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Singer Celine Dion on Saturday issued a press release that each criticized former President Donald Trump’s marketing campaign for the “unauthorized” use of her music at a latest rally and poked enjoyable on the music alternative.
The Trump marketing campaign has performed Dion’s “My Coronary heart Will Go On” at a number of marketing campaign rallies all through 2023 and 2024, although Dion’s assertion stated she and her administration crew had solely not too long ago change into conscious of its use, particularly pointing to it being performed at Trump’s rally in Bozeman, Montana, on Friday.
“Right now, Celine Dion’s administration crew and her document label, Sony Music Leisure Canada Inc., grew to become conscious of the unauthorized utilization of the video, recording, musical efficiency, and likeness of Celine Dion singing ‘My Coronary heart Will Go On’ at a Donald Trump / JD Vance marketing campaign rally in Montana,” Dion stated in a press release posted to her X and Instagram accounts.
“Under no circumstances is that this use licensed, and Celine Dion doesn’t endorse this or any comparable use. … And actually, THAT music?”
“My Coronary heart Will Go On” is a romantic ballad that served because the theme music to James Cameron’s “Titanic.” Launched in 1997, it is likely one of the best-selling singles of all time.
CNN has reached out to the Trump marketing campaign concerning whether or not they are going to stop taking part in the music at future occasions.
Rihanna, the Rolling Stones, Ozzy Osbourne, Queen, and the estate of George Harrison, amongst different musicians, have all beforehand objected to Donald Trump’s presidential campaigns utilizing their music, courting again to his unique run in 2016.
Dion made headlines final month after returning to the stage in grand trend with a efficiency of Edith Piaf’s “L’Hymne à l’amour” on the Olympics opening ceremony. It was her first live performance efficiency since revealing that she resides with stiff individual syndrome, “a uncommon, progressive syndrome that impacts the nervous system, particularly the mind and spinal wire,” in response to the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke.