A LESSON ON WHY CELINE SELLS.The big question for many after last month's Grammy Awards Grammy Awards Annual awards given by the Recording Academy (officially the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences). The first Grammies (the name is a dimunitive of “gramophone”) were given in 1958. centered on just who buys all those millions of Celine Dion records. That puzzle was cleared up Tuesday when the French Canadian French Canadian n. A Canadian of French descent. French  -Ca·na chanteuse chan·teuse n. A woman singer, especially a nightclub singer. [French, feminine of chanteur, singer, from chanter, to sing; see chant.] and Album of the Year honoree drew her legions to the Universal Amphitheatre for a surprisingly likable concert that showed just why she is so popular. Dion, who turns 29 on Saturday, is a talker. She spent a good percentage of the evening bubbling over about Monday's Academy Awards ceremony at which she sang two numbers (``Can you imagine ... maybe next year, they'll ask me to sing five songs!''), about how she learned English and how much music has meant to her. And she urged the audience not to be shy about singing along. The crowd, representing all shapes and sizes, from giddy teen-agers to grandmothers, took her up on the offer, softly mouthing the words to such polished adult contemporary fare as the theme from ``Beauty and the Beast Beauty and the Beast is a traditional fairy tale (type 425C -- search for a lost husband -- in the Aarne-Thompson classification). The first published version of the fairy tale was a meandering rendition by Madame Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve, published in ,'' ``Because You Loved Me,'' and Dion's remake of Eric Carmen's ``All by Myself,'' currently a top 10 hit. Dion puts on a professional and thoroughly satisfying concert if you're a fan. But when her voice strays from the comfort zone, it becomes reedy reed·y adj. reed·i·er, reed·i·est 1. Full of reeds. 2. Made of reeds. 3. Resembling a reed, especially in being thin or fragile: and thin, as occurred early on when she attempted the soul anthem, ``River Deep - Mountain High "River Deep - Mountain High" is a 1966 single by Ike & Tina Turner. Considered by producer Phil Spector to be his best work, "River Deep - Mountain High" was commercially unsuccessful upon its original release in the US but was a huge hit in the UK peaking at #3. .'' But soon, she was back on track, delivering a pseudo-blues number in French, along with the crowd-pleasers ``Where Does My Heart Beat Now,'' ``Misled,'' ``It's All Coming Back to Me Now'' and ``If You Asked Me To.'' CAPTION(S): Photo Photo: Grammy-winning Canadian Celine Dion drew a wide cross-section of fans to her performance Tuesday night at the Universal Amphitheatre. |
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