Celine Dion's brother dies of throat cancer just days after her husband

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File- This July 26, 2013, file photo shows Canadian music star Celine Dion, right, and husband Rene Angelil posing for photos after being decorated with the Order of Canada in Quebec City. Authorities say Angelil, the husband and manager of Dion, has died in Las Vegas. He was 73 and had battled throat cancer. Clark County Coroner John Fudenberg said his office was notified Thursday, Jan. 14, 2016, of Angelil’s death. (Jacques Boissinot/The Canadian Press, File)

Published: 6:30pm, 17 Jan 2016Updated: 11:58am, 19 Jan 2016

Daniel Dion, the older brother of pop singer Celine Dion, died just two days after the death of the entertainer’s husband, Rene Angelil.

Celine Dion’s representative Kim Jakwerth released a statement that Daniel Dion, 59, died Saturday surrounded by his family after battling throat cancer for several years. The statement said he died at a palliative care centre in Terrebonne, Quebec, outside Montreal.

The family is “remembering a gentle and reserved man of many talents,” the statement said.

The announcement follows the death on Thursday of the 73-year-old Angelil in suburban Las Vegas - also after a long ballet with throat cancer. Angelil was Celine Dion's manager for decades, molding her from a French-speaking Canadian ingénue into one of the world's most successful singers, best known for the smash hit My Heart Will Go On, the theme from Titanic.

Daniel Dion, the father of two daughters, was the eighth of 14 Dion children. The Dion siblings, including Celine, performed at their parents' small piano bar called Le Vieux Baril (“The Old Barrel”) in the town of Charlemagne, Quebec.

Viewing will take place next Saturday, a day after Angelil’s funeral is set to take place at Montreal’s Notre Dame Basilica, the same church where he married the singer in 1994.