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The "first" event of the Paris Olympics has finally come to an end: the Opening Ceremony.
In the rain curtain of Paris, the athletes entered slowly along the Seine River in 160 boats, and the star athletes, who are worth hundreds of millions, could not escape the "no tile to cover their heads".
The performance of the fully open venue, with a hammer in the east and a stick in the west, most of the live audience did not watch anything.
In the final flag-raising session, even the Olympic flag was hung up. It's a pity that the French don't understand Chinese, otherwise it can be interpreted as "the Olympics have arrived".
The opening ceremony, full of mistakes, accidents, and frequent situations, was the most "France".
Starting with the tricolor fireworks at the Austerlitz Bridge, Assassin's Creed, the Guillotine Queen, the Cabaret, the Cancan, Carmen, New Wave films, Notre-Dame Cathedral, the Louvre, ...... France elements and France symbols, almost overflowing.
The opening song of the finale of the day was sung by Celine · Dion, a Canada singer.
〓 Celine · Dion sang the France classic chanson song "Ode to Love"
At the opening ceremony, Celine · Dion's performance was almost perfect:
Many people don't know that this is Celine Dion's first public performance in several years.
A few months ago, Celine · Dion's personal documentary revealed that she had suffered from stiff person syndrome for many years, and at one point she could not control her muscles and almost lost her voice.
Behind the perfect performance, the hardships of Celine ·'s comeback are also very imaginable.
Someone said in the comment section that Celine · Dion deserved the first gold medal of this Olympic Games.
〓 The first gold medal of this Olympic Games was Celine · Dion
There is no more Olympic story than extraordinary efforts against great tribulation.
Who is Celine Dion?
In 1998, the "Titanic" that swept the world was released in Chinese mainland.
That was the first time people saw nudity on the big screen.
In the era when the average ticket price of movies was 15 yuan, "Titanic" swept 360 million at the box office. James · Cameron are regarded as "card gods" by Chinese fans, and DiCaprio has become a "ball grass".
At the same time, Celine · Dion and her "My heart will go on" became popular.
In the Spring Festival Gala of that year, teacher Zhao Lirong reproduced this hit single on the stage, and in the 2013 Spring Festival Gala of the Year of the Snake, Celine · Dion even broke the record and landed on the CCTV Spring Festival Gala to sing. The director team later revealed that there were also Lady Gaga, Justin, · Bieber on the shortlist, but in the end, Celine · Dion won almost without suspense.
According to KTV's statistics, for a long time, "My heart will go on" was an English single that dominated the song machine.
It is equivalent to foreigners challenging "Qinghai-Tibet Plateau" in KTV.
The song's popularity in China is just one part of a whirlwind that has swept the world.
In the awards season of that year, "My heart will go on" won the Grammys, Golden Globes, and Oscars one after another, not only won the awards, but also sold more than 18 million copies worldwide, making it one of the best-selling singles in pop music history.
It is no exaggeration to say that around the turn of the millennium, this song could be heard anywhere on earth where there was electricity.
Kate · Winslet, who plays Rose, said that since the release of "Titanic", even when she went to a restaurant to eat, the boss would secretly change the music to "My heart wil go on", and she was about to vomit.
The birth of this song was an accident.
When receiving the "Titanic" theme song project, Celine · Dion originally wanted to refuse. There are two main reasons for this:
First, she had already sung the theme song for "Beauty and the Beast" a few years ago, and she had won both the Oscars and the Grammys.
The second is that "Titanic" has become a well-known thunderbolt project in the industry at that time, and director Cameron is crazy about overspending and missing work, and everyone is worried that this movie will become a disaster that cannot be ended.
Celine · Dion's husband and agent, Rennie · Angeli, urged her to take the job, even if it was just to record a sample.
So Celine · Dion was reluctant to record a demo, and even this demo, she herself was not very satisfied. She felt a little cold that day and was not in a very good state.
Unexpectedly, the music team of the movie cried so much after listening to it, and even Cameron, who was not interested in pop music, was moved.
