Look Back at Céline Dion and René Angélil's Love Story in Photos on What Would Have Been Their 30th Anniversary
Céline Dion and Rene Angelil First Meet
After Céline Dion's brother found manager René Angélil's name on the back of French Canadian singer Ginette Reno's record, he sent him a recording of his sister's first original song, "Ce n'était qu'un rêve." Hearing it prompted Angélil to invite Dion to audition for him in person — their first meeting.
"While I was singing he started to cry," Dion recalled to PEOPLE years later. "I knew then I had done a good job."
Rene Angélil Bets on Céline
After hearing her vocal chops in person, Angélil knew he wanted to turn Dion into a star. And he took drastic measures to ensure it would happen: He famously mortgaged his home to fund her first record.
Céline Dion Becomes a Superstar
Angélil's belief in Dion's vocals wasn't unfounded: That first record, La Voix du bon Dieu, became a chart-topping hit in Québec and set the singer on her path toward stardom in her home province (though she was still relatively unknown in America). In , when Dion was 19
Céline Dion and René Angélil's Relationship: A Look Back
- Céline Dion and manager René Angélil first met when Dion was just 12 years old
- Dion and Angélil's romance began when Dion was 19
- They got married in and share three sons: René-Charles and twins Nelson and Eddy
- Angélil died in January from throat cancer
Céline Dion and René Angélil's love will always go on.
The Grammy-winning singer was married to her former manager for 22 years, up until his death from throat cancer in
Dion and Angélil began working together professionally when she was just 12 years old. Their relationship turned romantic when she was 19, but they kept their love out of the spotlight for years. In , the couple revealed that they were engaged. Dion and Angélil married the following year and later welcomed three children together: son René-Charles in and twin sons Nelson and Eddy in
Angélil was diagnosed with cancer three separate times and Dion took time away from her career in order to care for him. In , six years after his death, she shared that she still feels Angélil's presence in her daily life.
"I feel like René has given me so much through the years and still t
Céline Dion on Her Unique Love Story with René Angélil: 'I Was Living My Love Secretly But Love Always Wins'
Céline Dion opens up for the first time since losing both her husband, René Angélil, and brother Daniel Dion. Subscribe now to read how she and her family have found strength and peace, only in PEOPLE.
As Céline Dion works to move forward from the loss of her beloved husband René Angélil, who died from throat cancer at 73 just four months ago, she can’t help looking back on their history together.
“I started to know René when I was 12 years old,” Dion, 48, tells PEOPLE in this week’s cover story. “Not in a relation to that level, but with as much respect and love.”
In those days Angélil, her manager, was helping to transform Dion from an unknown French-Canadian beauty with a uniquely strong voice, into one of the most celebrated artists of all time.
“I never wrote my songs. I didn’t even know how to read music or play an instrument,” she says. But, “I had a great manager who surrounded me with the best people.”
It was a few years after they began working together that Dion, then a teenager, began a romantic relationship with Angélil. “We kind of k
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While René Angélil brought the world Celine Dion, they brought each other deep and lasting love. Their dedication to each other had "love win" against the odds to become of the most iconic romances of the era.
The French-Canadian beauty met René at the age of thirteen. One of her siblings had sent music manager René a tape of her singing, and he invited Celine to audition in Quebec.
Celine Dion and her husband Rene Angelil pose for a picture backstage during the World Music Awards at the Thomas and Mack Center on September 15, , in Las Vegas, Nevada. | Source: Getty Images.
René saw the star in Celine he later showed the world, and didn't hesitate to morgage his house in to finance her first album and her tour of Europe, Canada, and Japan.
As her manager, the man almost thirty years her senior did more than help transform Celine into a superstar, he fell in love, and so did she. After working together for several years, René and Celine started a romantic relationship and had their first official date after she turned nineteen in
Celine and René's significant age difference didn't bother them, but it did bother Celine's mother, who saw René in the
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