Celine Dion AMAs Tribute: Singer Performs Edith Paif's Powerful 'Hymne a L'Amour' In Honor Of Paris Attack Victims [VIDEO]
Some of the biggest names in music may have been gathered to celebrate at Sunday Night's American Music Awards, but the celebratory tone of the night was paused during a moving tribute to the victims on the Nov. 13 attacks in Paris.
The attacks which killed 130 people and have been attributed to ISIS became a major moment of discussion after actor Jared Leto took to the stage to introduce Celine Dion, who performed Edith Paif's Hymne a L'Amour in honor of the victims.
Dion's performance moved the audience to tears as she performed the French song, with a backdrop of various French landmarks, interspersed with memorials for the victims behind her. Her performance ended on a powerful note that expressed hope and pride from the French people, with the backdrop changing to a photo of the Eiffel Tower lit up in the colors of the French Flag.
Leto's words prior to Dion's performance were also moving, as he read aloud from the letter of a man whose wife was killed during the attacks, at the Bataclan concert hall.
"You want me to be scared to view my countrymen with mistrust," Leto read from the letter written by Antoine Leiris. "You lost. We are just two now, my son and me. But we are stronger than all the armies in the world."
