She just wasn’t a star in the United States.

In fact, those songs were some of the first she recorded in English.

Eventually, her parents opened a piano bar and 5-year-old Dion would take the mic and entertain customers.

Celine Dion smiling

By the time she was 12, she had written her first song with her mother and recorded it.

That song changed her childhood and life (viaBiography).

And manage he did.

Celine Dion singing in 1996

Celine Dion smiling with sunglasses