Meet Céline Marie Claudette Dion, born March 30, 1968, a Canadian singer and businesswoman who’s been crushin’ it in the music industry. Hailing from a big family in Charlemagne, Quebec, she blew up as a teen in the French-speaking scene after her manager and future hubby, René Angélil, bet it all by mortgaging his house to fund her first record. She caught the world’s eye in the ‘80s, snaggin’ wins at the 1982 Yamaha World Popular Song Festival and the 1988 Eurovision Song Contest reppin’ Switzerland. After droppin’ French albums, she inked a deal with Epic Records in the U.S. and put out her first English album, Unison, in 1990, cementin’ her as a pop star in North America and beyond.

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In the ‘90s, with René in her corner, she went global with a string of English and French albums. Her joints Falling into You (1996) and Let’s Talk About Love (1997) went diamond in the U.S., and D’eux (1995) became the top-selling French-language album ever. She dropped bangers like “The Power of Love,” “Think Twice,” “Because You Loved Me,” “It’s All Coming Back to Me Now,” “My Heart Will Go On,” and “I’m Your Angel,” all hittin’ number one worldwide. But in ‘99, at the peak of her game, she took a break to focus on family and be with René, who was battling cancer. She came back swingin’ in 2002 and signed up for A New Day… (2003–07), a Vegas residency at the Colosseum at Caesars Palace that raked in $385 million, makin’ it the most successful residency show ever.

Céline’s music pulls from rock, R&B, gospel, and classical, and she sings in French, English, Spanish, Italian, German, Latin, Japanese, and Mandarin Chinese. Critics sometimes give her mixed reviews, but she’s still seen as one of the most influential voices in pop. She’s nabbed five Grammys, includin’ Album of the Year and Record of the Year, and is the second best-selling female artist in the U.S. during the Nielsen SoundScan era. In 2003, the IFPI gave her props for movin’ over 50 million albums in Europe. With over 200 million records sold worldwide, she’s the best-selling Canadian artist and one of the biggest-selling artists of all time.