Lara Fabian - super popular European vocalist, whose voice is called "angelic", was born on 01/09/1970 in the Belgian city of Etterbeek.
Childhood
By blood, Lara's mother, Louise, is Italian. Apparently, the girl inherited increased emotionality from her. After the birth of their daughter, the parents decided to move from the rainy Belgian climate to Louise's homeland in sunny Italy. So early years the baby spent in Sicily.
Pierre Croker, the father of the future celebrity, was fond of playing the guitar from his youth. It was he who became the first who drew attention to the bright musical ability girls. A two-year-old baby tried to sing along to him, hitting the notes very accurately. Therefore, as soon as the girl grew up a little, she began to attend a music school.
In 1975 the family returned to Belgium again. At the age of 8, Lara also became interested in dancing. The talented child was quickly noticed. Moreover, she actively took part in various children's vocal and dance competitions. After one of them, the girl receives an invitation to study at the Royal Academy of Music in the capital of Belgium, Brussels.
Carier start
Lara's professional career began with performances in the best Brussels clubs where her father worked. Initially, they prepared several duet numbers, but soon Lara became a real soloist and club star. Gradually, the girl's popularity is growing, many come to clubs specifically to listen to her.
At the age of 16, she becomes the winner of one of the most prestigious vocal competitions for young performers "Springboard". the main prize had the opportunity to record a single on professional studio. The song got into rotation on television, and soon Lara became a real star.
The success was consolidated by the disc released a year later, which Lara dedicated to her idol, the French singer and musician Daniel Balavoine. His girl considered the standard of a pop artist. The record quickly sold out and attracted the attention of experienced producers to Lara. In 1987 she was invited to take part in the selection competition for Eurovision, where she easily won.
In 1988, the young performer represents Brussels at the most prestigious music competition in Europe. Her art song Croire brings her success and a fourth place, which is a real breakthrough for a debutante. And at home, after the competition, Lara becomes a real star. Immediately after returning from Eurovision, Lara records the second mini-disc.
Success in Canada
Soon Lara meets the popular musician and composer Rick Allison, who offers her cooperation and help in creating the first album. The search for a producer in Europe was unsuccessful, so they decide to take a chance and move across the ocean to the Canadian province of Quebec.
In 1991, the official presentation of the singer's first full-length solo album took place there, the recording of which was financed by Lara's father. Several songs from it immediately took first place in the prestigious charts. Lara quickly became a Canadian starlet and began to tour extensively.
At the same time, she worked on new compositions that were included in the second album. The popularity of the singer played into the hands, and two weeks after the presentation, the album acquires gold status. At the same time, Lara presents the variety show Sentiments acoustiques, which is successfully held on the largest stages in Canada.
The next year becomes very important for Lara. For the first time, she receives several prestigious music awards from the ADISQ awards at once: for the best performance and the best performance, and also receives Canadian citizenship. In parallel, she begins to actively engage in charity work, helping kids with heart defects.
Europe again
In 1997, Lara solemnly presents her third album Pure to the public, which is sold out just instantly. This disc goes platinum and Lara decides to bring it to France. There sales are not so fast, but soon the album becomes gold in Europe. Lara begins to wander between two continents.
The talented singer has aroused great interest in France, and she begins to appear frequently on TV screens and in fashion magazines. And the famous music agency Sony Music offered the girl a contract for recording English-language albums, on which Lara began working immediately.
In 1988, Lara went on her first European tour, including the Benelux countries. Her concerts are especially successful in Monaco. There she receives another award as best singer Benelux countries, which her next album Live brings.
The debut English-language album of the singer included only 13 songs out of 40 songs recorded for him. The format of the album no longer allowed to accommodate. But some songs were sold as bonus tracks, so they also spread very quickly throughout Europe. Several compositions were performed in Spanish, which the singer was studying at that time.
In total, the singer is fluent in four languages. But after her first visit to Russia and meeting Igor Krutoy, she became interested in Russian, and since then she has regularly appeared on Moscow concert venues. She even recorded the Russian-language composition "Love of Tired Swans."
In 2012, Lara even ventured on a tour of Siberia. Moreover, ticket sales began a few months before the concerts.
