Celine Dion goes on world tour

After living and crooning for years in Las Vegas, French-Canadian superstar Celine Dion has returned home to Quebec to kick off her first world tour in a decade on Wednesday.

At 51, the Grammy winner also recently announced the release of a new album titled Courage, which will be her 12th in English and is due out on November 15.

The first single, Flying

On My Own, featuring her powerful vocals backed by techno beats, has already received airplay, while three more dropped on Wednesday: Courage,

Lying Down and Imperfections.

Known for her blockbuster ballads, Dion said in April that she felt motivated to create new music and to hit the road after the 2016 death of her husband and manager Rene Angelil.

“Courage is exactly the way I feel,” she told public broadcaster CBC at the time, talking up the upcoming tour of the same name.

“In the past three years, it has been difficult for me to talk to my children, to raise them, to lose my husband, wondering am I going to sing again ... so much has happened, but at the same time I feel that I’m in control of my life.”

About 60 concerts in Canada and America are confirmed, her label said, with two arena shows in Quebec City on Wednesday and Saturday kicking off the tour – which will run through April 2020. Other dates are planned.

Courage marks the first album and tour in Dion’s long career without Angelil, who steered her success beginning in 1981 when he mortgaged his house to finance the young teen’s debut album.

The pair began a personal relationship in 1988 when she was only 19 years old, and married in 1994. Angelil died of throat cancer at age 73.

The youngest of 14 children raised in the suburbs of Montreal, Dion has sold 250 million copies of 23 albums in English and French, including collaborations with Jean-Jacques Goldman, Barbra Streisand and Stevie Wonder.