Post by davidhr on Apr 9, 2019 8:01:28 GMT -5
The lead story this week has to be the aftermath of Lara’s mother’s passing. Lara left the following picture on her FB site,
with the (translated) caption:
“For all your messages,
Your support,
Your Love,
Your strong "presence",
My Dad and I thank you from the deepest of our heart...
Mom is in peace, freed from this coat of suffering.
Our life forever linked to her…
As implied by the above, and as expected, Lara went to Belgium for the funeral proceedings, and then returned to Montreal, where she has obligations for La Voix. The Lara Fabian web FB site posted the following picture
www.facebook.com/larafabianweb/photos/a.247913198557556/2739536096061908/?type=3&theater
with the caption, “Return to Montreal for Lara”; the Lara Fabian est ton autre site posted the following short video
www.facebook.com/larafabiantonautre/videos/787470221635214/
of Lara in a plane singing “Pas sans toi”. Very appropriate…For all its sadness and finality, this is one ‘sword of Damocles’ that is no longer hanging over Lara’s head, one that she knew would drop sooner rather than later. A sword we all have, one way or another…
If that was the ‘low-light’, the absolute highlight of the week also involved the same song. Lara was on the show “On est tout debout”; the description reads, “whole moment of emotion! The tears sank in the studio! Don't miss our musical fantasy of this week with Lara Fabian and Julie St-Pierre, presented by Boutique Séduction!!” Their duet singing “Pas sans toi” can be seen at:
www.facebook.com/Onesttousdebout/videos/2413977151970251/
and it is absolutely fantastic. A perfect way to change the mood, even if the words are the same.
Julie St. Pierre put the following pictures on her FB site,
www.facebook.com/JulieStPierreOfficiel/photos/pcb.2533982403282522/2533981483282614/?type=3&theater
and
www.facebook.com/JulieStPierreOfficiel/photos/pcb.2533982403282522/2533981576615938/?type=3&theater
while writing the following, in advertising the show:
--------------------------------------------------------------
“Julie St-Pierre- on the left picture [top], I'm 16 years old, it was a short time after Mixmania, in November 2002. She, she's almost the age I have right now. It is, in my memory, my first photo with Lara Fabian, my idol.
And tomorrow morning at 8 PM, I will sing “Pas sans toi” with her at 107.3 red. Lara, it's a meeting where little has been done, a magical synchronicity that still to this day I don't explain and which proves to me that there are grander things than us and that life organizes us beautiful surprises despite everything.
This moment has already taken place, it was pre-recorded two weeks ago, before the departure of her mom Luisa.
I hope you will be listening, that you will love and you will be as much affected as the little Julie in me.
----------------------------------------------------------
In another, life-affirming occurrence, this morning Lara posted the link to a video on her FB site,
www.facebook.com/larafabianofficial/videos/276499376563306/
“I am happy to show you l’Hymne de l’AICOM, the school of which I am Godmother.
This anthem is composed by Isabelle Aboulker, on lyrics by Marie Klaus.
This first piano-voice version is played by David Dumont with the choirs of the AICOM.
Led by my coach Pierre Yves Duchesne and recorded at the high-End Studio....
The AICOM will celebrate next September its 15th birthday.... already.... love.
Lara appears briefly looking on, at the ~1:15 mark. Truly beautiful music, singing, and dancing.
In album promotion news, Lara was interviewed on Radio France, available at
www.francetvinfo.fr/replay-radio/le-monde-d-elodie/lara-fabian-j-avais-peur-qu-on-me-juge-parce-que-je-n-etais-pas-assez-forte_3242527.html?fbclid=IwAR3c33rZI-J3iLoaBPMnpa7LyVFVL3zuiiKaTEGktHpIk6w2CSE4_hUKd8Y
Here’s the translation of the accompanying article:
------------------------------------------
Lara Fabian: "I was afraid of being judged because I was not strong enough"
Every day, a personality invites herself into the world of Elodie Suigo and confides. Today, Belgian-Canadian singer Lara Fabian.
Lara Fabian's latest album, Papillon, was released on February 8th. An album in which the artist lets go. "I wrote this album from a space where I was really in gratitude, it's a space of freedom, an opportunity to be me," she told the microphone of franceinfo.
