Celine Dion led a moment of honor for the victims of the Manchester attack at her Las Vegas residency on Tuesday night (May 23).
Fresh off her stunning performance at the 2017 Billboard Music Awards, the 49-year-old pop icon had a message ("Manchester, we are with you") projected behind her as kicked off the show with a short speech about the tragedy.
"All they wanted to do was have some fun and go to a concert and listen to some music, just like what we’re doing tonight," she told the crowd at The Colosseum. "What happened last night makes no sense whatsoever. We live in different times and we need to love each other more than ever. We need to support each other more than ever as well."
Immediately afterward, Dion instructed the crowd to stand on their feet and honor the fallen with a sweet moment of silence. "Come on, everybody, stand up, and you know what, raise your hands and join them to the person on either side of you, please," the singer said. "Let's stand up for Manchester and show them that we care. We're filming this and we're going to send it across the ocean to those beautiful souls, so let's do that. That's it."
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