Céline's 50th Birthday celebrations

[zuv]

Any Celine partys in Montreal this Friday?

[celinesounds]

 

 

No, from the official biography of Celine and Rene, the biography tell the desastrous ambianc with Celine and Phil. I recall my message post (with few corrections for my original message):

 

That's way they came out with the idea of translating 3 songs from Deux

 

[scielle]

Day 28: http://montrealgazette.com/entertainment/local-arts/30-days-of-celine-dion-adisq-refusal-results-in-new-award-old-grumblings

 

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[Cuchi]

 

 

https://www.celinecrew.com/fr/celine-50/69-the-ultimate-celine-dion-50th-birthday-party.html

[Cuchi]

Is anyone attending the party in Las Vegas?

[scielle]

Another good one from CBC:

 

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http://www.etonline.com/celine-dion-will-spend-her-50th-birthday-at-home-with-family-after-canceling-shows-for-ear-surgery

 

Celine Dion Will Spend Her 50th Birthday at Home With Family After Canceling Shows for Ear Surgery (Exclusive)

[celine4evauk]

http://www.etonline.com/celine-dion-will-spend-her-50th-birthday-at-home-with-family-after-canceling-shows-for-ear-surgery

 

Celine Dion Will Spend Her 50th Birthday at Home With Family After Canceling Shows for Ear Surgery (Exclusive)

 

I wonder if she’s had the surgery yet?

[WCD199317]

Here's the interview of his brother Jacques (and his wife Geneviève) to the hommage of 50e anniversary of his sister:

 

http://www.tvanouvel...e---celine-dion

 

Jacques tell many anecdotes with his little sister since his birth in 1968.

 

Note: Jacques has the composer of Ce n'était qu'une rêve.

Edited March 29, 2018 at 02:30 AM by WCD199317

[scielle]

Some rare clips in this JDM article: http://www.journaldemontreal.com/2018/03/28/15-reprises-oublieeset-surprenantes-de-celine-dion

 

Most I think will be familiar to most of us here, but I've personally never seen her Girls Just Wanna Have Fun nor the imitations medley ;-)

[scielle]

Another good one from CBC:

 

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Some choice excerpts from this (extensive) article:

 

"I have never been more proud to be Canadian than watching our National Treasure Céline Dion go toe-to-toe with American National Treasure Aretha Franklin on the inaugural Divas Live '98. While Mariah stood by in a cloud of her own farts, Gloria tried not to smell them, Shania tried to stand upright in her heels and Carole King tried to figure out where she was, the erstwhile Queen of Soul Aretha Franklin was inhaled, FULL GULP, by the youngest-of-14-from-Charlemagne, Québec: Céline Motherf***g Dion. Cé​line is a once-in-a-lifetime celestial event. She is Freddie Mercury by way of Barbra Streisand. "

 

"So were my parents, who were nice enough not to lodge official complaints against their daughter — although, when I moved to my first apartment in Toronto, neighbours did. I guess they were dead inside or something. It is disarming to succumb to something so big, so loud, so earnest! She's the fist pump and the high kick (imagine that, simultaneously) to my largest emotions. I think we all wish we were the Ziggy she loved so helplessly much. And as a Québécoise, this is as close to believing in royalty as I will ever get. GOD BLESS THE QUEEN."

 

"I started throwing a monthly French dance party called Tapette in Toronto seven years ago. In the early days, Céline was kind of a joke I would slide into sets because I wasn't a big fan and didn't feel like she did the dance floor any favours. Now, this many years later, I throw a yearly Céline Dion dance party. I've come to love her with all my heart over the years. Something switched for Céline fans and non-fans alike a few years ago, and the central moment I can nail it down to is when "On Ne Change Pas" showed up on Xavier Dolan's Mommy soundtrack. It's like suddenly, a younger generation was allowed to like her. Her songs weren't all cheesy after all. They were heartfelt, beautiful, gut-wrenching and, most importantly, made you want to sing along. I now get multiple Céline requests every time at every Tapette and am not afraid to play a soaring ballad in the middle of a set because Céline has the power to bring people together. She's real, she's raw, she's ferocious and she knows how to laugh at herself. She's the ultimate Canadian diva and it's about time we all start recognizing it!"

