Celine Dion is prime of producers’ want record to carry out on the Eurovision Music Contest in Could, when it should happen in Switzerland, the place the famous person gained the competitors as a younger performer 37 years in the past.
Now 56, Dion was 20 years outdated in 1988 when she sang for Switzerland – qualifying for Swiss entry as a result of the songwriters had been Swiss – and beat the competitors (the UK got here second, only one level behind) along with her tune Ne Partez Pas Sans Moi.
This was the final time Switzerland gained the Contest till final yr, after they triumphed with Nemo’s The Code, which suggests – as is customary – they are going to be this yr’s hosts for the occasion in Could.
Now The Solar newspaper experiences that producers imagine there is no such thing as a yet another becoming to grace the stage than Dion. Nonetheless, they quote an insider who says:
“We gained’t know till just a few weeks beforehand whether or not she feels match sufficient.”
The French-Canadian chanteuse has been away from the stage for the previous few years, revealing in an intimate documentary in 2024 that she had struggled to carry out and had finally been identified with stiff individual syndrome, hindering her motion and vocal talents.
Nonetheless, she thrilled followers with a shock comeback efficiency on the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics the place she stood on the Eiffel Tower to sing flawlessly the romantic French basic Hymne a l’amour (‘Hymn to Love”).
Different massive names to have carried out within the interval at Eurovision in recent times embrace Justin Timberlake and Madonna, however neither have gained the competitors. Final yr’s Swedish hosts had been hoping Abba would make a return to the stage to mark 50 years since their victory with the tune Waterloo, however followers needed to make do with their ‘Abbatars’ – computer-generated lookalikes who’ve been performing of their purpose-built area in London since 2022.
