A Star Is Born
Céline Marie Claudette Dion was born in Charlemagne, Quebec – a town approximately 24 kilometers northeast of Montreal. She was the youngest of 14 children born to Thérèse, who was a homemaker, and Adhémar, a butcher – and music was already a big part of the Dion family when Céline came along.
Celine Dion 1982. Source: Flickr
In fact, she was named after the song “Céline” by French singer-songwriter Hugues Aufray, which had been recorded just two years before her birth. This ended up being one of Aufray’s best-known songs of his entire career, and it was even translated into English some years later.