Célinedee Matahari was born in Dubai to an Indonesian music-loving mother and French keyboard-playing father. Her first name came from Purwanti, her mother, meeting Céline Dion at a press conference in Dubai in 2008. Céline Dion, who was having fertility treatment at the time, noticed then heavily-pregnant Purwanti and stopped her to enquire about how the baby (then unborn Céline) was doing. Straight after that encounter, a name was obviously found for the baby!