“She tells me…”, this requirement of the diva that had to be respected

Monday 23rd December 2024 03:09 AM

This Sunday, December 22, 2024, BFMTV broadcast a documentary behind the scenes of Céline Dion's performance during the Paris Olympic Games. Baptized Celine Dion: The Iron Ladythe report returned to the singer's arrival in Paris, for this exceptional event, staged by Thomas Jolly on July 26. While the artist, who suffers from stiff man syndrome, didn't come back on stageshe dazzled the French and the whole world by resuming The Hymn to Love d’Edith Piaf. “She is there, she sings true. If we want to have the emotion, the power of this text The Hymn to Love and of this melody, we must be true. And it is the one which for me is perhaps to be the truest of all the artists I know”confie Thomas Jolly.

Celine Dion had one and only one requirement for her performance at the Paris Olympics

For this performance, Céline Dion has only one requirement: “She said to me: ‘Let things be clear: whether it’s windy, whether it’s snowing, whether it’s raining, I will sing up there’”. The director of the ceremony then attends the singer's rehearsals: “I'm the first to witness this. I hear her singing in front of me, even though she hasn't sung for several years. I say to myself, it's unbelievable what's happening. She herself is very moved. All the staff have red eyes.” But this service is not without danger. Indeed, the singer is attached (…)