 

"But, when I saw that scene in Mommy, I really felt like what I loved about Céline became valid. All those years of pretending I was listening to The Smashing Pumpkins when I was actually listening to "My Heart Will Go On" weren't something to be ashamed of, but a part of my journey in coming to accept what I like, and defending those preferences. As the Céline renaissance has made her cool again, what a lot of people are saying (at least the people I know) is that we always loved her. People might have made fun of her, called her cheesy, minimized her achievements; but a lot of people (gay men and women in particular) always loved and turned to her. "

 

"While personal experience is never a good indication of the deeper motivations underlying cultural watersheds like the global success of Céline Dion, I happen to think it is neither her musical style, nor her peculiar and sometimes unfortunate approach to fashion, which has led to her elevation as a queer icon. Rather, it is the simple fact that she is, in her own way, one of us. Céline is a woman who was unashamed in her confession of a romantic desire which lay beyond the normalizing boundaries of the "ideal heterosexual relationship." She rejected the fairytale image presented on her behalf through her music videos, where she was often seen in various imaginary couplings with young, incredibly attractive men, instead proclaiming at the pinnacle of her success a decidedly "queer" desire for an older, hairier and decidedly more complicated man — one who her parents, and the public, could never be expected to approve of. Céline's subsequent alienation by the media as the lover of her "creepy manager," and the rebellion against the normalizing expectations of both her family and society at large represented by her liner notes confession, seem to represent a basic truth of queer relationships: that "unnatural" relationships are not something to be hidden, but rather to be celebrated, as neither shameful desires nor pathological impulses, but rather as demonstrations of the basic universality of love."

 

"Francophone millenials, like myself, occupy a unique place in the Céline world, having been exposed to the American, French and of course Québécoise versions of her. We have been raised with her and her 1995 French record D'eux has become the rallying cry of our generation."

Edited March 29, 2018 at 04:06 AM by scielle

[celine19]

[jpatdeleon09]

30 Days of Céline Dion: The infamous unreleased Phil Spector tracks

 

http://montrealgazet...-spector-tracks

 

"At one session, Spector had Dion singing the same song over and over again until the wee hours of the morning and the folks from Sony Music were in a fury, believing he could be harming her voice. Manager René Angélil also was not amused and he was the one who finally pulled the plug on the Spector project."

 

"But there are apparently a couple of finished tracks from those sessions and Spector has threatened to release them".

 

"Some who’ve heard the tracks say they’re amongst the best songs ever recorded by Dion but there’s a good chance we’ll never hear them.".

 

See! how many times Céline had gone through with these sessions back in 90's that can really changed her vocals... harming her vocals chords. They should release her unreleased songs and this spector tracks.. That's a waste on céline's vocals.

 

Phil Spector (many takes)

David Foster's All By Myself (high notes) (many takes)

 

No wonder her vocals changed in 1996

Edited March 29, 2018 at 05:40 AM by jpatdeleon09

[celine19]

 

Received this morning :wub:

 

Can´t wait to flick through!!

 

 

 

I would like to see anyone else do that same!!

Edited March 29, 2018 at 08:19 AM by celine19

[Davey84]

See! how many times Céline had gone through with these sessions back in 90's that can really changed her vocals... harming her vocals chords. They should release her unreleased songs and this spector tracks.. That's a waste on céline's vocals.

 

Phil Spector (many takes)

David Foster's All By Myself (high notes) (many takes)

 

No wonder her vocals changed in 1996

 

Not to mention that she did over 50 takes for IACBTMN...

 

No wonder she was happy with JJ, where she only had to record the song 2 times at most

Edited March 29, 2018 at 09:02 AM by Davey84

[mirage]

There really is no shame anymore to love Celine!!!

