2023-05-08 23:30:00
Celine Dion was one of the greatest divas of modern times.
The little girl from a poor family of Charlemagne managed to reach the heights of glory, thanks to her voice and the ardor of her work
Symbolically, it has almost become in the eyes of Quebecers a natural wealth in the same way as electricity, one might say.
Since the death of the two pillars of her life, her husband and brilliant manager René Angélil and her mother, Madame Dion, the incarnation of the mistress wife and the all-powerful mother, Céline — our Céline — has found herself a prisoner of forced loneliness.
For several years, she had been gradually disappearing from the light that had so enlightened her. She went through a troubled time when photos of her were posted that bothered her fans.
Disease
Then she disappeared from the radar. Until we learned that the doctors had diagnosed her with an orphan disease that locked her in her body, which had become a source of intolerable pain.
At the end of the week, the film love once more in which she agreed to play her own role came out. It has just been demolished by Variety, the gold standard for reviews. The film only collected $2.4 million at the North American box office.
Celine Dion, whose performance lasts only twelve minutes, sings five new songs that we had to remaster. Alas, we no longer recognize Celine’s unique voice.
All this to say that the star has lost not only her voice, but above all the support of protectors who might have warned her. René Angélil, from where he is now, would die a second time.
Deserted by those who might have surrounded her to protect her, Celine Dion apparently has no one left to help her. One wonders why other divas of her time, Barbara Streisand, Madonna and Lady Gaga, for example, are not at the mercy of showbiz. Because they continue to be acclaimed and respected, thus managing to keep their diva status intact.
Planetary star
I traveled the world with Celine Dion and her team during 2008-2009. Even if I was sensitized to its worldwide notoriety, I might not guess the extent of the recognition and the affection it aroused on the planet.
Welcomed both as a star but also as an essential personality by political leaders and artistic elites in addition to her millions of fans, Celine Dion never ceased to recall her French-speaking origins. She always insisted on singing a song in French that audiences in China, South Korea, Dubai, London, Mexico and elsewhere would sing along to.
In recent years, Celine Dion has become an enigma. Isolated in the Nevada desert, what is she thinking? Who might understand her distress and free her from this darkness of the desert?
The granddaughter of Charlemagne in Quebec, who became a rich and famous world icon, does she still remember that she was once a brawler and a conqueror? Has she forgotten that she was able to overcome the trait so Quebecois, that of being born for a small loaf and that she allowed all of Quebec to graze, if only for a moment, the pride of to be family?
Let her know that her current isolation saddens us, pains us and worries us.
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