Post by davidhr on Mar 8, 2016 8:38:58 GMT -5
Obviously the news this past week revolved primarily around Lara’s release of the video for ‘L’oubli’ and the explanation that it concerned her mother. This revelation was greeted by fans as one would expect – with expressions of support, of sorrow, of hope, of love for her – all things she has come to expect from her ‘angels’ (and other fans). [As of the time of this writing, Lara’s two messages about this on her website have received some 23,000 likes and 2300 comments]. Lara wrote in response, “Thank you for your support, your testimony, your love…We're never alone when love is watching us”.
Indeed, she has often said she depends on her fans, so perhaps one underlying motive for making this news known was to have them help her by providing just the type of support that has been forthcoming. Lara has, in effect, indicated that her career is a joint affair – she produces things for them, with emotion, and they, emotionally, give back. No more apparent than in this case.
More information was provided in an article in ‘La Derniere Heure’, for which Lara Fabian – PHQ provided the scan (https://www.facebook.com/353946178085395/photos/a.353954938084519.1073741828.353946178085395/827650237381651/?type=3&theater). Here’s the translation:
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Health: Alzheimer’s Disease
The Terrible Secret of Lara Fabian
The Belgian-Italian singer reveals that her mother is suffering from “Dementia with Lewy Bodies”
“Forgetfulness is a space that no one understands, but for her, it is the place that finally her soul recaptures!” Here are the words of the song “L’oubli” – on her last album ‘Ma vie dans la tienne’ – for which she has just produced a visual expression (to see on dh.be) in order that her mother can remember each of the looks of members of her family. “A name one can forget it, but not a look”, confides, moved, Lara Fabian. “When one asked me if this song touched me from near or from far, I have always been the most discreet possible on this subject because, until then, I hadn’t had the courage, nor the will to really expose the reason for this song.”
And for cause, ‘L’oubli’ treats one of the evils of the century – 130 million people suffer in the world of which 20 million are in Europe, and over 65 year of age, more than 10% of the Belgian population suffers according to the summary of the Belgian teacher and neurosurgeon Jaques Brotchi, considering all the neuro- degenerative illnesses.Lara says, “One can speak of Alzheimer in the large sense but in this precise case, it is a matter of ‘Dementia with Lewy Bodies” [the DCL is the the most common illness after Alzheimer and before Parkinson’s] from which my mom suffers…It is a sickness that affects a part of the brain, which disengages the cognitive and memory, which creates the trembling and hallucination. And which creates almost a new identity with the person.”
Today Lara Fabian desires to make use of her fame so as “to be this link between what I live and others. If the virtue of an artist is to be useful, then, in this particular case, I can make the bridge between what happens to me and what also happens to others. It is especially a terrible taboo with a lot of suffering and shame. And we often forget about the families that tend to close up.
Her mother, Louisa, is 74 years old today (March 5th). But she experienced the first symptoms at the age of 59. “That is manifested by a form of loss of acuity and mental vivacity”, she tells, eyes misting over, inviting people in doubt to take a diagnostic. “That which baffles us, especially when one has the habit of someone hyper-alive and mentally active. In the beginning, we are therefore in denial, we refuse it often even more than the person who suffers from it. It is as if you are talking to someone else or as if you accept someone else in your family.” And the singer, who receives the test “one day at a time”, goes still further. “It is practically necessary to mourn before the real mourning. These people leave twice. We must first accept a first departure strange to our beliefs, and than accept the real departure. It is very hard…”
But Lara Fabian wants to be reassuring on the state of health of mom and avoid alarmist speech. “She’s fine, she’s still so beautiful that she looks like a doll. She goes to the hairdresser, she pays attention to her appearance, and it is important that she continues to do it”, she concludes. “She lives in her house near us, in a protected and secure environment with all our Sicilian tribe who pass her from one to the other. She always recognizes me even if there are sometimes some transfers of identity with my daughter. It happens that Lou becomes Lara for she holds onto her role of mother at heart. As for my eight year old daughter, she adapts herself to this language more easily than me. Children have this incredible faculty a little as if they are adapting to a game”. But for Lara Fabian, who insists, this is not a game for her. “I have nothing to sell here, just a desire to pass a message. It is for that that I come out of the shame today for we are not alone. I hope to wake up the consciences so as to be able to contribute to relieve and ease this pain for it is immense…”
