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Céline Dion dropped a new single Friday, marking her latest step back into the spotlight.
The soft, romantic French-language ballad is called Dansons, meaning “Let’s dance” in English.
Alongside the single, Dion released a music video that packs on the romance. It features lovey-dovey scenes across Paris with various couples, each dancing amid crowds like nobody’s watching.
The single arrives just ahead of the Canadian icon’s recently announced return to the stage. Dion will perform 16 shows at the Paris La Défense Arena from Sept. 12 to Oct. 17.
That announcement confirmed speculation of her comeback after mysterious signs had popped up around Paris, featuring lyrics from Dion songs like My Heart Will Go On and The Power of Love.
Dion has been absent from the stage since health problems forced the cancellation of her last world tour.
WATCH | Dion’s music video for Dansons :
Written by renowned songwriter Jean-Jacques Goldman, Dansons marks her first French release in over a decade and her first original song in years. Her last release was in 2023, when she was on the soundtrack for the film Love Again.
The duo last worked together in 2016 on Dion’s Encore un soir and on her 1995 album D’eux, which went on to become the best-selling French-language album of all time.
Dion was forced to cancel her Courage world tour in 2023 when she revealed her long battle with stiff person syndrome, which affected her ability to sing. The rare neurological disorder affects only about one or two people per million.
The tour had already been postponed in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Dion didn’t sing publicly again until July 2024, when she performed Edith Piaf’s Hymn to Love from the Eiffel Tower during the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games in Paris and again that November at a fashion show in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, honouring the 45-year career of designer Elie Saab.
