Dion Chante Plamondon

Performer: Celine Dion
Distributor: Sony Music Distribution (

Notes: Personnel: Celine Dion (vocals); Denys Lable (guitar); Eric Seva (saxophone); Serge Perathoner (keyboards); Jannick Top (bass); Claude Salmieri (drums); Marina Albert (background vocals). Producers: Jannick Top, Serge Perathoner, Romano Musumarra. Engineers: Jannick Top, Serge Perathoner, Romano Musumarra. Recorded at Face B Studio, Paris, France between September 9 and October 6, 1991. Includes liner notes by Luc Plamondon. Canadian Celine Dion's first language was French, so it probably shouldn't have come as a surprise to anybody that she'd do a follow up to DION CHANTE PLAMONDON, a 1994 collaboration with Luc Plamondon, one of Canada's premier French language pop lyricists. This time out, she's working with French-Canadian songwriter Jean-Jacques Goldman, and the language notwithstanding, it's pretty much business as usual musically, i.e. a mix of lovely pop ballads, big production flourishes, soaring chord changes, and stadium-ready guitar parts. The bluesy "Le Ballet," however, rocks out a bit harder than one might have suspected -- think the Atlanta Rhythm Section with a heavy cream sauce.

Celine Dion's ascent from stardom in her native Canada to the upper echelons of international pop divadom is one of the 1990s major success stories. Blessed with a formidable set of pipes and a preference for heart-in-the-throat ballads, the precociously talented Dion initially won over American listeners in 1991, 10 years after her French-language debut, with the title track from Disney's BEAUTY AND THE BEAST. From then on, Dion became a music-biz phenomenon, with platinum record sales, sold-out concerts, and across-the-board appeal rivaling her idol, Barbra Streisand.

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