Most Celine Dion fans are familiar with the English-language work of the Quebec-born singer. After all, this is a chart-topping artist who is renowned for her soaring power ballads and can command an impressive Las Vegas performance run. Many listeners, however, are not aware of the French-language aspect of Dion's career, when, in fact, the emotive vocalist has recorded numerous albums in her native tongue. ON NE CHANGE PAS, a two-disc 2005 retrospective of Dion's recordings in French, aims to give this material wider exposure, succeeding with a well-selected 36-track set. The collection begins with two new songs--the gentle "Je Ne Vous Oublie Pas" and the dramatic "Tous Les Secrets"--before revisiting many of Dion's past French-language hits. ON NE CHANGE PAS also includes a collaboration with the pop/opera group Il Divo, "I Believe in You," which is primarily sung in French, despite its English title. For those interested in the Gallic side of Dion's bilingual career, this compilation is the perfect place to begin.
Celine Dion's ascent from stardom in her native Canada to the upper echelons of international pop divadom is one of the 1990s major success stories. Blessed with a formidable set of pipes and a preference for heart-in-the-throat ballads, the precociously talented Dion initially won over American listeners in 1991, 10 years after her French-language debut, with the title track from Disney's BEAUTY AND THE BEAST. From then on, Dion became a music-biz phenomenon, with platinum record sales, sold-out concerts, and across-the-board appeal rivaling her idol, Barbra Streisand.
大多數Celine Dion 的粉絲都熟悉她的英語歌曲。畢竟，她是一位高雅的藝術傢，她以她高揚的音樂聞名，而且能夠駕馭幾百場令人印象深刻拉斯維加斯演唱會。然而，許多聽衆對于她的法語歌曲方面並不是很瞭解，但事實上，她已經用自己的母語灌錄了許多張唱片。<On ne change pas>（我們不會改變），一張2005年發行的兩CD法語囬顧精選，收錄了36首精心挑選的歌曲，旨在給這些法語歌曲更大的曝光。專輯並沒有先收錄老歌而是從兩手新歌開始，柔緩的“je ne vous oublie pas”（我不會忘記你們），生動的“tous les secrets”（全部的秘密）。<On ne change pas>還力邀il divo合作了“i believe in you”這首英文名的法語歌。這張專輯着眼于Dion的雙語事業的閃光面，所以是非常值得一聽的。 Celine Dion從小明星躍身爲金字塔頂端的天後是上世紀90年代的一個重要的事情。完美的聲綫和傾情的演唱使有天賦的Dion憑藉一首<Beauty and the Beast>在1991年第一次贏得了美國民衆的注目，這時距她以法語歌手身份出道已經10年。自此，Dion成爲了音樂界的奇迹，白金唱片，爆滿的演唱會，還有馳騁排行榜，使得她能够與她的偶像barbra streisand匹敵。
