympia, in 1984, after 5 weeks doing the first part of Patrick Sébastien, Celine becomes successful with D’amour Ou D’amitié. A text that seems to be written for the one who will no longer leave her: René Angélil, her producer, follows her as a shadow. He’ll be her manager. 14 years later, he’s still here. Meanwhile, the producer became the partner, the friend, the confidant, and then her husband.

 

[Various moments with Celine and René]

 

Celine: At one point, you’re so in love, you feel like shouting it out loud from the rooftops and you think… Well, we’re always on TV together, in every show… We are under the spotlight, so it’s better to share.

 

[Footage of Celine at the World Music Awards 1996, in her limo…]

 

Laurent: You had a break, for 18 months, with René. Well René made you have this break for 18 months, at a point, in your career, to…

 

Celine: Yes, right after I turned 18.

 

Laurent: …to work on yourself, to learn English, first, to work on your look, to have your teeth fixed, to try to go into retreat a little bit, to give you some more…

 

Celine: Yeah, I had a teething problem at that time. But at one point, you know, in your teens, you have the nose of an adult, the mouth of a child, juvenile spots, hair you don’t know if it’s gonna be long or curly. I mean it happens in everyone’s life! It’s the adolescence! You don’t know if you’re a woman or a child!

 

Laurent: About her look, Celine will be in search for a long time. The little girl from the Province of Quebec dreams of singing with Michael Jackson, but her incredible voice is already here, almost too powerful for a 16-year-old teen, who makes her first TV appearance with Michel Drucker.

 

[Mon Ami M’a Quitté, live on Champs Elysées, in 1984]

 

Laurent : When we have a look at your first appearances, when you arrived in France, your first appearances, and Celine Dion today, there has been, all the same, a work on your look, on your physiognomy, your physical, you anatomy.

 

Celine: Yes, but I didn’t work it. It’s something that became natural. Of course, when you’re 13, you look at pictures of yourself, you think “My goodness, I can’t believe I wore this and I looked like that! Can you see the hair, it’s nonsense!” When you’re 18, you look at yourself, you thought you were beautiful, in this moment. You look at yourself at 18 and you think “I can’t believe I could have make-up like that! I thought it looked beautiful! I thought it was…” It was like that cuz everyone was like that! It was fashionable, “up-to-date”. Fashion changes so fast! And I like to follow the stream, I love to follow fashion! (sorry I know it’s very English the way I say it!!)

 

[Je Danse Dans Ma Tête, with Celine with different hairstyles, but of course just a very few !!]

 

Celine: So the break we took, the 18 months, yes I had my teeth fixed cuz I needed it, and my hair cuz I wanted to have a change, and… at 18, it’s important! Suddenly, you feel like a woman and you think you are everything and that you have all the answers. So I said to myself “I shorten skirts, I wear jeans, T-shirts, I curl my hair, I put some mascara, I have my teeth fixed and I sing English! (she pulls a funny face, like the way she did on the Ellen show saying “I’m a Vegan, you know!!”)

 

[Where Does My Heart Beat Now]

 

Celine, back in the 90’s: I didn’t expect to reach #4 on the Billboard with Where Does My Heart Beat Now. It’s a first experience for me, in English. It was a great surprise, cuz I didn’t expect that at all. I think everyone dreams of being famous in the USA and to go as far as possible! I can’t believe it yet, on the Billboard. It’s a beautiful dream and I hope it will continue.

 

Laurent: Celine is now ready to face the merciless competition and to set out to conquer the American market. After having received an Oscar for Beauty And The Beast, she comes back 3 years later with a French album by Jean-Jacques Goldman. She’s henceforth famous in the USA. Good revenge for the one whom the Americans, in the meantime, have to learn how to pronounce her name.

 

[Extract from The Tonight Show, in 95]

 

[J’irai Où Tu Iras, live with J.-J. Goldman on a French Canadian show]

 

Laurent: Goldman renews Celine’s repertoire, opens new paths to Celine’s voice. Celine finally unveils herself, J.-J. shows up. Goldman, the discreet one, who generally shuns medias, accompanies everywhere the singer, even in Quebec.

 

[interview from this show]

 

Host: Welcome to Montreal!

 

J.-J.: Thank you!

 

Celine: He hasn’t come here for 10 years! He gotta come more often!

 

Host: Is it the first time in 10 years you come here ?

 

J.-J.: It’s the first time a girl invites me as well!

 

(Laugh and some “hot” cheerings)

 

Celine: I met Jean-Jacques, we fell in love. We decided to live a moment together. And it was so wonderful that we wanted to extend it, simply. So, you know, not to trying to improve anything… D’eux is the album D’eux. And the album D’eux will always remain the album D’eux. It’s a first kiss, it’s a first meeting, it’s a first. Nothing will ever remove the emotion and the beautiful moment of this album.

 

J.-J.: I agree with her, it’s… You can do other things, even things that might work better but you don’t redo the first one. The first one always has a special taste cuz it’s the album of her rediscovering in France, it’s… Moreover, it went hand in hand with her international consecration. So I think… for her and for me, for her even more, this album will have a particular taste, the taste of the very first one.

 

[Je Sais Pas clip]

[Celine's Wife]

Thanks!

[Krys]

thank you

[Mario]

Thanks!!!=)

[Bellamy]

very good. I'll watch this video with your transcript again very soon.

could you nake a transcript for Frequenstar 2003 too?

[Victorine]

I'll do it as soon as I'm finished with this transcript!!

[beautyroses]

thanks,nice.

[Victorine]

[Je Sais Pas clip]

 

Laurent : 6 million albums sold in the world. A record for a French album.

 

Laurent: Why did you want to write for Celine, and when did it happen ?

 

J.-J.: Well, since, since,… forever! I think as soon as I did the album for Halliday, in 1985, I was asked “Who would you like to write for ?” I answered for Celine Dion. People hardly knew who she was, you know.

 

[Pour Que Tu M’aimes Encore clip]

 

J.-J. : II wanted to work for her, for a long time. And she didn’t really know who I was. She merely knew my songs, but she never asked. She never said “Would J.-J. Goldman write songs for me!” I had the feeling to know what suited her, and to be able to help her. And I hadn’t 36 singers for these kinds of songs, I wanted to write for a voice such as Celine’s.

