La Semaine Scans

[ocelot]

Lara is in the Magazine La Semaine this week. I've scanned the magazine and here are the 6 pages (Sorry if they're not the best quality). I really like a couple of the photos.

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[restck1989]

Thank you very much

[ocelot]

I've added the 7 Jours scans to the links above and I'm currently working on the translation of the La Semaine article.

[restck1989]

You are an angel!!!The 7 jours photo-shoot is amaziiiing!

[ocelot]

La Semaine Part 1:

LS: You left Quebec in 2004. Have you found that difficult?
LF: Yes, I’ve lived my departure as a great sorrow. As a matter of fact, I have lived it as a true sorrow of love.
LS: Why?
LF: Because it’s here that I feel the best. I’ve done it for several reasons that I prefer to keep for me. This has been, between others, for coming closer to my family. At the moment of leaving the country, I needed the comfort and I needed the feeling of being surrounded by my friends and family. I knew that these people would be there for me and they would never abandon me.
LS: in 2006, you met before the court concerning a squabble between you and your ex-lover and ex-collaborator Rick Allison. What is retained of your relationship with him?
LF: What stays with me of this relation, this has not our conflict. I remember rather of that there has been beauty between us. Without our encounter, I would never passed by these successes, these joys, these accomplishments. Rick Allison has been, in my past, the most beautiful part of my life...
LS: Have you kept the connections with him?
LF: Nothing is destroyed, but there is no longer the connection between him and me
LS: Have you also been reached by a tumour of the liver?
LF: Yes, one diagnosed me with it in 2004 and fortunately, all goes well today. I am not very comfortable talking about the subject. The importance is that I have come out of it. I always said that this is not the sickness that was leaving in the ground. The positive thought has anyways given me a large hand in my healing. Today, I believe a lot in the strength of thought.
LS: You are here since some days and you believe still that Quebec is the place where you feel the best in the world...
LF: Yes, without any doubt, and I say not that for amazing the people. It’s this that brings out again the heart of me. I adore the light that there is here and the simplicity of the people. I don’t speak of simplicity as a lacking of deepness... I have of friendships here which has lasted 20 years, of people with who I have very long conversations.
LS: Have you sold your Quebec Residence?
LF: Yes, Selling my house and putting all in a truck has been one of the most difficult things I’ve done in my life
LS: Do you come often to Quebec?
LF: At least once a year. Sometimes, I come alone to pass 3 days. I don’t mind going for a walk in Montreal. Same thing in Brussels. To the contrary, in Paris, I don’t allow myself. Here and in Brussels, one adheres well to the maximum “to live and live freely”
LS: Do you believe that you will return one day to live in Quebec?
LF: I know that I will return. I will be maybe older, my daughter will have maybe finished her studies, but I know that it’s here I need to be... One has all the roots which we attach without knowing why. Me, I feel that it’s in Quebec. You know, Quebec, this is not the earth of my birth, of my culture, of my language, of my writers, of my music. And yet, I esteem to be born here, I’m to be discovered here. I arrived here when I was only 19 years old.
LS: You live in Brussels today?
LF: Yes, a little outside of Brussels
LS: Describe your environment...
LF: I live in a house in the country with a garden scattered with old trees. I still have no animals, but that would be known later. My daughter will surely be asking for them soon.
LS: Talking of your daughter, Lou, Who is almost 3 years old, how do you live your role as a mother?
LF: This is not always evident. As all the mothers who have full lives, I need to make compromises between the mother that I need to be and the woman, and the artist that I am
LS: And how you succeed in taking on both roles?
LF: I secure in being popular of my family, which occupies of my daughter when I’m not there and who he allows to have a stable and serene environment. It’s all a blessing of having a mother that takes also well care of her daughter.
LS: Do you wish to have more children?
LF: I still don’t know. Certain thing, I will not be the woman that I am today if I did not have my daughter
LS: Your pregnancy is well uncoiled?
LF: Absolutely, I have a child in good health, and I only have taken 9.5 kg during my pregnancy. More, I was being accompanied by my husband, who would wish the same thing as me.
LS: You have known of great passion lovers in your life; what you have learned of men?
LF: They have taken me to exceed my limits and to understand how the other wants to be loved.
LS: did you know immediately that Gerald Pullicino was the man of your life?
LF: I don’t always know it...It’s my companion. I hope that one can do a long road together in the mutual understanding, with all that the life we will bring and the communication that is necessary for untie or tie up again the connections.

