La voix du bon Dieu is a French debut studio album

Studio album

A studio album is an album made up of tracks recorded in the controlled environment of a recording studio. A studio album contains newly written and recorded or previously unreleased or remixed material, distinguishing itself from a compilation or reissue album of previously recorded material, or...

 by Canadian singer Céline Dion

Celine Dion

Céline Marie Claudette Dion, , , is a Canadian singer. Born to a large family from Charlemagne, Quebec, Dion emerged as a teen star in the French-speaking world after her manager and future husband René Angélil mortgaged his home to finance her first record...

, released in Quebec, Canada on November 9, 1981.

Album information

The album contains Dion's first three singles: "Ce n'était qu'un rêve

Ce N'etait Qu'un Reve

"Ce n'était qu'un rêve" is a debut single by Quebecer singer Céline Dion, released on June 19, 1981 in Quebec, Canada. It was included on her first album La voix du bon Dieu....

" (co-written by herself), "La voix du bon Dieu" and "L'amour viendra

L'amour Viendra

"L'amour viendra" is the third single by Canadian singer Céline Dion, released in 1982 in Quebec, Canada. It was included on her debut album La voix du bon Dieu....

" (French adaptation of Dario Baldan Bembo's song "Dolce Fiore"), as well as two covers: Renée Lebas' "T'ire l'aiguille" and Berthe Sylva's "Les roses blanches."

Céline Dion collaborated on this project and all her next early French recordings with Eddy Marnay who wrote songs for Barbra Streisand

Barbra Streisand

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, Édith Piaf

Édith Piaf

Édith Piaf , born Édith Giovanna Gassion, was a French singer and cultural icon who became widely regarded as France's greatest popular singer. Her singing reflected her life, with her specialty being ballads...

, Nana Mouskouri

Nana Mouskouri

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 and Claude François

Claude François

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 among others.

René Angélil

René Angélil

René Angélil, OQ is a Canadian singer and manager. He is the husband and manager of singer Celine Dion.-Early life:Angélil was born in Montreal, Québec, Canada of a father of Syrian descent and a Canadian mother of Lebanese origin...

 - 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

Celine Dion Chante Noel

Céline Dion chante Noël is a French Christmas album by Canadian singer Céline Dion, released in Quebec, Canada in early December 1981. It is her second French album and first Christmas album....

(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. La voix du bon Dieu has sold 100,000 copies in total. The album produced two top 20 Quebec singles in "Ce n'était qu'un rêve" and "La voix du bon Dieu" which peaked at number 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.

In 2005, Céline Dion included "Ce n'était qu'un rêve" and "La voix du bon Dieu" on her greatest hits compilation On ne change pas

On ne change pas

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.

Track listing

1. "La voix du bon Dieu" (Eddy Marnay, Suzanne-Mia Dumont) – 3:22
2. "Au secours" (Robert Leroux, Pierre Létourneau) – 3:31
3. "L'amour viendra
   L'amour Viendra
   "L'amour viendra" is the third single by Canadian singer Céline Dion, released in 1982 in Quebec, Canada. It was included on her debut album La voix du bon Dieu....
   
   " (Marnay, Amerigo Cassella, Dario Baldan Bembo) – 4:20
4. "Autour de moi" (Thérèse Dion, Pierre A. Tremblay) – 3:00
5. "Grand maman" (T. Dion, Céline Dion
   Celine Dion
   Céline Marie Claudette Dion, , , is a Canadian singer. Born to a large family from Charlemagne, Quebec, Dion emerged as a teen star in the French-speaking world after her manager and future husband René Angélil mortgaged his home to finance her first record...
   
   , Jacques Dion) – 3:42
6. "Ce n'était qu'un rêve
   Ce N'etait Qu'un Reve
   "Ce n'était qu'un rêve" is a debut single by Quebecer singer Céline Dion, released on June 19, 1981 in Quebec, Canada. It was included on her first album La voix du bon Dieu....
   
   " (T. Dion, C. Dion, J.Dion) – 3:52
7. "Seul un oiseau blanc" (Marnay, Daniel Hétu) – 4:17
8. "T'ire l'aiguille" (Marnay, Emilie Stern, Eddie Barclay) – 2:24
9. "Les roses blanches" (Charles Louis Pothier, Léon Rathier) – 5:56

Release history

Region	Date	Label	Format	Catalog
Canada	November 9, 1981	Super Étoiles	Record Gramophone record A gramophone record, commonly known as a phonograph record , vinyl record , or colloquially, a record, is an analog sound storage medium consisting of a flat disc with an inscribed, modulated spiral groove...	SPE 4101
			Cassette Compact Cassette The Compact Cassette, often referred to as audio cassette, cassette tape, cassette, or simply tape, is a magnetic tape sound recording format. It was designed originally for dictation, but improvements in fidelity led the Compact Cassette to supplant the Stereo 8-track cartridge and reel-to-reel...	16-SP 1900
Canada	1983	Saisons	Record	SNS 70000
			Cassette	SNS 4-70000