As a result, this song, together with "Titanic", became an excellent footnote in the 90s.
It was an era of the end of the Cold War and the height of globalization, where everything was converging and it was believed that art could transcend borders, cultures, and even languages.
Celine · Dion is the tide of this era.
Celine · Dion, born in Quebec, Canada, first debuted as a French-speaking singer.
5岁那年，她就开始在家族经营的小酒馆里演唱。 12岁时, 就创作了第一首法语歌曲《It was just a dream》。
In the French-speaking world, she is one of the most successful female singers of all time, and "D'eux", released in 1995, is still the best-selling French-language album of all time.
She began learning English at the age of 20, and in just a few years, Celine · Dion became a superstar in the English-speaking world.
In 1991, Celine · Dion, who had just released her first English album, became an instant hit in the United States with the theme song of "Beauty and the Beast".
At the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, the host United States did not invite its own famous singers, but invited Celine · Dion of Canada to sing the opening song "The power of the dream".
In the same year in Europe, she toured to full capacity, setting a record attendance record at the Stade de France.
连大洋彼岸的日本，也找她为热剧《恋人啊》演唱主题曲《To Love You More》。
In China, Celine · Dion's popularity is not to mention. There are even rumors that the first choice of female singers for the Beijing Olympics is Celine · Dion, but because her performance schedule is too busy, she has to give up.
Since 2003, in order to take care of her family, Celine · Dion gave up her touring career and became a "resident singer" at ease.
Countless fans have flown to the casino from all corners of the world to catch a glimpse of the superstar. At Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, she performed 700 shows in four years and set a staggering $400 million box office record.
Rolling Stone magazine said she was one of the most important female singers of the '90s, the other two being Mary · Kelly and Whitney · Houston.
In 2013, Celine · Dion was invited to the Spring Festival Gala of the Year of the Snake, and Gao Xiaosong, who was in charge of contact, was deeply impressed by the work attitude of this diva:
You said Good I can't stop, keep singing, you say Excellent I don't stop, keep singing, until you have nothing to say, I'm inside, watching you sit outside completely speechless, I feel perfect.
250 million album sales, nearly $400 million residency box office, 137 singles, 27 studio albums, 5 Grammys, 7 Billboard Music Awards......
Behind an achievement as long as an Excel sheet is Celine · Dion, who is always full of energy and always meticulous.
Few people realize:
On the album called "Life", Celine · Dion hides her B-side too well.
Celine · Dion's B-side
Fate was particularly cruel to Celine · Dion.
On the one hand, she was endowed with an incomparable sound from the heavens, and on the other hand, as in an equivalent exchange, she also endured extremely heavy suffering.
In the interview, Celine Dion once compared her singing voice to the "leader" of her life, and she followed this God-given voice.
She takes pride in it and enjoys it.
However, starting in 2008, the diva, who was in her prime, began to experience brief vocal cord spasms inexplicably.
Later we learned that this was actually an early symptom of "stiff person syndrome".
The so-called stiff person syndrome is an autoimmune disease that causes the muscles of the patient's whole body to stiffen, induce violent spasms, and in severe cases, even break bones and affect normal breathing.
With an incidence of about 1 in a million, it is a rare disease among rare diseases, which is not only incurable at all, but also extremely difficult to diagnose, and it took Celine Dion many years to finally diagnose it.
Before that, the vocal cord problems caused by the disease had made it impossible for her to manage every concert perfectly as before.
In some high-pitched singing sections, Celine · Dion began to be forced to hand over the microphone to the audience to sing together; And after some singing mistakes that shouldn't have occurred, she could only joke that there was a problem with the live radio equipment.
For a singer who conquers the world with a perfect singing voice, this is completely intolerable.
So in order to suppress the loss of control of her vocal cords, Celine · Dion began to take medication before the show, and the dosage became larger and larger, and later, she had to take dozens of diazepam tablets a day, even if it could lead to her death.