At only 5 years old, the young Lara Fabian already knows that she will be an artist, an adult. And she will be pushed, accompanied in her vocation by her father, guitarist and backing vocalist for Petula Clark: "He gave me his strength, his benevolence, his advice, but sometimes also in the most difficult situations, he set himself in opposition to me to make me exceed my limits.” Limits, barriers due to insecurity. "I was refused at the conservatoire of dance in a very violent way: 'Take off this one, fat with flat feet, who will be able to lift this thing?' It does not help."
My feeling of insecurity is like a transgenerational injury that my parents passed me almost unconsciously - Lara Fabian
Lara Fabian faces her weaknesses
In this album, the singer seems to have finally accepted her weaknesses, and is at ease with herself completely. "As long as you are not in phase with the totality of what you are, what is beautiful and less beautiful, you are necessarily beside yourself. In the welcome and the expression of my fragility, there is the totality of who I am, there is more stability. One is more solid when one welcomes all that than when one puts oneself on the margin of our weaknesses while thinking that it is an error to show them, and suddenly we get on one foot, I was fed up with being on one foot. I was afraid of being judged because I was not strong enough."
You have to be strong, determined ... What fatigue! I went so far as to avoid any of my limits by barricading myself, and I could look very harsh, severe. - Lara Fabian
In this new album, it is thus a whole Lara Fabian which is revealed, like a caterpillar that would finally become Butterfly (Papillon).
----------------------------------------------------
There was an interview of Lara in the Closer (thanks to the Lara Fabian Greece site for the scans). The translation is provided below:
----------------------------------
Papillon is at the head of the best selling albums in Quebec, in France and in Belgium. Does that still matter when it is one’s 14th album?
LF: It is something magical when it occurs, because it isn’t something that one can strongly predict or anticipate. Especially after so much time.
Certain sounds evoke the new generation of singers. It is a source of inspiration for you?
LF: I adore Christine and the Queens, Panic! at the Disco, Ariana Grande. I love these artists that I listen to with my daughter, Lou, notably.
To sing in duet with someone of this generation, that would please you?
LF: I was to make a duo with Vitaa on television, but I feel sick…I like Maitre Gims a lot also. I find him very singular, very sunny.
On this new album, one finds a song called “Je ne t’aime plus”. More than 20 years after your hit, Je t’aime, it’s on purpose?
LF: (Smiles) Yes, absolutely, it is an assumed reference.
It is a text which, for the first time in your songs, doesn’t offer any place for reconciliation.
LF: I have never done it, you are right It is the first time that I sing a lyric which says, “No, it is finished”. This song could serve whoever has the desire to separate completely from those cellular loves, which one continues to think of despite the time passing.
Is it not paradoxical to write a text as sad when you are married since 2013 (to the Italian magician Gabriel Di Giorgio)?
LF: But, life, is everything and it is contrary. There’s nothing that exists without its contrary. An album which speaks of gratitude, like Papillon, exists equally for me because there are other aspects in life. Lightness does not prevent depth.
January 9th, you will celebrate your 50th birthday on stage. It is important to pass this point with your fans?
LF: I’ve never done it until the present But, for me 50 years and my 30 years of career, and in Brussels, where I was born, it seemed to me joyous and just. Plus, we will celebrate that a little bit everywhere: 50 years in 50 cities, from Paris to Berlin, while passing by Moscow and New York.
50 years, it is an age that you dread or that you wait for?
LF: It is a number for me, not a state of mind. I accept with pleasure the idea of being a woman of 50 years age: I am going to be 50 years old, that’s all.
Moreover, you have never seemed as radiant. What is your secret?
LF: (Big laugh) thanks! There are many things which can create a relaxed face, and therefore an expression which is a reflection of what you feel inside. Also, I am very happy as a woman, therefore that contributes to it. And I have a daughter (Lou, 11 years old) in good health, who is a daily joy. And more, I pay attention to what I eat.
Would you want to say how you have changed your eating habits?
LF: I discovered that I was allergic to gluten. So, for an Italian of origin as I am, I could not eat bread, pastry, or pizza. That provoked a shock in my family! But I adapted, I have always paid attention to nourishment and even more so when I knew it was a real sickness.
