She wrote a song for Celine Dion: "It's a difficult exercise"

The novelist Christine Orban told Friday on Europe 1 how and why she had written in 2007 the lyrics of the song "I am not that" of Celine Dion.

A proposal that she had initially taken for a joke, before accepting and being confronted with a difficult writing exercise.

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When she was contacted to write a song for Celine Dion in 2007, novelist Christine Orban initially thought it was a joke.

But she was quickly reassured by the producer of the Quebec singer.

"They told me that they were making an album with women novelists that Celine Dion loved," Christine Orban told the microphone on Europe 1 on Friday. "I accepted, telling myself that I was perhaps not. not being able ", continues the one who assures us that it is" a rather difficult exercise, because you have to manage to capture a person. I tried to make a portrait ".

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A first meeting in Las Vegas

Christine Orban then meets the singer in Las Vegas.

“When we had dinner together, she told me about her childhood dreams and her modest family life where they were 13 brothers and sisters. She told me one memory in particular: in the morning, on the stove in the kitchen, before they all went to school, her mother would put the buns and socks to heat next to each other, ”recalls the novelist.

We find this anecdote in the song 

I am not the one.

To write, Christine Orban tries to put herself in Celine Dion's shoes.

"I tried to put myself in his place, to imagine this immense celebrity", she adds.

She then wrote

I am not the one

, who evokes the complexity of having a fulfilling private life when you have such an intense public life.

Despite the difficulty of the exercise, Christine Orban would like to try the experience again.

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In any case, we will have to wait to hear Celine Dion's songs again on stage.

Due to the pandemic, the singer has again postponed concerts of her tour, initially scheduled for March in Paris.

The new dates are scheduled for September 2022.