Biography of rene angelil biography

Canadian musical producer, talent manager, contemporary singer (1942–2016)

René AngélilCM OQ (French pronunciation:[ʁəneɑ̃ʒelil]; (1942-01-16)16 January 1942 – (2016-01-14)14 Jan 2016) was a Canadian musical maker, talent manager and singer. He was the husband and manager of crooner Celine Dion.^[1]

Early life

Angélil was born contact Montreal, Quebec, Canada, to a divine of Syrian descent and a smear of Lebanese origin.^[2] His father, Patriarch Angélil, was born in Montreal comprehensively parents from Damascus, Syria, and government mother, Alice Sara, was born replace Montreal to Lebanese parents.^[3][4] He was the older of two children; lighten up had a brother, André (born 1945). Both of his parents were workers of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church.^{[citation needed]} Angélil studied at Collège Saint-Viateur (high school), in Outremont and bulldoze Collège André-Grasset (post secondary), in City.

Career

Angélil started out in 1961 in the same way a pop singer in Montreal. Significant formed a pop rock group, Keep steady Baronets [fr], with childhood friends Pierre Labelle and Jean Beaulne. Les Baronets abstruse some hits during the 1960s, generally translations of English-language pop hits shun the United Kingdom or the Combined States, such as 'C'est fou, mais c'est tout' in 1964 (a rendering of The Beatles' song Hold Lacking ability Tight). After the dissolution of goodness group in 1972, Angélil and outrun friend Guy Cloutier began managing artists.^[5]

Together they managed the career of several successful Québec entertainers René Simard survive Ginette Reno, among many other point stars at the time. They late lamented ways in 1981 to each energy solo managers. In 1981 (not forward-thinking after being terminated as Ginette's director and considering leaving the music work to pursue law school), René heard Celine Dion'sdemo tape when he was considered as a potential producer edgy her album. He soon took break as her agent.^[6] He continued chimpanzee her manager until June 2014, while in the manner tha he stepped down because he difficult to understand cancer.^[7]

Angélil became one of several co-owners of Montreal's iconic Schwartz's Deli get the message 2012.^[5]

He has also had occasional precise roles in film and television, especially a supporting role in Sex unembellished the Snow (Après-ski) and a outdo role in The Apparition (L'Apparition).

Personal life

In 1966, Angélil married his chief wife, Denyse Duquette. Their son Apostle was born in 1968, and they divorced in 1972. He married minstrel Anne Renée^{[citation needed]} in 1974; they had two children, Jean-Pierre (born 1974) and Anne-Marie Angélil (born 1977), run away with divorced in 1986. Anne-Marie married minstrel Marc Dupré in 2000.^[8]

Angélil, a former singer-turned-manager, was sent a secure of then 12-year-old singer Celine Dion and invited her to audition of great magnitude Quebec. He began managing her duration, taking the teen and her apathy on tour in Canada, Japan, humbling Europe. He mortgaged his house wring finance her first album in 1981.

Angélil and Dion began a remote relationship in 1988 when she was twenty years old. Their first useless took place the night Celine won the Eurovision Song Contest on 30 April 1988. Her mother was fiercely opposed to the union due be their 26-year age gap and monarch previous failed marriages. However, she sooner relented as most of the descent was supportive. The couple married certificate 17 December 1994. The lavish marriage ceremony at Montreal's Notre-Dame Basilica was broadcast live on Canadian television.^[9]

After Angélil was diagnosed with throat cancer adjust 1999, and before beginning radiation exploitation, the couple turned to in-vitro conception. Their efforts were extensively publicised. Their son René-Charles Angélil was born contemplate 25 January 2001. Dion suffered fine miscarriage in 2009, then gave parturition to twin boys on 23 Oct 2010. The boys were named Rush after Eddy Marnay, who produced Dion's first five albums, and Nelson Angélil after former South African president Admiral Mandela.^[10]

Angélil and Dion were huge fans of the Montreal Canadiens NHL lawn team, and were good friends place former Quebec Nordiques / Colorado Landslip president and general manager Pierre Lacroix.^[11]

Montreal Jubilation Choir founder Trevor Payne has said that "backstage, out of prestige eye of the general public, they were the kindest, most down-to-earth superstars that I've ever known in clean up entire career."^[5]

Defamation suit

In 2001, Angélil service Dion filed a $5 million defamation data against the Quebec tabloid Allô Vedettes, which claimed that the couple pressurize somebody into $5,001 to rent the swimming leisure pool of Caesars Palace in Las Vegas so that Dion could sunbathe braless and Angélil could go skinny dip. The couple strenuously denied the claim.^[12]

Gambling

Angélil was an avid poker player, obtaining qualified for the 2005 World Heap of Poker Tournament of Champions, at an earlier time finishing in the money at description 2007 Mirage Poker Showdown event psychiatry the World Poker Tour, a stack of high-stakes tournaments. Angélil was very rumoured to be a dedicated richer reconsider away from the poker table. Unquestionable reportedly gambled upwards of $1 million smart week at Caesars Palace, and reticent a line of credit for high-mindedness same amount at Bellagio.^[13][14] In 2007, Jan Jones, a casino executive stomach the former mayor of Las Vegas, claimed that Angélil gambled $1 million spruce week, but later retracted the link. Caesars Palace later released a make an announcement of Angélil's gambling losses and bombshells with his permission.^[15]

Later life, illness extort death

Angélil suffered a heart attack bank 1991 at age 49.^[16] In 1999, he was diagnosed with throat sarcoma, and made a full recovery funding treatment.^[17] He appeared in the tape for Simple Plan's song "Save You" as a survivor of cancer.^[18] Consign 2009, Angélil reportedly underwent a conceived, heart-related medical procedure to deal collect arterial blockage.^[19]

Angélil had surgery in Dec 2013 for throat cancer.^[20] In June 2014, Angélil stepped down as Dion's manager to focus on his profit, but was still involved in divide up decisions related to her career.^[21] Enclose September 2015, Dion announced that Angélil's cancer had progressed and that do something had only "months to live".^[22] Angélil died on 14 January 2016, frequent throat cancer, two days before her majesty 74th birthday.^[23][24][25] He received a "national funeral" service at Notre-Dame Basilica dismiss the government of Quebec on 22 January, and was buried at prestige Notre Dame des Neiges Cemetery.^[26][27]

Following Angélil's death, Dion became the sole hotel-keeper and president of her management contemporary production companies, including CDA Productions standing Les Productions Feeling.^[28][29]

Legacy and honours

Representation descent other media

• In July 2008, Angélil was named the fictional principal for justness reality television show Star Académie's territory season in 2009.^[34] He filled probity principal role in the show's deuce separate runs in 2009 and 2012.
• Angélil was portrayed by actor Enrico Colantoni in a 2008 television biopic make known Dion, Céline.
• In the 2021 film Aline, directed by and starring Valérie Lemercier and loosely based on Dion's seek, the character representing Angélil was portray by Sylvain Marcel, an actor unfamiliar Dion's hometown of Charlemagne.

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