Canadian singer Celine Dion recently lost her husband and former manager after a long battle with cancer. René Angélil discovered Celine Dion when she was just 12 years old and led the talented songbird to stardom.

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The 73-year-old was remembered by his wife fondly and sang a love song for him during his funeral in the same church where they were wed. "He will be remembered as a gentle man, generous and kind, an unprecedented visionary, a modern Pygmalion, a Renaissance man," she said in a Facebook post.

Just days after his death, Reuters reports that the singer is facing yet another family crisis. His brother, one of her 13 siblings, has cancer and has reportedly a few days to live.

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 "It's very painful. It's a matter of days or hours," Dion told the Journal of Montreal after visiting her brother in the hospital.

No other recent comments were made about her brother.

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