 

[Pour Que Tu M’aimes Encore clip]

 

J.-J. : I think she needed a vocal direction, I think she had a way of singing that was a bit old. And I felt I could bring her something to modernize her in her way of singing.

 

Laurent: What do you mean by “modernizing her voice” ? It means she sang like Ginette Reno, like a powerful Canadian ?

 

J.-J.: She used to sing as her references. And her references were French, and French references in Canada are very very… traditional variety, all the same. It’s more, let’s say, of the generation of Mireille Mathieu, Michelle Torre, etc… A way of singing a bit traditional. It’s a good thing, but it no longer fits to nowadays’ ears.

 

[On the shooting of Pour Que Tu M’aimes Encore]

 

Celine : He offered things and I was impressed because… we don’t know each other! You know, I mean, we… I know him as an artist, but I don’t know him privately. He proposed me his songs and he knew, he felt what I wanted to sing about. But I’m not a writer, I’m a singer.

 

[River Deep Mountain High]

 

Jean-Jacques Goldman: She had sung a song that really impressed me, it was “River Deep Mountain High” in a show in the USA, live with just 3-4 musicians behind her. And you realize the whole register, you build everything around the voice in fact.

 

Laurent: You say about your show, I read it somewhere, that if you wouldn’t have been able to sing, you would’ve had a model career.

 

Celine: A model career.

 

Laurent: Yes… No ? Ok.

 

Celine: No, cuz I don’t have the qualities to be a model. But I’m fascinated by this job. I love the spotlights, I love clothes, and at the same time, to be a model means to wear a clothe, to be the best and to walk with self-confidence, and to strut on a stage. So it’s about stage, clothes, spotlights, the audience’s look upon you…

 

Laurent: It’s a show!

 

Celine: It’s show business, and of course I love it. So “I would’ve loved to be a model” doesn’t mean to do this job because, as I told you, I couldn’t, but it’s very similar to me. That’s why I’m very attracted.

 

[Footage of Celine putting make-up before going onstage, from Live A Paris, in 95]

 

Celine: When I was young… well I mean when I was younger, when I was about 5, 6 years old, I didn’t see me sing necessarily alone, all the time, a song after the other, just like that, all the time, all alone, no. I pictured myself singing and dancing at the same time, like (she sings) “Everybody dance now!!”

(Cheering and applause)

Celine: Yep, yep. Well sometimes, it happened, I seized my hairbrush and I imagined it was a microphone, and I looked at myself in the mirror, and then I sang and danced “Everybody dance!”

(Applause)

 

Laurent: You have rituals with your musicians, Mego, a lot of things going on…

 

Celine: With René as well, yes.

 

Laurent: Something about the thumb.

 

Celine: I gotta touch the thumbs to share the energy, I give them 100% of my energy, I need theirs too. We work together. We also say we love each other… I’m not gonna tell you all of my secrets, but… kiss on the left side then on the right, I touch the hands in a particular way… little things of superstition that I do, that I’ve been developing through the years. It’s a security. Cuz when you’re onstage, even if there are 25 musicians, or 10 or 30, you feel their energy and it’s very important, but at the same time you feel you’re the guide. And it’s very impressing.

 

[Love Can Move Mountains, from Live A Paris]

 

Laurent: Do you have stage fright, Celine ?

 

Celine: Yes. I’ve always had and I think I’ll always have. All the time. Not during the whole show but right before going onstage, there’s an elevator in my stomach, that never stops at any floor, it’s…

 

Laurent: It’s a unique feeling.

 

Celine: Incredible. You control it, after the first note. Then I feel home, I feel well.

 

[Quand On A Que L’amour, from Live A Paris]

 

Laurent : Used to singing love, Celine accepted the game of the mirrors and answer our love quiz.

 

[We see Celine seated in her chair, with a mirror in front of her, in the host’s stead]

 

Laurent’s voice: Do you like to say “I love you” ?

 

Celine: I love it. Yes, I love it. I love you!!

 

Laurent’s voice: What is disgusting (there’s no equivalent in English for rédhibitoire) in a man according to you ?

 

Celine: Well, I don’t find very very pretty… not only in a man, but… when people talk and they have saliva, very acid, and it’s white here, around the mouth. It isn’t very interesting, no… You see what I mean, don’t you ?!

 

Laurent: Yeah I see: who foams.

 

(Laugh)

 

Celine: Who foams!! That’s it.

 

Laurent: Do you believe in love at first sight ?

 

Celine: Yes.

 

Laurent: The ideal man ?

 

Celine: Yes.

 

Laurent: What do you think of a woman who cries ?

 

Celine: Well a woman crying is less touching than a man, for me. Cuz I think women cry much more easily and more often, and man hold their emotions back. But when a man cries, I think… It’s like more seldom, and… It’s gotta be grave or sad, or funny, or… I don’t know, I find it beautiful all the same. The people who cry, I think, are blessed, and they are sensitive. I find this beautiful.

 

Laurent’s voice: What is a sexy lady for you ?

 

Celine: I think it’s a plus in your life. It’s fun and beautiful to see, it’s a plus. If you’re sexy, you’re lucky.

 

Laurent: Are you jealous ?

 

Celine: Yes. To some point, but…

 

Laurent’s voice: What’s the craziest thing you’ve ever done by jealousy ?

 

Celine: I don’t know. You should ask my husband I think! No, nothing in particular cuz my husband is very… perfect!

 

Laurent’s: Do you believe you can be faithful all your life long ?

 

Celine: Yes.

 

Laurent: Do you think you love only once in a lifetime ?

 

Celine: No.

 

Laurent’s voice: You do the first step or you wait until being stepped on your foot ?

 

Celine: For sure I do the first step!

 

(Laugh)

 

Laurent’s voice: Do you prefer leave or being left ?

 

Celine: If I leave it’s because I’m not fine, and I’m happy to leave and… I have enough character not to be stepped on my foot and say to myself “I do the first step” and I leave. But at the same time, I wouldn’t want it to happen!

 

Laurent’s voice: Have you ever suffered in love ?