Today Lara Fabian is one of the most popular and beloved performers in Europe and the Americas. She has 11 solo albums in her discography. The tracks performed by Lara are heard from movie screens, and her variety shows are distinguished by great originality.
Personal life
The romance with Rick Allison, which flared up immediately after meeting, lasted for a long six years, which were filled with joint creativity and vivid emotions. Nevertheless, the couple decided to leave. Because of the constant interaction, they became too close together. But creative union kept until 2004.
With Rick Allison
Then Lara, who by that time already had a whole army of fans, had several short novels, including with the famous producer Walter Afanasiev and the successful singer Patrick Fiori. But the singer dreamed of serious relationship and real family.
And in 2005 she meets the man of her dreams, with whom she works together on French television, director Gerard Pullicino. Two years after the beginning of a stormy romance, the couple has a daughter, the beauty Lou, named after Lara's mother. But Lara also broke up with Gerard after 7 years of marriage.
With Gerard Pullicino and daughter
Who is the really famous Lara Fabian? Many music lovers still think that the artist's path to the top of the French pop Olympus began with her participation in the famous musical Notre Dame de Paris, but this opinion is erroneous.
Music for me is a real champion of justice, it brings the whole world into harmony. That's life!
Lara really at the dawn of her career sang the part of young Esmeralda, as a musical addition to the magnificent Disney cartoon about the hunchback of Notre Dame, based on the novel Hugo, but she never took part in the musical. It was after the release of this cartoon that the popularity of Lara Fabian in France began.
One of the most famous French-speaking performers of our time, Lara Fabian (real name Lara Crocket) was born on January 9, 1970 in the city of Etterbeek (Belgium). WITH young years she dreamed of singing on stage, studied music and dance, and later - vocals at the Royal Academy in Brussels. Fourteen-year-old Lara successfully performed in the city clubs of Brussels, singing songs to the accompaniment of her father, who masterfully owned the guitar. The girl took part in many European song contests, in some she won a landslide victory. Having acquired such a very solid stage experience, Lara Fabian successfully performs in Brussels at a music competition designed to discover new talents. As a result, the aspiring artist receives three main prizes of the competition at once.
Having reached her majority, Fabian moved to Canada, considering this country freer in terms of creativity, wanting to write own songs and feeling great potential for work. Inspired by a completely new environment, the girl immediately set to writing, she herself reproduced all her musical material. And the grateful audience highly appreciated the efforts of the young singer. Success came to her beginning in Canada, then in France, Switzerland and almost all the Benelux countries.
Actually, love is everywhere, isn't it?
In fact, love is everywhere, isn't it?
At the very beginning of 1996 in France, Lara Fabian was awarded the title of "Discovery of the Year", and her first album was awarded the prestigious World Music Awards. The magazine "Pari-Match" placed a photo of the girl on its cover, calling the singer "Person of the Year" on its pages. Her voice was fascinated not only by France, but also by England, the United States, and China.
1997 brought Lara resounding success throughout Europe, her album won the "Most Played Album of the Year" nomination.
For two years, the best producers of America have been releasing Lara Fabian's most famous English-language album, Adagio. The songs from this album won the hearts of American art connoisseurs and earned the admiration of famous music critics. Lara spent the end of the summer of 2000 on the road, giving more than twenty triumphal concerts in France, Switzerland, Germany and Belgium, and already in 2004 she performed a series of concerts in Moscow and on the island of Tahiti.
November 20, 2007 in the life of Lara Fabian happened happy event- the singer became a mother. The daughter who was born was named after her grandmother - rare, but nice name Lu. The girl's father is Gerard Pullicino, a French actor and director.
At the end of May 2009, the singer's album quickly gained popularity with the characteristic title "All Women in Me" was released. Lara Fabian herself calls this album a self-portrait, demonstrating in her songs her admiration for French women, who, in her opinion, in some way had a significant influence on the formation of the character of the artist.
