At the same time the singer dreamt of being successful in the USA. In 1983 the instant teen star was popular in native Canada and many European countries. Rene was so impressed by Celine's voice that he pawned his house in order to sponsor Dion's debut attempt. On the back of a dics by Ginette Reno they found the coordinates of producer Rene Angelil and sent him the record. At the age of 12 the girl wrote and recorded her first song with the help from her relatives. All the children in the family liked music, but little Celine was undoubtedly the talented one. Celine Marie Claudette Dion was a fourteenth and youngest child in a Canadian French-speaking working class family.