You mentioned 30 years of your career. How do you regard your path?
LF: A marvelous regard, full of gratitude. It’s not me who built it. Finally, yes, I’ve done a little work, nevertheless. But without the echo of the public, it would not have been the same thing.
Is it that there are certain of your songs that you don’t want to sing?
LF: I have more trouble with Tout. But not because of the range! I clarify that people could think that I don’t want to sing it to evade the note! It is rather because I don’t enjoy doing it. And when one doesn’t have pleasure to sing a song, one doesn’t do it well, that’s all.
And if, on the contrary, you were to keep only one…?
LF: It is difficult! But I would say “Broken Vow”, which is on my first English album.
For two years you have been a coach on the Quebec version of The Voice. What is it that it brings you?
LF: I adore this transmission. I adore seeing their faces light up when I give them some keys. It is magical. It is perhaps one of the most beautiful things that I have done: to transmit.
May 7th will make a year that your great friend Mauranne left us. Has time erased the pain?
LF: It is difficult, a part of me doesn’t accept it, and the other part is persuaded that the link will never be broken. It is a great loss, in all the senses. At the same time there are some immortal things through her voice. One can still hear today what she is and what she transmits to us. But it is really difficult to accept that she is gone. The song Alcyon on the album, it is for her.
To finish, I hear you say that it could be that Papillon could be your last album. Is it true?
LF: It was taken out of context! What I talked about is rather the changing paradigm of this changing industry. We have never heard so much music and at the same time, it has never been so free. A physical album implies a huge commitment in every way and so it may be necessary to rethink it so that the music continues to exist.
That means therefore that we will always have albums of Lara Fabian?
LF: Yes, promise!
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Actually, it was not so much out of context as Lara thinking out loud without realizing the consequences (she said she might just release a few songs at a time, which one could put together as an album. And that physical CDs would probably disappear). Furthermore, the current success of this latest album, in contrast to Camouflage, might well have changed her mind about albums in general.
And as to how Papillon is actually doing, now that the European promotion has largely abated: in Belgium, after 8 weeks on the list it has fallen to #16, a drop of 6 places. In France it has dropped 14 places, to #64. In Quebec, where ‘promotion’ is in effect a continual thing via La Voix, as of last Tuesday, Papillon was 6th in the Palmares adisq listings.
We haven’t had much news about additional tour venues – though Lara in the above article mentioned ‘Berlin’ – but it was announced that Lara will be returning to Israel on December 14th, at the Menora Mivtachim Arena in Tel Aviv (https://www.i24news.tv/fr/actu/culture/1554211686-la-chanteuse-lara-fabian-de-retour-en-israel). It will be her first visit to that country in over 4 years.
The program, “Les 20 chanteurs préférés des Francais featured Lara’s comments about Gregory Lemarchal, who died of cystic fibrosis some 12 years ago. The video can be seen at:
www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1274267336058445
She said “If light had a sound, it would be Gregory Lemarchal.”
On to the review of Episode 8 (the last of the duels) from La Voix. As we know, before the show began, a dedication flashed on the screen which read:
Luisa Serio Crokaert
In your memory mother, in the name of the love that you had for Voices
-Lara-
The show of course was recorded long before that happened, so no further sentiment of it was subsequently seen. Here are the highlights:
** Lara chose Samantha Neves over Christine Toca. It wasn’t the obvious choice, but Lara was intrigued by what she called the ‘double harmonics’ in Samantha’s voice. Marc then took on Christine, on Lara’s recommendation.
**Lara’s other duel was between Frederique Germain and Sebastien Grinoel; both of them ‘pushed’ the song Lara had chosen for them into more ‘soul’ territory. It succeeded to such an extent that Alex, on hearing it, said he was very surprised that Lara had been associated with such a song. Frederique had the air of a winner right from the start – Lara even loved how she dressed, so the choice of her was no surprise. Confidence is very persuasive.
**In the contest between Rafaelle Ray and Jacob Guay, Marc picked Rafaelle, who actually seemed heartbroken that Jacob had lost. Then when Alex picked up Jacob, she was overcome with joy. Talk about having a big heart.
