She carried out “Hymne à l’amour,” a track made well-known by French singer Édith Piaf, on the Eiffel Tower because the 2024 Video games kicked off within the French capital.
Following the efficiency, Dion wrote in an Instagram put up that she was “honored” and “so filled with pleasure to be again in one in every of my very favourite cities.”
“Most of all, I am so pleased to be celebrating these superb athletes, with all their tales of sacrifice and willpower, ache and perseverance,” she wrote.
The singer obtained widespread reward for her efficiency, with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau writing on X: “A Canadian icon, an unimaginable expertise, and he or she overcame lots to be there tonight.”
“Céline, it is nice to see you singing once more,” he added.
Dion additionally carried out on the Olympic Video games in Atlanta in 1996.
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It was Dion’s first reside efficiency since 2020 and comes roughly a yr and a half after she introduced that she had been recognized with stiff particular person syndrome.
In keeping with the Johns Hopkins Drugs web site, stiff particular person syndrome “is a uncommon autoimmune neurological dysfunction that mostly causes muscle stiffness and painful spasms that come and go and may worsen over time.”
It mostly develops in folks aged between 40 and 50, the positioning says.
In April, whereas reflecting on her prognosis, Dion advised Vogue France that she was decided to get again onstage and that her objective was to see the Eiffel Tower in Paris once more.
“The way in which I see it, I’ve two selections,” she mentioned. “Both I prepare like an athlete and work tremendous exhausting, or I change off and it is over, I keep at dwelling, take heed to my songs, stand in entrance of my mirror and sing to myself.”
“I’ve chosen to work with all my physique and soul, from head to toe, with a medical workforce. I need to be one of the best I will be,” she added.
