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Celine Dion

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March 30, 1968 in Quebec, Canada
Biography:Top-selling Canadian chanteuse "Celine Dion" may have a handful of appearances in music documentaries to her credit, including "George Martin"'s Beatles cover project "In My Life" (1998), but she is better known cinematically as the voice of several enormously popular movie ballads. She sang the Oscar-winning theme of Disney's animated hit "Beauty and the Beast" (1991) with Peabo Bryson and her rendition of "Because You Loved Me" for "Up Close & Personal" (1996) became a bestseller. "Dion"'s career as movie vocalist hit a record-breaking apex when composer "James Horner" enlisted her to sing the kind of love ballad director "James Cameron" had expressly nixed for his romance disaster epic "Titanic" (1997). "Cameron" relented when he heard the result and "Dion"'s performance of eventual Best Song Oscar-winner "My Heart Will Go On" became as king-size a hit as "Cameron"'s blockbuster film in 1998 (and... Full Biography
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