For fifteen years of the brilliant work of Lara Fabian, more than ten million copies of her albums have been sold all over the planet. The charming singer independently achieved her goal. high status on all continents. Recognized by millions of lovers of good music, being currently famous person with millions of copies, Lara Fabian does not consider herself a star, claiming that she is just a poet who can sing. Exquisite Madame Lara Fabian amazed her admirers by going on stage without shoes, in a short black dress, almost without makeup and jewelry. But the public is accustomed to the fact that pop popular singer according to the laws of the genre, she simply had to change her magnificent outfits several times during a concert, flirt with the audience in every possible way and sing accompanied by large orchestra or an impressive group of musicians. The sonorous, but at the same time, the feminine voice of the charming Lara Fabian sounded in the laconic accompaniment of the classical string quartet, which necessarily included a piano and a cello. The unique minimalism of the singer's image subtly emphasized her perfect vocal technique. Nothing distracted the audience from the perception of impeccable beauty.
Lara Fabian is currently collaborating with our favorite composers and artists. A prime example this can be served by the recent shootings in the capital of Ukraine musical film"Mademoiselle Zhivago", which consists of eleven compositions performed by Lara Fabian. The music for the songs was written by Igor Krutoy.
Lara Fabian's performances on stage differ from the performances of other pop stars by the complete absence of dancers, bright scenery and stunning costumes. The actress takes the stage in rather strict dresses, with a minimum amount of jewelry and no makeup. All he is content with is an amazing voice of four octaves, classified as a lyric soprano.
Lara Fabian is a world famous French-speaking singer of Belgian-Italian origin, songwriter. Her strong unique voice can be recognized literally from the first note, and her very famous composition, of course, "Je T'aime". Lara performs songs in French, English, Spanish, Italian and even Russian.Childhood
Lara Fabian (real name - Lara Crokart) was born on January 9, 1970 in the Belgian city of Etterbeek. Her mother was Italian, so the first years of her life, Lara and her family lived in Sicily, from where they then returned to Belgium. Fabian's father was a guitarist, it was he who first appreciated the girl's musical abilities and sent her daughter to a music school. Lara not only learned to play the piano, but began to compose music. 
When Lara was 14, she first performed on stage with her father - even then her melodic voice amazed the audience. This experience later helped Lara to successfully perform at the prestigious Springboard competition in 1986, which she triumphantly won.
Two years later, Fabian went to Eurovision from Luxembourg and took fourth place there with the composition "Croire" ("Believe"). The song immediately became popular in Europe and sold 600,000 copies.
Eurovision 1988: Lara Fabian - "Croire"
Musical career
Extremely successful for further career was Lara's decision to go to conquer another continent, or rather, Canada, in 1990. With Rick Ellison, who became the composer of her songs and her producer, she settled in Montreal, with which she fell in love at first sight. At the same time, her debut album "Lara Fabian" was released, which was financed by her father. 
Canada responded to the singer in return - the audience warmly welcomed the new and original artist. The singles "Qui pense a l'amour" and "Le jour ou tu partiras" instantly fell in love with the audience. The romantic repertoire began to attract more and more fans of the genre. In the same year, Lara was nominated for the Felix Award.
Fabian's debut album went platinum and then gold. In 1994, the album "Carpe diem" repeated the success of the first disc - with her concerts, Lara began to gather full houses, and her musical performance"Sentiments Acoustiques" covered 25 Canadian cities. Critics began to compare the owner of a soulful lyric soprano with Celine Dion. But, of course, very soon it became clear to everyone that Lara Fabian was the only one.
In a 1994 poll, Lara was voted Canada's most promising female performer. This was an exception to the rule - the poll was won by a singer of non-Canadian origin. At Gala de l "ADISQ-95, Lara Fabian received the nominations for "Best Concert" and "Best Performer of the Year".
Her third album "Pure" appeared in 1996 - and then it became obvious that Lara Fabian conquered not only Canada, but the whole world. After all, the song “Je T’aime” was recorded on this disc, which, in terms of piercing, is generally difficult to compare with anything. On the same disc was the composition "Si Tu M "aimes", which was included in the soundtrack for popular series"Clone".
Lara Fabian - Je T "aime
The third disc, like the first two, was produced by her beloved Rick Ellison, who was also the author of the music for the songs. Lara wrote most of the lyrics.