 

Celine: Yes.

 

Laurent’s voice: And made suffer ?

 

Celine: No.

 

Laurent’s voice (jokingly) Liar!

 

(Laugh)

 

Laurent’s voice: And the sentence that is the death of love for you ? (no equivalent in English)

 

Celine: Love can’t be worn out.

 

Laurent’s voice: Thank you Celine. That’s a love quiz.

 

 

Celine, afterwards: Hey, the question was…

 

Laurent: Which one ?

 

Celine: Can I have a look ?

 

Laurent: Yeah!

 

Celine: Great. Darling can I ask you ?! Oh yeah, look: Do you think you can love only once in a lifetime ?

 

(René puts his hand on his chest, smiling)

 

Celine: Don’t start with… you do see what I mean!!

 

(Celine and René kiss and hug, while S’il Suffisait D’aimer is being played)

 

[We see both of them going out, hand in hand]

[SFchick]

Thanks so much!!!

 

Wonderful

[Koolan]

Thanks again Victorine

[florence5829]

thank you so very mucH!!!!!!!!!!

[Celine's Wife]

Thanks!

[Johana]

thank you very much for translate

[Shonah]

Thank you so much for the transcript. I cannot get enough of Céline she's like a drug that i am addicted to and i don't think i ever want to get rid of that feeling.

[ula]

thanks

[Victorine]

Sorry guys, I was on holiday!!

 

Laurent: What seems to be a romantic walk in Palm Beach still and always work. Celine and René are heading for the shooting of the new clip and we are invited. Along the ride, the conversation goes on.

 

Laurent, getting into the limo: Sorry ladies and gentlemen, here I am!

 

Celine: Mind your back.

 

Laurent: What kind of music do you listen to ?

 

Celine: I don’t listen to music so much. From time to time, occasionally, when I need to get back in touch with my inner self, or in the car, I love to put a CD, in the car when I drive, music out loud, I love it. But at home, I prefer listening to the water of the pool falling, open the door and listen to the others talk, the silence I like this as well. There are many male and female singers I love such as Annie Lenox, Max Well, I… what do I listen to ?

 

René (almost whispering): Frank Sinatra.

 

Celine: Lately, it’s true, we love to listen to Frank Sinatra (she sings When I was 17, It was a very good year)

 

[Frank Sinatra singing It Was A Very Good Year]

 

Laurent: We seldom see you on TV, is it because you don’t have enough time ?

 

(René speaks)

 

Celine: He’s got a problem with his voice so I’ma repeat. It’s not good to do much TV. At some point, when you’re successful, you music keeps being played, you’re in the newspapers, you do too much TV, people get bored, it’s to much! I don’t want people to be bored with seeing me or listening to my music. I want to sing for a long time.

 

René: I met Celine when she was so young…

 

(Celine holds the little microphone out to René)

 

(Laugh)

 

René: The level was so high. When she was young, her idol was Barbra Streisand. So it was… ‘twas a high level. And actually, it’s… not to do anything to earn money for example, always keep doing what you love and do something that will bring you, within yourself, a lot of satisfaction, and, you know, it will automatically please the audience.

 

Celine: But René’s always had a beautiful vision. He always thought “If I had a million dollars in my pocket, right now, here, would I accept it or not ?” It was often “no”, but often…

 

René: Take it from me, I hadn’t 1 million dollars!

 

Celine: Neither had I.

 

Laurent: You mentioned cinema, Celine, saying you’d like to do a movie. Were there any offers ?

 

Celine: There were, a good while ago. But it’s about finding the right moment to do it, the perfect moment. I think that after this tour, maybe, I’ll be able to take a long break and come back with a movie. I’d love to.

 

Laurent: How do you imagine yourself in a movie ? Or what kind of films…

 

Celine: I love dramatic stories. I love this.

 

Laurent: Yeah ?

 

Celine: I love drama.

 

(She smiles to René)

 

Celine: There’s no story in particular but… there are offers, lately, very interesting that may trigger some things. I hope.

 

[From Des Fleurs Sur le Neige: Celine Dion, main performer in the serie Des Fleurs Sur la Neige, speaks about her debut as an actress and her difficult character Elysa.

 

Celine: I’ve always wanted to do cinema. I already had some offers, to play my own story for example. I could’ve said yes and could’ve done it, but I wasn’t fascinated, I didn’t really want to do such a thing, to play my own story. But when I received this scenario, Des Fleurs Sur La Neige, believe me, there was no hesitation.]

 

[Clip from the serie]

 

Laurent: Your career, now, it’s been a long time. I think there are 219 awards. I know you don’t like figures but it’s quite a long career all the same.

 

Celine: But, you know, we don’t live with it. I don’t think about these things, you know. Every day…

 

Laurent: Fortunately! You don’t say to yourself…

 

Celine: You don’t wake up in the morning thinkin’ “I’m up to 219 trophies” or… you wake up…

 

René: That’s funny, it’s the first time I hear this.

 

Celine: I didn’t know… 219…

 

(Laugh)

 

[Extract from the Yamaha World Popular Song Festival in Tokyo in 1982]

 

Laurent: On her first trip to Tokyo, Celine received the gold medal of the Yamaha Festival, an award among others. But in 1990 during the ADISQ ceremony in Quebec, Celine refused the English-speaking Artist of the Year award. Any comment ?

 

Celine: If one day a record in Chinese…

 

René: Well…

 

Celine: The Chinese Singer of the Year!!

 

(Laugh)

 

Celine: Doesn’t make sense!

 

[We see them going out of the car]

 

Laurent: It’s 9 p.m. on this July’s night and the day of work continues. Celine’s just arrived at the studio where she’s waited to shoot the clip of Zora Sourit, first video clip from her new album S’il Suffisait D’aimer.

 

[Celine is putting out her cosmetics from her bag]

 

Laurent: Celine’s been faithful for many years to her stylist, her hairdresser. But surprise, no make-up artist for this clip.

 

Laurent: You do make-up ?

 

Celine: Yes! Not all the time, but for simple videos, I don’t have to get changed, there’s no particular things to do.

