Celine Dion is set for Las Vegas return, a year after she put her career on hold “indefinitely” for health and family reasons.
The Canadian singer cancelled all performances from August last year after her husband, Rene Angelil, was diagnosed with throat cancer for the second time.
“It was Rene’s wish that I come back,” Celine Dion wrote in a statement.
“While my family will always be my priority, my fans are just as important to me.”
Celine Dion, 46, will be back on stage at the Colosseum at Caesars Palace on August 27. She last performed there on July 29, 2014.
She has been married to Rene Angelil, who is also her manager, since 1994. They have three children together.
“I look forward to performing again for all of you… and more importantly having Rene there with me,” Celine Dion’s statement continued.
“Thank you for giving me this time I needed to spend with my family.”
In an interview with Good Morning America, Celine Dion revealed she had been feeding Rene Angelil, 73, through a tube since his surgery to have a cancerous tumor removed in December 2013.
“Rene could not talk and he could not swallow; the surgery was major,” she said.
“I feed him three times a day, I do it myself.”
Celine Dion previously took a two-year hiatus from 2000 to 2002 to help care for her husband, when he was initially diagnosed with throat cancer.
The singer has become a regular fixture in Las Vegas, having performed a near five-year residency there from 2003 to 2007.
Her current residency began in 2011. Although it was originally billed as a three-year event, it was extended through to 2019 last year.
It has been confirmed Celine Dion will resume her residency with 40 performances, to take place between August 2015 and January 2016.
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Jennifer Hudson, Celine Dion and Usher are among the stars who have been confirmed for a Whitney Houston tribute concert.
They will join other famous faces to honor Whitney Houston, who passed away in February this year.
The one-hour We Will Always Love You: A Grammy Salute To Whitney Houston concert will be taped in Los Angeles on October 11th and will also feature interviews and footage with the late singer, as well as artists sharing their memories of her.
The televised special will coincide with the November 13th release of a compilation album, I Will Always Love You – The Best of Whitney Houston, featuring 16 of her best-known hits and two previously unreleased songs, including a new duet of I Look To You with R. Kelly, her record label RCA said.
Whitney Houston tribute concert will be taped in Los Angeles on October 11th
In addition to the concert, it was announced yesterday that Lifetime television network would be airing a new series called The Houstons: On Our Own.
The series, to start on October 17th, documents Whitney Houston’s 19-year-old daughter Bobbi Kristina Brown, sister-in-law and former manager Pat Houston and mother Cissy, as they deal with life after the singer’s death.
The concert won’t be the first time that Jennifer Hudson has paid tribute to Whitney Houston.
She also performed a heartfelt song at the Grammy Awards shortly after Whitney Houston’s tragic passing.
And speaking previously about her love for Whitney Houston, Jennifer Hudson said: “I admired her style, her look, and above all else, her voice and technique.”
Meanwhile, Celine Dion used Whitney Houston’s death as a warning to other young music stars in a recent interviews.
She told W magazine: “I’ve always been scared of the industry. Why?
“Because I think it’s a place here anything is possible. It’s a <<yes>> place. Especially if you have success.
“I was just in shock when Whitney’s life had been taken because of drugs.
“It’s a big loss for all of us.”
“I wake up in the morning / And smell your sweet delight / You linger in my kitchen now / I still smell you at night…”
The following clip, The Power of Bacon, is a love song about crisp, salty, artery-clogging bacon. It is sung to the tune of The Power of Love, Céline Dion’s earth-shattering anthem.
Featured by Anna Sudac, The Power of Bacon video itself is a shot-for-shot parody of Céline Dion’s own Power of Love music video, complete with creepy close-ups of heavily made up eyeballs and oodles of soft caresses
Featured by Anna Sudac, the video itself is a shot-for-shot parody of Céline Dion’s own Power of Love music video, complete with creepy close-ups of heavily made up eyeballs and oodles of soft caresses.
Most importantly, though, its star has some pipes even if nobody can really out-diva Céline Dion.
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