Despite the illness, Celine Dion is preparing a major tour in 2023. Her entourage even certifies that the singer will be back in Europe in February.
No one dared to believe it anymore, but still Celine Dion getting ready to come back on stage after two years away from the cameras. We still remember his canceled tour following the emergence of Covid-19 and his health concerns. This time it’s the right one! Céline will restore her voice in an album in tribute to her accomplice Jean-Jacques Goldman which will land in stores on December 2. Small flat: the star could not record a real cover of one of the hits of his favorite composer. In question, very disabling “muscle spasms”. Celine Dion was able to count on the ingenuity of Erick Benzi, the man in charge of the project, to allow her to participate in the compilation despite everything. “When I called her to offer her this, she was super happy to participate in a tribute to Jean-Jacques but she still had vocal problems, she was not yet in good enough shape to do somethingsays the producer at the microphone of RTL. Céline, that’s the advantage with her, when you’re in the studio, there’s nothing to throw away. That’s when I proposed to her, ‘Listen, I’m going to cover one of your songs that you sang at the time’. I searched through the tracks I had and was able to extract a voice track that is unreleased.“
Celine Dion was thus able to validate this unpublished version from the archives of Jean-Jacques Goldman. “Everything was a process. Once I made the arrangement and put the voice on it, it was back and forth with her three, four times to validate the sound, the little details she wanted, then the level of voice versus instrumentation“, details Erick Benzi. Asked by our colleagues from RTL, the producer does not expand on the health problems of the star on which it is in any case difficult to obtain precise information. And for good reason, even his sister , Claudette Dion, says she has not spoken on the phone with Celine for a very long time. The singer’s last official speech dates back to April 29 when she announced in a video the postponement of one of her concerts. “She has health problems, that’s true. It gets better, it takes time“, explains Erick Benzi. Celine Dion will be back on stage on February 24 in Prague, a calendar certified by his relatives. From there, 50 concerts await him until October in 32 different cities, sometimes with two performances two days in a row. Celine Dion will celebrate her return to France on July 13 as part of the Vieilles Charrues. She will then chain six dates in September at Paris La Défense Arena. Notice to latecomers: all tickets have been sold!
This strange syndrome from which Celine Dion would suffer
The craziest rumors are rife in the media and on social networks about the illness suffered by Celine Dion for two years. “My doctors follow me and I receive treatments but I still have muscle spasms”, explained the singer last April. His relatives certify on their side that Celine does not suffer from cancer or Alzheimer’s contrary to what some rumors suggest. “Celine has long a digestive problemand this leads to muscle spasms but also weight loss”thus revealed one of them in the columns of the Parisian. In the book Celine Dion: the real storyrecently available in bookstores, the star’s ENT, Dr. Jean Abitbol, certifies that his client suffers from “globus syndrome” who “cause trouble with his voice.” “According to him, it is due to psychosomatic stress., details co-author Laurence Pieau in an interview with TF1 info. According to a document compiled by the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust, the syndrome causes “a feeling of a lump in the throat when there really isn’t one”. A disorder which would be added, according to Jean Abitbol, to “menopausal problem. The explosive cocktail would thus cause “this feeling of gastric reflux, tight throat and spasms”. Who wants to go far, spare his range!