I think given her background, Celine Dion could have become a tabloid train wreck. Instead, she has grown into a very compassionate person, (and is only kind of a tabloid traffic jam.
) This video, while funny and more than a bit uncomfortable to watch, demonstrates just how much kindness she has for others. Most performers would have just stood back and let Security haul the fan off the stage. Props to Celine for handling it so well. I'm not so much a fan of her music as I am a fan of her approach to her songs, and her life. Nice job.
Dave
Agree.
My wife and I saw Celine in Charlotte, NC about 25 years ago and she was beyond amazing, standing room only.
I get emotional when I recall that night. Our seats were luckily very close to the stage.
I was not really familiar with all her songs, some I'd never heard.
Her voice, in person, however, sent chills through me all night long, but "seeing her heart" is what truly did it for me.
The audience was totally captivated start to finish, and you could hear a pin drop in between songs.
People were silently bringing roses to the stage every few minutes during the concert and laying them down
on the stage and returning to their seats as she sang.
At one point, in the middle of a song, a little girl approached the stage
(stage was in middle of a sports arena, and above level of floor, like a boxing event is)
to offer a single long-stemmed red rose, probably planning to lay it down and return to her seat like the others.
She had to stand on her tip-toes to reach up.
Celine's eye caught her.
She stopped singing, just stopped the concert dead in its tracks.
Her arm with the microphone in hand suddenly went limp and dropped down to her side.
TOTAL SILENCE for at least 5 seconds.
She motioned, then called the little girl back to the stage and immediately laid down the microphone
on the stage floor, and asked for the little girl to be boosted up onto the stage, with help from the ushers.
Celine then bent over, sat down next to the little girl, both of their legs dangling over the side,
and kissed her on her hand to thank her for the rose. As they looked into each other's eyes,
they both smiled and chatted for at least 10 minutes, with the crowd listening in via the microphone.
The little girl's answers to Celine's sweet questions brought gasps,
and Celine told the little girl to ask questions too. She did. There was laughter at times.
As quickly as it happened, it ended. The little girl was helped down,
and ran back to her seat. Very emotional.
That was one of the most touching 10 minutes I've ever witnessed in my life. Most everyone cried.
The whole episode transcended KINDNESS itself. It was sort of difficult restarting the concert.
Celine has had a very tough and troubling life at times, even tragic, yet she has always risen above it and opened her heart,
even at the expense of sharing her suffering. I see now that she is forever full of love and happiness even when she doesn't receive it.
Her music is incredibly sublime. The range of her voice doesn't even seem human!
In person, the long-held high notes will take you heavenward! (Her Christmas music is as good as it gets, too.)
I never appreciated her music before that performance, but I walked out of there a fan forever.
Canada is lucky to claim her!!!!
She's a powerful lady in all she does, and along the journey she has left this world
a better place with her manifest selflessness. She is one of my heroines.