In 1996, Disney offered Lara the voice of Esmeralda in Le Bossu de Notre Dame. In the same year, Fabian received Canadian citizenship.
In 1997, the album "Pure" thundered in Europe. The first single from the disc sold 1.5 million copies, and a couple of months later the singer received her first European gold disc and "Felix" for "The most popular album of the year." 
Lara's fans were shocked by the composition "Requiem pour un fou", recorded in a duet with the star of the French scene, Johnny Hallyday. Fabian's music and manner of performance invariably went straight to the heart of even those who did not understand French at all. Lara gained fans of her work around the world and began working on her first English-language album, which was released in Europe and Canada in 1999. Particularly memorable on this disc is the composition "Adagio" - a vocal version of the famous melody.
Lara Fabian - Adagio
In early 2000, the singer began to appear on TV screens in France with enviable regularity. The girl took part in various programs, and her single "I Will Love Again" stormed the Billboard Club Play Chart. At the end of the world tour, Fabian received another Felix award as the best French-speaking singer. The record "Lara Fabian" ("Adagio") was considered a semi-failure in France, however, it sold 2 million copies worldwide.
In the following years, Fabian had to renounce comparisons with Celine Dion - in America they could not stop comparing her with the famous Canadian, although each of them was original and special. In 2001, Lara tried to Once again conquer America - her song "For Always" sounded in popular painting « Artificial intelligence» Steven Spielberg .
Lara Fabian
The tour in support of the new album "Nue" started at the end of 2001 in Brussels and lasted until March 2002. After the tour, Lara Fabian released a double CD with recordings of her concerts, as well as a DVD "Lara Fabian Live". The success of the new record strengthened Lara Fabian's hope to remain on the world pop scene. In mid-2004, she released her second English-language album, A Wonderful Life. The plate did not have great success, and Lara decided to continue to sing in French from now on.
In 2004, Fabian first came to Russia, where she gave two concerts at the Moscow International House of Music with the acoustic program "En Toute Intimite". Since that time, the artist began to come to Russia every year, because here she has formed a whole army of fans.
In 2005, the album "9" appeared. On the cover, Lara appeared in a fetal position, which symbolized the rebirth of a star. Then the singer left Canada, settled in Belgium, changed the composition of the group and asked Jean-Félix Lalanne to help create the album.
Two years later, the album "Toutes Les Femmes En Moi" ("The Women in Me") was released. With this record, Lara Fabian showed her admiration for singers from Quebec and France.
At the end of 2009 in Kiev, Lara Fabian took part in the filming of the musical film "Mademoiselle Zhivago", where she performed 11 songs to the tunes of Igor Krutoy, including a composition with a little use of the Russian language - "My Mom". According to the singer, her parents named her after the heroine of the novel by Boris Pasternak, so her participation in this project is especially symbolic. With Igor Krutoy, she also recorded a song from the repertoire of Alla Pugacheva - "Love, like a dream."
Lara Fabian - Love is like a dream
Later, the singer released several more albums in French - "Le Secret" (2014) and "Ma vie dans la tienne" (2015).
The artist's performances can be called minimalistic - Fabian has no backup dancers, she goes on stage in formal clothes with a minimum of makeup and jewelry. The audience is left with only amazing voice singers in 4.1 octaves - lyric soprano.
All songs of Lara Fabian are written in the best traditions french chanson(not to be confused with Russian chanson). She wrote her name in a row best singers peace. The singer's discography includes 12 albums, each of which has sold millions of copies around the world.Personal life of Lara Fabian
The personal life of the singer has always been closely connected with her work. her first big love became pianist Rick Ellison, whom she met when she was 20 years old. Their creative and loving union gave the world sincere and touching compositions. However, the ending of their relationship was disappointing, and the singer expressed her feelings about this in her still most famous song- "Je T'aime".Encyclopedic YouTube
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Lara Fabian was born on January 9, 1970 in Etterbeek, a suburb of Brussels. Her mother Louise is from Sicily, her father Pierre is Belgian. The first five years Lara lived in Sicily, and only in 1975 her parents settled in Belgium. Lara was 5 years old when her father noticed her vocal abilities. At the age of 8, her parents bought her her first piano, on which she composed her first melodies. At the same time, Fabian began to study at the Brussels Conservatory.
