Les chemins de ma maison (meaning The Paths of My House) is a French studio album

Studio album

A studio album is an album made up of tracks recorded in the controlled environment of a recording studio. A studio album contains newly written and recorded or previously unreleased or remixed material, distinguishing itself from a compilation or reissue album of previously recorded material, or...

 by Canadian singer Céline Dion

Celine Dion

Céline Marie Claudette Dion, , , is a Canadian singer. Born to a large family from Charlemagne, Quebec, Dion emerged as a teen star in the French-speaking world after her manager and future husband René Angélil mortgaged his home to finance her first record...

, released in Quebec, Canada on September 7, 1983. It's her 4th French album.

Album information

The album got gold certification in Canada and has sold 100,000 copies. It received a Félix Award

Félix Award

The Félix Award is a music award, given on an annual basis to artists in the Canadian province of Quebec.The first Félix awards were presented on September 23, 1979, by the Association du disque, de l'industrie du spectacle québécois...

 for the Best Selling Album of the Year. The first single "Mon ami m'a quittée

Mon Ami M'a Quittee

"Mon ami m'a quittée" is the first single from Céline Dion's album Les chemins de ma maison. It was released in September 1983 in Quebec, Canada, and later in France and Belgium....

" topped the Quebec charts for nine weeks. "Ne me plaignez pas

Ne Me Plaignez Pas

"Ne me plaignez pas" is the second single from Céline Dion's album Les chemins de ma maison. It was released in 1984 in Quebec, Canada."Ne me plaignez pas" is a French adaptation of "Please Don't Sympathise," originally recorded by Sheena Easton and composed by Steve Thompson...

" (second single) is an adaptation of "Please Don't Sympathise" originally recorded by Sheena Easton

Sheena Easton

Sheena Easton is a Scottish recording artist. Easton became famous for being the focus of an episode in the British television programme The Big Time, which recorded her attempts to gain a record contract and her eventual signing with EMI Records.Easton rose to fame in the early 1980s with the pop...

. Eddy Marnay wrote French lyrics for this track.

In October 1983, Dion released her first album in France, called Du soleil au cœur, with the same cover picture as Les chemins de ma maison. It also contained six songs from the latter.

Track listing

1. "Mon ami m'a quittée
   Mon Ami M'a Quittee
   "Mon ami m'a quittée" is the first single from Céline Dion's album Les chemins de ma maison. It was released in September 1983 in Quebec, Canada, and later in France and Belgium....
   
   " (Eddy Marnay, Christian Loigerot, Thierry Geoffroy) – 3:05
2. "Toi sur ta montagne" (Marnay, Alain Noreau) – 4:03
3. "Ne me plaignez pas
   Ne Me Plaignez Pas
   "Ne me plaignez pas" is the second single from Céline Dion's album Les chemins de ma maison. It was released in 1984 in Quebec, Canada."Ne me plaignez pas" is a French adaptation of "Please Don't Sympathise," originally recorded by Sheena Easton and composed by Steve Thompson...
   
   " (Marnay, Steve Thompson) – 3:05
4. "Vivre et donner" (Marnay, Ben Kaye, H. Stanley) – 2:34
5. "Mamy Blue" (Hubert Giraud) – 3:24
6. "Du soleil au cœur" (André Popp, Jean Claude Massoulier) – 2:46
7. "Et puis un jour" (Marnay, Noreau) – 3:17
8. "Hello mister Sam" (Marnay, Loigerot, Geoffroy) – 4:17
9. "La dodo la do" (Marnay, Christian Gaubert) – 3:06
10. "Les chemins de ma maison" (Marnay, Patrick Lemaitre, Alain Bernard) – 4:16

Certifications

Country	Certifications
Canada Canadian Recording Industry Association Music Canada is a Toronto-based, non-profit trade organization that was founded 9 April 1963 to represent the interests of companies that record, artists, manufacture, production, promotion and distribution of music in Canada...	Gold

Awards

Year	Award show	Award
1984	Félix Award Félix Award The Félix Award is a music award, given on an annual basis to artists in the Canadian province of Quebec.The first Félix awards were presented on September 23, 1979, by the Association du disque, de l'industrie du spectacle québécois... s	Best Selling Album of the Year – Les chemins de ma maison
1984	Félix Awards	Female Vocalist of the Year

Release history

Region	Date	Label	Format	Catalog
Canada	September 7, 1983	Saisons	Record Gramophone record A gramophone record, commonly known as a phonograph record , vinyl record , or colloquially, a record, is an analog sound storage medium consisting of a flat disc with an inscribed, modulated spiral groove...	165233 1
			Cassette Compact Cassette The Compact Cassette, often referred to as audio cassette, cassette tape, cassette, or simply tape, is a magnetic tape sound recording format. It was designed originally for dictation, but improvements in fidelity led the Compact Cassette to supplant the Stereo 8-track cartridge and reel-to-reel...	1665233 4