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Paris 2024: Celine Dion creates surprise with ‘Hymn to Love’
Paris 2024: Celine Dion creates surprise with ‘Hymn to Love’
(FRANCE 2)
The French-speaking international star performed Edith Piaf’s song from the top of the Eiffel Tower after the lighting of the Olympic cauldron by Marie-José Pérec and Teddy Riner.
A surprise participation at the end of the show. Celine Dion, world famous for its hits For you to love me again Or I’ll go wherever you will go interpreted The Hymn to Love Friday, July 26, during the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympic Games, from the Eiffel Tower. A performance that took place just after the lighting of the Olympic cauldron, by Marie-José Pérec and Teddy Riner, the last two torchbearers.
Spotted in Paris for a few days, and received at the Elysée on July 24, Céline Dion had not confirmed her participation in the event. Reached since December 2022 the incurable disease of stiff person syndromewhich disrupts the central nervous system, the Canadian star had been forced to cancel a world tour and had not performed on stage for four years.
His participation in the Olympic spectacle marks his big return to the forefront. This is her second Olympic performance: in 1996, the Canadian singer had already sung her hit The Power Of The Dream, written and produced especially for the opening ceremony of the Atlanta Games.