Céline Dion Honors Late Husband as She Is Joined by Youngsters at Closing Vegas Residency Present

Céline Dion‘s remaining Final Vegas residency present included a touching tribute to her late husband and supervisor, René Angélil.

The 51-year-old Grammy-winning singer carried out her 1,141st and final live performance on the Colosseum at Caesar’s Palace on Saturday after 16 years. As she sang a canopy of “Someplace Over the Rainbow,” pictures of moments from her previous exhibits had been screened, as was a photograph of her and Angélil. Their three sons, René-Charles, 18, and Eight-year-old twins Eddy and Nelson, then joined her onstage throughout an emotional remaining curtain name.

“I am each proud and humbled by what we have achieved on the Colosseum since we started 16 years in the past, when René and I first shared this dream,” Dion mentioned. “This complete expertise has been an enormous a part of my present enterprise profession…one which I’ll cherish endlessly. I’ve so many individuals to thank, however a very powerful ‘thanks’ goes to my followers, who gave us the chance to do what we love.”

Angélil died at age 73 in  2016 after battling throat most cancers on and off for 18 years.

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He and Dion married in 1994. 

All through her Las Vegas residency, he and their youngsters had been usually noticed together with her at Caesar’s Palace, and in addition joined her onstage.

Celine Dion, Rene Angelil, Rene Charles Angelil

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Through the singer’s final Las Vegas present, she additionally debuted a brand new track, “Flying on My Personal,” from her upcoming album, Braveness, which is ready for release in November.

“What was the toughest for me is that, as you all know it’s extremely straightforward for me to cry, however I didn’t wish to cry as a result of I wished to show to myself, I wished to show to myself that I did not need the tears and the emotion to take over my power that I really feel,” Dion mentioned backstage. “Flying by myself, it is a new chapter. René will at all times stay in my life.”

After the live performance, Dion celebrated the conclusion of her residency with pals at Caesar’s Palace’s OMNIA nightclub, the place she additionally frolicked with resident headliner DJ Tiësto and danced together with her friends by the DJ sales space and sipped Gray Goose vodka late into the evening.

 

Dion will take a summer time break earlier than returning to the stage with a world tour, starting on September.

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