**Another example of that was the contest between Jacques Comeau and Allyson Daviali. You may remember Jacques and his daughter both tried out, but nobody chose her. Lara apologized for that during this show. Jacques was quite ‘fatherly’ towards Allyson, and everybody commented on what a wonderful man he seemed to be (he won, deservedly so, though Allyson was good).
**In one of the oddest results, Alex chose Orlanda Gagnon over Noemie Element. Noemie clearly had the better voice. Alex said he made that choice because Orlanda worked really hard during their practice, and it seemed really important to her – not good reasons! There was something a bit mysterious about Orlanda; and although she was not on his team, Eric said he found Orlanda’s presence “a little troubling”.
**And in the biggest injustice Alex said he didn’t know why he was choosing Joel Brassard over Rosalie Roberge. [IMHO, candidates should think twice about joining Alex’s team, as he doesn’t seem to make rational decisions]. Rosalie probably had the best voice of any singer on this episode, although the song didn’t fully allow her to show it. Nevertheless, she was light years better than Joel. Several of the judges, including Lara, said they thought she was a star, and they expected to go to see her at her concerts. Yet she couldn’t beat someone who could barely sing.
**It was announced that Julien Clerc was joining the show next week as a Super Coach, that Francis Cabrel will be making a guest appearance on April 28th, and that Lewis Capaldi will be joining Marc’s team as a guest coach.
At the end of the duels, Lara has 7 members of her team, while all the others have eight…remember when Lara couldn't choose between two of the candidates on the previous 'duels' show, it was said they would both have to 'go to the public', i.e., limiting Lara's options.
For the interesting photo(s) of the week, La Voix showed the ‘evolution’ of the painting of Lara by Cynthia Coulombe Begin that hangs up on their set. It can be found at:
www.facebook.com/lavoixtva/photos/a.327556664006515/2117711698324327/?type=3&theater
The next phase of La Voix began this past Sunday and will be reviewed next week – the first of the ‘battles’. According to Wikipedia, “Among the eight artists composing their teams, the coaches will choose five participants who will go directly to the Directs [Live]. The other three will have to go through the Chants de Bataille stage to access Directs. Only one will succeed.”
It’s good that Lara has this activity to keep her busy in the aftermath of her mother’s passing. And with that passing, Lara’s life is now even more focused in Quebec.
David
or equivalently, on Instagram, at
with the (translated) caption:
“For all your messages,
Your support,
Your Love,
Your strong "presence",
My Dad and I thank you from the deepest of our heart...
Mom is in peace, freed from this coat of suffering.
Our life forever linked to her…
As implied by the above, and as expected, Lara went to Belgium for the funeral proceedings, and then returned to Montreal, where she has obligations for La Voix. The Lara Fabian web FB site posted the following picture
www.facebook.com/larafabianweb/photos/a.247913198557556/2739536096061908/?type=3&theater
with the caption, “Return to Montreal for Lara”; the Lara Fabian est ton autre site posted the following short video
www.facebook.com/larafabiantonautre/videos/787470221635214/
of Lara in a plane singing “Pas sans toi”. Very appropriate…For all its sadness and finality, this is one ‘sword of Damocles’ that is no longer hanging over Lara’s head, one that she knew would drop sooner rather than later. A sword we all have, one way or another…
If that was the ‘low-light’, the absolute highlight of the week also involved the same song. Lara was on the show “On est tout debout”; the description reads, “whole moment of emotion! The tears sank in the studio! Don't miss our musical fantasy of this week with Lara Fabian and Julie St-Pierre, presented by Boutique Séduction!!” Their duet singing “Pas sans toi” can be seen at:
www.facebook.com/Onesttousdebout/videos/2413977151970251/
and it is absolutely fantastic. A perfect way to change the mood, even if the words are the same.
Julie St. Pierre put the following pictures on her FB site,
www.facebook.com/JulieStPierreOfficiel/photos/pcb.2533982403282522/2533981483282614/?type=3&theater
and
www.facebook.com/JulieStPierreOfficiel/photos/pcb.2533982403282522/2533981576615938/?type=3&theater
while writing the following, in advertising the show:
--------------------------------------------------------------
“Julie St-Pierre- on the left picture [top], I'm 16 years old, it was a short time after Mixmania, in November 2002. She, she's almost the age I have right now. It is, in my memory, my first photo with Lara Fabian, my idol.