But even at such a big price, she couldn't resist the erosion of the disease on herself:
"The music is still flowing in my body, but my instruments (vocal cords) are wrong."
Slowly, some of Celine · Dion's tours began to be canceled by the Advent date, and the excuses given by the team were either that her sinuses were inflamed or that her vocal cords were infected.
But the real reason is that the great female singer who once dreamed of "singing songs for a lifetime" when she was young is now becoming a patient who feels "her throat is strangled by others" even when she speaks normally.
Even in such a situation, the test of fate for Celine · Dion is not over.
On January 15, 2016, Celine · Dion's lifelong husband Rennie ·Angeli passed away due to a recurrence of throat cancer, and two days later, her brother Daniel Dion also passed away from this world due to cancer.
The loss of two close relatives in 3 days in a row plunged the diva into great grief and made her condition worsen in the following years.
Celine · Dion is not only unable to perform on stage anymore, but even has difficulty maintaining a normal life.
She began to become unable to walk, had difficulty standing firmly, even became extremely difficult to swallow, and lost a lot of weight.
When the spasm is acute, Celine · Dion's body suddenly freezes completely and cannot move due to epilepsy.
The intense pain in her muscles would consume her completely, causing her to convulse violently in her face and let out heart-rending moans.
And even more heartbreaking than this is Celine Dion discovering that she really can't sing like she used to sing anymore.
"Who is Celine · Dion....... Celine · Dion is the singer who sings the highest note in the world, and she should be the best. ”
In this year's latest documentary "Rebirth After Illness", in order to explain to everyone that the muscles around the lungs are stiffened by the "stiff person syndrome", causing him to be unable to speak normally, Celine · Dion, who had not opened her voice for a long time, sang softly at the scene:
"It's like I know what I want to do, I know you can make me understand ......"
Her voice was thin and hoarse, and when she reached the high notes, she broke it, and after only two verses of singing, the song was interrupted by choking, and she said with a crying voice:
"I don't want people to hear that."
After being diagnosed with "stiff person syndrome", Celine · Dion began to actively cooperate with the treatment. Known for her self-discipline, she spends five days a week doing painful rehab exercises, exercising her toes, calves, fingers, singing and vocalization.
She even considered singing some songs that were more suitable for her current physiological conditions if she couldn't sing the music before.
Although she also worries that if she does, the audience may not like her anymore.
In fact, in the eyes of the outside world, Celine · Dion can now say goodbye to the music scene and focus entirely on her current illness and life.
After all, many years ago, this music diva already had enough wealth and achievements - she really didn't need to fight anymore.
But in the interview, 56-year-old Celine · Dion still admitted that because she had not performed for several years, she "missed the music and the audience very much."
For Celine, who has been singing in front of an audience since she was 5 years old, the stage is what it means to live, both past and now, and no matter how much it costs her.
Facing the camera, she said:
"If I can't run, I'll go, if I can't walk, I'll climb, but I'll never stop."
Therefore, when Celine · Dion, who looks in good shape, returned to the public eye through the Paris Olympics, there was also news that she was about to reopen her residency concert in Las Vegas.
"It's all up to her." A source told the outlet, "No one forced her to perform, but she has always been enthusiastic about returning to the stage." ”
〓 "My dream is to become an international singer and sing for the rest of my life"
At the end of the documentary "Rebirth from Illness", Celine Dion has just recovered from a persistent spasm.
She sat on the bed, described, withered and lifeless, as if she had just been given birth to a serious illness.
At this time, the assistant asked her, do you want to sing another song?
Her eyes lit up, she smiled, and nodded.
With the music of "WHO I AM" playing, she slowly stood up and began to sing along with the melody:
"I used to keep my heart closed, and I kept suppressing myself
But I don't want to go on like this again
Down-to-earth, now
I'm stronger than ever. (Wang Dong Keys)
(EXCERPTED FROM THE WECHAT PUBLIC ACCOUNT PHOENIX WEEKLY)