Forbes named her the year's highest-paid female musician four times in the 1920s and 1990s. Dion also received two honorary doctorates of music from Berklee College of Music and Université Laval. Life and Career - Early Life and Beginnings of Career Dion Dion was born in Charlemagne, Quebec, 15 miles northeast of Montreal, to a housewife with her maiden name - and Ademar Dion - a butcher. The smallest one.
French origin. She was raised a Roman Catholic in Charlemagne's poor but, by her own account, happy home. Music has always been a big part of the Dionne family and she French Polynesia Email List was named after a song by French singer Hugues Ofrée that he recorded two years before she was born. singing a song by Christine Charbonneau at her brother Michel's wedding. She continued to perform with her siblings in her parents' small piano bar, The Old Barrel.
She was involved in numerous accidents as a child, including one at the age of five when she was hit by a car while her father and brother Clement looked on. She was briefly hospitalized with a concussion. From a young age she dreamed of becoming a performer. In an interview with People magazine in 2011, she recalled: "I miss my family and my home, but I don't regret losing my teenage years." I have a dream I want to be a singer.