And tomorrow morning at 8 PM, I will sing “Pas sans toi” with her at 107.3 red. Lara, it's a meeting where little has been done, a magical synchronicity that still to this day I don't explain and which proves to me that there are grander things than us and that life organizes us beautiful surprises despite everything.
This moment has already taken place, it was pre-recorded two weeks ago, before the departure of her mom Luisa.
I hope you will be listening, that you will love and you will be as much affected as the little Julie in me.
----------------------------------------------------------
In another, life-affirming occurrence, this morning Lara posted the link to a video on her FB site,
www.facebook.com/larafabianofficial/videos/276499376563306/
with the following caption:
This anthem is composed by Isabelle Aboulker, on lyrics by Marie Klaus.
This first piano-voice version is played by David Dumont with the choirs of the AICOM.
Led by my coach Pierre Yves Duchesne and recorded at the high-End Studio....
The AICOM will celebrate next September its 15th birthday.... already.... love.
Lara appears briefly looking on, at the ~1:15 mark. Truly beautiful music, singing, and dancing.
In album promotion news, Lara was interviewed on Radio France, available at
www.francetvinfo.fr/replay-radio/le-monde-d-elodie/lara-fabian-j-avais-peur-qu-on-me-juge-parce-que-je-n-etais-pas-assez-forte_3242527.html?fbclid=IwAR3c33rZI-J3iLoaBPMnpa7LyVFVL3zuiiKaTEGktHpIk6w2CSE4_hUKd8Y
Here’s the translation of the accompanying article:
------------------------------------------
Lara Fabian: "I was afraid of being judged because I was not strong enough"
Every day, a personality invites herself into the world of Elodie Suigo and confides. Today, Belgian-Canadian singer Lara Fabian.
Lara Fabian's latest album, Papillon, was released on February 8th. An album in which the artist lets go. "I wrote this album from a space where I was really in gratitude, it's a space of freedom, an opportunity to be me," she told the microphone of franceinfo.
At only 5 years old, the young Lara Fabian already knows that she will be an artist, an adult. And she will be pushed, accompanied in her vocation by her father, guitarist and backing vocalist for Petula Clark: "He gave me his strength, his benevolence, his advice, but sometimes also in the most difficult situations, he set himself in opposition to me to make me exceed my limits.” Limits, barriers due to insecurity. "I was refused at the conservatoire of dance in a very violent way: 'Take off this one, fat with flat feet, who will be able to lift this thing?' It does not help."
My feeling of insecurity is like a transgenerational injury that my parents passed me almost unconsciously - Lara Fabian
Lara Fabian faces her weaknesses
In this album, the singer seems to have finally accepted her weaknesses, and is at ease with herself completely. "As long as you are not in phase with the totality of what you are, what is beautiful and less beautiful, you are necessarily beside yourself. In the welcome and the expression of my fragility, there is the totality of who I am, there is more stability. One is more solid when one welcomes all that than when one puts oneself on the margin of our weaknesses while thinking that it is an error to show them, and suddenly we get on one foot, I was fed up with being on one foot. I was afraid of being judged because I was not strong enough."
You have to be strong, determined ... What fatigue! I went so far as to avoid any of my limits by barricading myself, and I could look very harsh, severe. - Lara Fabian
In this new album, it is thus a whole Lara Fabian which is revealed, like a caterpillar that would finally become Butterfly (Papillon).
----------------------------------------------------
There was an interview of Lara in the Closer (thanks to the Lara Fabian Greece site for the scans). The translation is provided below:
----------------------------------
Papillon is at the head of the best selling albums in Quebec, in France and in Belgium. Does that still matter when it is one’s 14th album?
LF: It is something magical when it occurs, because it isn’t something that one can strongly predict or anticipate. Especially after so much time.
Certain sounds evoke the new generation of singers. It is a source of inspiration for you?
LF: I adore Christine and the Queens, Panic! at the Disco, Ariana Grande. I love these artists that I listen to with my daughter, Lou, notably.
To sing in duet with someone of this generation, that would please you?
LF: I was to make a duo with Vitaa on television, but I feel sick…I like Maitre Gims a lot also. I find him very singular, very sunny.
