Celine Dion Tickets

Celine Dion was born on March 30, 1968, in Charlemagne, Quebec, a small town outside Montreal, the youngest of 14 children in a family that ran on music. Her parents operated a piano bar called Le Vieux Baril, and she made her first public appearance at age five, singing at her brother's wedding, before joining her siblings onstage at the family bar. At 12 she co-wrote her first song, "Ce n'était qu'un rêve," with her mother and brother, and the demo reached manager René Angélil, who was so moved by her voice that he mortgaged his home to fund her first record. Released in 1981, La voix du bon Dieu became a No. 1 hit in Quebec and made her an instant star at home.

Celine Dion spent the 1980s as a teen star in Quebec, releasing eight French-language albums across the decade. The milestones stacked up early: a win at the Yamaha World Popular Song Festival in Tokyo in 1982, a gold record in France for "D'amour ou d'amitié" in 1983, a first for any Canadian artist, and the Eurovision Song Contest title in 1988, which she took representing Switzerland with "Ne partez pas sans moi." After sharpening her English, she broke into the Anglophone market with Unison in 1990, and "Where Does My Heart Beat Now" became her first top-ten hit on the Billboard Hot 100, peaking at No. 4. The full international breakthrough came in 1991, when she duetted with Peabo Bryson on "Beauty and the Beast," the title song of Disney's animated film. The song gave Dion her first Grammy Award, and its songwriters took home the Academy Award for Best Song.

Celine Dion spent the 1990s and 2000s selling records on a scale few artists have matched. The Colour of My Love (1993), Falling into You (1996), and Let's Talk About Love (1997) each topped charts around the world, and Falling into You won the Grammy Award for Album of the Year. Let's Talk About Love featured guests including Barbra Streisand, the Bee Gees, and Luciano Pavarotti. "My Heart Will Go On," her love theme for Titanic, became her signature song and one of the best-selling singles of all time, with global sales beyond 18 million copies. She has sold more than 200 million records, making her the best-selling Canadian artist, the best-selling French-language artist, and one of the best-selling musical artists ever. On the live side, A New Day..., her 2003 to 2007 residency at the Colosseum at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, grossed more than $385 million across 717 shows for nearly three million fans, and Billboard ranked it the most successful concert residency. She followed it with a second Caesars Palace run, Celine, and together the two residencies earned $681 million, making her the highest-grossing residency act and the second woman in concert history to surpass $1 billion in ticket revenue. Few live performers have sustained that kind of demand for that long.