Agence France Presse

Los Angeles

Grammy- and Oscar-winning pop star Celine Dion received her own star on Hollywood’s Walk of Fame on Tuesday. The Canadian singer, 35, was to have received the honour in March last year but the event was postponed due to the war in Iraq. She flew in from Las Vegas for a ceremony outside the fabled Kodak Theatre.

“I remember coming to Los Angeles with my parents and (husband) Rene 20 years ago,” she said at the ceremony. “I was trying to fit into someone’s hands. Never had I thought that I was going to come back here and have my star,” said a glamorous Dion, dressed in a white suit and wearing a cowboy hat.

Last year she began a long-term contract at Caesar’s Palace in Las Vegas where she is to put on her show “A New Day” through 2006, five days a week.

The singer, who hails from a humble home in rural Quebec, rose to international stardom and has chalked up more than 155 millions of album sales.

A demo tape Dion recorded at age 12 reached a Quebec-based music entrepreneur, Rene Angelil, who became her manager and, years later, her husband. He mortgaged his house to finance the recording of Dion’s debut album.

Dion won an Oscar and a Grammy with the theme song from Walt Disney Co’s ‘Beauty

and the Beast’. In 1996, the album ‘Falling into You’ became led the charts in 11 different

countries, and won the Grammy for album of the year.

“My Heart Will Go On”, from the soundtrack to the 1997 blockbuster movie ‘Titanic’ sold worldwide, becoming one of the most popular love songs of the 20th century and winning her a second Oscar.