Write a 6 pages paper on the mark of the greatness of celine dion: courage and devotion. The youngest of fourteen children, her name came from a song of the same title by French singer Hugues Aufray. She cut her teeth singing with her siblings in her parent’s modest establishment.

Even among her siblings, her voice stood out as especially beautiful. At the age of twelve her parents, Adhémar Dion and Thérèse Tanguay, along with her brother Jacques, sent a recording of her voice to renowned musical producer

The same year Rene released a second compilation of her songs, including several Christmas melodies. It was titled Céline Dion Chante Noël (Celine Dion with Christmas Songs). This collection proved even more popular than her first effort, with sales above 150,000.

Her early success was due not only to native talent and a supportive family but a single-minded drive that emerged within her at an early age. “I don’t regret having lost my adolescence,” she revealed in a 1994 interview. “I had one dream: I wanted to be a singer.” This passion for her vocation is one of Celine’s most defining and admirable qualities. It would sustain her as she not only climbed to the heights of the musical world but also as she faced later personal issues.

These personal issues centered around her affair with her manager, René Angélil. Twenty-six years her senior, she reported falling in love with him at the tender age of twelve. At the time he was married to his second wife, but divorce followed, which confirmed in the teenage Celine’s mind that she and Rene were destined to be together. At the age of nineteen, they became lovers.

This proved to be both her greatest source of happiness as well as a guarded secret that she and Rene both dreaded would find its way into the papers. By the strictures of the time, a relationship between two persons of such disparate ages would have been scandalous enough to derail her budding career.

For years she endured the emotional pain that compliance with these strictures caused her, until at last in 1993 she announced to the worlds that Rene was her beloved.