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Part 2:

LS: Talk about your album. Why have you chosen to do an album of covers?
LF: The idea came to me after a discussion that i have been with my better friend. We asked each other how to do for becoming that one is it. In reflecting it, I have observed to which point there has of great women in the middle cinematography, literal, and music who have influenced my existence. Of there, came to me the idea of doing a disc pour giving them tribute.
LS: How did you chose the songs:
LF: I was including as a fan. By contrary, the singers are not chosen by mistake. Each woman has her reason to be on the album. I have chosen the women who are the same shared point, the women who are the absolute willpower of never living in the understanding, the women totally true...
LS: You have taken even the time to write a letter to each of the 12 women for thanking them, isn’t it so?
LF: It’s accurate. Even if this was not the idea of leaving, we have decided to uncover these letters to the public since they figure in the writing of the album.
LS: You have written a letter to Celine Dion...
LF: of course, I invite besides the people to do the reading
LS: Which are your connections with her
LF: I crossed it to some reprises, but we don’t know each other personally
LS: Which woman was the biggest influence on your life?
LF: My mother. She helped me a lot to stop feeling guilty, by example, in my role as a mother. She has always understood me that she will be the best mother that she can be. God knows that she has been the best mother that I would be able to have.
LS: Does she inspire you in your role as a mother?
LF: Absolutely, but the bar is very high.
LS: in what you resemble the most?
LF: We are both generous and courageous. But I have not the feeling of the intrinsic lightness that she does that one arrives sometimes makes certain situations less dramatic. I still need a lot of work on top there and try to calm me down by rapport in certain situations
LS: Tell us of your daughter, Lou; she looks like you?
LF: I don’t find, despite the fact that my mother says yes
(Lara shows me photos on her telephone... Her daughter is absolutely adorable. She has the big eyes of her mother, but a blue for dreaming... With her hair blonde curls, she resembles a little of the comedian in the film Annie and the young Shirley Temple)
LS: She already sings a little?
LF: She is extremely attracted by the music. Both her parents are musicians. My husband is a director, I sing, then the apple cannot be falling far from the tree. But that my daughter grows or not follows in my footsteps, the decision belongs to her... Never will i impose on her to do music. I will put her at the piano only if she asks to play it.
LS: You have anxiety?
LF: I am a woman who doubts a lot, and this, in all aspects of my life
LS: Have you found it difficult to be 40 years old?
LF: no, It’s good one has only things in which I live either doubt, or nervous, or mysterious. I accept growing old. I pay attention that I eat and I sleep, and I drink a lot of water
LS: Do you think of the aesthetic surgery or botox?
LF: I don’t say no. If I wake up one day and I resemble a old crumpled paper, the idea will pass me maybe in my head. For the moment, I try to age positively.
LS: Who have been the most outstanding encounters that you have run in your career?
LF: I will never forget meeting with Barbara Streisand, Johnny Hallyday and Michael Jackson. I met Michael Jackson in 2001 in framework of the concert de Noel Miracle on 42nd Street. I remember, I sang Adagio of Albinoni. He took me in his arms and told me “You sing like an angel”.

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Thanks Ocelot for sharing the beautiful photos of Lara and the great interview!

I was surprised to hear that she sold her property in Quebec, because I remember after she sold her home, I was told that she and Gerard purchased an expensive condo in an exclusive part of Montreal?! But, I can understand that with her daughter, Brussels is now the best place to be with her family.

I truly hope that she does return to Quebec to stay some day and hopefully we'll hear about a concert in the near future!

[ocelot]

Part 1 of the 7 Jours interview:

7 Jours - 2010-10-03
Lara, why does this disc arrive at this period of your life?

I think that when one turns towards the past, one finds more marks for doing a disc in a denser way. One cannot record a tribute album when one is 20 or 30 years old. This has been the moment for me to realise this disc before passing to the next stage. I would do a type of reverence. This would be a way of saying thanks, in all simplicity.

Is it the making of becoming a mother who you have given craving of returning tribute to these woman?

Maybe. It’s a coincidence in which there is also the point to land, of becoming a mother... I have never done an album of covers. This has been the first time in my life that I would fill up 12 tracks by songs which do not belong to me. But I have craved of completely rerouting and of proposing a vision, a personal look at this repertoire.

Have you written the song “Toutes les Femmes en Moi” as easily as choosing the other songs?

Yes. It’s a type of ode to women. But the idea of this disc this has been of interpreting or the putting down as they existent. This has been inventing it in a universe which has been this in which I have had the craving to develop.

In all the songs, your voice is always the same. On would say that she has not aged...

And yet, I want you to say that she aged. The voice is an instrument, and I don’t leave it in its box. I take it out every day and I work it.

Among the women in your life, there is your mother, which you thank in the disc. Which place does she occupy today?

When one becomes a mother myself, one has still more respect and understanding for this that our mother to us has been able to be, for her protection and all this that she has recommended during the course of a life. Becoming a mother, that truly changes expression that one carries on her own mother. Mine is always there in the day-to-day basis, that one is to say for me or for my enfant. She is truly the pillar of my existence. She is important to me.

What has she taught you the most?

The sense of truth and the lightness in the life. To learn to be filled with enthusiasm by the things, never leaving the childhood and to always be accompanied by a certain sense of relativity, which allows sometimes to tackle a problem with an expression a lot less cutting. And then, the truth is for her vital. She does not think that there is not a single truth, in the contrary. But she stays in the respect of her values, of which one has it, of this that one believes and, above all, of not betraying oneself.

Have you succeeded in respect to these values?

I try as much as possible.

The other important woman, it’s your daughter Lou. What has motherhood changed in you?

