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 honouring 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 theatre 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.