 

[We see Annie Horth, her stylist]

 

Celine: Here is Annie, who attends to my clothes, Yuhi (mustn’t be the right spelling) who do my hair, Mya my friend, who’s in charge of my program tour as well.

 

[We see them laughing, joking. Celine undoes (mustn’t be the right verb, sorry!) her hair]

 

Annie (talking to the hairdresser as she sees Celine with her hairstyle): Nice job!

 

Yuhi: Thank you!

 

Celine: Excellent!

 

(Laugh)

 

Yuhi: Thank you Annie. I’ve been flying for 12 hours just to do that!

 

(Laugh)

(René comes)

 

Celine: Watch out! The boss is here!

 

Yuhi: Watch out, gotta work!!

 

(Laugh)

 

Celine: I never know what to do with my hair, I’ve always… I try to be as beautiful as can be, when you go on tour for 2 years, you want your hair to be the most beautiful, the best make-up, beautiful costume… And I always think “I’d love to have beautiful hair” and I don’t know, onstage my hair’s getting curly a lot, and… I always say to myself “If I go, after 3 or 4 songs, the hair coming down on my face, starting to curly” and everything, I need their advice.

 

Yuhi: Short hair, short hair dynamic.

 

Celine: Hair in the face, till you can’t see your face!

 

Yuhi: I don’t know, I love all the hairstyles.

 

Celine: You don’t like, you know, big…

 

Yuhi: No, I hate.

 

Celine: Simple!

 

Yuhi: Simple, natural.

 

The man filming : Do you flip through magazines ?

 

Celine: Oooh!! You have a look in magazines, and you gonna have to get out cuz I have to change!!

 

(Laugh)

 

Celine: Bye!

 

Laurent: French producer, international staff, the diva’s charming. She apologizes for her 2 hours’ delay.

 

Celine: Hi, guys! Thank you for waiting and thank you for being here!

 

(On the set)

Celine: You tell me if I exaggerate or not enough or too much.

 

Celine: Tonight, it should be quite simple for me. Because it’s a big close-up for the most part of the song. So we’ll have like 15 takes.

 

[Celine talking and working]

 

Celine: When I sing the song, it will be at a greater speed, so that they can add the shots afterwards. They will accelerate the song.

 

[Celine performs the “strange version” of Zora Sourit]

 

Celine: I don’t think, like, I’m an artist who’s gonna set the fashion. The way I dress, I try to look the best I can personally cuz it’s always pleasant to be at the top physically, for sure. But I prefer to be good than be pretty. If I can be both good and pretty, it’d be great!

 

(Laugh)

 

Celine: It’s like a performance, when I sing, if the technique is not here, but the emotion is here, it’s better. So if the beauty’s not here but the emotion is, it’s better.

 

Laurent: If you keep being good, you’re pretty!

 

Celine: Differently… Yes, yes! It can be!

(She smiles beautifully)

 

[Celine watches her clip]

 

Celine: This is me?! It looks like I put on weight! That’s good.

 

Celine: It’s important to be self-critical, that’s how you improve yourself.

 

[Celine is called to shoot one more time]

 

Celine: Oh yeah, absolutely, no problem!

 

[Footage of Celine on the set]

 

Laurent: After this commercial, everything behind the scenes of the new album written by J.-J. Goldman, the big hits, and if you wanna know how to sing like Celine Dion, she was willing to unveil her little secrets (Clip of Celine teaching us how to sneeze, laugh, cough…)

 

[COMMERCIAL]

[Hilde]

that must have been lots of work girl!!!!

[Salla]

Thank you!

[Céline's Blues]

It's a lil off topic but I HAVE to say it. The name of the show "Fréquenstar" is just too damn funny! As soon as anybody mentions it here on the forum I always have to think about that Italian animated series Yataman (which I LOOOOVED as kid) and "Fréquenstar" seems to be one of the name of the big robots Yataman always used to fight against the Drognio evil chracters. I am always like Yata-yata-YATAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA-Maaaaaaan! Freeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeequenstaaaaaarrrrr!

[Victorine]

Laurent: Here we are in Palm Beach, 200 kilometers away from Miami, Florida, for a special Fréquenstar with Celine Dion.

 

Laurent: So you worked on everything: your voice,…

 

Celine: Always!

 

Laurent: It goes very far cuz there are moments in complete abstinence of speech, a kind of aphasia, so that for a long time, a month for instance, you don’t speak. Sometimes you don’t speak a day long for you to preserve your voice, to work.

 

Celine: Yes.

 

Laurent: Do you have tips to preserve your voice ?

 

Celine: Yes.

 

Laurent: It’s crazy. It’s a permanent work !

 

Celine: It’s a work but I’m high-paid to do it! And I think it’s the least I can do. People come to see me, buy records, I have to do the best I can.

 

[We see Celine training her voice, during the Let’s Talk About Love recording session, and she sounds like an opera singer]

[Celine opens her mouth and the doctor introduces a little light into her mouth, the room is in deep darkness

Celine: It’s like a skeleton!]

 

Celine: The 3-week period, when I didn’t talk, I had a problem with my voice, I had an inflammation on my vocal cords. My vocal teacher, my singing teacher and my vocal doctor said to me “If you wanna sing all your life long, you have no choice, you have to do this: you gotta stop singing and speaking”. Because the fact of singing and speaking, it’s the same move.

 

Laurent: It vibrates.

 

Celine: Yes, so the vocal cords stop moving, at rest, they mustn’t touch one another. So for 3 weeks, it has been one of the most beautiful moments in my life. I happened to be peaceful, you know, something about meditation, but I have the feeling that everything was, like, in slow motion. And when you find something beautiful, you say “it always goes too fast”. I felt like I had all those people around me, we went to the beach, we were on holidays, and I saw the waves of the ocean going in slow motion. And I thought… I had reached, inside of me, a wisdom, a serenity, I don’t know how to name it, a calmness, a rest. I was at the lowest.

 

Laurent: In slow motion, in…

 

Celine: I was… Someone would’ve done this (the act of prodding with the finger) I would’ve jumped. I was completely skin-deep. It was a beautiful moment.

 

Laurent: You appreciated it.

 

Celine: Oooh incredible! It was a meeting, I met myself for the first time.