I think that all women who have had a child will tell you the same thing: that soothes completely the sense of being useless in a life. One no longer runs after her tail because on has not the time and one puts back the priorities in the right places. Personally, that has return to me very fortunately. It’s true the most beautiful thing which that is to say arrived with me. The making of knowledge that one is not only to be made. One is a true family, with the grandparents and a stable person beside me. I don’t make the part of these women who, late in life, has made a child only because they have had fear of aging. I have truly made it in a serene place and very loving.

Today, she is 3 years old. Has she the same passion for music that her parents have?

It’s my daughter. The apple never falls very far from the tree... She sings, but she does only not only that. It’s surprising enough, her soundness, her musical memory. It’s also a child living by the aspect alone and light, who some of my mother. They resemble besides a lot of character. There is therefore 3 generations of girls who take this joy of graceful living of the music. It’s fantastic.

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Part 2

At the present, you know great success in Russia and in all of Eastern Europe. How did this happen?

It started by a totally small lounge, there are some years. And this small lounge of 1800 people, one made today of immense lounges of one after the other, to packed houses. It’s truly surprising. I am not genuinely sure how it has arrived, I would be simply there with a piano and my voice. Then , I have fallen in love with their sense of the music. They are great music lovers, they are very ready to listen. I love their soul a little sad, nostalgic. They love the passions and the theatre aspect of the music, and I am like that as well. I am attached to them and they are attached to me.

Are they so different?

They are very ready to listen, a little as the people of Quebec. The French are more Latin, more in the approach of accompanying you in the singing, of shouting with you. The people of Quebec are more ready to listen and the Russians still more.

You work besides on a new album that will be called “Mademoiselle Jivago”. Is this tied to this new audience?

Mademoiselle Jivago is an idea that I have had. It’s a little tied, for I have met a Russian composer with which I have created this album, uniquely composed original songs. My name was issued of the love that my mother has carried for this film; I have therefore had a craving to create a character who calls herself Mademoiselle Jivago. The disc would be released in a month in Russia. They have been very strict on the point that, as it would have been imagined and conceived over there, they would want that that type would arrive on this market.

The music of this disc is principally philharmonic. Why?

I have always made concerts with philharmonic orchestras. I remember having sung very young with the Symphonic Orchestra of Trois Rivieres (city in Quebec). This music has always been near to me. But it’s a disc which walks between the harmonic past of Russian music and the present pop music. More that an album, it’s by the way of a musical film. There is not any dialogue; all is expressed by the music and the images. It tells the karma transcendence of a soul who walks in 12 different lives, illustrates by 12 songs. It’s a true film in which I play.

Have you a craving to become an actress?

One is an actress when one interprets the songs. One hands down necessarily emotions. Then, that depends on the tense of this that one interprets. But when one has the sense a little vast in the lyricism and of the passion as I am able to have, one is always in the dimension of interpreting a character. In Mademoiselle Jivago, this has 12 different women, 12 lives, 12 stories, but it’s always the same woman, the same soul who walks in the body of another, of a life to the other. There are therefore the physical transformations where I am truly unrecognizable.

There in less than 5 years that one has not seen you in Quebec. That it has passed during the course of all this time?

The time passes fast. I have had a little girl, I have the album “Toutes les Femmes en Moi”, I have conceived the album and the film “Mademoiselle Jivago”, I have a lot work in Eastern Europe.

What does Quebec represent for you today?

It’s the lack of the most unbelievable that I have in my life. Quebec, it’s my root, it’s who I am. It’s very I stay very modest, for the people often reroute my connection. Quebec, it’s my home, it’s the place where has seen me born and who has raised me musically, it’s the place where I am the happiest. Where I go in my life, which that is to say the period of my life, when I put my feet here, I breathe, I am at home. Except that my life has presented another way. The people that I love, which I issued and towards which I continue to go has not of here. I cannot say to a person who has a life elsewhere, to a child who has been raised elsewhere, from grandparents who are not from here. “One will go all to live in Quebec.” I live a true break inside of me and I am obliged to live with. But I return often, from what I can.

Has your daughter come already?

Yes. From that she was born, I have told her that the first trip that she would make, this would be in Quebec. It’s here that she has the best trip.

Last January, you have reached a milestone of forty. Was being this a difficult way?

Having 40 years or drink a glass of milk, this has been similar for me. I have wailed a little, as everyone. This has taken 2 seconds and then I have laughed with the 70 people that my husband has had combined in a magnificent inn. But in my head, I am not so aged there. I am always accompanied by this little girl that my mother has taken is to say protected. The age is truly in the head and in the manner whose one takes in to say her body.

Justly, you are always beautiful as well. What is your secret?

The food and the sleep. No alcohol, no drugs, no cigarettes, a little sports but not too much. The principle is to surround yourself with happy people, who we do of the good and who are happy to be present. The secret is to have a peaceful and serene life with not too many objectives, to obliged to do things who return happy, not live in compromising it. For example, coming to Quebec for doing the promotion of this new album, a year after its release in France, this has not been an obligation. But as it’s a country that I love, I have had the craving of coming, because it’s a real pleasure.