While Nana Mouskouri will sing the Greek and French anthems on the occasion of the passing of the Olympic flame in Athens (Greece) at the end of the week, another singing icon – Céline Dion – could in turn create the event in the perspective of the Paris 2024 Games.
(Credits – Vogue France / Cass Bird)
By posing for le magazines « Vogue France » of May 2024Celine Dion has rekindled a never-extinguished fervor among her fans as for an upcoming return to the forefront.
If the greatest French-speaking singer in history – who struggles with stiff person syndrome (stiff-person syndrome) – was careful not to make any announcement regarding a possible entry into the studio or the preparation of new concerts, certain points of her lengthy interview for the famous fashion magazine arouse the curiosity of her supporters.
The recent surprise – and applauded – appearance on the stage of Grammy Awards and the upcoming broadcast of a documentary on Prime Video from June 25, 2024, would constitute nothing more and nothing less than a prelude to a return to the spotlight around the world.
In fact, the fans of the icon with more than 250 million albums sold in forty years of career, one can imagine a fabulous come-back as part of the festivities surrounding the Opening Ceremony of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.
The heart of the interview for « Vogue France » would in any case provide clues about an imminent return, according to the President of the Club, « Les Red Heads »cited by “The Journal of Montreal”.
According to Line Basbous in fact:
There is something coming that seems to be taking shape more and more.
[…] There are very clear intentions that have been established. Her team is still quite cautious and they do it strategically.
To flesh out this point of view and her feeling, Line Basbous particularly evokes an extract from the interview where Céline Dion first compares herself to a high-level athlete before hoping to see the Eiffel Tower again.
As the Oscar-winning singer declared to « Vogue France » :
I have this disease for some unknown reason. I have two choices.
Either I train like an athlete and I work super hard, or I log off and it’s over, I stay at home, I listen to my songs, I stand in front of my mirror and I sing to myself.
I chose to work with all my body and all my soul, from head to toe with a medical team. I want to be my best self. My goal is to see the Eiffel Tower again!
Celine Dion’s participation in a promotional campaign of the Canadian Olympic Committee (COC) in partnership with «Radio Canada» would also support the hypothesis of a return of the native of Charlemagne to Quebec as the 2024 Olympics approach.
Simple speculations today, it remains to be seen whether what some consider as clues will come to fruition in fine in the coming months and more specifically in now less than 95 days.
Of course, the presence of Céline Dion on the stage of the Opening Ceremony of the Games, Friday July 26, 2024, would be a real masterstroke on the part of the organizers of Paris 2024 and the Thomas Jolly teams who are working to operate a show gigantic along the Seine in an urban configuration never before organized at the Olympic Games.
For the Quebec star, participation in the said Ceremony would also echo his memorable performance orchestrated during the opening evening of the centennial edition, in Atlanta (Georgia, United States) in 1996.
At the time, Céline Dion had performed the flagship title « The Power of the Dream » in front of nearly 100,000 spectators gathered in the Olympic Stadium and in front of more than 3 billion television viewers around the world.
Twenty years later, in 2016, the American national daily, « USA TODAY » had even ranked this song second among the Olympic themesjust behind the mythical « One Moment in Time » by Whitney Houston proposed in parallel with the Seoul 1988 Games.
Visual of the Olympic Seine for the Opening Ceremony of the Paris 2024 Games (Credits – Paris 2024 / Florian Hulleu)
