Celine Dion makes emotional music comeback in Paris Olympics opening ceremony performance

The vocal powerhouse sang édith Piaf's "L'Hymne à l'Amour"

Celine Dion stunned at Friday night's opening ceremony for the 2024 Summer Olympics, where the world-renowned pop icon made her long-awaited music comeback after a lengthy health-related hiatus.

Two years after her stiff-person syndrome diagnosis, Dion roared back onto the global stage in Paris, where she sang French legend édith Piaf's "L’Hymne à l’amour."

Performing from the Eiffel Tower, she was back in top form, with her emotional rendition of the song moving NBC guest commentator Kelly Clarkson to tears.

The performance marked Dion's first major public return to singing after revealing in 2022 that she had stiff-person syndrome, a rare neurological disorder that forced her to cancel the remaining legs of her Courage World Tour as well as her Las Vegas residency the year before.

Before hitting the stage, Dion released her feature-length documentary, I Am: Celine Dion, in June, chronicling her life with stiff-person syndrome and its impact on her career.

The "Power of Love" and "My Heart Will Go On" chanteuse previously spoke about how the condition impacted her singing voice, telling Hoda Kotb during an NBC News interview that "it's like somebody's strangling you" with their hands.

"It's like somebody's pushing your larynx, pharynx this way," Dion continued, placing her fingers on her throat as she strained to speak. "It’s like you’re talking like that, and you cannot go higher or lower."

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Dion wasn't the only pop star to kill it at the Olympics Opening Ceremony. Lady Gaga kicked off the event with a solo performance earlier in the evening, singing a cover of Zizi Jeanmaire's "Mon Truc En Plumes" with feather-carrying backup dancers on the banks of the Seine river. The set paid aesthetic tribute to the late French singer's 1965 appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show.

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