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5 unusual facts about René Angélil


Marc Dupré

According to "What's Goin' On", posted on the official website of Céline Dion, "Céline composed the music for this song a few years ago when Marc Dupré married her husband René's daughter Anne-Marie. The concept of the music video is also based on an idea that Céline proposed." The song "Tout près du bonheur" is included on Marc Dupré's first album Refaire le monde.

René Angélil

Angélil is portrayed in an unauthorized TV Movie Biopic about Celine Dion by Toronto actor Enrico Colantoni.

After the dissolution of the group, Angélil and best friend Guy Cloutier began managing artists.

Together they managed the career of two successful Québec entertainers René Simard and Ginette Reno, among many other pop stars of the time.

At the end of 1980 (not long after being replaced as Ginette's manager) René heard Celine Dion's demo tape.



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