The D'eux Tour was the seventh
concert tour
A concert tour (or simply tour) is a series of concerts by an artist or group of artists in different cities, countries or locations. Often, concert tours are named to differentiate different tours by the same artist and to associate a specific ...
by
Celine Dion
Céline Marie Claudette Dion (born 30 March 1968) is a Canadian singer. Referred to as the "Honorific nicknames in popular music, Queen of Power Ballads", Dion's powerful, technically skilled vocals and commercially successful works have had ...
. The tour was organized to support the highly successful tenth French language and thirteenth studio album ''
D'eux
''D'eux'' (French for "of them, "about them", or "from them"; homophonic with , meaning "two") is the thirteenth studio album by Canadian singer Celine Dion, and her tenth French-language album. It was released by Sony Music on 30 March 1995 in ...
'' (1995).
History
After 5 concerts in Quebec City, Canada, Celine toured Europe for four months. Dion crossed 11 countries and gave 42 sold-out concerts, among which 9 in Paris, France, most in rooms of at least 14,000 seats. One of the opening acts was made by the group The Corrs (in the United Kingdom and Ireland). During one of the spectacles at the Zenith de Paris Celine broke her voice.
Broadcasts and recordings
The show at
Zénith de Paris in Paris was recorded before an audience of over 6,000 fans
Live à Paris
and released on CD in October 1996 as ''Live à Paris
''Live à Paris'' (English: "live in Paris") is the third live album by Canadian singer Celine Dion, released on 21 October 1996 by Sony Music. It features primarily French-language songs, mainly from '' D'eux'' (1995), but also includes " The P ...
''. The next month a VHS
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Ma ...
under the same name was issued. The home video was re-released on DVD
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in November 2003.
Personnel
;Band
*Musical director and keyboards: Claude "Mego" Lemay
*Drums: Dominique Messier
*Bass: Marc Langis
*Keyboards: Yves Frulla
*Guitars: André Coutu
*Percussions: Paul Picard
*Backing vocalists: Terry Bradford, Elise Duguay, Rachelle Jeanty
;Production
*Tour director: Suzanne Gingue
*Production director: Ian Donald
*Assistant to the tour director: Michel Dion
*Front of house sound engineer: Denis Savage
*Stage sound engineer: Daniel Baron
*Sound system technician: François Desjardins, Marc Beauchamp
*Lighting director: Yves Aucoin
*Assistant lighting director: Normand Chassé
*Lighting technician: Jean-François Canuel
*Band gear technician: Jean-François Dubois, Guy Vignola
*Production assistant: Patrick Angélil
*Tour assistant: Jean-Pierre Angélil, Louise Labranche
*Bodyguard: Eric Burrows
*Hairstylist: Louis Hechter
*Stylist: Annie L. Horth
*Choreographer: Dominique Giraldeau
Opening acts
*The Corrs
The Corrs are an Irish family band consisting of siblings Andrea (lead vocals, tin whistle, mandolin, ukulele), Sharon (violin, keyboards, vocals), Caroline (drums, percussion, piano, bodhrán, vocals) and Jim (guitar, piano, keyboards, v ...
Setlist
Tour dates
References
{{Celine Dion
1995 concert tours
1996 concert tours
Celine Dion concert tours