Have you ever been in love
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Aún existe amor
(Spanish version of L'amour existe encore) It is the Spanish adaptation of L'amour existe encore, a song about the AIDS, which Celine sang on her album Dion chante Plamondon (or Des mots qui sonnent).
"At the beginning of my sabbatical leave, tells Celine, I wanted to make most possible things,
so I learnt Spanish because I love the languages. Then the baby was born. L'amour existe encore, signed
Luc Plamondon and Richard Cocciante, is wonderful and I had interpreted it ten years ago. When you
are crazy about a melody, you want to hear it in all the languages, and as the audience was demanding
a title in Spanish for South America..."
"What's brilliant, Luc Plamondon goes into raptures, it's that the text says "Aún existe amor"...
"Amor" comes on "encore" from the French version. We can find the same tone...
It's formidable!"
Celine had recorded L'amour existe encore in English and Spanish version. It is the Spanish version
Aún existe amor, which was finally chosen, because it sounded better phonetically.
The greatest reward
An adaptation into English of L'envie d'aimer sung by Daniel Levi, from the french musical Les Dix Commandements.
"This album features several adaptations of songs from French, reveals Rene Angelil, L'envie d'aimer, which we did not know,
was the first title which was presented to us, two years ago, after the MIDEM, while we were on holidays. At once,
Celine loved it. We did not think too much of the next album, at that time. Our version is not
the English version of the musical which has just started (2002).".
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I'm alive
(Theme song in "Stuart Little II") From the team that wrote That's The Way It Is, this is one of the lighter moments on the set A New Day Has Come; the rhythm is particularly stimulating.
"It's cute, it's fun, it's fresh, Céline offers. You don't have to listen to the lyric to enjoy it."
When the wrong one loves you right
(Martin Briley, Francis Galluccio, Marjorie Maye) Don’t care, what they think How they feel, or what they say You’re everything, I never knew I always wanted, baby I’ve been warned, so many times They tell me I’ve ignored the signs But nobody knows you like I do The only one for me is you I
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A new day has come
Against a finespun sweep of strings and piano, the sparkling title track from the album A New Day Has Come is among the most delicate, understarted songs Céline has recorded.
"For me, this represents the birth of my child, Céline says. Nothing can ever come close to that. But it can mean different things for anyone who has to find strength again. I think it's very positive." Stephan Moccio wrote the lyrics of the song on a music by Aldo Nova. Stephan told: "It's funny because everything took place in 2002 and, ten years earlier, in March 1992, I met Celine while I was studying at the university, said the musicia . I then told her: "One day, I will compose a song for you!" When I met Celine ten years later, when I presented her "A New Day has Come," I reminded her of the meeting and I also showed her the photo that was taken. She thought it was amazing! She also joked "You look better now!" "
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Nature boy
"Nature boy was recorded for the first time by Nat King Cole, Celine says. It closes my album A New Day Has Come. It is Eddy Marnay, my accomplice, who spoke to me about it. I recorded it for voice and piano, accompanied by Jorge Calandrelli, who worked with Frank Sinatra and Barbra Streisand."
"This is the one I had the most kick out of in the studios, Dion says. I could hear the pedal of the piano and the touch of the keys while I was singing. We were following each other. It's the real thing."
" In the listening, we preferred not to add the symphonic orchestration nevertheless very beautiful which was originally foreseen. The original duet gets closer to the purity. I find it magic."
Beauty and the Beast
(Duet with Peabo Bryson) (Theme song in Beauty And The Beast)
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All by myself
For the recording of the album Falling Into You, David Foster asked to Celine to do a remake of "All by myself".
"David informed me that he changed the orchestrations of the last part of the song, Celine tells. I had to sing a little higher, until a F# that almost reached the limit of my voice. The worst was that he wanted me to hold this note during several seconds... I knew that I couldn't do it more than two recordings without risking to break my voice.
The day of the recording, Rene and I quarrelled, for a mere trifle... He decided not to acompany me to the studio. I left all by myself, to the Record Plant (in Los Angeles), where I found a rather cold, condescending, almost contemptuous David Foster... While the technicians were finishing to put the orchestra tracks, I was going around in circles. I think that David was delaying everything on purpose... At one point, innocently, he told me: "If you don't manage... I could ask it to Whitney". Whitney Houston was recording on this day in the nearby studio...
I did not say a word... I sang "All by myself" with all my strength, with all my soul. When I came to the time to climb towards the F#, I put my voice at maximum, until it was hurting, and I held the note a very long time, without weakening. When I finished, the musicians on the other side of the glass were standing to applause.
I left without greeting David Foster...I was thinking of Rene. I was looking for the reason of our fight. And suddenly, I understood... He put once again the difficulty harder to give me new challenges, to force me to surpass myself."
Now, Celine speaks about the impact of this song when she sings it on stage:
"Before, people did not expect this note, she says, and when I was doing it, they were surprised, amazed or not, but they did not expect this note... And now they expect this note, and there is a silence which moves me, and which paralyses me, it's incredible! And then, I say to myself, "well, I can't leave them now", so, there is a hand inside me, this performer who loves singing, who's saying to me "go girl, do your note, make them happy, do it right!"
Eric Carmen originally recorded it.
