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Céline & Maxime Le Forestier meet in Vegas

Once again, The Red Heads did it for you… below is the video of the meeting between Céline Dion and Maxime Le Forestier in Las Vegas. Maxime Le Forestier has written one of the songs that will appear on Céline’s upcoming french album, named « Moi Quand Je Pleure ». And for the english-speaking fans… the english translation of the whole interview!

 

 

TRANSLATION

Maxime Le Forestier uses the opportunity of being in San Francisco to make a detour via Las Vegas… He’s just written a song for Céline Dion’s next album… A good excuse to work a bit on the lyrics with her and make some final adjustments on the words…

« I love to write for girls because it’s very different from me, so it enables me to say things in a way I would not use for my songs…

Céline Dion, it was at an editor’s instigation, called Jean-Phillipe Allard, who knew Céline Dion was looking for some songs and who offered me to join with Stanislas, Stanislas who produces a very joinful, very lively sound, very funny, like that… And as I write rather dark lyrics, he said to himself a combination of the two of us would be interesting…

– Good Evening !!!

– Good Evening Céline!!

– Allo, how are you?

– Thanks for receiving me!

– Well that’s a pleasure !!! In my Las Vegas dressing room… It’s not blue… (Maxime LF is know for his song ‘the blue house’)

– But I’ve got some paint remaining from the house, if you want we can do something tomorrow…

– After the show we’ll talk about it

– After the show

– Shall we sit down?

– That’s a lovely, magnificent clap, I’m going to hire you as the clapperboard man… How is it working, am I the one having to question you?

– Well it’s everything is fine, the house has been repainted, your song is finished

– I can’t wait for recording the title… You know, we’re so dependant from composers, us, who do not write our own songs, I don’t write my own songs… So in a way I’m always at the mercy, in a way, of jewels and of songs who are going to bring me again, make me live a nice path…

– Today in Vegas, you sing mainly in English right?

– Mainly in English

– Sure

– Yes, but I do interpret a Jacques Brel song…
It’s not a “little” song “don’t go away, don’t go away, crying, it’s such an extraordinary song that I was afraid of taking the responsibility to sing it…

The song Céline Dion has chosen is called “Moi quand je pleure” (Me when I cry), in fact it’s a portrait, of her, but a bit as a caricature, I’ve always seen Céline crying, in all the interviews, since she’s been 14, she cries easily, and TV hosts have not restrained themselves from “pushing the button” so I depicted a girl crying, Niagara falls.

– I’ve always seen you as being very emotional, but emotional nearly in excess…

– I think people know it anyway

– Yea they’re aware of it now

– Open book, she’s always crying, she’s happy, she’s happy to cry, she cries because she’s happy, etc. But the important thing is honesty, is to be honest, it’s to be the true person who you are… And… This song for me, it made me smile a bit, but it touched me above all…

– You know it already!!

– Well not all of it but…
Don’t make any mistake with the wires because the dress […] [= may fall]…

– When I do a song for someone, I like to make it custom-tailored, really I don’t want ANY word to disturb you, I’m ready to change everything, if just one word is not okay for you, because I do it for me, if one word annoys me I change the whole song.

– You see, and me, I like the surprise…

– oh ok, and me I can’t work with…

– I like the surprise, so I like to have a present offered to me, and be very surprised, and if something is not fitting, when recording the song, well, after that we work on it together…

– Don’t hesitate ok?

– I promise!!!
Anyway, thank you for this so beautiful present, are you staying for tonight’s show?

– Obviously!

– It’s not the first time in Vegas?

– No it’s not my first time in Vegas

– You lived in L.A. were you coming here often?

– The last time I saw a female singer in Vegas, it was Liza Minelli

– Well you’re not going out so much?

– I don’t go out so much…

Céline’s visit at Maison Adhémar-Dion

At the end of August 2011 while they were in Québec, Céline and several members of her family (Clément, Paul, Pauline, Liette, Michel, Jacques, Claudette and their mother Thérèse) visited the Maison Adhémar-Dion, a palliative care center that was named after Adhémar Dion, Céline’s father.

They visited the house and spoke about the reason why it was named after Adhémar, how he died in his wife’s arms and about how each of them believes that taking care of their parents and family is so important. During this very touching interview, Céline spoke and made all of her sisters and brothers cry… The Red Heads have translated her speech for you.

You can watch the video here:

TRANSLATION (starting from 9 min 24)

« I think… You are all absolutely right, because… I think it’s a, it’s a responsibility for all of us, being fortunate, being healthy, it’s our own responsibility to make a difference, to get implied, to take care of the people who have loved us, to take care of the people we love.

