La voix du bon Dieu

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. The album contains 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 "Dolce fiore"), as well as two covers: Renée Lebas' "Tire l'aiguille" and Berthe Sylva's "Les roses blanches".

René Angélil, 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. They sold 30,000 copies in 1981 and would go on to sell about 125,000 copies the following year.{{cite book | author=Jenna Glatzer | title=Céline Dion: For Keeps | url=https://archive.org/details/celinedionforkee0000glat | url-access=registration | publisher=Andrews McMeel Publishing| year=2005 | isbn=0-7407-5559-5}} La voix du bon Dieu has sold 100,000 copies in total.{{cite book| author= Georges-Herbert Germain| translator= David Homel| translator2= Fred Reed| year= 1998| title= Céline: The Authorized Biography| page= [https://archive.org/details/celineauthorized0000germ/page/119 119]| publisher= Dundurn Press| isbn= 1-55002-318-7| url= https://archive.org/details/celineauthorized0000germ/page/119}} The album produced two top twenty Quebec singles in "Ce n'était qu'un rêve" and "La voix du bon Dieu" which peaked at number fourteen and eleven, respectively. "Ce n'était qu'un rêve" was also released in France in 1982 as Dion's first single in that country. In 2005, Dion included "Ce n'était qu'un rêve" and "La voix du bon Dieu" on her greatest hits compilation, On ne change pas.

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In 1982, Dion was nominated for the Félix Award for Newcomer of the Year.

{{Track listing

| headline = Side A

| extra_column = Producer(s)

| title1 = La voix du bon Dieu

| writer1 = Eddy Marnay

| extra1 = {{hlist|Marnay|René Angélil}}

| length1 = 3:16

| title2 = Au secours

| writer2 = {{hlist|Robert Leroux|Pierre Létourneau}}

| extra2 = Angélil

| length2 = 3:27

| title3 = L'amour viendra

| writer3 = {{hlist|Marnay|Amerigo Cassella|Dario Baldan Bembo}}

| extra3 = {{hlist|Marnay|Angélil}}

| length3 = 4:20

| title4 = Autour de moi

| writer4 = {{hlist|Thérèse Dion|Pierre Alexandre Tremblay}}

| extra4 = Angélil

| length4 = 2:58

| title5 = Grand-maman

| writer5 = {{hlist|T. Dion|Celine Dion|Jacques Dion}}

| extra5 = Angélil

| length5 = 3:39

}}

{{Track listing

| headline = Side B

| extra_column = Producer(s)

| total_length = 28:55

| title1 = Ce n'était qu'un rêve

| writer1 = {{hlist|T. Dion|C. Dion|J. Dion}}

| extra1 = {{hlist|Daniel Hétu|Angélil}}

| length1 = 3:47

| title2 = Seul un oiseau blanc

| writer2 = {{hlist|Marnay|Hétu}}

| extra2 = {{hlist|Marnay|Hétu}}

| length2 = 4:12

| title3 = Tire l'aiguille

| writer3 = {{hlist|Marnay|Emilie Stern|Eddie Barclay}}

| extra3 = Angélil

| length3 = 2:21

| title4 = Les roses blanches

| writer4 = {{hlist|Charles Louis Pothier|Léon Rathier}}

| extra4 = Angélil

| length4 = 5:55

}}

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