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Celine Dion: All by Myself, by Eric Carmen (easy piano & vocals sheet music)

Celine Dion short biography

Céline Marie Claudette Dion, better known as Céline Dion (OC, OQ, LH); (Charlemagne, Quebec, March 30, 1968), is a singer and actress. Before achieving worldwide success, he emerged as a teen star in his native country, releasing a series of French-language albums that gained him popularity in France and the rest of the French-speaking world.

In 1990, he released Unison, his first production in English that marked the beginning of her outstanding and successful career in the Anglo-Saxon market. During the nineties, she established herself as one of the most successful singers in history, after selling more than 100 million records in a period of ten years.

In 2003, he began a series of concerts at the Caesars Palace hotel coliseum in Las Vegas that lasted for sixteen years and became the most profitable show in the history of that city and one of the largest on the planet.

Dion is one of the most recognized singers in the history of music. She has won five Grammy Awards, twelve World Music Awards, two Oscars, two Golden Globes, seven Billboard Music Awards, six American Music Awards, twenty Juno Awards, and fifty Felix Awards, among many others. She has released 27 studio albums, 6 live albums, 11 DVD albums, and 17 compilation albums.

In addition to French and English, she has sung in numerous languages ​​such as Spanish, Italian, German, Latin, Japanese, and Mandarin Chinese. She is the Canadian artist with the most records sold in the world.

“D’eux” album is the best-selling French-language album of all time. In 2004, she was honored at the World Music Awards for becoming the best-selling female singer in the world. According to Sony Music Entertainment, the singer has sold more than 220 million musical productions in the world.

At the 2007 World Music Awards ceremony, she received the Legend Award in recognition of her ‘worldwide success and outstanding contribution to the music industry’. Similarly, she received a tribute at the 30th anniversary gala of the Association du disque de l’industrie du spectacle québécois in 2008 and the prestigious Icon Award at the 2016 Billboard Music Awards in recognition of her entire career.

Influences

Dion grew up listening to the music of Aretha Franklin, Michael Jackson, Carole King, Anne Murray, Barbra Streisand, and the Bee Gees, many of whom have already collaborated with her, The Doobie Brothers, and Creedence Clearwater Revival, but never had the opportunity to sing the same genre of music.

She was also inspired by her colleague, the singer Whitney Houston, with whom she has been compared several times. Her music has been influenced by numerous genres, of which are: pop, rock, classic pop, musicals of Broadway, gospel music, R&B and soul. After the birth of her first child in 2001, her songs began to focus on themes such as motherhood and brotherly love.

Artists who cite her as an influence include Lara Fabian, Laura Pausini, Ariana Grande, Lea Michele, Kelly Clarkson, Beyonce, Lady Gaga, Christina Aguilera, Adele, Leona Lewis, Katharine McPhee, Regine Velásquez, Delta Goodrem, Charice Pempengco, Sarah Geronimo, Perrie Edwards, Monica Naranjo, Pastora Soler, Jessica Sanchez, Pia Mia, Pia Toscano, Adam Lambert, Ava Max, Demi Lovato, Rita Ora, Katy Perry, and Sam Smith.

Céline Dion’s voice has often been considered one of the most influential in pop music. She had a major influence on the music industry during the 1990s, along with other female artists, including Whitney Houston and Mariah Carey.

In the count of the ’22 greatest voices in music’ carried out by Blender magazine and MTV, she was ranked number nine (sixth among women) and was ranked fourth in the count made by Cove magazine’s ‘100 Most Exceptional Pop Vocalists’. Dion is often compared to Mariah Carey for her style and Barbra Streisand for her voice.

Celine Dion’s present

Céline Dion is not well. Her health problems give her no respite. It’s that she once again had to cancel her Courage’s tour of the United States. “I was very hopeful that I would be ready to go back on stage now, but I realize I have to be more patient. I am heartbroken. I feel so bad for letting them down. I’m especially sorry to disappoint all the fans who have been making plans to come to Las Vegas. Now I have to concentrate on improving. I want to get over this as soon as I can,’ the artist lamented on her Twitter account.

Due to the pandemic, Dion had already suspended her scheduled shows in the city of Las Vegas, at the Resort World Theater, where she was going to perform between November 2021 and February 2022. The president of the theater, with capacity for five thousand people, sent a message of support to Céline: “If there is one thing these difficult times have taught us, it is that nothing is more important than well-being. We wish her a speedy recovery and look forward to welcoming her into our home when she feels ready and able to perform again.”

On March 9, he planned to resume his tour in Denver, which would last until April 22 to sing in 15 other cities in the United States and Canada. ‘The severe and persistent muscle spasms’ that he has suffered for a long time are preventing him from going on stage to offer his millions of followers his exquisite voice. ‘She is taking longer than expected,’ said the company that represents her.

Céline Dion had been able to complete the first 52 shows of the tour before the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, in March 2020. Now, the music star is expected to resume her presentations on May 25 in Birmingham, in the United Kingdom. ‘I will be so happy when I recover my health, the pandemic is behind me and I go back on stage,’ the Canadian artist, a native of Quebec City, was excited.

During the famous Paris Fashion Week, held between September 27 and October 5, 2021, the mega star became the main protagonist of the event. Because of her impeccable looks, but also because of her extreme thinness. One of the nights, she wowed in her glamorous black dress and plunging neckline. That outfit hinted at the great weight loss that the singer had suffered.

Aware that the eyes of the world were resting on her figure with concern for her, she agreed to an interview on Good Morning America to dispel any doubts about her extreme thinness: “Am I thin? It is true that I am a little thinner, but everything is fine, nothing is wrong.

It is that for more than a decade strong rumors have been circulating about Céline’s alleged eating disorders. In her public appearances, you can see a body that is too thin, with very marked bones and poorly toned muscles. But the interpreter of My Heart Will Go On denies it every time she has the opportunity. ‘I’m not anorexic,’ she maintains firmly.

The author of The Power of Love attributes her squalor to the dance that she practices four times a week with the dancer Pepe Muñoz. According to Céline, only with this dance she stays in shape without the need to do any type of diet. ‘I just do what I like,’ she argued.

There are not a few who attribute her excessive thinness to the death of her husband, on January 14, 2016, a victim of throat cancer, at the age of 73.

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Lyrics

When I was young
I never needed anyone
And making love was just for fun
Those days are gone

Living alone
I think of all the friends I’ve known
But when I dial the telephone
Nobody’s home

All by myself
Don’t wanna be
All by myself
Anymore

Hard to be sure
Sometimes I feel so insecure
And loves so distant and obscure
Remains the cure

All by myself
Don’t wanna be
All by myself
Anymore

All by myself
Don’t wanna live
All by myself
Anymore

When I was young
I never needed anyone
And making love was just for fun
Those days are gone

All by myself
Don’t wanna be
All by myself
Anymore

All by myself
Don’t wanna live

Don’t wanna live
By myself, by myself
Anymore
By myself
Anymore

All by myself
Don’t wanna live

I never, never, never
Needed anyone

Source: Musixmatch

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