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Celine Dion (1992)

Where the lyrics of Celine Dion take you, and where it was really made.

The album's most successful single, "Beauty and the Beast", was a duet recorded for a Disney film, and it was added to this album.

Key places

Recording at Bunny Hop, Sherman Oaks (1992)

Recording site Record One — Listed as a studio where the album was recorded. Exact session dates for this room are not given. Google Maps · Apple Maps

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Recording at Encore, Burbank (1992)

Recording site Encore Recording Studios — Listed as a studio where the album was recorded. Exact session dates for this room are not given. Google Maps · Apple Maps

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Recording at Lighthouse Recorders, Hollywood (1992)

Recording site The Music Grinder (Hollywood) — Listed as a studio where the album was recorded. Exact session dates for this room are not given. Google Maps · Apple Maps

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Recording at Mad Hatter, Los Angeles (1992)

Recording site Mad Hatter (Los Angeles) — Listed as a studio where the album was recorded. Exact session dates for this room are not given. Google Maps · Apple Maps

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Recording at Plant Recording, Sausalito (1992)

Recording site Plant Recording (Sausalito) — Listed as a studio where the album was recorded. Exact session dates for this room are not given. Google Maps · Apple Maps

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Recording at Right Track Recording, New York (1992)

Recording site MSR Studios — Listed as a studio where the album was recorded. Exact session dates for this room are not given. Google Maps · Apple Maps

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Recording at Morin Heights, Quebec (1992)

Recording site Morin Heights (Quebec) — Listed as a studio where the album was recorded. Exact session dates for this location are not given. Google Maps · Apple Maps

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Recording at The Power Station, New York (1992)

Recording site Power Station Studio — Listed as a studio where the album was recorded. Exact session dates for this room are not given. Google Maps · Apple Maps

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Album story

Overview

• Celine Dion: eleventh studio album by Canadian singer Celine Dion
• Her second English-language album
• Released 30 March 1992 by Columbia Records and Epic Records
• Includes "Beauty and the Beast", a Grammy and Academy Award winning duet
• Singles: "If You Asked Me To" and "Love Can Move Mountains"
• Produced by Walter Afanasieff, Ric Wake, Guy Roche, and Humberto Gatica
• Reached number one in Quebec and number three in Canada
• Certified diamond in Canada for shipments of more than one million copies

Background

• Dion and Peabo Bryson recorded the title song for the Disney film Beauty and the Beast (1991), marking her international breakthrough
• Dion worked with a mostly new group of writers and producers for this album
• Five tracks were written by Diane Warren, and "With This Tear" was composed by Prince
• By 1992, Unison (1990) and media appearances had brought mainstream popularity in North America
• Dion toured as the opening act for Michael Bolton in summer 1992
• Reissued in Australia on 7 September 1992 with a bonus disc of four Unison singles

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

Tracklist

Sources: musicbrainz.org

Artist

Formation

• Born 30 March 1968 in Charlemagne, Quebec, Canada, the youngest of 14 children.
• Discovered by future manager and husband René Angélil after her brother sent him a demo recording of her first song "Ce n'était qu'un rêve".
• Angélil mortgaged his home in 1981 to fund her first record, La voix du bon Dieu, which became a No. 1 hit in Quebec.
• Won the Yamaha World Popular Song Festival in Tokyo in 1982.
• Won the Eurovision Song Contest 1988 for Switzerland with "Ne partez pas sans moi".

Career

• Debuted in the Anglophone market with Unison (1990), followed by Celine Dion (1992).
• Breakthrough with "Beauty and the Beast" (1991) with Peabo Bryson, winning her first Grammy.
• The Colour of My Love (1993) and Falling into You (1996) became major international successes.
• "My Heart Will Go On" from Titanic (1997) became her signature song and one of the best-selling singles.
• D'eux (1995) became the best-selling French-language album.
• Held the A New Day... residency at Caesars Palace (2003–2007), the highest-grossing concert residency; the Los Angeles Times ranked her the top-earning artist of the 2000s.
• Announced in 2022 a diagnosis of stiff-person syndrome, cancelling tours; returned to performing at the Paris 2024 Olympics opening ceremony.

Members

• Solo artist; manager and husband René Angélil (died 2016) guided her career.

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

Reception

At release

• AllMusic: Stephen Thomas Erlewine described the album as even stronger and more accomplished than Dion's American debut
• Entertainment Weekly: Arion Berger highlighted Dion's technical control, including on Prince's "With This Tear"
• Chicago Tribune: Jan DeKnock wrote that Dion's growing ease with English let her deliver the emotional nuances of a lyric
• Orlando Sentinel: Parry Gettelman noted her strength on the dance-pop tracks
• RPM: Tim Evans called it a terrific album with many highpoints and named "Water from the Moon" the strongest track
• Gavin Report: Ron Fell praised the future hits and the ballads, and wrote that Walter Afanasieff took Dion to new creative highs
• Music critic Robert Christgau gave the album a less favourable review than the wider critical reception

Records

• United States: her most commercially successful album up to that point
• United States: 2.4 million copies by May 2016 per Nielsen SoundScan, plus 624,000 units through BMG Music Club
• United States: RIAA double platinum, number 34 on the Billboard 200
• Canada: topped the Quebec chart for six weeks, number three nationally, CRIA diamond for one million copies
• Australia number 15, New Zealand number 31, Japan number 59, United Kingdom number 70
• ARIA platinum in Australia; gold in the UK and Japan
• Worldwide sales over five million copies
• "Beauty and the Beast": number nine on the Billboard Hot 100, US gold
• "If You Asked Me To" number four, "Nothing Broken but My Heart" number 29, "Love Can Move Mountains" number 36 in the US
• Nominated for the Grammy Best Female Pop Vocal Performance and the Juno Album of the Year
• Dion received her first World Music Award for Best Selling Canadian Female Recording Artist of the Year

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

Trivia

• The album was reissued in Australia on 7 September 1992 with a bonus disc of four singles from Unison.
• "With This Tear" was among the last songs recorded for the album, replacing a planned cover of "Calling You".
• "Send Me a Lover" was recorded during the album sessions and later appeared on the charity compilation Kumbaya Album 1994.
• The European edition adds "Where Does My Heart Beat Now" as a bonus track.
• Dion's professional relationship with René Angélil became romantic around this time, and the couple kept it private because of their 26-year age difference.

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

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