The singer Celine Dion has pushed the first months of the European leg of her Courage world tour to May 2021, to begin in Prague.
The tour was to have launched this May but has now been deferred because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Canadian singer won the 1988 Eurovision Song Contest for Switzerland at Dublin's RDS with the song Ne Partez Pas Sans Moi. She narrowly beat the UK's Scott Fitzgerald with his song Go by just one point.
The singer was to play Dublin, the city which effectively launched her career, with two concerts at Dublin's 3Arena in September 2020, dates which have been logically affected because of the changed schedule. Dion's two-night stint in Dublin, scheduled for September 14 and 15, had completely sold out.
Known principally for the global chart-busting Think Twice and her soulful rendition of My Heart Will Go On, the iconic singer has sold over 250 million records worldwide. She has recorded mainly in French and English but has also sung in Spanish, Italian, German, Latin, Japanese, and Mandarin Chinese.
She has played well over 400 shows at her Las Vegas Celine residency at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, Nevada, earning over $20 million in the process and enjoyed by over 200,000 people. She is deemed the "most profitable music act in Las Vegas" since Elvis Presley.
The newly-rescheduled tour is set to conclude on September 1, 2021, in Copenhagen, Denmark. There may be a return to that lurcative Las Vegas residency thereafter in 2022 for the singer who is 52.
"I look forward to the days when we can once again share the joys of singing and dancing together," Dion said in a statement. Currently she is staying her home with her family in Las Vegas.