Lara started her career at the age of 14. Her father was a guitarist and performed with her in music clubs. In parallel, Lara continued music lessons at the conservatory. She entered competitions. For example, the "Tremplin de la chanson" competition in 1986, which she won. The main prize was the recording of the disc. In 1987, Lara recorded her first 45 "L'Aziza est en pleurs", a tribute to Daniel Balavoine, about whom she said: "Balawoine is an example to follow. A real man who lived without compromise, always making his choice based on his own ideas of honor and not looking back at the opinions of others. A man admired by an entire generation." "L'Aziza est en pleurs" is now a real rarity. In 2003, his copy was sold for 3,000 euros.
Lara's international career began in 1988 when she represented Luxembourg at the Eurovision Song Contest 88 with the song Croire ("Believe"), where she placed fourth. 45 "Croire" was sold in Europe in the amount of 600 thousand copies and translated into German (Glaub) and English (Trust) languages.
After the first European success, Lara recorded the second disc "Je sais".
Canada
The turning point in her career is without a doubt May 28, 1990, when Lara meets Rick Allison in Brussels. A few months later, they decide to try their luck in Quebec and leave for another continent.
Meanwhile, Pierre Crockaert, Lara's father, finances her first album, which was released in August 1991. The singles "Le jour ou tu partiras" and "Qui pense a l'amour" sold out instantly. She received a warm welcome at every concert and in 1991 she was nominated for Felix (the equivalent of Victoires de la Musique).
1994 was marked by the release of the second album "Carpe Diem" in Canada, which went gold two weeks after the release. Then Lara presented her performance "Sentiments acoustiques" in 25 cities of Canada. And later the song "Si tu m'aimes" from the same album was performed by Lara herself, only in Portuguese and became the soundtrack to the series "Clone".
In 1995, at the ADISQ awards (Canadian Recording Association), Lara Fabian received the award as "Best Performer of the Year" and " Best Performance". At this time, Lara Fabian begins to take an active part in charity events. For example, for many years Lara has been helping the association of children with heart disease. She also takes an active part in the Arc-en-Ciel (Rainbow) Association, whose goal is to fulfill the dreams of sick children.
"Pure" and the conquest of Europe
Nue
In the summer of 2001, Lara participated in the recording of two songs for American films. One of them is a duet with Josh Groban "For always", which is the title theme to Steven Spielberg's film "Artificial mind". The second is the animated film "Final Fantasy: Spirits Within".
On May 28, 2001, the album "Nue" was officially released in Montreal. In connection with the release of the album in Europe on September 5, Lara organized several meetings with fans at the Virgin Megastore in three cities in France - Marseille (from 12 to 13 hours), Lyon (from 16 to 17 hours) and Paris (from 21 to 22 hours). September 28, 2001 in Montreal on the stage of Molson Lara with many other artists participated in charity concert, the proceeds of which went to the needs of the victims of the terrorist attack on September 11 in the United States.
At the end of 2002, fans were able to see Lara Fabian again on stage in the acoustic performance "En toute intimité", which was released on CD and DVD on October 14, 2003. With this performance, Lara traveled around the cities of France, Switzerland and Belgium. On April 27 and 28, 2004 Lara also performed in Moscow, on the stage of the Moscow International House of Music. February 27 and 28, 2004 Lara performs at the Wilfrid-Pelletier with symphony orchestra Montreal. In 2004, Lara Fabian made her film debut in De-lovely, a musical drama about the life of composer Cole Porter.
On June 1, 2004, a new English-language album "A Wonderful Life" is released. November 18-20 Lara participates in the play Autour de la guitare and in last night she sings "J'ai mal a ca", written by J.-F. Lalanne (Jean-Felix Lalanne).
"9"
February 25, 2005 released new album Lara Fabian called "9" with the first single "La Lettre" written by JF Lalanne.
From September 2005 to June 2006 Lara toured France. Her show "Un Regard 9" was a huge success. Soon CDs with recordings of the show and a DVD with a video version of the concert were released.
