Céline Dion’s powerful and powerful interpretation of the piece Hymn to love during the opening ceremony of the Paris Summer Olympics on July 26, was it a recorded version or did the international star really sing live?
The day after the release of this song on listening platforms, more than two months after the performance, the newspaper Release, in France, asked experts to comment on this delicate question.
The organizers of the Olympic Games affirm to anyone who will listen that the Quebecer has indeed pushed the note without “lipsing» on the Eiffel Tower, flanked by pianist and musical director Scott Price. It was a big moment for Celine Dion, who performed for the first time after announcing that she suffers from stiff person syndrome, an illness that we discovered in the moving documentary I am: Celine Dionavailable on Prime Video. In recent years, she canceled a world tour and a residency show in Las Vegas due to her unpredictable health.
In his investigation, Release writes that the audio track ofHymn to love Olympic version would have undergone adjustments in post-production. Specialists even say that, according to them, Céline Dion “without a shadow of a doubt” sang in “playback».
“It’s impossible that what we hear is live,” says an expert.
“The gestures, the levels, the accuracy, the compression… What I hear and what I see: it’s playback,” adds this sound engineer who has already worked with the main interested party.
According to Release, the organizers did not want to comment again on Celine Dion’s performance at the Olympics.
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Victor Le Masne, who is the composer of the anthem for the Paris Olympics, said at the end of July in West Francethat the 56-year-old singer had wanted to “actually sing”, unlike Lady Gaga and Aya Nakamura, who had opted for recordings.
“She had this dream of singing on the Eiffel Tower, without playback, and the voice is there”, for his part indicated Thomas Jolly, the artistic director of the opening and closing ceremonies of the Olympic Games, in September, on the set from the show C to you.
Taking into account the stiff person syndrome and the fact that it was Celine Dion’s very first performance, and in such a big moment, in front of hundreds of millions of curious people, her admirers could certainly forgive her for having opted for caution.