Canadian songstress Celine Dion to sing for Beijing Olympics
17/1/2008 17:02
Celine Dion, the Canadian songstress famed for the Titanic theme tune, "My
Heart Will Go On", will perform a song for the Beijing Olympics in a concert in
April and submit an entry for the Games's theme song, organizers said.
Dion's
concert will be held on April 13 at the Beijing Workers Stadium as part of her
worldwide tour to promote her latest album, "Taking Chances", according to the
Beijing Olympic organizers.
The Grammy Award winner said via video at a news
briefing in Beijing on yesterday that she would prepare well for the song and
believed it would reflect the "One World, One Dream" concept of the
event.
Her team had prepared the song as an entry for the Olympic theme song,
but had not yet submitted it to the solicitation committee, a source with the
Beijing Olympic Games Organizing Committee told Xinhua today.
Her April show
has been included in a number of celebrations for the Games, which run from Aug.
8 to 24.
Dion sang "The Power of the Dream" at the opening ceremony of the
1996 Olympics in Atlanta.
Dozens of domestic and foreign singers had
submitted bids for the Beijing Olympics theme. Entries close in
March.
"Forever Friends", composed by Giorgio Moroder, Kong Xiangdong and
Michael Kunze, has also been submitted.
Xinhua
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