René Angélil, the fabulous story of the man who created Céline Dion by Hotel ★★★ Restaurant gourmand coconut Lodge Majunga.
Beginning of the year 1981. Céline Dion, 13 years, between a beautiful day in the office of René Angélil, a Lebanese-Syrian Canadian that borders on the quarantine. He wanted to see this rare bird who sent him a model of several titles, interpreters of an already powerful, crystalline voice. D ’ immediately, the young Celine find it sad, with its brown shoes and his dark clothes.
She is impressed, necessarily, Despite the comforting presence of his mother Thérèse accompanying this day there – She won't leave the more than a sole until its majority. René asks him to sing a cappella, Céline is running, gives soul... Artistic Thunderbolt. "You made me cry... '. "he said to. "I only knew him not yet really., but I felt it meant everything., recall the singer. That day, their professional duo is launched.
Who is, at the time, This René Angélil ?
A true heavyweight of the Québécois showbiz, amateur foodies and poker, loving the risk and superstitious in the soul. He started as singer in the group 'The Baronets', which incorporated in french songs of the Beatles, before becoming impresario of shock, particular of Ginette Reno, the greatest singer of Quebec, Idol of the small Céline Dion who knows its tubes by heart. But Ginette Reno has left René, It makes jumper only, and the producer, bruised by this betrayal, is at a turning point of his life : He plans even to leave the profession. The arrival of this girl with the Golden voice will change everything.
René is going to bet on it.
Good player, René Angélil going to bet everything on it, to mortgage his own property to exit the first albums. The producer immediately seized the potential of his voice, He understood how far it could lead it provided work and well to surround himself. "If you trust me., He said to his mother, I guarantee you that your daughter shall be a major star in Quebec and in France in five years. »
This is exactly the strategy he will follow : first the Quebec market, where it triumphs quickly, then the France, step before the international career. For Céline Dion, It is the discovery of a new world, driven by his Pygmalion. René Angélil taught him the rules and the laws of show business, tells the saga of Elvis Presley and his manager colonel Parker, the Beatles with Brian Epstein, the successes of Barbra Streisand or Édith Piaf. She listens, includes, say and exceeds little by little the objectives, always highest. "Every time I was doing a TV, It whispered me in his ear that I was the best, tells Céline Dion in his memoirs. His voice that I loved so much... You're the best, you are at home here, everyone love you. And he very gently pushed me towards the light of the plateau. »
It teaches him the tricks of the trade, to remember his voice, to work every day as an athlete, to ensure the showcase (presentations) from the companies for contracts. He transforms it, him to remove its prominent canines, changes its look, her hairstyle, expands his repertoire. After the romantic and danceable songs, This is the time of maturity, women's, the metamorphosis. With always this requirement to the key : "If you do not lift the room., We go back to square one and we will be a nice piece of time. » Box departure ? The Quebec market, final point.
She married his Pygmalion.
And what had to happen happened. Céline Dion eventually falls in love with his mentor. As soon as 16 years, She keeps a small photo of him that she hides from her mother. It includes, Of course, the feelings of its protected, but it repels first love too new. René Angélil has already been married to two women, He has three children – two boys and a girl -, and even if he is preparing to divorce, He hesitate to take the plunge. He feared the reaction of the public, as the mother of Céline Dion puts its veto to any binding. But events rush… In the spring 1988, Céline triumphs at the Eurovision Song Contest. The evening, René débriefe the show, in his usual.
It is the first step, He fled to his room… He recalled a few minutes later, from the lobby of the hotel : "If you really want to., It is me who will be the first. "And Céline Dion answered : "You will be the first.… and the only ! "Six years later, They formalize their couple in the eyes of the world at lavish wedding in the Cathedral Notre-Dame de Montréal : the old girl from the town of Charlemagne, outcome of a family of fourteen children, become the big star of Quebec, then marries his Pygmalion in a princess dress, the head crowned by a glittering tiara. René, him, has provided Black Jack tables for guests…
Life now offers them the best : love, the success and fortune.
At the beginning of the years 1990, René Angélil successfully on the international market launches, by negotiating master with Sony for a first album in English. She departed the United States, especially with the tube «» Where Does My Heart Beat Now. "The big circus running quickly at full speed : travel, tours, the stages of the world, life between two aircraft, the money flowing flowing after the albums Falling Into You and them, that propel them in large fortunes of showbiz – the Quebec press forward the figure of 700 millions of dollars collected on more than thirty years.
Everything they touch turns into gold, the image of the title song of the movie Titanic, just one day propose to the couple. Céline is not starting, It does not catch on the melody ; René insists, requires it almost, and it is the banco : « My Heart Will Go On » is one of the music which was the best-selling in the world.
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