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VIDEO. The world was waiting for it. Celine Dion, reigning in a sparkling Dior gown, sang Edith Piaf’s “Hymn of Love.” A perfect ending to this great ceremony.
Celine Dion didn’t sing for 4 years due to the syndrome of the solid person. An Amazon Prime documentary revealed to the general public her daily routine between her broken voice and spasm attacks. And suddenly, we were talking about his possible performance at the Olympic Games in Paris. A few days ago, his arrival in the capital made the rumors even worse. At the end of the ceremony, after the lighting and flight of the Olympic cauldron, Celine Dion recited the first words of Edith Piaf’s “Hymn to Love” from the first floor of the Eiffel Tower. A legendary song on an iconic monument for an iconic moment.
Dressed in a white silk georgette Dior Haute Couture gown embroidered with hypnotic detailing and enhanced with more than five hundred meters of fringe adorned with thousands of silver pearls, the singer closed the opening ceremony of the Olympics in Paris 2024 style, in tears. in our eyes.
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“When Thomas[Jolie, who organized this opening ceremony]called Celine Dion a year ago, she immediately said yes. “If I have to sing again, it will be for the Olympics,” she replied, host Daphne Burke explained on France 2. Therefore, an expected speech, but one whose tension will be maintained until the end. The artist “overcame many challenges to be here tonight. Celine, it’s great to see you singing again, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau responded at X.
It’s also an iconic song after the singer performed it in tribute to the victims of the Paris attacks at the 2015 American Music Awards.
He, who had already sung at the Atlanta Olympics in 1996, formed the most beautiful duet of this opening ceremony with the Iron Lady; two giants who braved the rain and the trials of time to dominate Paris that evening.
Source: Le Figaro
