La Voix du Bon Dieu

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La Voix du Bon Dieu

Studio album by Céline Dion
Released	November 9, 1981
Recorded	1981
Genre	Pop
Length	34:28
Label	Super Étoiles, Saisons
Producer(s)	René Angélil, Eddy Marnay, Rudy
	La Voix du Bon Dieu (1981)	Céline Dion Chante Noël (1981)

La Voix du Bon Dieu (meaning Good God's Voice) is Céline Dion's debut French album released in Quebec, Canada on November 9, 1981. Dion was only 13 years old at that time.

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The album contains Céline Dion's first three singles: "Ce N'Était Qu'un Rêve" (co-written by herself), "La Voix du Bon Dieu" and "L'Amour Viendra" (French adaptation of Dario Baldan Bembo's song "Tu Cosa Fai Stasera"), as well as two covers: Renée Lebas' "T'ire l'Aiguille" and Berthe Sylva's "Les Roses Blanches." Dion collaborated on this project and all her next early French recordings with Eddy Marnay who wrote songs for Barbra Streisand, Édith Piaf, Nana Mouskouri and Claude François among others. René Angélil - Céline Dion's manager (later husband) mortgaged his home to start his own record company just to produce her first records. He decided to put out two albums at the same time: La Voix du Bon Dieu and Céline Dion Chante Noël (with Christmas songs). They had sold 30,000 copies in 1981 and they'd go on to sell about 125,000 copies the following year. The album produced two top twenty Quebec singles in "Ce N'Était Qu'un Rêve" and "La Voix du Bon Dieu" which peaked at #11 and #14 respectively.

"Ce N'Était Qu'un Rêve" was also released in France the next year as Dion's first single in that country but plans to release the album were cancelled.