 

I just wish that all news outlets release these kind of articles about our Queen

 

 

 

 

 

 

Some choice excerpts from this (extensive) article:

 

"I have never been more proud to be Canadian than watching our National Treasure Céline Dion go toe-to-toe with American National Treasure Aretha Franklin on the inaugural Divas Live '98. While Mariah stood by in a cloud of her own farts, Gloria tried not to smell them, Shania tried to stand upright in her heels and Carole King tried to figure out where she was, the erstwhile Queen of Soul Aretha Franklin was inhaled, FULL GULP, by the youngest-of-14-from-Charlemagne, Québec: Céline Motherf***g Dion. Cé​line is a once-in-a-lifetime celestial event. She is Freddie Mercury by way of Barbra Streisand. "

 

"So were my parents, who were nice enough not to lodge official complaints against their daughter — although, when I moved to my first apartment in Toronto, neighbours did. I guess they were dead inside or something. It is disarming to succumb to something so big, so loud, so earnest! She's the fist pump and the high kick (imagine that, simultaneously) to my largest emotions. I think we all wish we were the Ziggy she loved so helplessly much. And as a Québécoise, this is as close to believing in royalty as I will ever get. GOD BLESS THE QUEEN."

 

"I started throwing a monthly French dance party called Tapette in Toronto seven years ago. In the early days, Céline was kind of a joke I would slide into sets because I wasn't a big fan and didn't feel like she did the dance floor any favours. Now, this many years later, I throw a yearly Céline Dion dance party. I've come to love her with all my heart over the years. Something switched for Céline fans and non-fans alike a few years ago, and the central moment I can nail it down to is when "On Ne Change Pas" showed up on Xavier Dolan's Mommy soundtrack. It's like suddenly, a younger generation was allowed to like her. Her songs weren't all cheesy after all. They were heartfelt, beautiful, gut-wrenching and, most importantly, made you want to sing along. I now get multiple Céline requests every time at every Tapette and am not afraid to play a soaring ballad in the middle of a set because Céline has the power to bring people together. She's real, she's raw, she's ferocious and she knows how to laugh at herself. She's the ultimate Canadian diva and it's about time we all start recognizing it!"

 

"But, when I saw that scene in Mommy, I really felt like what I loved about Céline became valid. All those years of pretending I was listening to The Smashing Pumpkins when I was actually listening to "My Heart Will Go On" weren't something to be ashamed of, but a part of my journey in coming to accept what I like, and defending those preferences. As the Céline renaissance has made her cool again, what a lot of people are saying (at least the people I know) is that we always loved her. People might have made fun of her, called her cheesy, minimized her achievements; but a lot of people (gay men and women in particular) always loved and turned to her. "

 

"While personal experience is never a good indication of the deeper motivations underlying cultural watersheds like the global success of Céline Dion, I happen to think it is neither her musical style, nor her peculiar and sometimes unfortunate approach to fashion, which has led to her elevation as a queer icon. Rather, it is the simple fact that she is, in her own way, one of us. Céline is a woman who was unashamed in her confession of a romantic desire which lay beyond the normalizing boundaries of the "ideal heterosexual relationship." She rejected the fairytale image presented on her behalf through her music videos, where she was often seen in various imaginary couplings with young, incredibly attractive men, instead proclaiming at the pinnacle of her success a decidedly "queer" desire for an older, hairier and decidedly more complicated man — one who her parents, and the public, could never be expected to approve of. Céline's subsequent alienation by the media as the lover of her "creepy manager," and the rebellion against the normalizing expectations of both her family and society at large represented by her liner notes confession, seem to represent a basic truth of queer relationships: that "unnatural" relationships are not something to be hidden, but rather to be celebrated, as neither shameful desires nor pathological impulses, but rather as demonstrations of the basic universality of love."

 

"Francophone millenials, like myself, occupy a unique place in the Céline world, having been exposed to the American, French and of course Québécoise versions of her. We have been raised with her and her 1995 French record D'eux has become the rallying cry of our generation."