Interviewer: Pierre-Yves Paque
To support the research: www.alzheimerbelgique.be or via the Alzheimer League, www.alzheimer.be
------------------------------------------------------------
Lara has always spoken of her mother as this care-free soul, always singing, vivacious, etc. Yet in the past decade when we have seen her, she has never appeared like that (to me). Perhaps that’s because she was already a “different person”…
And from ‘La Meuse’ (again, the scan from Lara Fabian _PHQ www.facebook.com/353946178085395/photos/a.353954938084519.1073741828.353946178085395/827650117381663/?type=3&theater):
------------------------------------------------------------
Lara Fabian reveals the terrible test that her family lives
Her mother Luisa has been sick for 15 years
Here is a very unusual step: the singer Lara Fabian reveals that her mothers suffers from a neurodegenerative disease for which there is no cure: the DCL
“It is a very delicate subject”, Lara begins directly, “I didn’t want to do it anyhow…A lot of months ago, you ask me the question of the significance of my song “L’oubli”. I responded that it was the song of my last CD which touched me the most, but I didn’t have the courage or the will to really expose that I was confronted with this sickness in my intimate relations. I wanted to be the most discreet, the most dignified and as simple as possible”…”
WHY HAVE YOU CHOSEN TO MAKE THIS REVELATION?
What has happened to my mother is a dementia, the word causes fear, even if it means in fact that part of the brain stops working or starts to slow down. Just the word paralyzes relatives, there is a lot of suffering and shame. We have a tendency to close up, to remain in silence. It has not been easy to make the decision to speak of it. But if the virtue of an artist is to be useful, then here, I can do it in sharing with others what happens to me. I use my fame to be a bridge, to contribute perhaps to ease the immense pain of families confronted with this sickness.
SINCE WHEN HAS YOU MOTHER BEEN SUFFERING?
It is very difficult to respond. She is 74 years old. I believe that it was at 59 years old that it began. I noticed some loss of acuity, of mental vivacity. That disconcerted me, especially as momma was lively and brilliant…There is a return to the mother tongue, classic it seems. Mamma speaks Italian almost exclusively. But the reflex of the entourage, it is to refuse it, deny it. We took refuge from it for a long time.
WHERE DOES SHE LIVE?
In a protected environment, next door to us. A bit like home. It is very important that she be with the furniture that she knows…There are some establishments but it still remains corridors and white coats…The later one can make this choice, the better it is. We are like a tribe, we relay between the members of the family to be permanently nearby her. Every day, some people, orderlies, nurses, all of a magnificent devotion, they come to give her care or speech therapy exercises, physio-cerebral…Our health system in Belgium is extraordinary, it permits it for a cost reasonable to all.
IS IT DIFFICULT TO EXPLAIN THE SITUATION TO YOUR DAUGHTER LOU?
Children are wiser than us. I have not had to explain anything, she adapted her language before me, a little like one understands the rules of a new game. It was almost magical: she was immediately with the new person that mamma has become!
YOUR MOTHER STILL RECOGNIZES YOU?
Yes. There is sometimes some transfers of identity, it happens that she calls my daughter Lou by the name Lara, especially when the medicines begin to have less effect. But she is well. She remains tidy, neat, beautiful like a doll.
Sam Cristophe.
----------------------------------------------------------------
And one more, from ‘Pure People” (http://www.purepeople.com/article/lara-fabian-sa-mere-luisa-atteinte-d-alzheimer-des-mots-et-un-film-poignants_a174523/1), translated below:
-----------------------------------------------------------
Lara Fabian, Her Mother Luisa with Alzheimer's: Her Poignant Testimony
The singer confides for the first time about the illness of her mother and dedicated to her, afterwards her song "L’Oubli", a shocking video ...
She shouted "I love you", she sang “the difference”, she was “pure”, “naked”, “immortal” and has always given to her audience “in all intimacy”, but never yet had Lara Fabian spoken openly about this personal drama which inspired the poignant song “L’oubli”, which closes the album ‘Ma vie dans la tienne”: in the columns of ‘Le Parisien’ dated Saturday, March 5, 2016, the singer forgets discretion and spoke about all the horrors of Alzheimer's disease ravaging her mom Luisa, 75, but also "the chain of love to hold her" that has developed around her. In parallel, she reveals on the site of the daily a "visual evidence", a mini-film illustrating this particular song, where all her family scrolls past; at the end, the face of Luisa, "still so beautiful at the moment," appears ...
