It’s a story that seems totally incongruous today: how Céline Dion, a global star who became the most famous Quebecer in the world, found herself, at the end of the 80s, defending the colors of Switzerland during of the most memorable edition of the Eurovision song contest? However, this story owes nothing to chance. It is even revealing in more than one way the career of the singer and the duo she formed for more than 40 years with René Angélil, her manager and only love. She is both romantic and calculated, too much and yet confusingly sincere. Born from an opportunity to conquer new markets as much as from a producer’s bet, this adventure will reveal to 600 million viewers the transformation of an artist, illustrate the passage of a little girl with a nerdy look and buck teeth. through to a young woman ready to seize her chance. Less than 10 years after this victory, Céline Dion was chosen to sing “My heart will go on”, the song from Titanic which, like the film, triumphed throughout the world. A dazzling trajectory! Through the prism of this competition with its breathtaking finish, the portrait of a competitor emerges. The champion, originally, was the fighter chosen to represent a side or a cause. It is therefore Switzerland which will first give Céline Dion her champion attributes.