 

Laurent: It mustn’t be that easy for René because… to communicate with the others, you had pieces of paper…

 

Celine: Ah no! For René it’s been the most beautiful moment as well!

 

(Laugh)

 

Laurent: He was quiet!

 

Celine: I had nothing to say, I didn’t speak a word, I didn’t cough, I didn’t laugh, I didn’t sing, I didn’t quarrel with him, everything was beautiful, everything was perfect!!

 

(We see René nodding with a smile)

 

Celine: He loved these 3 weeks, it’s the most beautiful moment of his life. And then he wanted to marry me!

 

(Laugh)

 

Laurent: He thought “if she stays like this, I can marry her, she won’t tell anything”.

 

Celine: That’s it, the perfect wife, she doesn’t talk!

 

[Celine in a recording session, never before seen]

[Celine rehearsing Treat Her Like A Lady. We can see her bodyguard (must be Eric Burrows) laughing as Celine is doing, you know, “Yo!!” with her hands]

 

Laurent: How do you sneeze and cough preserving your vocal cords ?

 

Celine: I used to sneeze like that (“Aatchoom!” Well I exaggerate, I can’t, but…

 

Laurent: Like anyone!

 

Celine: But with the voice, you know, it was like all the letters of the alphabet, so… Now it’s only the sound, so it’s (we can hear the blow) It’s like this. When I laughed, before, I was like “Aah ah hah!” I laughed so loud and it was amazing! Now I can laugh but I use my hands a lot, I hit on the tables a lot, I laugh like this (she laughs) “I can’t believe it!!”

 

(Laugh)

 

Celine: If I cough… if for example, I eat something and I choke. The worst thing for a singer is, I think, to laugh and choke. Cuz it’s terrible. So if I cough, I’m like (she puts her hand before her mouth and coughs very softly) instead of doing “Uuh UUUHh!”

 

Laurent: Yeah, forcing…

 

Celine: It’s to give an example.

 

Laurent: And it’s a work, it’s part of… it’s the everyday work to preserve your voice.

 

Celine: Exactly.

 

Laurent: I even learnt you had a way of… to reach some notes, especially high notes, you turn slightly your head.

 

Celine: I mean, on stage, my vocal cords are at rest when I sing on one side. Cuz if you sing (she sings a high note stretching her neck) and…, it’s terrible. But if you sing like this, it relaxes as well. Why, it depends on how you’re made inside, it depends… on the techniques also.

 

Laurent: And you have lots of tips. Bicarbonate, salt, it must be a menagerie when you set out. I hear you have salted biscuits to salivate a bit more.

 

Celine: Yes. When you’re nervous, before every show, the tongue becomes very thick, the saliva is very acid and the mouth becomes…

 

[Footage of Celine having her drink before she records a song for S’il Suffisait D’aimer I think]

 

Laurent: Furry, dry.

 

Celine: Very dry, and that…

 

Laurent: Is not good.

 

Celine: Not very interesting! And you need much saliva to sing cuz otherwise when it’s dry, your voice can be strained 2 songs later. I can’t drink every 2 minutes on stage. So I eat a salted biscuit. It gathers the mucous of the throat, and without doing (she clears her throat). That’s the worst thing also. The frog you have in your throat, the slender thread, “rrroow, vvrooo” Never do it!

 

Laurent: Ok. I’ma be given a roasting!

 

Celine: It protects. The voice is a bit tired. And we protect the vocal cord. The tiny thread formed to protect. If you need to remove it to be able to sing a note, not to branch off… cuz sometimes if you have it, you’re like (she sings) you have to, softly (she coughs very very softly) and then swallow. Swallow, not just… but very tight.

 

Laurent: To feel it.

 

Celine: You gotta feel it, and these mucous membranes…

 

Laurent: I feel like drinking now!

 

(He drinks)

 

Celine: Yeah. It’s as if you removed all the dry skin under your feet, if you remove too much, you… it’s open, it’s not good. There must remain some left, it’s here to protect something.

 

Laurent: You see that everything, all the same, there are tips everywhere. You care a lot.

 

Celine: Everything’s done for something.

 

Laurent: There’s a reason to everything.

 

Celine: The salt is to give saliva. And if you can’t eat salt, cuz you’re stage and there’s no time, you bite the tip of your tongue, very strong. Without harm, but… They’re all trying!

 

(Everybody in the room laughs)

 

Celine: Don’t hurt yourself.

 

[Performing All By Myself in the recording studio]

[Ania]

Thanks so much for posting that!!! And I'm so glad it's in English, hehe

[Victorine]

[Montreal, 1991:

Celine: I was in New York, my vocal teacher is in N.Y., the doctor for my voice is in N.Y. as well. And at some moment, I was having a lesson so I was singing with my teacher and my doctor comes to me and says “Celine, come quickly, you gotta meet someone” and he was very proud. He’s quite aged and he’s very proud. He comes to see me and says “Come, you gotta meet someone, it’s great!” So of course I wanna meet him, I can’t wait to see who he is. I enter the hall, I can’t believe it, he’s the greatest singer in the world, I was very impressed, Pavarotti was right in front of me. So I said, you know he’s not that small, he must be I guess… I don’t know, he’s very tall, he is very impressing.]

 

[Celine performing with Luciano Pavarotti in 1998 in Modena, Italia, on June the 9th]

 

Laurent: And the dream came true. Pavarotti will sing in duet with Celine Dion on the album of all the meetings, Let’s Talk About Love, in 1997. It’s a commercial and artistic summit: 25 million copies sold.

 

[Recording of The Reason, you know, with the very high notes a cappella]

 

Laurent Boyer: For this album, she will also record The Reason, a song written by another living legend, Carole King.

 

[Clip with the Gibb brothers and then with Barbra Streisand]

 

Laurent: Barbra Streisand is the model. She will be the final touch to the achievement of a dream. Celine considers this album “the album of her life”.

 

Laurent: Celine, we come to a new collaboration with Jean-Jacques. I assume it’s a desire, a harmony, there’s a partnership that works but it must be beyond that.

