Celine Dion, queen of the Olympics ceremony and… playback? Investigation removes the veil of suspicion

Too good to be true. L:“A hymn of love, Celine Dion performed live from the Eiffel Tower on July 26, during the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics, was it really sung? The issue has been in the headlines since this summer. Along with the release of this mid-week single, Release studied this performance. According to their data gathered from music industry experts and revealed in an article this Thursday, October 10, there is no “No Shadow of a Doubt” Reporters Anais Condomines and Vincent Kokaz from Checknews service report during the playback; The singer’s performance would be pre-recorded and modified.

“100% playback, you can hear it from the first notes”

“It was 100% playing, you could hear it from the first notes. We can’t have such a clean vocal sound live,” the experienced producer and sound engineer confirms to our colleagues, wishing to remain anonymous. “The gestures, the levels, the precision, the compression… What I hear and what I see. it plays,” adds the sound engineer and former Celine Dion collaborator.

To consult this survey in more detail Libération.fr: , Other music industry sources are also analyzing videos of the singer’s rehearsal, comparing it to her performance at the opening ceremony of the Olympics, as well as another version sung by Celine Dion in 2015. Everyone reaches the same conclusion. pre-recorded and retouched.

Contacted by our partners, neither the organizers of the ceremony nor the singer’s team wanted to respond to this evidence. It looks like they are sticking with their version from last July. In the columns of the regional newspaper Western FranceMusical director Victor LeMasne stated that he “planned (this playback feature), but (Celine Dion) actually sang.” The comments were later confirmed by the ceremonies’ artistic director, Thomas Joly.

Does the sound still work?

Played or not, these new elements are reviving concerns about the extremely rare neurological disorder the Quebec singer suffers from, stiff man syndrome, and its effects on her vocal performance. “It’s like someone is suffocating you. It’s like somebody’s pushing your throat, your throat, and it’s like you’re talking like that and you can’t raise or lower your voice,” he said in a choked voice in an interview broadcast last June. on NBC News .

If none of the witnesses of the Libération investigation accuse the singer of this alleged playback, which has already been used many times by other celebrities such as Beyoncé, Britney Spears or Madonna, many still deplore the lack of transparency on this subject and the suppression of music for industry to be better on stage regardless of health problems.