Recurrentatives for Canadian singer Celine Dion stated Saturday that the participate of her hit 1990s song “My Heart Will Go On” at a campaign rpartner for establisher Pdwellnt Donald Trump was “unapverifyd” and had not getd her perleave oution.
“And repartner, THAT song?” Dion’s recurrentatives asked cheekily in a statement posted to the singer’s social media accounts.
A video clip of Dion executeing the theme song from the 1997 movie “Titanic” was shown Friday night at a rpartner in Boseman, Montana, and has also been take parted at disjoinal previous Trump rallies.
According to the statement, her deal withment team and enroll label, Sony Music Entertainment Canada, “became conscious” Saturday “of the unapverifyd usage of the video, enrolling, musical executeance, and enjoyness of Celine Dion singing ‘My Heart Will Go On’ at a Donald Trump/JD Vance campaign rpartner in Montana.”
Recurrentatives stressd that in “no way is this participate apverifyd, and Celine Dion does not finishorse this or any analogous participate.”
Musicians asking that Trump not to take part their music at his rallies is not a recent rerent. During his first pdwellntial run in 2016, the Rolling Stones, Adele, Neil Young and Aerosmith’s Steven Tyler all asked that Trump stop take parting their music on the campaign trail, as did R.E.M. in 2020.
To be in compliance with duplicateright law, political campaigns must get a accessible executeance license from organizations enjoy Broadcast Music Inc. or the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers. Songauthorrs and enroll labels typicpartner sign blanket licensing concurments giving sports arenas and other venues the right to take part their music.
The 56-year-ageder Dion gave a surpelevate executeance at the discdisseeing ceremony of the Paris Olympics two weeks ago, her first since 2020. She discdisseeed in 2022 that she had been detectd with stiff-person syndrome.
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