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Grammy Award-winning singer Celine Dion performed to a packed audience of adoring fans in Sydney on Saturday.
The Canadian diva was due to perform two concerts in Sydney last weekend at the Acer Arena at Sydney Olympic Park but announced she would not be well enough to go through with them due to a debilitating respiratory tract infection.
The French Canadian chanteuse opened the concert with her hit, I Drove All Night.
Dion, 40, apologised to her audience after her first song.
"It's not always easy to perform a song but cancelling a show is harder," she said.
The songstress sang her first hit in a short black dress adorned in silver jewels.
Fans cheered when Dion followed it up with her hit, The Power Of Love.
At one stage she praised Australia saying "your country is extraordinary".
After five changes of costume, Dion finished the concert with her hit from the Titanic film, My Heart Will Go On.