On this new album, one finds a song called “Je ne t’aime plus”. More than 20 years after your hit, Je t’aime, it’s on purpose?
LF: (Smiles) Yes, absolutely, it is an assumed reference.
It is a text which, for the first time in your songs, doesn’t offer any place for reconciliation.
LF: I have never done it, you are right It is the first time that I sing a lyric which says, “No, it is finished”. This song could serve whoever has the desire to separate completely from those cellular loves, which one continues to think of despite the time passing.
Is it not paradoxical to write a text as sad when you are married since 2013 (to the Italian magician Gabriel Di Giorgio)?
LF: But, life, is everything and it is contrary. There’s nothing that exists without its contrary. An album which speaks of gratitude, like Papillon, exists equally for me because there are other aspects in life. Lightness does not prevent depth.
January 9th, you will celebrate your 50th birthday on stage. It is important to pass this point with your fans?
LF: I’ve never done it until the present But, for me 50 years and my 30 years of career, and in Brussels, where I was born, it seemed to me joyous and just. Plus, we will celebrate that a little bit everywhere: 50 years in 50 cities, from Paris to Berlin, while passing by Moscow and New York.
50 years, it is an age that you dread or that you wait for?
LF: It is a number for me, not a state of mind. I accept with pleasure the idea of being a woman of 50 years age: I am going to be 50 years old, that’s all.
Moreover, you have never seemed as radiant. What is your secret?
LF: (Big laugh) thanks! There are many things which can create a relaxed face, and therefore an expression which is a reflection of what you feel inside. Also, I am very happy as a woman, therefore that contributes to it. And I have a daughter (Lou, 11 years old) in good health, who is a daily joy. And more, I pay attention to what I eat.
Would you want to say how you have changed your eating habits?
LF: I discovered that I was allergic to gluten. So, for an Italian of origin as I am, I could not eat bread, pastry, or pizza. That provoked a shock in my family! But I adapted, I have always paid attention to nourishment and even more so when I knew it was a real sickness.
You mentioned 30 years of your career. How do you regard your path?
LF: A marvelous regard, full of gratitude. It’s not me who built it. Finally, yes, I’ve done a little work, nevertheless. But without the echo of the public, it would not have been the same thing.
Is it that there are certain of your songs that you don’t want to sing?
LF: I have more trouble with Tout. But not because of the range! I clarify that people could think that I don’t want to sing it to evade the note! It is rather because I don’t enjoy doing it. And when one doesn’t have pleasure to sing a song, one doesn’t do it well, that’s all.
And if, on the contrary, you were to keep only one…?
LF: It is difficult! But I would say “Broken Vow”, which is on my first English album.
For two years you have been a coach on the Quebec version of The Voice. What is it that it brings you?
LF: I adore this transmission. I adore seeing their faces light up when I give them some keys. It is magical. It is perhaps one of the most beautiful things that I have done: to transmit.
May 7th will make a year that your great friend Mauranne left us. Has time erased the pain?
LF: It is difficult, a part of me doesn’t accept it, and the other part is persuaded that the link will never be broken. It is a great loss, in all the senses. At the same time there are some immortal things through her voice. One can still hear today what she is and what she transmits to us. But it is really difficult to accept that she is gone. The song Alcyon on the album, it is for her.
To finish, I hear you say that it could be that Papillon could be your last album. Is it true?
LF: It was taken out of context! What I talked about is rather the changing paradigm of this changing industry. We have never heard so much music and at the same time, it has never been so free. A physical album implies a huge commitment in every way and so it may be necessary to rethink it so that the music continues to exist.
That means therefore that we will always have albums of Lara Fabian?
LF: Yes, promise!
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Actually, it was not so much out of context as Lara thinking out loud without realizing the consequences (she said she might just release a few songs at a time, which one could put together as an album. And that physical CDs would probably disappear). Furthermore, the current success of this latest album, in contrast to Camouflage, might well have changed her mind about albums in general.
And as to how Papillon is actually doing, now that the European promotion has largely abated: in Belgium, after 8 weeks on the list it has fallen to #16, a drop of 6 places. In France it has dropped 14 places, to #64. In Quebec, where ‘promotion’ is in effect a continual thing via La Voix, as of last Tuesday, Papillon was 6th in the Palmares adisq listings.