“I remain a beacon”
"Until then, I wanted to remain silent," admitted Lara Fabian, for whom “L’Oubli”, written "in one go", was a real "outlet". And then there was the awareness of the "terrible stigmatization" of Alzheimer's disease, "real suffering" that constitutes "the silence which encloses some patients and their families": "As a public figure, I can move consciences, things”, she said, anxious to help people and research. “Then I saw what many people experience when they are faced with this problem: a form of interior crisis, shame, misunderstanding."
Asked by journalist Emmanuel Marolle the manner in which the evil was manifested to her mother, the Belgian-Canadian singer, 46, married for three years with the Italian magician Gabriel Di Giorgio, admits to having "at first not understood” "when the" little things "("I can not find my keys, my phone ") have multiplied. "And suddenly it's not the same person you have in front of you," she asserts, brutally discovering the painful experience all the relatives of people with Alzheimer's share ... "It was necessary that I collect myself”, she emphasizes, “Me who am hyper linked to my mother, Sicilian (...) I'm an only child. It is strong and fusional between us." The link, luckily, is not yet completely broken, Luisa still recognizing Lara: "I remain a true beacon for her," the artist slips in, citing identity transfers, "but not with [her]."
“This is then she returns the most to herself”
Present for her family, her mother but also her father Pierre, as soon as the diagnosis is announced, Lara Fabian does everything for this light in the fog and the darkness does not dry them up: "There is always someone with her. I live next door. she sees me every day, she sees her granddaughter [Lou, 8, following her previous relationship with director Gérard Pullicino, Ed] every day, her husband. In this Sicilian family, we have a chain of love to hold it. You can not imagine the power of my hand which touches her, of a kiss on her cheek, of taking her in my arms, of laughing with her. It is then she returns the most to herself. My mom still lives in her house (...) We must put on the track the things she remembers." As the flavors, the smells, the childhood places, well entrenched in her memory...
Determined to speak for those who do not have her reputation and live the same event, the artist wanted to release from the song “L’Oubli” a film with the air of a campaign of sensitivity: "It is not a clip, there is nothing commercial, I have nothing to sell, "she warns. In fact, the video is steeped in sincerity and authenticity: "I put a camera up. I asked each member of my family to sit down and look at the camera, as if watching my mom." The last face to appear in close-up is that of Luisa; but, contrary to what one could believe, this has not been an obvious decision: "I hesitated to put her. This is why she appears only once. I asked her..: she agreed. All that I do around this song, she knows it."
And in terms of oblivion ... "As a savior, a blessing in disguise," as she sings, shattering: "Forgetfulness is the surface that makes us suffer, but it is inside that makes it stand (...) Forgetfulness is a space that no one understands, but it is for her the place that finally her soul retakes. "
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
Lara's desire to help others suffering through this disease is consistent with her penchant for causes, clearly none so dear now than this one which unlike most of her others, touches her so closely.
Appropriately enough, today (March 8) is International Day of the Woman, as Lara’s Team pointed out on her FB site; they posted the link to a version of Lara singing ‘Toutes les femmes en moi’ (https://vimeo.com/100972583) which includes the words “All the women in me are eternal”… Other sites posted other equivalent links e.g. the Lara Fabian est ton autre’ site, www.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=Jy2b8_kDj9Q&app=desktopthe ‘Lara Fabian Is Here’ site, www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDogJy-LB3w&feature=youtu.be. This song has new relevance now…
On Lara official site, the ‘Lara Fabian Italy’ site posted the following (translated) comment: “Woman, a word that expresses love, sensitivity and sincerity, tenderness, weakness, come on, smile, tear, hope, compassion, understanding, adaptation, endurance, irony, carefree, careful, melancholy, pensive, conciliatory, stubborn, obstinate, pushover, Observant, precise, accurate, generous, pungent, feisty, explicit, open, festive, mother, daughter, wife, Grandma, sister, lover, friend, creative and, above all, Creator of life. Woman all this and much more are you.... Best wishes to all the women and you Lara Fabian to all the women in your family and your team.”
