Celine Dion has performed for the first time in four years with a stunning rendition of the Edith Piaf classic ‘Hymne à l’amour’ at the Paris Olympics Opening Ceremony.
French songstress Edith Piaf recorded ‘Hymne à l’amour’ (Hymn of Love) in 1950. Piaf wrote the lyrics for her late boyfriend, French boxer Marcel Cerdan, who died in a plane crash enroute from Paris to New York in 1949.
For Celine Dion, this was her first public performance since her diagnosis for Stiff Person Syndrome, a rare neurological disease, which caused her to stop performing in 2022.
Lady Gaga also performed at the opening ceremony singing Zizi Jeanmarie’s ‘Mon truce n plumes’.
Merci beaucoup @Olympics ❤️🇫🇷✨ pic.twitter.com/2VUcrxJmjY
— Lady Gaga (@ladygaga) July 26, 2024
I feel so completely grateful to have been asked to open the Paris @Olympics 2024 this year. I am also humbled to be asked by the Olympics organizing committee to sing such a special French song—a song to honor the French people and their tremendous history of art, music, and… pic.twitter.com/FMNyiosHUR
— Lady Gaga (@ladygaga) July 26, 2024
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