A short Article about Celine Dione

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Subject: A short Article about Celine Dione and Burma from   E! Online

The diva dishes on Motown, her  May-December marriage and "Yo, mama, yo" 

                by Phillip Zonkel 

                You think people would've had enough
                of silly love songs, but when
                schmaltz queen Celine Dion talks
                about love, her fans just gobble it
                up. 

                The biggest Canadian export since
                Wayne Gretzky, Dion has racked up
                sales of 50 million albums and
                captured three
                Grammys...so far.
                And if you haven't
                heard "My Heart
                Will Go On"--her
                ubiquitous
                chart-topping
                Titanic love
                theme--you haven't
                been living on this
                planet. 

                Surprised by her
                mega success? Dion isn't. The
                30-year-old Montreal native with the
                five-octave soprano has been
                dreaming of, and working toward,
                this moment since she was a child. 

                The youngest of 14 children in a
                family of performers, Dion started
                singing professionally at 12. That's
                when she met manager Rene Angelil,
                who mortgaged his house to finance
                her debut album. (It was a hit,
                naturally.) 

                In 1990, Dion released her first
                English-language album, Unison, and
                that hit (go figure) proved her
                place in the U.S. and worldwide
                market. As her career grew, so did
                the feelings between her and
                Angelil. They began dating when she
                was 20 and, after a six-year
                courtship, married in 1994. 

                Today, Dion is arguably the top pop
                performer in the world, and she gets
                to reinforce that status with her
                Let's Talk About Love tour of North
                America, which kicked off August 21
                in Boston. 


                Although tour sponsor Ericsson,
                which has ties to the Myanmar
                government, drew protesters on
                opening night, the shows will go
                on...well into 1999.