Celine Dion’s husband, René Angélil, died of throat cancer in 2016, at age 73.
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In January, Dion shared a black-and-white photo of her late husband, on Instagram.
In the caption, she shared a quote from her 2019 song “Courage”: “I would be lying if I said I’m fine, I think of you at least a hundred times, cause in the echo of my voice I hear your words just like you’re there.”
She then added her own words: “I miss you — Céline xx.”
The singer, 53, repeated the words again but then added her own sentiment in French: “Tu me manque.”
René Angélil was a Canadian musical producer, talent manager, and singer.
Angélil, a well-known former singer-turned-manager, was sent a tape of the 12-year-old singer Celine Dion and invited her to audition in Quebec.
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He began managing her career, taking the teen and her mother on tour in Canada, Japan, and Europe. He mortgaged his house to finance her first album in 1981.
Angélil and Dion began a personal relationship in 1988 when she was twenty years old. Their relationship began the night Celine won the Eurovision Song Contest on April 30, 1988.
They married on December 17, 1994, in a lavish wedding ceremony at Montreal’s Notre-Dame Basilica, which was broadcast live on Canadian television.
After Angélil was diagnosed with cancer in 1999, and before beginning radiation treatment, the couple turned to in-vitro fertilization.
Their efforts were extensively publicized. Their son René-Charles Angélil was born on January 25, 2001. Dion suffered a miscarriage in 2009, then gave birth to twin boys on October 23, 2010.
The boys were named Eddy after Eddy Marnay, who produced Dion’s first five albums, and Nelson Angélil after former South African president Nelson Mandela.
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