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Lara Fabian

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Lara Sophie Katy Crokaert (born January 9, 1970), better known as Lara Fabian, is a Belgian-Canadian pop singer and songwriter. She has sold over 20 million records worldwide as of 2021 and is one of the best-selling Belgian artists of all time.

She was born in Etterbeek, Brussels, to a Belgian father and a Sicilian mother. She lived the first part of her childhood in Sicily, Catania, speaking Italian as her first language. She moved to Quebec in 1991 and since 1995, she has held Canadian citizenship alongside her Belgian one. In 2003, she returned to Brussels to be close to her parents in Belgium and in 2015 lived in Walloon Brabant province in Belgium just outside Brussels. In 2017, she returned permanently to Montreal, Quebec, to be with her family.

Fabian is the only child of Pierre Crokaert, who is Flemish, and Maria Luisa Serio, a Sicilian. Fabian's parents recognized her talent early on and enrolled her in the Royal Conservatory of Brussels when she was eight years old; she studied there for 10 years.

During the 1980s, Fabian entered a number of European competitions and won several prizes. She released her first single, "L'Aziza est en pleurs" / "Il y avait" in 1986.

In 1988, the RTL TV channel in Luxembourg invited Fabian to represent the country at the 33rd Eurovision Song Contest, held that year in Dublin, Ireland. The song was a composition by Jacques Cardona and Alain Garcia entitled Croire (Belief) which reached a respectable fourth place (while Celine Dion won the contest representing Switzerland). The single became a hit in Europe, selling nearly 500,000 copies.

In 1990, Fabian and musical collaborator Rick Allison moved to Montreal, Quebec, Canada to embark on a career in North America. They started their own music label and publishing company, Productions Clandestines.

In August 1991, her self-titled French-language debut album, Lara Fabian, was released in Canada and sold over 100,000 copies. The album went gold in 1993, and platinum the following year. The success of upbeat dance-pop singles such as "Le jour où tu partira", "Les murs", and "Qui pense à l'amour" gave Fabian radio exposure. She received several nominations at the 1993 ADISQ awards, and a poll published around that time voted her Québec's most promising singer.

Constant touring in Québec helped Fabian's 1994 album Carpe diem become her breakthrough album. The album went Gold three weeks after its release, and spawned three hit singles: "Tu t'en vas", "Si tu m'aimes", and "Leïla". The following year, the album went triple platinum.

Fabian received two Félix awards at the 1995 ADISQ gala: Best Show Of The Year and Best Female Singer Of The Year (a category that is voted for by the public).

In 1996, Walt Disney Studios hired Fabian as the voice of the character of Esmeralda in the Canadian French version of the animated feature The Hunchback of Notre Dame. Disney also included "Que Dieu aide les exclus", Fabian's French version of the song "God Help The Outcasts", on the film's English soundtrack album alongside Bette Midler's version.

Since 1996 Lara Fabian has also held Canadian citizenship alongside her original Belgian passport. ...

Source: Article "Lara Fabian" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

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Lara Fabian, de son vrai nom Lara Sophie Katy Crokaert, née le 9 janvier 1970 dans la commune bruxelloise d'Etterbeek en Belgique, est une chanteuse également auteure-compositrice5 belgo-canadienne.

Chantant en plusieurs langues — français, anglais, allemand, sicilien, italien, napolitain, portugais, espagnol, grec, russe, latin, hébreu, turc, azerbaïdjanais,et Mandarin — elle a sorti une quinzaine d'albums studio et s'est fait connaître au niveau international.

Après avoir été coach au sein de l'émission québécoise La Voix en 2018 et 2019, elle le devient en 2020 pour la version française de l'émission, The Voice: La Plus Belle Voix.

Lara Fabian est l'enfant unique de Pierre Crokaert, un belge, et de Maria Luisa Serio, une sicilienne. Le prénom «Lara» vient du personnage principal féminin du Docteur Jivago: c’est un prénom qui se prononce de la même façon dans toutes les langues et avec tous les accents, à l’inverse de «Laura» qui était le prénom que sa mère voulait initialement lui donner. Laura se prononce /ˈlau̯.ra/ en italien, mais /lo.ʁa/ en français.

Son nom de scène est inspiré par un oncle appelé Fabiano.

Née en Belgique, elle passe ses cinq premières années à Catane, au pied de l'Etna, puis revient dans la périphérie de Bruxelles, à Ruisbroek. C’est également à l’âge de cinq ans qu’elle commence à s’intéresser à la musique et à la chanson en écoutant Ève Brenner à la radio. Ses parents décident alors vers l’âge de 6 ans de l’inscrire à des cours de chant, plus tard, de solfège, de piano et de théâtre. Elle commence son éducation musicale au Conservatoire royal de Bruxelles en 1978. Elle y étudie le chant lyrique pendant dix ans, tout en commençant à écrire des chansons. À cette époque, ses artistes fétiches sont Barbra Streisand et Freddie Mercury. Auparavant, elle s'est présentée à l'âge de huit ans aux tests d’entrée au conservatoire de danse mais le verdict – «Elle est vraiment trop grosse, a les pieds plats et de grosses cuisses» – brise son rêve d'enfance d'être ballerine, ce qui engendrera ses difficultés à accepter l'image de son corps. Elle commence à chanter dans les clubs et piano-bars de Bruxelles et de la région dès l'âge de quatorze ans, accompagnée à la guitare par son père qui fut guitariste et choriste pour Petula Clark avant de se reconvertir technicien chauffagiste. ...

Source: Article "Lara Fabian" de Wikipédia en français, soumis à la licence CC-BY-SA 3.0.

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