In June 2007, in a message to fans on her official website, Lara announces that she is pregnant. “This is the most wonderful news I could give you,” she writes. Indeed, the singer repeatedly said in an interview that she would not feel completely happy if she did not become a mother. But, despite the pregnancy, Lara took part in various concerts and TV shows until the birth of her daughter.
On November 20, 2007, baby Lou was born, named after her mother Lara Louise. The girl's father is the famous French director Gerard Pullicino.
The next few months for Lara were connected with family concerns. But already in the spring of 2008, she is ready to give a few big concerts Worldwide. Lara Fabian's mini-tour began in Greece, where she performed with Marios Frangoulis (famous Greek singer), continued in Russia, where Lara traditionally visits every spring, and ended in Ukraine, which the singer visited for the first time. The concert took place in the Kiev Palace Ukraine, gathered a full hall and received a very warm welcome from the Kyiv public.
"All the women in me"
In the summer of 2008, Lara begins to prepare a new album. She decides to dedicate it to the women who influenced her life and work. The release date was set for October, but has been pushed back several times. As a result, the long-awaited "TLFM" ("Toutes les femmes en moi" or "All the women in me") saw the world only in May 2009. Sunny and light, it has become a good gift for music lovers on the eve of summer.
Later - in October 2009 - the album "Every Woman in Me" was released, for which Lara performed songs of her favorite English-speaking singers. She recorded this album exclusively with piano accompaniment.
In autumn 2010 "Toutes les femmes en moi" was released in Canada. The disc included a version of the song "Nuit magique", which Lara performed with Canadian singer Coral Egan.
The release of the albums was accompanied by a tour of the cities of Western and of Eastern Europe. Including Lara visited Moscow, St. Petersburg, Kyiv and Odessa.
Speaking in Moscow, the singer presented not only a new album, but also a new duet. Together with Lara, the famous Russian composer Igor Krutoy performed on stage. They performed two songs: "Lou" (which Lara dedicated to her daughter) and "Demain n'existe pas" (translated as "Tomorrow does not exist").
The show "TLFM font leur show" was later released on DVD.
"Mademoiselle Zhivago"
After Lara presented her new tandem to the Moscow public - with Russian composer Igor Krutoy, their collaboration began to develop and resulted in a whole album, the music for which was written by Igor Krutoy, and the words - traditionally - Lara herself. It includes songs in 4 languages - English, French, Italian and Spanish. And besides, Lara recorded a song in Russian for the first time - she performed "Love, like a dream" from the repertoire
April 15, 2013 Lara Fabian released a new album called "Le Secret" ("Secret"), it consists of 2 discs and includes 17 songs, including the songs "Mirage" and "Le secret", which were previously performed by Lara Fabian at her acoustic concerts. At the end of February 2013, the first single from the new album was released - "Deux ils, deux elles" ("Two of them, two of them"), and on April 4 - a video for this song, in which the singer's fans took part. Also on the day of the release of the album, Lara held a small presentation concert at the Théâtre de Paris, where songs from The Secret were performed. The world tour in support of the album should start in September 2013 and will include, according to various sources, from 60 to 80 concerts in Belgium, France, Switzerland, the USA (a concert at the famous New York Carnegie Hall) and Russia (Moscow, the Kremlin; Kaliningrad ) and Belarus (Minsk) and Latvia (
In the 90s, Lara had an affair with an American producer of Russian origin, Walter Afanasiev, with whom they subsequently worked together on most of the compositions for Lara's first English-language album, including the song Broken Vow, the music for which they wrote together, and the text for which was created by Fabian. Their relationship lasted about a year and a half, but ended in parting.
In the late 1990s, Lara met with a famous singer - Patrick Fiori, but their relationship did not last long. In 2000, the couple announced their separation.
In 2003 during the recording of the show Autour de la guitare Lara met the composer and guitarist Jean-Felix Lallant. Their romance lasted three years.
