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Radio 5 Live,2 mins

Las Vegas Celine Dion impersonator sings wedding vows

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Elisa Furr in Las Vegas is one of America's leading Celine Dion impersonators. She said Celine Dion’s songs are “vocally challenging” and “incredibly gruelling” and that the singer should "take a break...to rest and heal”. The Canadian singer announced that she has put her ‘career on hold indefinitely’ for health and family reasons. The 46-year-old said she is cancelling all performances to focus on her health, her husband's health and their children. Dion's manager-husband, Rene Angelil has cancer and she is also still recovering from an illness that inflamed her throat muscles and left her unable to perform since mid-July. All of her Las Vegas performances have been cancelled and so has her tour of Asia. Elisa Furr said she has married a couple at the Via Las Vegas Wedding Chapel as a wedding officiator. She sang sections of the service script and inserted song titles, including The Power Of Love and My Heart Will Go On. This clip is originally from Up All Night on 14 August

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