[jpatdeleon09]

Not to mention that she did over 50 takes for IACBTMN...

 

No wonder she was happy with JJ, where she only had to record the song 2 times at most

 

Really? 50 takes for IACBTMN?

[comingback]

Not to mention that she did over 50 takes for IACBTMN...

 

 

 

WOW! Didn't know that.

Edited March 29, 2018 at 10:17 AM by comingback

[Davey84]

Celine talked bout that years ago... I think with those VH1 1 on 1 interviews in 1996. Steinberg made her do looooads of takes.

[mirage]

Davey knows all...

 

[mirage]

I'm excited for her birthday,its just stupid hahaha

 

 

[Dion2000]

30 Days of Céline Dion: The infamous unreleased Phil Spector tracks

 

http://montrealgazet...-spector-tracks

 

"At one session, Spector had Dion singing the same song over and over again until the wee hours of the morning and the folks from Sony Music were in a fury, believing he could be harming her voice. Manager René Angélil also was not amused and he was the one who finally pulled the plug on the Spector project."

 

"But there are apparently a couple of finished tracks from those sessions and Spector has threatened to release them".

 

"Some who’ve heard the tracks say they’re amongst the best songs ever recorded by Dion but there’s a good chance we’ll never hear them.".

 

See! how many times Céline had gone through with these sessions back in 90's that can really changed her vocals... harming her vocals chords. They should release her unreleased songs and this spector tracks.. That's a waste on céline's vocals.

 

Phil Spector (many takes)

David Foster's All By Myself (high notes) (many takes)

 

No wonder her vocals changed in 1996

 

Not really. She sounded exactly the same from 1993-1997. 1998 however she was advised to change her technique and alter her vocal use. Then 2003 she went EXTREMELY nasal to aid her singing and prevent pressue on her chords.

[jpatdeleon09]

Not really. She sounded exactly the same from 1993-1997. 1998 however she was advised to change her technique and alter her vocal use. Then 2003 she went EXTREMELY nasal to aid her singing and prevent pressue on her chords.

 

Ahhh so it was done on purpose? Even in 2003, her singing style changed a lot... in Live

Edited March 29, 2018 at 01:30 PM by jpatdeleon09

[Dion2000]

Ahhh so it was done on purpose? Even in 2003, her singing style changed a lot... in Live

 

Yes. Her technique during the early nineties was unhealthy and she explained that on tv. She also said she enjoyed her new vocal technique as she sounded fuller, more resonant and could hit high notes easier. 2003 because of how many shows she did (160) she decided to place all her voice in her nose too put less strain on her vocal chords and save her any trouble

[scielle]

There's a nice Celine radio special currently on CBC Montreal.

They're interviewing Brendan Kelly and it's a call-in show.

Edited March 29, 2018 at 04:19 PM by scielle

[scielle]

There's a nice Celine radio special currently on CBC Montreal.

They're interviewing Brendan Kelly and it's a call-in show.

 

You can listen to the full show here (thankfully, as I was at work and missed a good half hour of it!).

 

http://www.cbc.ca/listen/shows/radio-noon-montreal/episode/15532969

[scielle]

Day 29: http://montrealgazette.com/entertainment/30-days-of-celine-dion-no-date-for-brendan-kelly

 

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[scielle]

You can listen to the full show here (thankfully, as I was at work and missed a good half hour of it!).

 

http://www.cbc.ca/li...pisode/15532969

 

P.S. I think Annick, pictured here in the New York Times article from last summer, was one of the people who called in.

 

[smw]

It's amazing what Celine Dion has accomplished in these first 50 years.

 

She and Rene were the perfect team.

 

I know there are SO many more exciting projects in her future.

 

Celine has meant a lot to me, and I am very proud to be a devoted fan to such a kind, hard-working woman who just happens to one of the greatest singers of all time.

Edited March 30, 2018 at 01:03 AM by smw