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Céline Marie Claudette Dion was born on March 30, 1968, and turned 55 years old today. Dion is a Canadian singer noted for her powerful and technically skilled vocals, Dion is the best-selling Canadian recording artist, and the best-selling French-language artist of all time. Her music has incorporated genres such as pop, rock, R&B, gospel, and classical music. Her recordings since have been mainly in English and French, although she has also sung in Spanish, Italian, German, Latin, Japanese, and Chinese. -READ MORE-

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