Who is Jacques Dion, Celine Dion’s brother?

At the Dion family, we like to think big. Céline knows this better than anyone. If she shared everything with her soul mate René Angélil, she never neglected the blood bond, in particular her thirteen brothers and sisters on whom she was always able to count. Among them, Jacques, thirteen years his senior and Tele-Leisure had the privilege of interviewing. Because yesterday, this Friday September 15, 2023, a bonus musical event entitled For you Céline, starting at 9:10 p.m. The opportunity to present this member of a brotherhood who has constantly lived to the rhythm of music.

Who are Celine Dion’s thirteen brothers and sisters?

It’s no longer a secret that Céline Dion, born March 30, 1968 in Charlemagne, Quebec, is the youngest of fourteen brothers and sisters. Their names are Claudette, Linda, Daniel, Liette, Clément, Louise, Michel, Ghislaine, Paul, Jacques, Pauline, Manon and Denise. In France, Claudette Dion is certainly the best known and most publicized of them. Besides his participation in the reality TV show The Celebrity Farm in 2010, the year of the victory of the inventor of the “bogoss attitude“Mickaël Vendetta, the French public mainly remembers her career as a singer. She notably shared the stage at the Olympia with Frank Michael! Because music for the Dions is a family affair.

Who is Jacques Dion, one of Celine Dion’s big brothers?

He is “the oldest of the young and the youngest of the old“, he confides in an interview with Tele-Leisure. Jacques Dion is the seventh child of Thérèse Taranghay and Adhémar Dion. A guitarist, he formed a duo with his wife Geneviève for 38 years, and gave numerous concerts across Quebec. But above all, he greatly contributed to the launch of his younger sister’s career, by composing It was only a dreamhis first single and the song Grandma, both from the album Good Lord’s voice. Also, while Céline’s notoriety grew in Canada, he quietly continued his musical activities. “My sister’s name helped me look for work when I was younger“, Jacques Dion admits to us without tongue in cheek. He continues: “Without lying to you, being the ‘brother of’ helped!’” Today, “As the first composer of his younger sister”, Jacques Dion does not shy away from his pride regarding Céline Dion’s immense career.