With sales of more than 200 million albums worldwide, Celine Dion is
already the most popular female singer of all time, and at just 44, she
should have many more years of hits ahead of her. The French-Canadian
chanteuse is still probably best known for “My Heart Will Go On,” the
Grammy- and Oscar-winning smash from the top-grossing film in history, Titanic.
But she had already notched a number of big hits in both English and
French by the time that came out in 1997, and in the years since she’s
made one best-seller after another, collaborated with many other top
artists in genres ranging from opera to pop to hip-hop, and firmly
established herself as arguably the most successful singer in the world.
Her shows routinely sell out in the U.S., South America, Europe, Asia
and Australia, and her current residency at Caesar’s Palace in Las Vegas
(her second such multi-year stint there) remains one of the hottest
tickets in town.
Now, five years after her last albums were released, Dion has two new
ones to drop on her adoring public. Just out for her millions of
French-speaking fans is "Sans Attendre", a
16-song set produced by Jacques Veneruso, David Gategno, Scott Price,
Bertrand Lamblot and Stanislas; executive produced by Valerie Michelin.
It contains duets with legendary French singer Johnny Hallyday,
Jean-Pierre Ferland and a “virtual” duet with the late Henri Salvador.
The first single, “Parler à mon père,” is a hit in several countries. In
February comes her latest English-language album, "Water and a Flame",
which features productions by Babyface, Eg White, longtime collaborator
Humberto Gatica, Fraser T. Smith, Eman, Denis Savage (Dion’s tour
manager and FOH engineer) and Tricky Stewart; executive produced by John
Doelp. That album will combine songs that appear in her Las Vegas show
with a number of new tunes.
"Dion is a hard-working perfectionist when it comes to laying down her
vocals, but she is also extremely accommodating in working with myriad
producers on her album projects. “Her thing is the voice,” Lalonde says.
“Of course the track is important and it will give the song a lot of
its flavor, but we’re always focused on the voice. That’s where I come
in. No matter what producer is there, I’m working as a liaison with
them. They’re choosing the performance, but we’re working on how she’s
going to deliver it. We always give the full option of many colors, and
80 percent of the time they’ll do the comp, but my focus with Celine is
to make sure she’s hearing everything okay. She has a vision when she
comes into the studio, and I’m going to give her pretty much the end
result—with the delay, with the reverb, compression, not necessarily to
tape, but to her monitor so she can deliver it the way she wants to.”
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