25 things to know about the album Celine Dion

On March 31, 1992, Celine Dion confirmed her status as a rising star in the United States by launching her second album in English

Twenty-five years ago, Celine Dion continued her international offensive by launching her second English-language record. Thanks to this eponymous opus, the singer would climb several steps in the United States. To celebrate this anniversary, here are 25 things to know about Céline Dion, the album.

1. The opus includes the theme song of the popular Beauty and the Beast .
2. The day before the launch, Celine Dion made her very first appearance at the Oscars and Beauty and the Beast was crowned Best Original Movie Song.

3. Celine Dion highlights the release of Jay Leno’s Tonight Show at NBC, where her parents are attending.
4. The album appears in three formats: CD, cassette and vinyl.

5. Its release occurs only five months after that of Dion sings Plamondon .
6. In the United States, criticism is mixed. Entertainment Weekly writes that Celine has “clearly more voices than heart”.
7. The album reached the 34th position in the Billboard charts in the United States.
8. In Canada, the opus is up to 3rd place.
9. Second album, the ballad If You Asked Me remains – 25 years later – the 8th most popular song by Céline Dion in the United States.
10. Saxophonist Kenny G takes part in the disc. It can be heard on Halfway to Heaven .
11. The opus contains the first five Celine songs written by Diane Warren. The latter will write him the mega tube Because You Loved Me in 1996.
12. Most of the titles are made by Walter Afanasieff, a faithful accomplice of Mariah Carey.
13. The song With This Tear was written by Prince.
14. Recorded by Céline Dion but rejected when finalizing the disc, the song Send Me A Lover will be recovered by Taylor Dayne in 1993.
15. Five million copies will be sold worldwide, according to the Canadian Music Hall of Fame.

16. The album allows Celine Dion to get her very first Grammy: Best pop performance of a duet or group for Beauty and the Beast with Peabo Bryson.
17. After the release of the record, Céline made a tour of arenas in the United States … in the first part of Michael Bolton.
18. A formal Canadian tour was organized, including five performances at the Montreal Forum.
19. Anthony Kavanagh played his first game.
20. The record allows Celine to win the Felix of the Artist who has most illustrated himself in a language other than French, a prize that she refused in 1990 because he was called Anglophone Artist of the ” year.
21. Not less than six singles are taken from the disc, including Water From the Moon .
22. The production of the video clip of Nothing But My Broken Heart is entrusted to Lyne Charlebois ( Borderline, All the Truth ).
23. Alain Desrochers ( Nitro, Bon cop bad cop 2 ) realizes the video of Did You Give Enough Love , still considered today the most sexy clip of Céline.
24. On January 20, 1993, Céline sang Love Can Move Mountains at the inauguration of US President Bill Clinton in Washington.
25. Love Can Move Mountains and Beauty and the Beast are the only songs on the record that Céline continues to sing in Las Vegas.