Her debut English-language album, Unison (1990), established her as a viable pop artist primarily in North America and several English-speaking markets, while The Colour of My Love (1993) gave her global superstardom. She gained international recognition by winning the 1988 Eurovision Song Contest, where she represented Switzerland with " Ne partez pas sans moi". Her recordings have been mainly in English and French, although she has also sung in Spanish, Italian, German, Latin, Japanese, and Chinese.īorn into a large family in Charlemagne, Quebec, Dion was discovered by her future manager and husband René Angélil, and emerged as a teen star in her home country with a series of French-language albums during the 1980s. Her music has incorporated genres such as pop, rock, R&B, gospel, and classical music. Referred to as the " Queen of Power Ballads", she is noted for her powerful and technically skilled vocals. Céline Marie Claudette Dion CC OQ ( / s eɪ ˌ l iː n d i ˈ ɒ n/ say- LEEN dee- ON born 30 March 1968) is a Canadian singer. If you would like to contact me, or see what I am up please visit my website at. You can also check out some of my other videos from my YouTube channel and keep up to date by subscribing here. You can find some of my other arrangements and original songs on my publisher page at. The most important thing for this type of piano instrumental music is to always bring out the melody and to play as expressively as possible.I hope that you enjoy it! If you perform this arrangement, you should play it the way a singer would sing it (cantabile style). The song is written for Early Advanced - Advanced players because of this polyrhythm, dense chords, and expressive, rubato (elastic stretching of tempo) playing. (Teachers teach playing threes against twos by chanting "nice cup of tea" while they play it!). I like to do this to add some rhythmic interest. This arrangement makes use of triplets (groups of threes) in the left hand against eighth notes (groups of twos) in the right hand. It earned a Golden Globe Award and was also nominated for an Academy Award and a Grammy award. The song has been used in weddings, religious gatherings, funerals, and films. (Josh Groban and Charlotte Church have a beautiful version too). Both artists have used it as solos on their albums, and have sung the song with other artists. The song's most famous arrangement is as a duet sung by Celine Dion and Andrea Bocelli. "The Prayer" is a song written by David Foster and Carole Bayer Sager. I think "The Prayer" fills all three categories beautifully! I am working on arrangements of songs that I consider to be important: either in the way they touch listeners, in how they are used, or how they have stood the test of time. THE PRAYER - Advanced Arrangement by Elena Fortin "You Raise Me Up" is a beautiful pop ballad, and makes for a fantastic piano cover! Other famous covers were recorded by two Irish groups: Westlife and Celtic Woman. The song became an international hit when Josh Groban recorded it for his 2003 album "Closer" - it made it to #1 on the Billboard adult contemporary chart, and received a Grammy nomination in 2005 (for "Best Male Pop Vocal Performance") Rolf Løvland recorded the song with his group Secret Garden (which had won the Eurovision Song Contest in 1995) for their 2001 album "Once in a Red Moon". "You Raise Me Up" was composed by Norwegian composed Rolf Løvland, with lyrics by Irish novelist Brendan Graham. Of course, you can also use this piano arrangement to accompany a singer, or sing along yourself - this sheet music includes a system for the vocals, as well as the song's full lyrics! The whole melody is included in the piano part, so it makes for a perfect piano solo cover. It's an accurate, carefully created piano arrangement of the full song, based on the famous recording by Josh Groban. With this sheet music, you can play "You Raise Me Up" on piano!
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