Celine Dion sings Edith Piaf: the wonder at the opening ceremony of the Paris 2024 Olympics

After the Olympic flame Celine Dion arrives to make the opening ceremony of the Paris 2024 Olympics wonderful. The Canadian singer, who had not sung in public for four years due to illness, sang Edith Piaf’s Hymne à l’amour. On the terrace of the Eiffel Tower the most touching moment of the ceremony.

Last June, in an interview, he explained: «The disease prevents me from singing: I have spasms so strong that they break my ribs. It’s as if someone is strangling me». Celine Dion, after being struck by the stiff person syndromewhose symptoms include spasms, muscle pain and cramps that cause stiffness and falls, had been forced to cancel all his concerts.

It was not Dion’s first time at the Olympics: she had already performed in 1996, with The Power of the Dream, during the opening ceremony of the Atlanta Games. This is his first live performance since he stopped his activity following the diagnosis of stiff person syndrome. A disease that, in recent months, he has often spoken publicly about.

Dion, while struggling with a very rare syndrome that has no single treatment protocol («we can’t find any medicine that works»), has never lost hope. So much so that her sister Caudette in December 2023 had said: «Cèline he wants to sing again“. The Canadian artist, regarding her return to the scene, has never committed herself: “At the moment I can’t answer, because for four years I told myself: I won’t come back, then I’m ready, then I’m not ready… My body will tell me”, she said last April to Vogue France. Adding: «For now I stay home, listen to my songs, stand in front of the mirror and sing to myself. I decided to work with my whole body and soul, from head to toe… I want to be the best I can be. My goal is to go back and see the Eiffel Tower». He did much more.