You know, it’s easy to say ‘we are going to put grandma here, we are going to put mommy there, we are going to put my aunt here…’ It’s a pity, and it’s true it’s not about money, it should not be a matter of money… The base, family, love, what we have received, what we must give…

To take care of these people, I think it’s a responsibility but it’s also a big present, when you have the chance to give hand, to somebody, to accompany somebody to heaven, it’s a big present, it’s a big present for us, not for the person who’s… Going to leave… This traveller…

It’s a present for us, which is given to us in fact, the person here, saying, ‘take my hand, take me there’, it’s like a child you know, having to cross the street, you give him the hand to show him the path, and when a person is suffering, an old person, who is suffering, who lost his head, you have to hold his hand and I must say : it is as if you were receiving a present, and it puts you in contact with Gods.

When my mother took my father’s hand, mommy said ‘I am allowing you to go’… He was fine, he left being fine, as he felt he was held, loved, and with her words he thought ‘my wife will be ok, so will be my children, I can make this journey’ and I think it’s important to feel you are fine, you are held, and that they are not going to be alone.

So It’s responsibility as a child, as a parent, as a member of the family, and you don’t think you are doing something good : THEY are giving us a present. »

SPECIAL FLASH CONTESTS – The Red Heads NetWork

SPECIAL FLASH CONTESTS by The Red Heads NetWork!

 

Today is July 7th!!! And this date means a lot to each of us! Because as you know now, July 7th saw the birth of The Red Heads, during a hot and rainy summer evening, in a surprising city that Céline had decided to take over for one show. A very special show that has marked us probably forever, and during which so many fans met and got linked. Céline and her people still remember it, and so do The Red Heads!

But you also know that a few days ago another birthday was celebrated, a new record for Céline : 30 years of career! 30 years to perform, to display her talent, to beat hundreds of records…

We didn’t need more to wake up for one day the caps from our closets! Yes, this excuse is too good to be ignored: LET’S CELEBRATE OUR BIRTHDAYS!!!

To do so, all The Red Heads’ partners have joined us to support us on this very special day! Partners that are now part of what we call « The Red Heads NetWork », a network of very dynamic blogs, websites, forums which give news about Céline on a daily basis.

Therefore, for the first time, you will witness and take part in a crazy July 7th, because today is the “SPECIAL FLASH CONTESTS” day!!!

Rendez-vous at 7am (Paris time) and during 24 hours of flash contests that will be posted on our partners’ walls! 30 gifts will be offered, among which: CD singles, perfumes, show programs, collector objects… all to please you! This will last only one day! Don’t miss its beginning, you could regret it!!!

A huge thank you to the websites of The RH Network: Newsceline Dion (http://newscelinedion.over-blog.com/), Fabricee (http://www.fabricee-clinedion.blogspot.com/), Celine City & Celine City Italia (www.celinecity.com), as well as Mickaël and some other generous donators!

One more occasion to have fun and party, on your marks… get set…???

Rules:
– Follow the Facebook pages of our partners and answer the questions that will be posted. The winner will be contacted so that his/her contact information can be forwarded to The Red Heads, who will then ship the gifts.
– The gifts will be new, second-hand or worn out by time.
– The gifts will be shipped in a delay of 3 to 6 weeks.

Can you keep a secret… Céline and The Red Heads

Can you Keep a secret… the secret of a magic day…

The Red Heads are blessed from the Gods… blessed to be considered and pampered by the one they adore : Céline.

Because the story of the Red Heads is getting better and better each day, and when you think that the dream is over, another one draws up. The day of March 16, 2011 has marked the mind of a hundred of Red Heads, The happiest and luckiest Red Heads of the world. That day, Céline and her team chose to make the dream of us fans come true by opening for the first time the doors of the Colosseum, the temple of Las Vegas that has become so mythic.

Therefore, on this special day, it is now time to reveal the pictures taken by Mister Gérard Schachmes, Céline’s official photographer, who was, for our greatest pleasure, a witness of this magical afternoon. A big “thank you” to him for immortalizing once again this very important moment for us, and for adding his precious signature to the meeting with our idol.

We offer you in exclusivity 3 photos in gold of Céline and her fans, taken right before the soundcheck we attended.

It is now time for us to thank from the bottom of our hearts Céline’s team who allowed this event. Thank you for the trust they give us and thank you for listening to their hearts and to ours… be sure of our greatest gratitude and our fidelity. We have already told them but we write it again: we are now the happiest fans of the world, for choosing as our idol the most amazing woman, surrounded by an exceptional team.

And to finish, on this day of March, 30th, we can’t leave you without wishing a happy 43rd birthday to Céline, we know your are happy and loved, your happiness is shared…

To all the Red Heads who were there in LasVegas2011 and for those who were happy for us : THANK YOU!


See you soon…

The Red Heads Team

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