Celine Dion’s singing career (0) ___started_____ (start) in a similar way to Michael Jackson’s. The youngest of fourteen children, she (1) _______________ (begin) performing with her family in the Canadian province of Quebec when she was just twelve years old. By the age of eighteen, she (2) _______________ (produce) nine albums in her native French, but she was still unknown in the English-speaking world. She (3) _______________ (decide) to learn English so she could enter the world of international pop music.
Dion does not write her own love songs. She (4) _______________ (admire) singers who (5) _______________ (write) their own material, but, for the moment, she is happy to interpret other people’s songs. Since she (6) _______________ (become) successful, she says, she (7) _______________ (receive) thousands of songs from writers, so she has plenty of songs to choose from.
At the moment she (8) _______________ (record) in French and she wants to introduce her French songs to an English-speaking audience.
(Adapted from BBC English)