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In the year 2000 ,an album of her greatest hits is released, including “The power of the dream”, sung at the opening of the Olympic Games of Atlanta, “Be the man” in Japanese and All by myself in Spanish.

The 5th of January 2000, Celine and her Rene husband, after five years of marriage in catholic rite, they engage in the orthodoxe rite, marquing the Syrian and Lebanese roots of Rene, at the Caesar’s Palace of Las Vegas, in a very Eastern atmosphere. Once again the music of Celine Dion meets the cinema: the song “Then you look At me”becomes the topic song of the film “The bicentennial man” with Robin Williams.

Although she took one year off, she participates ine the Tv program led by Julie Snyder “Vendredi c’est Julie”, which attracts 3.5 million French, where Céline shows her new look, and pieces of her everyday life , for example, her love for golf. Yup, golf becomes a true passion away from the showbusiness. Hoping to become a mother, Céline is hospitalized in march for a few weeks, to try some fertility techniques; she will undergo two surgical interventions and on the 9th of June 2000 she announces her pregnancy; the little child, called Rene-Charles will be born on the 25th of January 2001, attracting the attention of everyone in the showbusiness the day of his baptism (26th of July). Actually, after her withdrawal, Céline did not give up the microphone definitively: at the end of the summer of 2000, she records with Garou the duet entitled “Sous le vent”, and in the 9th of August 2001 she play in the videoclip of the song, returning on the scene of the music; she will take part, in connection of e with the other border of the Atlantic,in Tv programs (special Garou).

Lately, after the september 11th’s attacks on the Towers of the World Trade Center, she will take part in theTv Program “Tribute to heroes” ,singing God Bless America, and ,due to the large success of the song she will make a videoclip; Also in the Molson Center she will sing “L’amour existe encore” takinf part in the benevolence night “Quebec-New York”.