Breaking away to other (related) news,it’s almost redundant to mention this, but “L’oubli” is officially the third single from Lara’s album, and has been sent to radio stations. The cover picture for it can be seen for example from the ‘Lara Fabian est ton autre’ site, at
www.facebook.com/166959643357708/photos/a.168982793155393.43222.166959643357708/977123492341315/?type=3&theater
Lara says she has “nothing to sell” in this whole thing, and while sales are clearly far removed from the importance of this event, this does have the possibility of alerting people to the song and the album. [In that sense it is sort of like "Deux ils, deux elles" was for Le Secret, except that the video will not be exploited]. It is also in position to advertise the re-edition of the album, scheduled for the March 25th release. On the French charts, ‘Ma vie dans la tienne’ has gone up three positions in physical CDs (to #105), while in Belgium it has dropped to #21. Actually, for people who don’t want to think about this malady, ‘L’Oubli” could actually have a negative sales effect…
The new concert date in Paris has been revealed, October 2 at the Grand Rex (https://www.facebook.com/larafabianofficial/photos/a.215378125170359.50343.201065806601591/1077195728988590/?type=3&theater). Tickets are already available avosbillets.francebillet.com/place-spectacle/manifestation/Variete-et-chanson-francaises-LARA-FABIAN-CIFAB.htm), and can be found on FNAC. Tickets for this and other shows in Belgium and France, can also be ordered from ticketmaster (http://www.ticketmaster.fr/fr/resultat?ipSearch=Lara+Fabian).
What would be nice for this tour would be for Lara to add the song “"Мама моя" (still never officially released in France), which was, after all, written for her mother…
The recording of the “Dicaire Show” has taken place; it reportedly includes a ‘vocal battle’ between Lara and Veronic Dicaire, as well as a presentation of “L’Oubli”. It will be broadcast March 12th on France 2.
Interesting (and in this case, relevant) photo(s) of the week: Lara’s mother,.
static1.purepeople.com/articles/3/17/45/23/@/2113012-luisa-serio-maman-de-lara-fabian-lara-950x0-2.png
and then Lara with her mother from her official FB page, used to illustrate the video (and which can be downloaded from the following link)
app.box.com/s/vzouq1frs5tm5fga60pe993z94b128dy
Finally, from the Lara Fabian – PHQ site, an emblematic picture of Lara,
www.facebook.com/353946178085395/photos/a.353954938084519.1073741828.353946178085395/826083230871685/?type=3&theater
This coming week Lara (and we) will return to the exigencies of her career and tour – publicly; privately we know she will have to deal with this hardship for some time to come. Fortunately, the new tour is just around the corner (in 8 days), so she does/will have other immediate things to concern her.
David
Indeed, she has often said she depends on her fans, so perhaps one underlying motive for making this news known was to have them help her by providing just the type of support that has been forthcoming. Lara has, in effect, indicated that her career is a joint affair – she produces things for them, with emotion, and they, emotionally, give back. No more apparent than in this case.
More information was provided in an article in ‘La Derniere Heure’, for which Lara Fabian – PHQ provided the scan (https://www.facebook.com/353946178085395/photos/a.353954938084519.1073741828.353946178085395/827650237381651/?type=3&theater). Here’s the translation:
---------------------------------------------------------------
Health: Alzheimer’s Disease
The Terrible Secret of Lara Fabian
The Belgian-Italian singer reveals that her mother is suffering from “Dementia with Lewy Bodies”
“Forgetfulness is a space that no one understands, but for her, it is the place that finally her soul recaptures!” Here are the words of the song “L’oubli” – on her last album ‘Ma vie dans la tienne’ – for which she has just produced a visual expression (to see on dh.be) in order that her mother can remember each of the looks of members of her family. “A name one can forget it, but not a look”, confides, moved, Lara Fabian. “When one asked me if this song touched me from near or from far, I have always been the most discreet possible on this subject because, until then, I hadn’t had the courage, nor the will to really expose the reason for this song.”
And for cause, ‘L’oubli’ treats one of the evils of the century – 130 million people suffer in the world of which 20 million are in Europe, and over 65 year of age, more than 10% of the Belgian population suffers according to the summary of the Belgian teacher and neurosurgeon Jaques Brotchi, considering all the neuro- degenerative illnesses.Lara says, “One can speak of Alzheimer in the large sense but in this precise case, it is a matter of ‘Dementia with Lewy Bodies” [the DCL is the the most common illness after Alzheimer and before Parkinson’s] from which my mom suffers…It is a sickness that affects a part of the brain, which disengages the cognitive and memory, which creates the trembling and hallucination. And which creates almost a new identity with the person.”
