Awesome pick dooz! I was thinking about making that one myself.
On to my pick! Sorry if it is a little soon after yours, I have to head off pretty quick here.
Our band [Name Pending] (I'm working on it, seriously!) is...prepared to make its 3rd pick of the draft. We have had long deliberations about our next choice and we have decided that this will be our pick, partly due to fears of this category causing us pain later.
And now we present an artist whom we will grudgingly accept as being one of the best female vocalists in the world we present our choice for Female Singer:
*groan*
Céline Dion
Céline Marie Claudette Dion,
OC,
OQ (born
March 30,
1968 in
Charlemagne,
Quebec) is a
Canadian singer, and occasional
songwriter and
actress. Born to a large, impoverished family, Dion emerged as a teen star in the French-speaking world after her manager and future husband
René Angélil mortgaged his home to finance her first record.In 1990 she released the
anglophone album
Unison, establishing herself as a viable pop artist in
North America and other English-speaking areas of the world.
Dion had first gained international recognition in the 1980s after she won the 1982 Yamaha
World Popular Song Festival and the
1988 Eurovision Song Contest. Following a series of French albums in the early 1980s, she signed on to
Sony Records in 1986. During the 1990s, with the help of Angélil, she achieved worldwide success with several English and French albums, becoming one of the most successful artists in pop music. However, in 1999 at the height of her success, Dion announced a temporary retirement from entertainment in order to start a family and spend time with her husband, who had been diagnosed with cancer. She returned to the music scene in 2002 and signed a three-year (later extended to almost five years) contract to perform nightly in a five-star
theatrical show at the Colosseum at
Caesars Palace,
Las Vegas.
Dion's music has been influenced by genres ranging from
pop,
soul, and
rock to
gospel and
classical, and while her releases have often received mixed critical reception, she is renowned for her technically skilled and powerful vocals. In 2004, after amassing 175 million in album sales, she was presented with the
Chopard Diamond Award from the
World Music Awards show for becoming the "
Best-selling Female Artist in the World".In April 2007
Sony BMG announced that Celine Dion had sold more than 200 million albums worldwide.
Only going to post one video or I'll hate myself.
Fourth pick to come sometime soon (before midnight, sorry). It will be one that I won't hate myself for making.