 

Celine: It’s a love continuity in fact. This new album is something else. I cannot tell you that it’s better, that it’s even more beautiful, more… I can’t tell you that, I’d love…

 

Laurent: There’s a true continuity, you’re right.

 

Celine: I’d rather like to let you, you the audience, decide if you like it, more or less, if you wanna go on with this kind of emotion. All I can say is that, for me, it was a love continuity with him, a great pleasure again.

 

[Footage of Celine]

 

Laurent: In the spring of 98, Celine recorded in Paris, in one week, the voices of S’il Suffisait D’aimer. 12 songs, 10 written and composed by J.-J. Goldman. Between them two, 3 years after D’eux, it’s the great complicity of the reunion.

 

[Footage really really great!]

 

J.-J.: There are 2 qualities I think, that are incredible. First of all, an amazing memory. You rehearse with her a song for 15-20 minutes, 6 months later she remembers with detail you had forgotten. It’s a gift.

 

[Footage]

 

J.-J.: And she’s a musician. She’s the first singer, the first voice I work with, she’s able to do… who offers lots of things. She suggests second voices, different melodies… instinctively. As a musician who’s given a guitar part and who suddenly begins a solo. She uses her voice as an instrument with an incredible ear.

 

[both of them in the recording studio, discovering S’il Suffisait D’aimer]

 

Celine: When it’s well written, it’s easy to sing.

 

Laurent: Nice!

 

Celine: Yes.

 

Laurent: Is that how you get the songs anyway ?

 

Celine: I didn’t ask J.-J. anything. I let him, like at the first moment, inspire, every day, about what’s going on in my life, in my everyday life, in fact. I didn’t ask him “Write a song for me about the misfortune of…”

 

Laurent: He’s part of your life, Celine.

 

Celine: Yeah, that’s it. Through my interviews, through my meetings with him, through the moments and the shows, what he sees about me. He got to know me, he still does. He writes about that also.

 

[Recording session of On Ne Change Pas]

 

Laurent: On Ne Change Pas. You don’t change the child you are. That’s a very beautiful song.

 

J.-J.: It suits her.

 

Laurent: The little girl who finds herself again, her…

 

J.-J.: It’s courageous to have… I asked Celine if she’s willing to sing it, she laughed, she said “Of course!”

 

Laurent: And Charlemagne, the town she comes from.

 

J.-J.: A little girl from the country and you can see her in the hotel, in the stores, with make-up, everything. As soon as you scratch a little bit, and you talk to her, she is the little girl from the country again, who’s cold and who wants to sing and eat the world and…

 

[Various clips of Celine in the recording studio. After singing On Ne Change Pas :

Celine : I love this song. Love it!

J.-J.: Good news, good news! One day, Celine, you will say “I hate this song!”

(Smiling)

Celine: Maybe!]

 

Celine: I think J.-J., the fact that we know each other well now, he knows I’m moved by what’s going on throughout the world, and… not feeling good about oneself but the misfortune of people annoys us. It does something to us, we’d like to settle everything, I’d like to change the world! Many people would like to change the world, but it doesn’t happen from one day to the next, you can’t do it alone. And I think that by hearing me speak about… throughout the world and… I’d not want borders, wars, sick children, diseases, pain, if loving each other were enough, if loving were enough (s’il suffisait d’aimer in French) I would make a dream of this world, an eternity, I’d make a world of this dream, an eternity.

 

[short clip of S’il Suffisait D’aimer]

 

Celine: If only love could… could be the most important thing, if it could settle all the problems in the world, it would be wonderful. Because it’s the most important thing, love is the most important thing. But I wanna try to convince myself that all the same even if you didn’t receive, I think, you are able to find some love within you, really, and to build it. I think. I’m maybe misplaced to say that because I had everything: an extraordinary life, life has been very kind to me. So it’s difficult for me to say “When you didn’t receive any love…” I’m sure you can try to give some, to receive some or to share some, all the same. Maybe it is necessary to be in those shoes to actually live it. I’m lucky to be able to share love through music. Because I think when you have some music in your life, there’s joy, there’s some room to receive something.

 

[Recording of Je Chanterai, with the choir]

 

J.-J.: She’s happy when she sings. She sings either before 10,000 or 100 people, or in a taxi or in a hotel, bar-piano, she sings.

 

[short clip of Je Crois Toi]

 

J.-J.: She sings about 2 songs per day, very quickly, cuz she sings well, she’s worked, she’s prepared it, so she sings, we have 3 or 4 takes in one hour. So on the whole, in 2 hours, 2 hours a day wd do 2 songs. As she was in shape and felt like it, sometimes it was 3 songs a day. So you calculate, in 4 days… for her! For us it takes much more time but the voices in 4 or 5 days, it’s finished.

 

[Celine singing a cappella Terre]

 

J.-J.: I stop after 3 or 4 takes with the voice, because we don’t know what to choose. She says to me there are some english producers who have 10, 16, 19, 20, 40 takes. I don’t know why, I have 3 cuz after I don’t know what to choose. In the 3, everything is right, well-placed, it was interesting, so…

 

[in the studio:

J.-J.: I have something to tell you, Celine, it’s “SA rengaine insolente”.

Celine: What do I do ?

J.-J.: You say “son rengaine insolente”

Celine: Where is it ? Wait…

J.-J.: The last but one line of the first page.

Celine: Ok, yeah.

J.-J.: “On entend parfois SA rengaine insolente ». And it’s very nice to have done it cuz otherwise I had nothing to say.

(Laugh)

J.-J.: So I appreciate!

Celine: That’s great, my pleasure!]

 

[short clip of Terre]

 

Laurent: Do you already think there can be a suquel to this album, while this one’s just been released, brand new…

 

J.-J.: I hope so. I hope I’ll feel like it.

 

Laurent: It’s only a matter of will.

 

J.-J.: Oh yes! You know, she doesn’t need me, I don’t need her, we really have… we don’t need each other in terms of career. We just need each other cuz we have much pleasure and it’s a supreme luxury, that’s it.

 

[Guitar solo by Jean-Jacques from Tous Les Blues Sont Ecrit Pour Toi, then with the voice added. Such a beautiful sound clip]

 

[in the recording studio:

Celine: It’s incredible how fast it’s been! It’s a shame cuz it’s really on this album that I most had pleasure, and it’s the one that least needs time . It’s a pleasure I would’ve loved to be extended. But at the same time, I mustn’t ask too much.]

