{"id":27287,"date":"2016-07-28T00:42:07","date_gmt":"2016-07-28T00:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/gabon-teenager-hits-high-note-after-celine-dion\/"},"modified":"2016-07-28T00:41:33","modified_gmt":"2016-07-28T00:41:33","slug":"gabon-teenager-hits-high-note-after-celine-dion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/gabon-teenager-hits-high-note-after-celine-dion\/","title":{"rendered":"Gabon teenager hits high note after Celine Dion shares cover"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{A 17-year-old from Gabon has said he is &#8220;overwhelmed&#8221; after the Canadian pop star Celine Dion shared online a video of him performing one of her hits.}<\/p>\n<p>The video of the boy, Samuel, singing The Power of Love while sitting on a staircase in Libreville, has attracted millions of views on Facebook.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Samuel, your talent is as big as your voice,&#8221; Dion wrote. &#8220;I hope we have the chance to meet one day.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The song, originally by Jennifer Rush, was a hit for Dion in 1993.<\/p>\n<p>The video of Samuel was first picked up by a popular Gabonese blogger before Dion reposted it on her Facebook page, propelling it to nearly 2.5 million views.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m touched my songs have travelled all the way to you and hope we have the chance to meet one day,&#8221; she wrote.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;May all your dreams come true. Keep singing like you do. When music comes from the heart, it knows no borders!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Samuel told AFP he was &#8220;overwhelmed and very surprised&#8221; by the message from the superstar.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I wasn&#8217;t expecting that,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I haven&#8217;t got a phone or a Facebook account, it was my brother who told me Celine had shared my video.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I just hope that one day I can meet her for real.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He said he has been approached by producers from TV singing contests in France and Ivory Coast.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m not used to this [success],&#8221; he said. &#8220;I feel good when I sing in the staircase, and now people recognise me in the street.&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-13838 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/_90541831_mediaitem90541830.jpg\" alt=\"&quot;I feel good when I sing in the staircase and now people recognise me in the street,&quot; Samuel said\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{A 17-year-old from Gabon has said he is &#8220;overwhelmed&#8221; after the Canadian pop star Celine Dion shared online a video of him performing one of her hits.} The video of the boy, Samuel, singing The Power of Love while sitting on a staircase in Libreville, has attracted millions of views on Facebook. &#8220;Samuel, your talent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[100],"byline":[249],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-27287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-africa","byline-bbc"],"bylines":[{"id":249,"name":"BBC","slug":"bbc","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":104}],"contributors":[{"id":249,"name":"BBC","slug":"bbc","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":104}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27287\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27287"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=27287"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=27287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}