Celine Dion is singing as soon as extra—precisely as she promised followers she would. Closing the 2024 Olympics opening ceremony with a efficiency of Edith Piaf’s “L’Hymne à l’amour,” Dion climbed the Eiffel Tower to mark her first reside efficiency since 2019, and her first since she revealed her analysis with stiff individual syndrome.
Standing beneath the glow of the Olympic rings, Dion appeared outright angelic in a full-length, long-sleeved silver Christian Dior robe, coated in crystals and paired with its personal cape and practice. The singer appeared visibly emotional as she gazed out over the Parisian skyline, the place rain continued to pour because it had for a lot of the day’s ceremony. However she didn’t miss a single be aware earlier than concluding the ballad with a triumphant elevate of her fist.
“I really can’t speak,” a tearful Kelly Clarkson—serving as a ceremony co-host for NBC—stated moments after the efficiency’s conclusion.
In June, Dion launched her Prime Video documentary I Am: Celine Dion, which chronicles the singer’s experiences with the uncommon neurological illness as she makes an attempt to retain her singing talents. Within the documentary, she revealed that she first began noticing signs almost 20 years in the past, however that in recent times, she wanted to take 80 to 90 milligrams of Valium per day to carry out. If her voice would crack throughout a reside present, she’d generally level her microphone to the viewers to forestall followers from listening to her. After she publicly shared her analysis in 2022, Dion briefly stepped away from the highlight. However after her shock Grammys look this February, she has slowly reclaimed her visibility—and her pedestal as one of many music business’s most beloved legends.
Dion informed audiences throughout a premiere screening of I Am: Celine Dion in New York, “Your presence in my journey has been a present past measure. Your endless love and assist over all these years have delivered me to this second tonight.”
Dion first carried out on the Olympics opening ceremony in 1996, in Atlanta. Practically three many years—and a substantial amount of private ache and victory—later, the “My Coronary heart Will Go On” singer (or “gold-winner vocal athlete,” as Clarkson proclaimed her) appeared as highly effective and unforgettable as ever.
Lauren Puckett-Pope is a employees tradition author at ELLE, the place she primarily covers movie, tv and books. She was beforehand an affiliate editor at ELLE.
