Her husband and manager Réne Angélil was also in the room at the time, however, and banded together with James to convince her to record it.
Though she was worried she’d be “in trouble” with director James Cameron, Céline says: “So I start to sing the song, [James Horner] tells me about the story of the movie a little bit, I’m already in tears”.
“But it’s a demo, it’s just to put my voice, one take, just quick, just for them to present to the director, insisting on putting this song in the movie. I sang the song… and I never re-sang the song to record it, to make it as a record.”
In other words, the score we recognise today was a rough draft that neither the director nor the artist wanted to reproduce.
To be honest, that just makes the Canadian singer’s performance even more impressive…
