 Youngest of 14 children and born in 1968 in Quebec, Canada, Celine Dion is a French-Canadian pop singer who began singing with her musically inclined family at the age of only 5 years old. At the age of 12, her voice and passion impressed Renee Angélio and, well, he launched her career with the French album The Voice of God in 1981. For the following years, Celine Dion won an award at the World Popular Song Festival in Tokyo in 1982 and received the first of many Felix awards. And in 1983, she became the first Canadian recipient of a gold record in France. In 1988, Celine Dion joined the Eurovision Song Contest and by the end of the 1980s, she recorded eight studio albums in French.