We haven’t had much news about additional tour venues – though Lara in the above article mentioned ‘Berlin’ – but it was announced that Lara will be returning to Israel on December 14th, at the Menora Mivtachim Arena in Tel Aviv (https://www.i24news.tv/fr/actu/culture/1554211686-la-chanteuse-lara-fabian-de-retour-en-israel). It will be her first visit to that country in over 4 years.
The program, “Les 20 chanteurs préférés des Francais featured Lara’s comments about Gregory Lemarchal, who died of cystic fibrosis some 12 years ago. The video can be seen at:
www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1274267336058445
She said “If light had a sound, it would be Gregory Lemarchal.”
On to the review of Episode 8 (the last of the duels) from La Voix. As we know, before the show began, a dedication flashed on the screen which read:
Luisa Serio Crokaert
In your memory mother, in the name of the love that you had for Voices
-Lara-
The show of course was recorded long before that happened, so no further sentiment of it was subsequently seen. Here are the highlights:
** Lara chose Samantha Neves over Christine Toca. It wasn’t the obvious choice, but Lara was intrigued by what she called the ‘double harmonics’ in Samantha’s voice. Marc then took on Christine, on Lara’s recommendation.
**Lara’s other duel was between Frederique Germain and Sebastien Grinoel; both of them ‘pushed’ the song Lara had chosen for them into more ‘soul’ territory. It succeeded to such an extent that Alex, on hearing it, said he was very surprised that Lara had been associated with such a song. Frederique had the air of a winner right from the start – Lara even loved how she dressed, so the choice of her was no surprise. Confidence is very persuasive.
**In the contest between Rafaelle Ray and Jacob Guay, Marc picked Rafaelle, who actually seemed heartbroken that Jacob had lost. Then when Alex picked up Jacob, she was overcome with joy. Talk about having a big heart.
**Another example of that was the contest between Jacques Comeau and Allyson Daviali. You may remember Jacques and his daughter both tried out, but nobody chose her. Lara apologized for that during this show. Jacques was quite ‘fatherly’ towards Allyson, and everybody commented on what a wonderful man he seemed to be (he won, deservedly so, though Allyson was good).
**In one of the oddest results, Alex chose Orlanda Gagnon over Noemie Element. Noemie clearly had the better voice. Alex said he made that choice because Orlanda worked really hard during their practice, and it seemed really important to her – not good reasons! There was something a bit mysterious about Orlanda; and although she was not on his team, Eric said he found Orlanda’s presence “a little troubling”.
**And in the biggest injustice Alex said he didn’t know why he was choosing Joel Brassard over Rosalie Roberge. [IMHO, candidates should think twice about joining Alex’s team, as he doesn’t seem to make rational decisions]. Rosalie probably had the best voice of any singer on this episode, although the song didn’t fully allow her to show it. Nevertheless, she was light years better than Joel. Several of the judges, including Lara, said they thought she was a star, and they expected to go to see her at her concerts. Yet she couldn’t beat someone who could barely sing.
**It was announced that Julien Clerc was joining the show next week as a Super Coach, that Francis Cabrel will be making a guest appearance on April 28th, and that Lewis Capaldi will be joining Marc’s team as a guest coach.
At the end of the duels, Lara has 7 members of her team, while all the others have eight…remember when Lara couldn't choose between two of the candidates on the previous 'duels' show, it was said they would both have to 'go to the public', i.e., limiting Lara's options.
For the interesting photo(s) of the week, La Voix showed the ‘evolution’ of the painting of Lara by Cynthia Coulombe Begin that hangs up on their set. It can be found at:
www.facebook.com/lavoixtva/photos/a.327556664006515/2117711698324327/?type=3&theater
The next phase of La Voix began this past Sunday and will be reviewed next week – the first of the ‘battles’. According to Wikipedia, “Among the eight artists composing their teams, the coaches will choose five participants who will go directly to the Directs [Live]. The other three will have to go through the Chants de Bataille stage to access Directs. Only one will succeed.”
It’s good that Lara has this activity to keep her busy in the aftermath of her mother’s passing. And with that passing, Lara’s life is now even more focused in Quebec.
David
