On this new album I am offering melodies drawing from the 1970s and 1980s with ABBA meets Frank Mills meets Andre Gagnon. When I first heard “I Surrender” I felt that I had literally written that melody at least five times. SM: I hadn’t thought about that until this moment. I hear a bit of that melody in the opening number for your Lionheart album, “My Beloved Twin Flame.” With my albums, we go to great lengths to get the album covers right. GM: The photo on the cover with the piano in the garden matches the music inside. They did a lot of research and determined that “A New Day Has Come” should be the first single and that whole event changed my life as a songwriter. After September 11 happened, the people at Sony delayed the album and decided to call the album A New Day Has Come because the title sounded hopeful in a post-9/11 world. After her Titanic success with “My Heart Will Go On,” having a song cut by her was like winning the lottery. We threw out some ideas and wrote “A New Day Has Come” in an afternoon and a couple more songs for Celine on that trip. This was going to be her big comeback album to be released in the fall of 2001. She was one of the biggest artists in the world but was on a sabbatical after giving birth to her first child. By that time, I had already written songs to be pitched to her, but I don’t know if they ever got to her. They were interested in having me write some songs for Celine with him. I received a call from my publisher at Sony Toronto asking if I would like to go to Montreal and he would connect me with Aldo Nova. Right after 2000, I was working in L.A., traveling there from Canada. Dion has continued recording in French and English since, taking cues from modern pop by collaborating with of-the-moment artists like Ne-Yo (on 2007’s Taking Chances) and Sia (on 2019’s Courage), and thrilling audiences with concerts that show off her commanding voice and sincerely forthright-and, at times, charmingly goofy-stage presence at her two Las Vegas residencies and on multiple arena tours.STEPHAN MOCCIO: It was an interesting time in my life.
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A flute-aided ballad that shows off the full bloom of Dion’s voice, it exemplifies the ’90s blockbuster ideal, its grandiosity matched only by its worldwide success. As the decade progressed, Dion honed her blend of chart-pop slickness and unabashed romanticism, adding a dash of prog-rock pomp to the sweeping “It’s All Coming Back to Me Now.” The slow-burning “The Power of Love” and the tender “Because You Loved Me” were smashes, but “My Heart Will Go On,” the love song from the 1997 romance Titanic, left the biggest impression on pop history. She shifted to singing in English with 1990’s Unison, and her powerful voice, which fueled hits like the mournful “Where Does My Heart Beat Now” and the slinky “If There Was Any Other Way,” fit in perfectly with early-’90s soft-rock trends. Dion released her first album at the age of 13, showing off her budding songwriting talent and establishing herself as a francophone star in her home province. Born in the tiny town of Charlemagne, Quebec, in 1968, Céline Dion became renowned for having one of pop’s biggest voices, full of emotion and fire on songs that examine all of love’s most stirring facets.