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It's 1996 and 28-year-old Celine Dion is headlining the opening ceremony at the Summer Olympics in Atlanta.

Dressed in a sparkly white V-neck top and long white skirt,

she confidently begins singing a power ballad,

written specifically for the event by Babyface Linda Thompson

and her frequent collaborator David Foster,

who is also on stage playing a black grand piano a hundred thousand people fill the

glittering stadium three and a half billion more from around the world are watching on

television as the camera pulls back a massive choir and the Atlanta Symphony is

revealed on stage supporting Celine as she belts out the power of the dream,

the official anthem for the games.

Many years later, Celine Dion revealed that she was actually dealing with chest pains throughout the performance.

In fact, she wrote in her 2000 autobiography, My Story My Dream,

The pain was so bad she thought she was having a heart attack. But Celine would never let her fans down. She powered through the

song, her voice soaring as the Olympic flame blazed behind her. I'm Kathy Kinsora, and this

is History of the 90s, a podcast about a decade that changed the world.

Over the next two episodes, we're looking back at four female singers, who ruled the decade and changed the music industry.

And they all happen to be from Canada.

These are the stories of Celine Dion, Shania Twain, Sarah McLaughlin, and Alanis Morissettes.

Celine Dion was just 12 years old when she met René Angelil, the man who would become her manager,

and eventually, despite a 26-year age difference, also her husband.

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