Today Lara Fabian desires to make use of her fame so as “to be this link between what I live and others. If the virtue of an artist is to be useful, then, in this particular case, I can make the bridge between what happens to me and what also happens to others. It is especially a terrible taboo with a lot of suffering and shame. And we often forget about the families that tend to close up.
Her mother, Louisa, is 74 years old today (March 5th). But she experienced the first symptoms at the age of 59. “That is manifested by a form of loss of acuity and mental vivacity”, she tells, eyes misting over, inviting people in doubt to take a diagnostic. “That which baffles us, especially when one has the habit of someone hyper-alive and mentally active. In the beginning, we are therefore in denial, we refuse it often even more than the person who suffers from it. It is as if you are talking to someone else or as if you accept someone else in your family.” And the singer, who receives the test “one day at a time”, goes still further. “It is practically necessary to mourn before the real mourning. These people leave twice. We must first accept a first departure strange to our beliefs, and than accept the real departure. It is very hard…”
But Lara Fabian wants to be reassuring on the state of health of mom and avoid alarmist speech. “She’s fine, she’s still so beautiful that she looks like a doll. She goes to the hairdresser, she pays attention to her appearance, and it is important that she continues to do it”, she concludes. “She lives in her house near us, in a protected and secure environment with all our Sicilian tribe who pass her from one to the other. She always recognizes me even if there are sometimes some transfers of identity with my daughter. It happens that Lou becomes Lara for she holds onto her role of mother at heart. As for my eight year old daughter, she adapts herself to this language more easily than me. Children have this incredible faculty a little as if they are adapting to a game”. But for Lara Fabian, who insists, this is not a game for her. “I have nothing to sell here, just a desire to pass a message. It is for that that I come out of the shame today for we are not alone. I hope to wake up the consciences so as to be able to contribute to relieve and ease this pain for it is immense…”
Interviewer: Pierre-Yves Paque
To support the research: www.alzheimerbelgique.be or via the Alzheimer League, www.alzheimer.be
------------------------------------------------------------
Lara has always spoken of her mother as this care-free soul, always singing, vivacious, etc. Yet in the past decade when we have seen her, she has never appeared like that (to me). Perhaps that’s because she was already a “different person”…
And from ‘La Meuse’ (again, the scan from Lara Fabian _PHQ www.facebook.com/353946178085395/photos/a.353954938084519.1073741828.353946178085395/827650117381663/?type=3&theater):
------------------------------------------------------------
Lara Fabian reveals the terrible test that her family lives
Her mother Luisa has been sick for 15 years
Here is a very unusual step: the singer Lara Fabian reveals that her mothers suffers from a neurodegenerative disease for which there is no cure: the DCL
“It is a very delicate subject”, Lara begins directly, “I didn’t want to do it anyhow…A lot of months ago, you ask me the question of the significance of my song “L’oubli”. I responded that it was the song of my last CD which touched me the most, but I didn’t have the courage or the will to really expose that I was confronted with this sickness in my intimate relations. I wanted to be the most discreet, the most dignified and as simple as possible”…”
WHY HAVE YOU CHOSEN TO MAKE THIS REVELATION?
What has happened to my mother is a dementia, the word causes fear, even if it means in fact that part of the brain stops working or starts to slow down. Just the word paralyzes relatives, there is a lot of suffering and shame. We have a tendency to close up, to remain in silence. It has not been easy to make the decision to speak of it. But if the virtue of an artist is to be useful, then here, I can do it in sharing with others what happens to me. I use my fame to be a bridge, to contribute perhaps to ease the immense pain of families confronted with this sickness.
SINCE WHEN HAS YOU MOTHER BEEN SUFFERING?
It is very difficult to respond. She is 74 years old. I believe that it was at 59 years old that it began. I noticed some loss of acuity, of mental vivacity. That disconcerted me, especially as momma was lively and brilliant…There is a return to the mother tongue, classic it seems. Mamma speaks Italian almost exclusively. But the reflex of the entourage, it is to refuse it, deny it. We took refuge from it for a long time.
WHERE DOES SHE LIVE?
