Rene Angelil

René Angélil is a Canadian of Syrian ancestry. He is the husband and manager of singer Céline Dion. He studied in the Collège Grasset and Les Clercs de Saint-Viateur in Outremont, Montreal.

He started out as a pop singer in the 1960s in Montréal, Angélil formed a pop rock group, "The Baronets", with childhood friend Pierre Labelle and Jean Beaulne, who were known as "Québec's Beatles." This group had some hits in the 1960's as "C'est Fou, Mais c'est Tout" catering to the short-lived Quebec market for translations of English language pop hits from the United Kingdom or the United States. After the dissolution of the group, René Angélil and best friend Guy Cloutier began managing artists. Together they managed the career of two successful Québec entertainers René Simard and Ginette Reno, among many other pop stars of the time. They parted ways in 1981, each managing their own artists.