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René Angélil
Canadian singer and manager / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
René Angélil (January 16, 1942 – January 14, 2016)[1] was a Canadian singer. He was also the former manager of Céline Dion. He was married to Dion from 1994 until his death.
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Angélil was born in Montreal, Quebec. It was previously reported that he had throat cancer.[2] In September 2015, Céline revealed that Angélil's cancer was terminal, and that he had only 'weeks' to live. [3] Angélil died on January 14, 2016 in Henderson, Nevada of a heart attack complicated from the disease at the age of 73.[4][5]