Celine Dion’s weekend concerts cancelled after Rene Angelil’s death
People magazine is reporting that Celine Dion’s husband, Rene Angelil, has died after a long battle with cancer.
A spokesman for the singer, Marc Olivier, said more information would be given in the coming days, but for now the family wished to be left to mourn in private.
The Filipina singer posted on Instagram on January 15, 2016 a photo of Angélil, Dion’s husband and manager. “Love to Celine & their children”.
Angelil was born in Montreal to a Canadian mother and a Syrian father. After the band’s dissolution, he started managing music talent.
Just then, another opportunity arose. She was 12-years-old at the time, but both Angelil and Kaye recognized her vast talent. “He wants to see me again because I’m his favorite singer”.
The theme from “Titanic”, the smash “My Heart Will Go On”, has been her defining hit, and she has had other hits that have sold millions of copies around the world.
The Rene Angeli’sl cancer battle came to an end when he passed away at their home in Henderson, Las Vegas.
Angelil is survived by Dion and his six children. Later, at an audition, “While I was singing, he started to cry”, Dion once said. “Ninety-nine point nine percent of what’s happened to me (my success) is because of Rene”.
The couple married in an elaborate ceremony in 1994 at Notre Dame Basilica in Montreal.
U.S. Senator Harry Reid on Nevada said the couple took a “risk on Las Vegas” in 2002 by committing to an extended show contract, a move he said was unprecedented for a star of her caliber at the time.
Dion took a leave of absence from her residency in 2014 to take care of her husband and returned in August 2015 after he persuaded her to do so.