Celine Dion puts music career on hold 'indefinitely'

Singer Celine Dion has put her music career on hold 'indefinitely' to look after her family.
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Celine Dion has announced that she has put her music career on hiatus ‘indefinitely’.

The singer has cancelled all her upcoming concert dates - including her Vegas shows and Asia tour - to look after her children and husband, who had a cancerous tumour removed last December.

“I want to devote every ounce of my strength and energy to my husband’s healing,” she said in a statement. “And to do so, it’s important for me to dedicate this time to him and to our children.”

It was also revealed that Celine is battling an illness that has caused “inflammation in her throat muscles”, preventing her from performing her Las Vegas shows since July 29.

The star added: “I also want to apologize to all my fans everywhere, for inconveniencing them, and I thank them so much for their love and support."

Celine has been performing at the Colosseum at Caesars Palace, Vegas on and off since 2003.

Last year the singer released her 11th English-language album Loved Me Back To Life, which peaked at Number 3 on the Official Albums Chart and includes the Top 20 single of the same name.

Check out Celine Dion’s Top 40 biggest selling UK singles, which we first revealed on Official Charts last November, below:

  TITLE ARTIST CREDIT PEAK CHART
POSITION
YEAR OF
RELEASE
1 MY HEART WILL GO ON CELINE DION 1 1998
2 THINK TWICE CELINE DION 1 1994
3 BECAUSE YOU LOVED ME CELINE DION 5 1996
4 TELL HIM BARBRA STREISAND & CELINE DION 3 1997
5 IT'S ALL COMING BACK TO ME NOW CELINE DION 3 1996
6 I'M YOUR ANGEL CELINE DION & R KELLY 3 1998
7 ALL BY MYSELF CELINE DION 6 1996
8 IMMORTALITY CELINE DION WITH THE BEE GEES 5 1998
9 FALLING INTO YOU CELINE DION 10 1996
10 A NEW DAY HAS COME CELINE DION 7 2002
11 THE POWER OF LOVE CELINE DION 4 1994
12 THE REASON CELINE DION 11 1997
13 THAT'S THE WAY IT IS CELINE DION 12 1999
14 TU M'AIMES ENCORE (TO LOVE ME AGAIN) CELINE DION 7 1995
15 ONLY ONE ROAD CELINE DION 8 1995
16 I'M ALIVE CELINE DION 17 2002
17 CALL THE MAN CELINE DION 11 1997
18 MISLED CELINE DION 15 1995
19 THE FIRST TIME EVER I SAW YOUR FACE CELINE DION 19 2000
20 TREAT HER LIKE A LADY CELINE DION 29 1999
21 I DROVE ALL NIGHT CELINE DION 27 2003
22 TAKING CHANCES CELINE DION 40 2007
23 ALONE CELINE DION 85 2007
24 BEAUTY AND THE BEAST CELINE DION & PEABO BRYSON 9 1992
25 GOODBYE'S (THE SADDEST WORD) CELINE DION 38 2002
26 THE PRAYER CELINE DION N/A 1999
27 RIVER DEEP MOUNTAIN HIGH CELINE DION N/A 2005
28 ONE HEART CELINE DION 27 2003
29 I BELIEVE IN YOU (JE CROIS EN TOI) IL DIVO & CELINE DION N/A 2005
30 LOVED ME BACK TO LIFE CELINE DION 75 2013
31 DANCE WITH MY FATHER CELINE DION N/A 2005
32 I LOVE YOU CELINE DION N/A 2005
33 IF THATS WHAT IT TAKES CELINE DION N/A 2005
34 EYES ON ME CELINE DION 113 2007
35 TO LOVE YOU MORE CELINE DION N/A 2004
36 FLY CELINE DION N/A 2005
37 I SURRENDER CELINE DION N/A 2004
38 THEN YOU LOOK AT ME CELINE DION N/A 2004
39 O HOLY NIGHT CELINE DION N/A 2004
40 WHERE DOES MY HEART BEAT NOW CELINE DION 72 1993

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