Celine Dion accused of faking Olympics performance as fans hit out

Canadian superstar Celine Dion wowed the satellite erstwhile she sang Hymne a L'amour (Hymn to Love) astatine the Paris 2024 Olympics Opening Ceremony

Celine Dion has been swept into a miming contention aft her "live" show astatine the Paris 2024 Olympics opening was claimed to beryllium pre-recorded.

The 56-year-old singing sensation's rendition of Hymne a L'amour (Hymn to Love) beforehand of the Eiffel Tower reportedly brought tears to many, coming arsenic a climax to the extravagant ceremonial connected the River Seine which adjacent President Emmanuel Macron called the 'emotional highlight' of the games.

Yet, France's trusted Liberation paper sparked rumours connected Friday reporting that aggregate euphony manufacture insiders confirmed that Dion's show connected July 26th was undoubtedly not live.

Paris 2024 officials are keeping mum implicit the increasing lip-sync accusations, contempt their earlier assurances of the gig being afloat live. Etienne Guereau, a composer and performer, told Liberation, 'What we heard connected TV was a corrected playback.'

Echoing this sentiment, a dependable technologist wishing to enactment unnamed conveyed to French media: "It was 100% playback, you tin perceive it from the archetypal notes." Moreover, different sources agreed the show was decidedly recorded successful advance, pointing retired that rehearsals by Dion besides progressive playback.

Adding substance to the speculations, a YouTuber instrumentalist known arsenic Wings of Pegasus highlighted that the rehearsal and existent show sounded identical, debunking the anticipation of some being unrecorded owed to earthy variations expected successful unrecorded renditions.

The Olympic show was intended arsenic a triumphant instrumentality for Ms Dion, who has been warring the incurable stiff-person syndrome. The opus Hymne a L'amour was selected arsenic it was primitively performed by the precocious French euphony fable Edith Piaf.

Thousands of fans flocked to societal media to laud Ms Dion, known for her top hits similar 'My Heart Will Go On', the taxable from the Titanic film. One instrumentality exclaimed: "Ok I'm due affectional astatine Celine's performance, conscionable wow." While different enthused: "Queen Celine is backmost and she sounds fantastic'"

In 2022, Ms Dion revealed that she had been diagnosed with the neurological upset stiff-person syndrome, which causes musculus stiffness and spasms. She past pledged to marque a comeback to the signifier 'even if I person to crawl', stating: "My extremity is to spot the Eiffel Tower again."

Approximately 104,000 radical purchased tickets to witnesser the Paris 2024 Opening Ceremony live, with the champion seats priced implicit £2500. Despite the dense rain, galore endured aggregate acts, including a pre-recorded 1 by Lady Gaga, which was displayed connected respective screens on the stream and globally.

However, Ms Dion's enactment was expected to beryllium a unrecorded one, and it has present been released arsenic specified connected assorted streaming platforms. On Thursday, Ms Dion announced connected Instagram that the 'live' signaling was disposable connected platforms similar YouTube and Spotify.

"God brings unneurotic those who emotion each other," Ms Dion penned, referencing the song's lyrics. These are the heartfelt words of Piaf to her beloved, French-Algerian boxer Marcel Cerdan, who tragically mislaid his beingness successful a level clang backmost successful October 1949.

In a caller interrogation with Variety magazine, French president Emmanuel Macron expressed his feelings astir the Dion Olympics performance, describing it arsenic the 'biggest emotion' of each astatine Paris 2024.

The Mirror has approached Celine's representatives for remark connected this story.

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