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In 1995, Céline Dion and Jean-Jacques Goldman returned to their meeting on the Quebec show Special Dimanche while promoting the album D’eux.
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In 1995, Celine Dion’s career took a new turn. Already well-known across the Atlantic, the singer made a name for herself in France thanks to D’eux, an album entirely written and produced by Jean-Jacques Goldman. Published on March 30 of the same year, this work entitled “Pour que tu m’aimes encore”, “Je sais pas” and “J’irai où tu iras” allowed the Quebec singer to win two Victoires de la Musique and to break a record: with 10 million records sold worldwide, it is the best-selling French-language album in music history. But how did the two artists come to work together? Shortly after the release of D’eux, Céline Dion and Jean-Jacques Goldman answered questions from presenter Sonia Benezra on the Special Sunday broadcast in Quebec. The opportunity to find out a little more about their meeting.
Jean-Jacques Goldman’s secrets about Celine Dion
As he himself explained, Jean-Jacques Goldman discovered Céline Dion thanks to the song D’amour et d’alliance, published in 1982. “At that time I didn’t write songs for other people, but I said to myself: ‘If one.’ “The day I wrote for a woman was for her or for Aretha Franklin,” he said before returning to his first-ever meeting with the singer, who was related to a member of the British royal family. “I wasn’t that interested in her on a personal level. I was interested in her voice. I can really work with unpleasant people as long as they interest me on an artistic level.”, he confided, provoking an immediate reaction from Céline. “It is frightening. You still have to learn it, we’ll show you how it works in Quebec,” she answered humorously to the laughter of the audience.
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Jean-Jacques Goldman has touched Celine Dion since their first meeting
“When we talk to Céline, we learn a lot. She is a very spontaneous person who doesn’t hide. So in just two or three hours we learn a lot about her values, about what is important to her.” . When she talks about her husband, about her childhood, we quickly form an opinion, not about the facts, but about the essence of the person, and we aren’t too disappointed afterwards. It is the same person as the person showing it” added Jean-Jacques Goldman, who had documented himself on Céline Dion by reading all her interviews and watching all her appearances on television. “Little by little I got into her character, which is a very endearing and very touching character,” concluded the singer, who recently broke his silence and denounced the publication of an unauthorized biography.
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