 

[short clip of Papillon]

 

Laurent: And now Celine, the game of the mirrors. If it were true ?

 

Laurent: Celine, you can no longer sing, what would you do ?

 

Celine: I’d make the others sing!

 

(Laugh)

 

Celine: If I lose my voice, if I no longer speak, I lose my voice, my husband would be happy! No, no, I’d play golf for the rest of my lfie, I’d cook and make love, and… I’d do something else.

 

Laurent: During an interview, you realize that the journalist confuses you with Lara Fabian. Your reactions.

 

(Laugh as she’s surprised)

 

Celine: Too bad for me!

 

(Laugh)

 

Laurent: By magic again, you can change something in your personality and your physical. What would you change ?

 

Celine: Lots of things… only one or several ?

 

Laurent: Several.

 

Celine: Several ? Right. I’d change my nose, smaller, I’d like to have a bigger mouth, beautiful fleshy lips, I’d love it, a bit more chest… and… I think I’d be satisfied. I’d be happy I think! I stop here, I don’t want to push my luck.

 

Laurent: You can invite anyone to dinner, even departed people. Who would at the table ?

 

Celine: Uhhmm… Of course my husband would be there, but deceased people, it’d be my niece Karine and René’s mother, for sure. They’ve passed away for quite a while now.

 

Laurent: Your guardian angel allows you to meet God for a few minutes. What would you talk about and what would you ask him ?

 

(Laugh)

 

Celine: I think I’d ask if… what’s the story about hell and paradise, are you in hell, are you in paradise, do you go to paradise, do you go back to hell, what’s this whole story about! I think I’d talk about that.

 

Laurent: In a concert, you are booed off stage, as soon as you go on stage, without knowing why. How would you react ?

 

Celine: Without knowing why, aye-aye-aye, what can I answer… I think I’d have the reflex to turn around to know what…

 

(The people in the room kinda laugh)

 

Celine: I’d turn around to know what’s wrong… But I’d be very ill-at-ease. I don’t know what I’d do! Maybe I’d cry.

 

(Laugh)

 

Laurent: You’re a man…

 

Celine: Yes!

 

Laurent: You meet Celine Dion. What do you think ? I mean with your mentality of you, Celine, you’re a man, you meet Celine Dion, what do you think ? And you’re a man.

 

[…]

 

Celine: Well honestly I don’t know!

 

(Laugh)

 

Celine: Ok, I’m a man and he recognizes me on the street, he says “Hey Celine Dion!”

 

Laurent: Yes.

 

Celine: I think I’d say… “My wife’s crazy about you”.

 

(Laugh)

 

Celine: “My wife is crazy about you!”

 

(Laugh)

 

Laurent: You’re 70, where and how do you live, and who do you live with ?

 

Celine: I don’t know about that, but I hope not to be alone, I hope in good health and I’d love to be with my husband, René.

 

[Ziggy, from Live A Paris]

 

Laurent: About trust, it’s important, you say to be self-confident, it may be the dawn of happiness, the happiness in the long term, come what may.

 

Celine: I think when you’re self-confident, there’s something positive and you go ahead in your life with the sense of victory. When you’re self-confident, you meet someone… I don’t know I have the feeling that you give some positive energy. When we’re self-confident, we share beautiful things. I believe it’s an important strength, in life, to be self-confident. It’s success, happiness.

 

Laurent: And is this the basis, is it the family, the roots, generosity that gives you…

 

Celine: Yes. Of course, when you grow up, everything’s insecure, at home, you grow up with something insecure, and you don’t charge as an animal. You’re not sure, you take one step at a time, you wonder if it’s hot or cold. Sometimes you have to take the step and “Aah it’s hot, and…”, well. You have to go for it, to give 100% of yourself, you must be self-confident. You gottas say to yourself “I am able! I will make it, I trust myself, I’m able to do it”. Why not me ?

 

[Clip of My Heart Will Go On]

 

Laurent: With such a mentality, you reach the top of charts. One of the 11 Oscars of Titanic will go the song My Heart Will Go On that Celine performs. 2nd Oscar and crowning achievement of a long list of prestigious awards.

 

[Quebec, 85, Female Artist of the Year:

Celine: Since my childhood I’ve had the dream of doing this wonderful job, it’s amazing!]

 

[Another footage of ceremonies]

 

Laurent: In all, 219 awards: Felix, Grammies, Grand Prize of the Eurovision, Victories de la Musique, Oscars and World Music Awards in Monaco.

 

[WMA in 95, Monte Carlo:

Host: Ladies and gentlemen, it’s my pleasure to present the World Music Award for Best Selling Artist, Best Canadian Female Singer and World’s Best Selling Canadian Female Recording Artist.

Celine, backstage, interviewed by Laurent: I don’t expect awards. Of course to be nominated, to be part of the family of show-business, to be here, be part of this family, it’s a pleasure. But I don’t expect it cuz I don’t live for this. I live to be on stage, to share what I love the most in the world, music, share it with people who appreciate what I do. And this is my greatest pleasure!]

 

[Victoires de la Musique, France, 96 :

Michel Drucker : Who is gonna receive the Song of the Year award ? (it was with Pour Que Tu M’aimes Encore)

Female host: It’s Celine Dion!

(We see her on screen as she didn’t attend the ceremony, applauding)

Celine: First I wanna say it’s such a great honor for me to win tonight. And I’d like to say thank you to the French public because we’ve were welcomed in an incredible way.

Michel: You come back soon ?

Celine: I hope! And in the meantime, I give “des gros becs” to all of you and I hope I’ll be back soon!

(the word “kisses” in French-canadian is “gros becs” which makes the French people laugh)

Michel: a “gros bec”, that’s important!

Celine: “Des gros becs”!!

 

[Clip of Beauty & The Beast]

 

Laurent: For the record, she received her first Oscar for Beauty & The Beast, the Disney movie, she was only then 24. Success story or fairy tale ?

