Celine Dion brings American Music Awards to tears by singing haunting Edith Piaf love song ‘Hymne a L'Amour’ in tribute to Paris

• The Canadian songstress performed Edith Piaf's Hymne a l'Amour at the American Music Awards
• A montage played behind her honoring the 130 victims of the Paris terror attacks on November 13
• Celine was introduced by Jared Leto, who paid tribute to a friend who was killed in the Bataclan concert hall
• Leto then told audience the 'entire world matters' and that many in the US were children of immigrants
  Celine Dion brought the theater to tears at the American Music Awards as she performed a tribute to the victims of the terror attacks in Paris earlier this month.
  The French-Canadian sang Edith Piaf's Hymne a l'Amour as a montage showing of Paris landmarks, including the the Louvre and the Arc de Triomphe, and the French capital uniting in the wake of the attacks, played behind her.
  Several audience members at at the Microsoft Theatre in Los Angeles, California, were visibly moved as Celine sang the emotional French classic in honour of the 130 people who died in the attacks on November 13. 
  
  
  

  Tribute: Celine Dion brought the theater to tears at the American Music Awards with her rendition of Edith Piaf's Hymne a l'Amour in a tribute to the victims of the Paris terrorist attacks
  

  In honour: The performance paid tribute to the 130 people killed in the bombings and shootings in the French capital on November 13
  

  
  

  
• Multiple guests of the American Music Awards were shown wiping away tears as they watched Celine's powerful performance. 
  As the grand finale neared Celine raised her arms in the air as an image of the Eiffel Tower lit up in the French colors behind her.
  Terrorist organisation ISIS has claimed responsibility for the attacks in Paris that killed 130 people and wounded hundreds more, as well as the suicide bombings in Beirut that killed 43 people and injured more than 200; and the downing of the Russian jetliner carrying 224 people in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, all of which took place within the past month.

  Earlier today, British Prime Minister David Cameron and French President Francois Hollande, meeting in Paris, paid a quiet visit to the Bataclan concert venue, were 89 people were slaughtered.

  President Hollande plans to meet later this week with Russian President Vladimir Putin, German Chancellor Angela Merkeld and then U.S. President Barack Obama in pursuit of a unified strategy in Syria. 

  
  

  

  Moved: Popstar Demi Lovato appeared emotional during the tribute performance on Sunday evening

  

  Powerful: Several audience members were visibly moved and brought to tears as the Canadian songstress took to the stage

  

  The Canadian songstress performed a soaring rendition of the French classic as a montage of Paris landmarks, including the the Louvre and the Arc de Triomphe, played behind her

  

  Images of candlelight vigils and Paris uniting following the terror attacks that killed 130 people last Friday were also included in the video

  

  
  

  

  Dion sang Hymne a l'Amour, written by Piaf in 1949 for the love of her life boxer Marcel Cerdan, who was killed only months later while flying to New York from Paris to visit her

  

  Multiple guests of the American Music Awards were shown wiping away tears as they watched Celine's powerful performance

  American Music Awards producer Larry Klein said the show decided to include a tribute to Paris to show solidarity. 

  'Celine's performance will help us express our feelings through songs, when words do not suffice,' Klein told Billboard. 

  Piaf wrote Hymne a l'Amour in 1949 for the love of her life boxer Marcel Cerdan, who was killed only months later while flying to New York from Paris to visit her.

  Celine was introduced by Jared Leto, who said his band 30 Seconds to Mars had played at the Bataclan months before 89 people last Friday during an Eagles of Death Metal show. 

  'It was beautiful, peaceful and unforgettable,' Leto said of the band's impromptu summer show. 

  'What a difference a day makes. Seven months later on the evening of November 13, 2015 that same venue was under siege. One in a series of terrorist attacks on Paris that changed the world forever.'  

  

  American Music Awards producer Larry Klein said the show decided to include a tribute to Paris to show solidarity with France and the families of the victims

  

  Mr Klein said the tribute performance 'will help us express our feelings through songs, when words do not suffice'

  

  Piaf wrote Hymne a l'Amour in 1949 for the love of her life boxer Marcel Cerdan, who was killed only months later while flying to New York from Paris to visit her

  Leto then paid tribute to his friend Thomas Ayad, who was killed in the massacre, before quoting from a viral Facebook post written by a man who also lost his wife at the concert hall. 

  'You will not have my hatred,' French journalist Antoine Leiris wrote. 'I will not give you the satisfaction of hating you.' 

  'You want it, but to respond to hatred with anger would be to give in to the same ignorance that made you what you are.' 

  Leto then continued by saying tonight they would honor victims of the 'unimaginable violence' that has taken place in Paris and all over the world. 

  'France matters,' he began. 'Russia matters. Mali matters. Syria matters. The Middle East matters. The United States matters.' 

  'The entire world matters, and peace is possible.'   

  Leto concluded by touching upon the recent Syrian refugee crisis in the US. 

  He told the audience that many in the country were 'sons and daughters' of immigrants - including Steve Jobs and President Obama.

  

  Celine was introduced by Jared Leto, who first paid tribute to his friend Thomas Ayad, one of 89 people killed in the Bataclan concert hall, as he spoke of how his band 30 Seconds to Mars had played that same stage just seven months earlier