In 2005, during the tour, Lara begins a collaboration with the French television director Gerard Pullicino, with whom they worked on recording her first video in 1988. Gerard Pullicino shoots Lara's show Un Regard 9 and becomes the author of several clips for her album 9 . During the tour, it officially becomes known about the relationship with Gerard. In 2007, on her website, Fabian tells her fans that she is pregnant. This long-awaited event - the birth of a daughter - took place on November 20, 2007. The daughter was named Lou in honor of the singer's mother, Louise. However, the family life of Lara Fabian and Gerard Pullicino did not last long. "After 7 years of happy life together", on November 15, 2012, the singer announced on her official profile in social network Facebook about breaking up with Gerard "by mutual agreement." As with Jean-Félix Lalland, Lara maintained excellent friendships with the father of her only child.
On June 28, 2013, on her official Facebook profile, Lara announced that she had married the Sicilian illusionist Gabriel Di Giorgio. At the moment, Lara lives in her house in the suburbs of Brussels, in Waterloo, with her husband and daughter. In 2013, they got a dog, Scylla (the Italian version of the nickname is Scilla).
Voice
Critics call Lara Fabian's voice "angelic" and classify it as a lyric soprano. Skillfully uses high notes of pop register.
Lara Fabian is a French-speaking singer. Lara's voice is classified as a lyric soprano, and critics call it reference and "angelic". Lara Fabian is universally recognized as the pop-vocal etiquette of Europe. The singer maintains popularity in the European space and performs compositions in French, Italian, Spanish, English and even Russian.
Lara is popular in Russia, the singer regularly comes to Moscow and other cities during her tours in support of new albums, and Russian-speaking fans, diligently distorting, sing along to Lara "Zhetem" ("Je T'aime"), "Malade" ("Je Suis Malade") and "Adagio" ("Adagio").
Lara Fabian (Crocker) was born in Belgium, in the Brussels suburb of Etterbeek. But for the first 5 years, the girl lived in Sicily, the homeland of her mother Louise Fabian, where the family moved almost immediately after her birth. Lara's father, Pierre Crocker, was the first person who noticed the child's musical inclinations and love for singing, because he himself was a guitarist. At the age of 8, Lara became a student of the music school at the conservatory, and also dance studio. Later she becomes a student at the Royal Academy of Music in Brussels.
The first professional performances began for the young singer at the age of 14, when she began to enter the stage of restaurants and nightclubs with her father. In parallel, the girl participates in all kinds of music competitions and in 1986 he won in one of them - in the "Springboard", the main prize of which is the recording of a song in a professional studio. After 2 years, the singer participates in the Eurovision show, representing Luxembourg there. She performed the song "Croire" and placed 4th.
The defining event for Lara Fabian's successful career is her acquaintance with aspiring producer Rick Ellison, who was fascinated by the singer's voice and offers her his services to record the first full-length disc. Finding no response from the Belgian record companies, Rick and Lara go to the French-speaking part of Canada, organize their own production company and release their first album in 1991.
Music
In 1987, the single "L'Aziza est en pleurs" was released, which Lara Fabian dedicates to the tragically deceased beloved performer Daniel Balavoine. On reverse side The record contained the song "Il y avait".
There were other singles - "Croire", "Je sais", "L'amour voyage", which had some popularity, but the real triumph awaited the singer after the release of the first album "Lara Fabian". The record almost immediately becomes gold, a little later - platinum.
The second album "Carpe Diem", released in 1994, repeats the success of the debut disc. One of the songs from this album, "Si tu m'aimes", sung in Portuguese, becomes the soundtrack to the popular Brazilian TV series Clone. Later, another composition by Lara called "Meu Grande Amor" became the main theme of the same series.
At the same time, Lara Fabian opens up from a new side and offers the public her own musical performance "Sentiments acoustiques". Due to the success of this show and the popularity of two albums, the singer received the Canadian Recording Association ADISQ awards as best performer of the year.
The third album "Pure", released in 1996, was even more successful. In one week, the record went platinum and brought Lara Fabian the Album of the Year award in Canada and the Golden Disc award in Europe. Then she signed a contract with Sony Music to record English-language albums.
At the end of 1998, Fabian went on tour on a world tour, and in February 1999 he released the album "Live" with concert recordings. The triumph of this disc was so overwhelming that it moved even the musical “Notre-Dame de Paris”, which thundered around the world, from the first lines of the charts.
