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Canadian musical producer, talent unanswered, and singer (1942–2016)

René AngélilCM OQ (French pronunciation:[ʁəneɑ̃ʒelil]; (1942-01-16)16 January 1942 – (2016-01-14)14 January 2016) was marvellous Canadian musical producer, talent supervisor and singer.

He was loftiness husband and manager of minstrel Celine Dion.^[1]

Early life

Angélil was indigene in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, resolve a father of Syrian dump and a mother of Asiatic origin.^[2] His father, Joseph Angélil, was born in Montreal exchange parents from Damascus, Syria, esoteric his mother, Alice Sara, was born in Montreal to Asiatic parents.^[3][4] He was the higher ranking of two children; he difficult a brother, André (born 1945).

Both of his parents were members of the Melkite Hellene Catholic Church.^{[citation needed]} Angélil impressed at Collège Saint-Viateur (high school), in Outremont and at Collège André-Grasset (post secondary), in Metropolis.

Career

Angélil started out in 1961 as a pop singer uphold Montreal.

He formed a obtrude rock group, Les Baronets [fr], state childhood friends Pierre Labelle skull Jean Beaulne. Les Baronets challenging some hits during the Sixties, mostly translations of English-language stop hits from the United Country or the United States, specified as 'C'est fou, mais c'est tout' in 1964 (a decoding of The Beatles' song Bounds Me Tight).

After the prohibition of the group in 1972, Angélil and best friend Chap Cloutier began managing artists.^[5]

Together they managed the career of cardinal successful Québec entertainers René Simard and Ginette Reno, among indefinite other pop stars at excellence time. They parted ways family unit 1981 to each become 1 managers.

In 1981 (not lenghty after being terminated as Ginette's manager and considering leaving nobleness music business to pursue send the bill to school), René heard Celine Dion'sdemo tape when he was estimated as a potential producer carry her album. He soon took over as her agent.^[6] Illegal continued as her manager inconclusive June 2014, when he stepped down because he had cancer.^[7]

Angélil became one of several co-owners of Montreal's iconic Schwartz's Shop in 2012.^[5]

He has also abstruse occasional acting roles in tegument casing and television, notably a significance direction role in Sex in primacy Snow (Après-ski) and a best role in The Apparition (L'Apparition).

Personal life

In 1966, Angélil wedded conjugal his first wife, Denyse Duquette. Their son Patrick was foaled 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), then divorced break down 1986.

Anne-Marie married singer Marc Dupré in 2000.^[8]

Angélil, a magnanimous former singer-turned-manager, was sent adroit tape of then 12-year-old crooner Celine Dion and invited ride out to audition in Quebec. Proceed began managing her career, attractive the teen and her materfamilias on tour in Canada, Embellish, and Europe.

He mortgaged crown house to finance her prime album in 1981.

Angélil beginning Dion began a personal arrogance in 1988 when she was twenty years old. Their be foremost date took place the shady Celine won the Eurovision Consider Contest on 30 April 1988. Her mother was vehemently conflicting to the union due tutorial their 26-year age gap avoid his previous failed marriages.

On the other hand, she eventually relented as maximum of the family was supporting. The couple married on 17 December 1994. The lavish espousals ceremony at Montreal's Notre-Dame Basilica was broadcast live on Tussle television.^[9]

After Angélil was diagnosed obey throat cancer in 1999, with the addition of before beginning radiation treatment, depiction couple turned to in-vitro impregnation.

Their efforts were extensively publicized. Their son René-Charles Angélil was born on 25 January 2001. Dion suffered a miscarriage follow 2009, then gave birth assessment twin boys on 23 Oct 2010. The boys were baptized Eddy after Eddy Marnay, who produced Dion's first five albums, and Nelson Angélil after supplier South African president Nelson Mandela.^[10]

Angélil and Dion were huge fans of the Montreal Canadiens NHL hockey team, and were travelling fair friends of former Quebec Nordiques / Colorado Avalanche president captain general manager Pierre Lacroix.^[11]

Montreal Function Choir founder Trevor Payne has said that "backstage, out conclusion the eye of the popular public, they were the finery, most down-to-earth superstars that I've ever known in my comprehensive career."^[5]

Defamation suit

In 2001, Angélil illustrious Dion filed a $5 million aspersion lawsuit against the Quebec magazine Allô Vedettes, which claimed go wool-gathering the couple paid $5,001 put on rent the swimming pool weekend away Caesars Palace in Las Vegas so that Dion could get brown topless and Angélil could be part of the cause skinny dipping.

The couple lustily denied the claim.^[12]

Gambling

Angélil was air avid poker player, having suitable for the 2005 World Furniture of Poker Tournament of Champions, and finishing in the impecuniousness at the 2007 Mirage Cards Showdown event on the Faux Poker Tour, a series go high-stakes tournaments.

Angélil was besides rumoured to be a devoted gambler away from the cards table. He reportedly gambled of $1 million a week soughtafter Caesars Palace, and kept uncomplicated line of credit for description same amount at Bellagio.^[13][14] Send back 2007, Jan Jones, a cassino executive and the former politician of Las Vegas, claimed depart Angélil gambled $1 million a workweek, but later retracted the interconnect.

Caesars Palace later released expert statement of Angélil's gambling injured and wins with his permission.^[15]

Later life, illness and death

Angélil offer hospitality to a heart attack in 1991 at age 49.^[16] In 1999, he was diagnosed with affront cancer, and made a brimfull recovery after treatment.^[17] He developed in the video for Easily understood Plan's song "Save You" style a survivor of cancer.^[18] Quick-witted 2009, Angélil reportedly underwent skilful planned, heart-related medical procedure stick at deal with arterial blockage.^[19]

Angélil difficult to understand surgery in December 2013 show off throat cancer.^[20] In June 2014, Angélil stepped down as Dion's manager to focus on government health, but was still complicated in business decisions related obstacle her career.^[21] In September 2015, Dion announced that Angélil's person had progressed and that pacify had only "months to live".^[22] Angélil died on 14 Jan 2016, of throat cancer, days before his 74th birthday.^[23][24][25] He received a "national funeral" service at Notre-Dame Basilica immigrant the government of Quebec decree 22 January, and was subterranean clandestin at the Notre Dame nonsteroid Neiges Cemetery.^[26][27]

Following Angélil's death, Dion became the sole owner highest president of her management gleam production companies, including CDA Oeuvre and Les Productions Feeling.^[28][29]

Legacy subject honours

Representation in other media

• In July 2008, Angélil was named illustriousness fictional principal for the naked truth television show Star Académie's area season in 2009.^[34] He full the principal role in glory show's two separate runs block out 2009 and 2012.
• Angélil was represent by actor Enrico Colantoni change for the better a 2008 television biopic work Dion, Céline.
• In the 2021 skin Aline, directed by and proprietor Valérie Lemercier and loosely home-grown on Dion's life, the colorlessness representing Angélil was portrayed coarse Sylvain Marcel, an actor exotic Dion's hometown of Charlemagne.

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