Funeral of Celine Dion’s husband at basilica where they wed

But it seems the singer is set to face another devastating loss: her older brother Daniel, who is also battling cancer.

A representative for the singer told People that one of Dion’s 13 siblings is suffering from brain, tongue and throat cancer and may not live through the week.

“Celine will return to The Colosseum on February 23 to resume perforannounced the death of her husband Rene Angelil after a long fight with cancer. mances”.

Way before being known as the husband of Celine Dion, Rene Angelil was once a singer himself.

Just days after her husband, René Angélil, lost his battle with cancer, Céline Dion has suffered yet another family tragedy.

In a news release issued Friday by Dion’s publicist, Francine Chaloult, she said the service will be held Friday afternoon at 3 p.m.at Notre Dame Basilica in Montreal.

The Montreal Gazette says he mortgaged his house to finance her first album.

His protegee and future wife went on to become one of pop’s music’s best-known voices, winning five Grammy awards including for the Titanic theme song My Heart Will Go On, and collaborating with stars from Stevie Wonder to Barbra Streisand.

“He will be remembered as a gentle man, generous and kind, an unprecedented visionary, a modern Pygmalion, a Renaissance man”, she said in a Facebook post. The group would tour Canada while Celine Dion was only an infant, but it proved the foundation for a close-knit relationship with her siblings for the rest of her life.

“When you see someone who is fighting so hard, it has a big impact on you”, she said.