 

[Clip of Beauty & The Beast]

 

Laurent: When you have a look at this success, since 81, this unbelievable career, with an amazing number of awards, in the whole world, it is very important, all the continents, how do you look upon this career ?

 

Celine: When I share something, I share it at 100%. I give myself to the public at 100%. I think it was very generous from us to wanna see it this way, to wanna share it. But at some point, we need… I think from the age of 12, doing this job, at some point, you need a mental and physical balance. To give oneself all the time and have pressure all the time, to excel oneself constantly… a better album every time, to give a better performance every time, give a better show. At some point, you say to yourself “the most important things in my life, the people I love the most, I never see them”. So at 20 it’s normal to dream, to only wanna dream, you… you have your head in the clouds, and you know more or less if you’re down-to-earth, if you’re in touch life. And at some point when you’re 30 you become more mature and I think it’s normal, you say “Well, the true things… the family, friends, the true values, the true foundations, the true things, the true important things”. If it collapses, it still exists and it’s such a wealth. It’s like… what we’ve done is good, we’ve given ourselves, we’ve worked, it’s correct. But through the years, at 30, at 32 and then at 35, I hope more and more to get closer, to come back on the earth, and to play golf and be with the family and cook even more and be in my swimming-pool with my husband and my beautiful children and say “We are lucky, we’ve done many things in our life” and we still the health to love each other, to travel and dream again. It’s wonderful! You mustn’t wait too long to say “I should have”. You mustn’t regret. And till now, we regret nothing but we want to take some time for us, for the people we love, around us, we want to give them some of our energy as well.

 

(We see Celine kiss technicians and Mego hug Celine’s mother)

 

Laurent: The secret of Celine’s strength is maybe here; a secret she only shares with her Maman Dion. Celine is a precious child. Pregnant at 40, her mom feared for the last of her children. Her mom, example of courage and cheerfulness, Celine enormously admires her.

 

[Celine rehearsing before a show Je Sais Pas]

 

Laurent: Her creed is the sentence her mother said to her when she announced at 12 she wanted to sing “Be professional and see it through”. This special link between mother and daughter remained the same.

 

[Celine: You found the end too long or you’d prefer me to repeat “je sais pas” again. You know, like (she sings), I do it often. Was it long enough ?

Thérèse: I think it not necessary in a show.

Celine: I don’t need to add my voice…

Thérèse: With the choir members (she sings)]

 

Laurent: Is there a dream ? From an artistic viewpoint, do you still have a… is there an unreachable ? It’s reached, you’ve reached it.

 

Celine: I think we’ve reached incredible things in show-business. If I stopped today, I think… I think we’ve reviewed the question. I could stop without saying “We should’ve carried on and go all the way”. I think we have gone all the way, every time. We could stop here but with the success of these latest months, the last year, the latest album, I feel like there’s still a piece of chocolate cake left in the plate!

 

(Laugh)

 

Celine: And if I don’t have a mouthful of this piece of chocolate cake, I won’t be satisfied. So I say “I have to review the question till the end”. I taste it. So with the success of this album, with the song My Heart Will Go On and the new French album… I want to knock on doors and see how far people want to take part and follow me in this moment. But it draws to an end.

 

Laurent: The international press relates her life and career for more than 17 years. Successful from the age of 13, she knows the fans’ craze. From Charlemagne, her native town, to the whole world, we can find Celine’s albums in more than 20 countries. Did she review the question ? Already in 84 she had her place beside the greats.

 

[in a French TV show hosted by Michel Drucker, her mother is here:

Michel: And to show you what has become of the little Celine Dion in 2 years, here is “L’almanach du Peuple”, released in Quebec every year. On the cover you have Mr Trudaut mustn’t be the right spelling), the Pope and! And the little Celine Dion. Here she is, next to the Pope.

 

[Olympic Stadium in Montreal, on September 11, 1984, singing Une Colombe]

 

Laurent: From the picture to reality, there’s only one step. At 16, Celine was chosen to sing Une Colombe before the Pope and 65,000 people in the stadium of Montreal. A great honor for the little catholic from Quebec. She will also sing in 91 before Prince Charles and Lady Di, in 93, for Bill Clinton’s investiture in the White House.

 

[in 96, in Atlanta, singing The Power of the Dream]

 

Laurent: Eventually, the crowning moment is the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games. A worldwide glory conquered, as she sings it, with the power of the dream.

 

Celine: I think I’ve never been so well in my life. At 30, I think I’ve reached an amazing happiness, I’m happy more than ever.

 

Laurent: Is there anything you wish for ? You’re only 30 years old!

 

Celine: There’s always a lot of things but at one point, when you’re contented, you think “I’ma stop talking about it because I’ve had everything all the same!” So I won’t push too much, I don’t wanna be… I don’t know how to say… I don’t wanna push my luck, I don’t wanna ask too much. But if… if we can, if life wants to give , once more, gifts! Cinema, but above all a child. It would be great.

 

Laurent: But you would have to stop!

 

Celine: I think so because the only reason why we can’t manage to have a little baby, I think, is work. And I’m so passionate that I give 100% of myself. And for me it’s one thing at a time. Now it’s my tour. My body can’t accept 2 things at a time.

 

Laurent: You’re right, cuz you have everything you need to go on tour, yes.

 

Celine: I need to be in top shape: physically, vocally, emotionally… So one thing at a time.

 

Laurent: Celine, we do nothing alone. Even though you have the most beautiful voice in the world.

 

Celine: Exactly. Self-confidence, trust the people we love, our team. And success doesn’t occur on its own, happiness neither. You must be open-minded, you must trust and you have to give the chance. But a team is like a family, it’s the basis of everything. It’s very important.

 

Laurent: Thank you.

 

Celine: Thank you.

 

[Clip of Terre with footage]

 

 

 

(at the end of the game of the mirrors)

 

Celine: That’s all ?!

 

Laurent: Yes! You see, it was quick!

 

(Laugh)

 

Celine: I was just starting to warm up!

[KaasDion]

I really appreciate all the work this took to make. Thank you!

[Victorine]

Pleasure for me! I'ma make the transcript of Fréquenstar in 2003 now.

[francois]

thanks for this work....

[SFchick]

Your the best cheers!