In October 1999, the first English-language album "Lara Fabian" was released. In preparing the disc, Lara Fabian and Rick Ellison recorded over 40 songs. Only 13 of them got into the official part of the disc, but in many countries the disc was released with bonus tracks, so the composition of the album often differs.
The singer welcomed the new millennium with the album "Nue" and the acoustic performance "En toute intimité", which was also distributed on DVD. After 3 years, the second English-language album "A Wonderful Life" was released. This was followed by a series of new works on different languages, including in Russia in a duet with the composer. Lara performed on the stage of the State Kremlin Palace and the Olympic Sports Complex.
During this period, Lara recorded the first original Russian-language song, called "Love of Tired Swans." The authors of the song were the poet and composer Igor Krutoy. In the new track, the singer expressed intercom with Russia. According to Lara, her parents gave their daughter a name in honor of the heroine of the novel Doctor Zhivago.
This element of the singer's biography is also reflected in the title of Fabian's new disc. The album "Mademoiselle Zhivago" included songs in English, French, Italian and Spanish, as well as a bonus track in Russian "Love is like a dream" from the repertoire. In 2012, Lara Fabian visited the eastern part of Russia for the first time and gave concerts beyond the Urals. The singer performed in Novosibirsk, Omsk, Krasnoyarsk and other cities. Tickets for scheduled concerts are now on sale. ahead of time under pressure from fans.
The tenth studio album added to the discography of Lara Fabian in 2013 and was released under the name "Le secret".
Lara Fabian's latest album to date was released in 2015 and was called Ma vie dans la tienne. Like all previous works, this disc was enthusiastically received by fans and the press.
In the same year, the singer took part in the 65th festival Italian song Sanremo. At the festival, Lara performed the song "Voce", which means "Voice".
Personal life
Lara Fabian's first serious romantic relationship was with producer Rick Ellison. Living together lasted for 6 years, then the young people ended the relationship, but continued to work in a creative tandem until 2004.
After parting with Rick, the singer had several long and fleeting romances, for example, she lived with a producer for 1.5 years, with whom she later worked on her first English-language album and on the song "Broken Vow", met with singer Patrick Fiori for some time. Fabian's affair with guitarist Jean-Felix Lallan lasted about 3 years.
Journalists constantly attributed to Lara Fabian an affair with a singer who was 13 years younger than Lara. Fabian and Lemarchal denied these rumors. They harmoniously looked on the stage and were congenial people and old friends, but they were not romantically connected. However, Gregory was close to the singer. Lara was very worried after the death of a young man in 2007.
walks beautiful legend that at the first concert after the death of a friend, Fabian could not sing the famous and beloved by the fans "Je t" aime, because of the surging emotions, then the whole audience sang in support of Lara, changing the words in the song so that at the right moments instead of "I I love" it turned out "We love you".
From 2005 to 2012, she was in a civil marriage with the French television director Gerard Pullicino, who shot her first music video for the singer. From this relationship, a daughter, Lou, was born in 2007. While this is the only child of the singer. Lara and Gerard broke up by mutual agreement, former spouses support warm relationship.
After parting with Pullicino, Lara soon meets the Italian illusionist Gabriel Di Giorgio. In the summer of 2013, they became spouses. The singer officially announced this on her Facebook profile.
In 2014, a scandal erupted during the Russian tour of the singer. Di Giorgio spoke rudely with Lara, so a fan stood up for his favorite artist. The young man who worked in the PR service provoked a fight and as a result broke the singer's husband's arm, according to the French newspaper Le Figaro.
Lara Fabian now
Now Lara Fabian lives with her daughter and husband in the suburbs of Brussels - Waterloo.
In the summer of 2016, Lara Fabian came to Moscow with solo concert. In the fall of 2016, the singer returned to Russia again and performed in Sochi, Moscow and St. Petersburg.
Discography
- 1991 - Lara Fabian
- 1994 - Carpe Diem
- 1996 - Pure
- 1999 - Lara Fabian
- 2001 - Nue
- 2004 - A Wonderful Life
- 2009 - Every Woman in Me
- 2009 - Toutes les femmes en moi
- 2010 - Mademoiselle Zhivago
- 2013 - Le secret
- 2015 - Ma vie dans la tienne
