January 24, 200916 yr Author Some amazing PICS ! & MORE Gloria Estefan and her hubby were in the audience as well ;) Celine Dion's note still goes on By Sean Piccoli | South Florida Sun-Sentinel 1:05 AM EST, January 24, 2009 MIAMI - In the arms race of powerhouse divas, Celine Dion has long been the nuclear option. She has a voice of such concentrated throw-weight it's almost a weapon. And yet she sings about love. This might seem like a contradiction, or at least a problem, until one accepts that Dion's vision of attraction as expressed in music is designed to awe. It's not the whispering kind. So, yes, Dion's soaring hits, My Heart Will Go On and The Power of Love, featured prominently in her set on Friday night at AmericanAirlines Arena, alongside other examples of the form: arena-pitched ballads and pop-vocal catapults suggesting a kind of Powell Doctrine of Love - overwhelming, melodramatic force. And maybe this was the only way to sing about such matters to a sold-out crowd of 18,500 people. Hoping for quiet and intimacy in songs designed to fill a sportsplex might have amounted to looking for love in the wrong places. But a few numbers did bring out a comparatively muted, borderline-restrained quality in Dion on Friday - a side of her worth hearing more of, considering her ability to bend her voice to just about any assignment. When the Quebec native sang one tune in French, for example, melody and lyrics came across more tenderly. It's as if Dion has decided that English is the language of conquest-although one English-language ballad, My Love, also was a surprise for the measured way in which Dion handled it. Written by Linda Perry, who also penned Beautiful for Christina Aguilera, My Love is arguably constructed to limit - though not eliminate - belting room for a big-voiced singer. But credit also has to go to Dion for recognizing My Love's emotional potential even at a lower, less piercing range. It has to be said that high-powered spectacle also worked pretty well for Dion in creating a sense of her return to Miami as an event. She sang in the round, surrounded by fans on all sides, on a contraption made of ramps, moving floors and hydraulic lifts. Band mates and dancers were in near-constant, choreographed motion, and plenty of big-screen video tapestry filled the visual space. Brassy versions of James Brown's It's a Man's World and Ike & Tina Turner's River Deep, Mountain High absolutely benefited from Dion's rangy singing. Dion, 40, was not quite this parade's queen -she's not the regal type. But an aggressively chipper personality and that overpowering voice kept her unmistakably at the center of her titanic, hyper-romantic tableau. BYLM I'm alive Eyes on me MHWGO Speech Celine Dion sets attendance record and thrills fans in Miami concert BY HOWARD COHEN hcohen@MiamiHerald.com Do you think it has sunk in to Celine Dion that she can really sing like few others? During Dion's concert Friday night at Miami's AmericanAirlines Arena -- at more than 17,000 tickets sold, ''the single largest individual show since the arena opened in 2000,'' said venue manager Liz Roca -- it dawned on me: Celine Dion always looks so surprised whenever she hits one of her glory notes. In a 105-minute concert that spanned most of her English-language pop albums, plus one glorious French number, Pour que tu m'aimes encore, there were plenty of these vocal glory notes she'd hit. Amusingly, she seemed shocked whenever she'd nail one. After some impressive vocal runs, where she effortlessly scampered up an octave in a single breath on her rousing To Love You More, her expression and mugging at the cameras seemed to suggest, ''Did I just hit that?'' At the conclusion of a grandiose cover of Eric Carmen's All By Myself, she fell to the stage, on her back, legs splayed beneath her in what looked like a yoga posture. Dion, 40, is the goofiest of pop superstars. But her quirks shouldn't be mistaken for self-satisfaction. Despite her drawing power -- she's performing another arena show Friday at Sunrise's BankAtlantic Center where the wattage promises to surpass even this night's show given the seasonal onslaught of snowbird French Canadians who will flock en masse to hail their Québécois royalty -- Dion comes across as genuine and endearing. She paused twice to hail fellow pop stars, Gloria and Emilio Estefan, who had seats on the lower level and dropped a couple lines from their '80s hit Conga into her stage patter. ''She's off tonight, give her a break,'' Dion said of Gloria, who waved back. To her mother, Thérèse Dion, who has accompanied her daughter on this year-long Taking Chances Tour, the singer paid tribute. ''Mom is 81 and she put her dreams aside to raise 14 children,'' a clearly moved Dion said. Son René-Charles, 8, is also touring with mom. ''My son is tour schooled,'' she teased. Dion worked hard for her fans' adoration too, always on the move on her centralized stage except when she was changing into half-a-dozen outfits. If the highly choreographed show lacked soul, she made up for it with energy and infectious material. Dion looked fantastic in stilettos and mini dress and gave Tina Turner competition in the killer legs and vocal departments on a version of Turner's '60s rock classic River Deep, Mountain High. She switched moods entirely on a hushed a cappella opening of the new ballad My Love, marred only by the boorish shouts of ''I love you, Celine'' from some overzealous twits. Her most famous song, My Heart Will Go On, the lilting love theme from Titanic, still remains a thing of beauty and proved a fitting finale. Pity about the thin, scratchy and echo-laden sound in the arena which robbed the 10-member band of its bottom end and threatened to do the same to Dion's instrument. Perhaps I'm spoiled, having seen Dion in her $95 million dollar venue at Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas where crystalline fidelity was a part of its design. If this issue is fixed Friday in Sunrise, thousands of fans are going to be in for a fine time. Edited January 24, 200916 yr by SuuS
January 24, 200916 yr thanks suus amazing pics i edited one slightly :heehee: http://img231.imageshack.us/img231/4396/56569318spanx2112420091re6.jpg
January 26, 200916 yr Author Taking chances http://nl.youtube.com/watch?v=TOIrPCD9nlw IACBTMN http://nl.youtube.com/watch?v=TYR7t6CNuXA MHWGO http://nl.youtube.com/watch?v=DBxFmIacjrE The prayer http://nl.youtube.com/watch?v=oyfJKBAE1Ig Leaving the venue http://nl.youtube.com/watch?v=jD5fuLbpmqk
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