On July 26, at the very end of the opening ceremony of the Paris 2024 Olympic Gamessince the first floor of the Eiffel Towerthe world icon sang the legendary song of Môme Piaf, a first for her since 2022 and the announcement of her illness, stiff person syndrome.
This rare neurological disease causes muscle stiffness and spasms that pose great difficulty in Celine Dion to control his vocal cords. A real heartbreak for the 56-year-old singer, who has been on stage since she was five.
The Canadian star announced on his Instagram account on October 10 that the recording of his performance on July 26 was now available on Youtube (including video) and on Spotify in particular.
“God brings together those who love each other,” she wrote in her post in reference to the song by Edith Piaf in question, which evokes the eternal and unconditional love she had for her companion at the time , the French boxer Marcel Cerdantragically died in a plane crash a few weeks after the song’s release, in October 1949.
Edith Piafarguably the most famous French singer in the world, never recovered from this loss and died in 1963, a few days after the 14-year anniversary of Cerdan’s death.
Celine Dion’s performance during the opening ceremony on July 26 was made possible thanks to voice reconstruction therapy and was unequivocally one of the great moments of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.