In a protected environment, next door to us. A bit like home. It is very important that she be with the furniture that she knows…There are some establishments but it still remains corridors and white coats…The later one can make this choice, the better it is. We are like a tribe, we relay between the members of the family to be permanently nearby her. Every day, some people, orderlies, nurses, all of a magnificent devotion, they come to give her care or speech therapy exercises, physio-cerebral…Our health system in Belgium is extraordinary, it permits it for a cost reasonable to all.
IS IT DIFFICULT TO EXPLAIN THE SITUATION TO YOUR DAUGHTER LOU?
Children are wiser than us. I have not had to explain anything, she adapted her language before me, a little like one understands the rules of a new game. It was almost magical: she was immediately with the new person that mamma has become!
YOUR MOTHER STILL RECOGNIZES YOU?
Yes. There is sometimes some transfers of identity, it happens that she calls my daughter Lou by the name Lara, especially when the medicines begin to have less effect. But she is well. She remains tidy, neat, beautiful like a doll.
Sam Cristophe.
----------------------------------------------------------------
And one more, from ‘Pure People” (http://www.purepeople.com/article/lara-fabian-sa-mere-luisa-atteinte-d-alzheimer-des-mots-et-un-film-poignants_a174523/1), translated below:
-----------------------------------------------------------
Lara Fabian, Her Mother Luisa with Alzheimer's: Her Poignant Testimony
The singer confides for the first time about the illness of her mother and dedicated to her, afterwards her song "L’Oubli", a shocking video ...
She shouted "I love you", she sang “the difference”, she was “pure”, “naked”, “immortal” and has always given to her audience “in all intimacy”, but never yet had Lara Fabian spoken openly about this personal drama which inspired the poignant song “L’oubli”, which closes the album ‘Ma vie dans la tienne”: in the columns of ‘Le Parisien’ dated Saturday, March 5, 2016, the singer forgets discretion and spoke about all the horrors of Alzheimer's disease ravaging her mom Luisa, 75, but also "the chain of love to hold her" that has developed around her. In parallel, she reveals on the site of the daily a "visual evidence", a mini-film illustrating this particular song, where all her family scrolls past; at the end, the face of Luisa, "still so beautiful at the moment," appears ...
“I remain a beacon”
"Until then, I wanted to remain silent," admitted Lara Fabian, for whom “L’Oubli”, written "in one go", was a real "outlet". And then there was the awareness of the "terrible stigmatization" of Alzheimer's disease, "real suffering" that constitutes "the silence which encloses some patients and their families": "As a public figure, I can move consciences, things”, she said, anxious to help people and research. “Then I saw what many people experience when they are faced with this problem: a form of interior crisis, shame, misunderstanding."
Asked by journalist Emmanuel Marolle the manner in which the evil was manifested to her mother, the Belgian-Canadian singer, 46, married for three years with the Italian magician Gabriel Di Giorgio, admits to having "at first not understood” "when the" little things "("I can not find my keys, my phone ") have multiplied. "And suddenly it's not the same person you have in front of you," she asserts, brutally discovering the painful experience all the relatives of people with Alzheimer's share ... "It was necessary that I collect myself”, she emphasizes, “Me who am hyper linked to my mother, Sicilian (...) I'm an only child. It is strong and fusional between us." The link, luckily, is not yet completely broken, Luisa still recognizing Lara: "I remain a true beacon for her," the artist slips in, citing identity transfers, "but not with [her]."
“This is then she returns the most to herself”
Present for her family, her mother but also her father Pierre, as soon as the diagnosis is announced, Lara Fabian does everything for this light in the fog and the darkness does not dry them up: "There is always someone with her. I live next door. she sees me every day, she sees her granddaughter [Lou, 8, following her previous relationship with director Gérard Pullicino, Ed] every day, her husband. In this Sicilian family, we have a chain of love to hold it. You can not imagine the power of my hand which touches her, of a kiss on her cheek, of taking her in my arms, of laughing with her. It is then she returns the most to herself. My mom still lives in her house (...) We must put on the track the things she remembers." As the flavors, the smells, the childhood places, well entrenched in her memory...
