Here's an image you don’t conjure up every day: Celine Dion in a pair
of pajamas, covered with baby food. It’s quite a contrast for the
glamorous siren who storms the Colosseum stage at Caesars Palace in all
manner of glittering gowns. And yet, loafing around her expansive desert
home in PJs is precisely what makes the globally successful Canadian
singer happiest.
“I wake up and help feed my 23-month-old twins, Eddy and Nelson, and
soon I’m covered in yogurt, strawberries, cereal, you name it,” Dion,
44, says with a laugh. Although she confesses to having a weakness for
great fashion designers, “I don’t think fashion would mean anything if I
didn’t have happiness in my life. The kids set the mood for me.”
Dion knows all about setting a mood. Her otherworldly voice, which has
spurred the sale of more than 200 million albums in both English and her
native French, has the power to conjure images with emotion, much as
she did with “My Heart Will Go On,” the theme track to James Cameron’s
blockbuster Titanic. The song, which monopolized radios around
the world when the film debuted, is the grand finale in Dion’s most
recent Las Vegas show, Celine, which will return to the Colosseum next year after the fall release of her album "Water and a Flame".
Of course the songstress is idolized around the globe, but she is
especially revered locally because of her enormous impact on the
entertainment climate of the Strip. Her 717 performances of "A New Day"
at the Colosseum between 2003 and 2007 entertained nearly 3 million
people and grossed roughly $400 million. More importantly though, the
lucrative run re-popularized the Las Vegas “residency” as a desirable
way for top artists to essentially tour in place, letting their fans
come to them. Elton John, Bette Midler, Rod Stewart, and Cher have
followed in Dion’s colossal wake.
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