Determined to speak for those who do not have her reputation and live the same event, the artist wanted to release from the song “L’Oubli” a film with the air of a campaign of sensitivity: "It is not a clip, there is nothing commercial, I have nothing to sell, "she warns. In fact, the video is steeped in sincerity and authenticity: "I put a camera up. I asked each member of my family to sit down and look at the camera, as if watching my mom." The last face to appear in close-up is that of Luisa; but, contrary to what one could believe, this has not been an obvious decision: "I hesitated to put her. This is why she appears only once. I asked her..: she agreed. All that I do around this song, she knows it."
And in terms of oblivion ... "As a savior, a blessing in disguise," as she sings, shattering: "Forgetfulness is the surface that makes us suffer, but it is inside that makes it stand (...) Forgetfulness is a space that no one understands, but it is for her the place that finally her soul retakes. "
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
Lara's desire to help others suffering through this disease is consistent with her penchant for causes, clearly none so dear now than this one which unlike most of her others, touches her so closely.
Appropriately enough, today (March 8) is International Day of the Woman, as Lara’s Team pointed out on her FB site; they posted the link to a version of Lara singing ‘Toutes les femmes en moi’ (https://vimeo.com/100972583) which includes the words “All the women in me are eternal”… Other sites posted other equivalent links e.g. the Lara Fabian est ton autre’ site, www.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=Jy2b8_kDj9Q&app=desktopthe ‘Lara Fabian Is Here’ site, www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDogJy-LB3w&feature=youtu.be. This song has new relevance now…
On Lara official site, the ‘Lara Fabian Italy’ site posted the following (translated) comment: “Woman, a word that expresses love, sensitivity and sincerity, tenderness, weakness, come on, smile, tear, hope, compassion, understanding, adaptation, endurance, irony, carefree, careful, melancholy, pensive, conciliatory, stubborn, obstinate, pushover, Observant, precise, accurate, generous, pungent, feisty, explicit, open, festive, mother, daughter, wife, Grandma, sister, lover, friend, creative and, above all, Creator of life. Woman all this and much more are you.... Best wishes to all the women and you Lara Fabian to all the women in your family and your team.”
Breaking away to other (related) news,it’s almost redundant to mention this, but “L’oubli” is officially the third single from Lara’s album, and has been sent to radio stations. The cover picture for it can be seen for example from the ‘Lara Fabian est ton autre’ site, at
www.facebook.com/166959643357708/photos/a.168982793155393.43222.166959643357708/977123492341315/?type=3&theater
Lara says she has “nothing to sell” in this whole thing, and while sales are clearly far removed from the importance of this event, this does have the possibility of alerting people to the song and the album. [In that sense it is sort of like "Deux ils, deux elles" was for Le Secret, except that the video will not be exploited]. It is also in position to advertise the re-edition of the album, scheduled for the March 25th release. On the French charts, ‘Ma vie dans la tienne’ has gone up three positions in physical CDs (to #105), while in Belgium it has dropped to #21. Actually, for people who don’t want to think about this malady, ‘L’Oubli” could actually have a negative sales effect…
The new concert date in Paris has been revealed, October 2 at the Grand Rex (https://www.facebook.com/larafabianofficial/photos/a.215378125170359.50343.201065806601591/1077195728988590/?type=3&theater). Tickets are already available avosbillets.francebillet.com/place-spectacle/manifestation/Variete-et-chanson-francaises-LARA-FABIAN-CIFAB.htm), and can be found on FNAC. Tickets for this and other shows in Belgium and France, can also be ordered from ticketmaster (http://www.ticketmaster.fr/fr/resultat?ipSearch=Lara+Fabian).
What would be nice for this tour would be for Lara to add the song “"Мама моя" (still never officially released in France), which was, after all, written for her mother…
The recording of the “Dicaire Show” has taken place; it reportedly includes a ‘vocal battle’ between Lara and Veronic Dicaire, as well as a presentation of “L’Oubli”. It will be broadcast March 12th on France 2.
Interesting (and in this case, relevant) photo(s) of the week: Lara’s mother,.
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and then Lara with her mother from her official FB page, used to illustrate the video (and which can be downloaded from the following link)
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Finally, from the Lara Fabian – PHQ site, an emblematic picture of Lara,
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This coming week Lara (and we) will return to the exigencies of her career and tour – publicly; privately we know she will have to deal with this hardship for some time to come. Fortunately, the new tour is just around the corner (in 8 days), so she does/will have other immediate things to concern her.
David
