Post by davidhr on Jun 25, 2019 7:07:48 GMT -5
A mix of Quebec and European media events for Lara this past week. Lara included two pictures on her FB site in honor of Saint-Jean-Baptiste day in Quebec. The first, at
www.facebook.com/larafabianofficial/photos/a.622966977744803/2890571680984310/?type=3&theater
had the caption “Happy holiday to the Quebecers of my heart ... I love you...”
while the second, at
www.facebook.com/larafabianofficial/photos/a.622966977744803/2891327617575383/?type=3&theater
included the comment, “In Mont-Tremblant... beautiful day... Happy Saint-Jean to all Quebecers...”
From Wikipedia: “Saint-Jean-Baptiste Day (French: Fête de la Saint-Jean-Baptiste, la Saint-Jean, Fête Nationale du Québec), also known in English as St John the Baptist Day, is a holiday celebrated on June 24 in the Canadian province of Quebec and by French Canadians across Canada and the United States. It was brought to Canada by French settlers celebrating the traditional feast day of the Nativity of St. John the Baptist. It has been declared a public holiday in Quebec with publicly financed events organized province-wide by a Comité organisateur de la fête nationale du Québec.”
In other news, various interviews with Lara are continuing to emerge from her recent trip to France. One such occurred on Europe 1 (https://www.europe1.fr/culture/lara-fabian-je-ne-changerais-pas-un-iota-un-centimetre-du-chemin-3905943?fbclid=IwAR1o4yxvP3zoA9LEd-hV56KD2oFqvHPt84ENeREH7Dv3pMvJUATTXrCYkpk); here’s the translation of the accompanying article:
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I Would Not Change One Iota, One Centimeter of the Road
The singer is releasing a new album called "Papillon", continues her coaching work in "The Voice" Canada and envisages opening a school. Among all these activities, she confided in Isabelle Morizet.
She has made herself rather scarce to the French media. Yet, she carries a career of 25 years, which moreover is international. Currently in Quebec to be a coach in La Voix, the Canadian version of The Voice, the singer known in France since 1997, is also releasing a new album, Papillon. She returned to her cosmopolitan life and her upcoming projects in the show “Il n'y a pas qu'une vie dans la vie”.
A "child who sang"
From Lara Fabian, we know the almost diva voice, and her songs with powerful flights: Je t’aime. Adagio. I will love again …We know less that she has traveled and lived in different parts of the globe. Born in Belgium to a Sicilian mother of Andalusian descent and a Belgian father, Lara Fabian was the only child of parents who sang. "It defined me, I was always a child singing." At age 5, she announces: "Dad I'm a singer." Twelve years later, she wears the colors of Luxembourg at Eurovision 1988, then it is in Canada that her career takes off.
Pedagogy and art school
She went on to conquer at age 20 with her composer Rick Allison. Her father had put "the savings of a lifetime" in her first album. A hope that had turned into glory. Quickly, Canada had adopted her "childlike, solar, cheerful" side. Today, after leaving her Andalusian home with daughter and husband, she is back in Quebec where for two seasons she has been coaching in "La Voix". "We should stay in Montreal for a few more years. It was a real gamble. The mom in me was very worried and finally, it was a very good choice (...) I found an audience who sees me differently, not just like the singer but as a human being. It's a bombshell of love that's quite overwhelming", she says, filled by the pedagogue side of the show.
She who has also just released a new album titled Papillon has the distance of maturity: "The time is no longer one of lyrical recurring flights just to mark the performance. It can be on stage if it is our DNA and it's mine but it's not the most popular musical modality today." By combining her own experience and her coaching experience, she hopes to create an artists' school in 2020.
"Myself, I met some really important women on the way, it was a great trip, a great voyage this profession. I saw at what point technical advice was important, like listening to and understanding the needs of women. an artist. It takes a little courage and a little determination. And above all, I think you have to be lucid. It is something that you sometimes forget, especially after a success", she says.
Stromae, Mathilde Seigner
The singer would start this new page in Quebec, again. "I will see how it is received, welcomed" before perhaps continuing the school experience in Belgium." On the eve of her 50th birthday, she assures: "I will not change one iota, one centimeter of the way, that leads me to be here. I have the feeling that it's my destiny and it's right that it be like that." Remain some dreams thrown on the fly: perhaps collaborate with Stromae , who she finds "pioneering and inspiring", spending time in Japan for the culture of the country that she "loves deeply" and also why not turn a comedy with ... Mathilde Seigner.
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The French public has certainly been getting reminders that Lara is not the typical ‘French’ singer, and that she has returned to the country of her professional origin in going back to Quebec. One imagines that had been forgotten to some extent throughout all her time, availability, and battles in the French media.
Then there was an article about Lara in ‘Femme Actuelle’ (https://www.femmeactuelle.fr/actu/news-actu/lara-fabian-ses-confidences-bouleversantes-sur-la-mort-de-sa-mere-2079879?fbclid=IwAR2e0ZoEshZYxkYy6XjJhQehNegWJmHGxRpKtQEFRp2VlAP2FzNKTMIPG-g). Here’s the translation:
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Lara Fabian: Her Heartbreaking Confidences About Her Mother's Death
Faustine Bollaert received Lara Fabian in her kitchen. The opportunity for the singer to confide on the death of her mother she loved so much.
She is celebrating her 30-year career, has sold more than 20 million albums, could boast of having sung with Johnny Hallyday at the Stade de France and owning her wax statue at the Musée Grévin. Everything smiles on Lara Fabian as can be seen as Faustine Bollaert has invited her into her kitchen to taste a delicious salad from Nice concocted by Benoit Gauthier, the chef of Gran Pan.
The tour she organized to celebrate her 50th birthday, her daughter Lou, whom she is so close to, the ‘magical love story’ she lives with her beautiful Italian Gabriel Di Giorgio: the singer with dual Belgian and Canadian nationality has confided with an open heart. She has no longer hidden having gone through gray, sad days since the death of her beloved mother who she loved so much. She went away from it a few weeks ago. And obviously, for Lara Fabian, it was terrible. "This is the greatest sorrow," she confided to Faustine from the outset. The weather may well pass, nothing alleviates this immense sorrow. But to keep hold, Lara Fabian wants to remember that her mother would have liked to see her standing up, valiant. "I think that she would like me to live, I think about what she instilled in me, I think about the collapse that she would not allow me", she says.
Courageous and fighter. This is how her mother raised her. That's how she likes to see her daughter. So for her, to be at the height of her memory, worthy of the love she has for her and the one she gave her, Lara Fabian dried up her tears. Even if she still sometimes pours them.
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The link provided above has the short video of this interview. Lara had to keep a ‘stiff upper lip’ in the time after her mother’s death, since she had La Voix appearances, and then her promotional tour in France. It must have taken quite an effort…
[An interview with Lara appeared in ‘Closer’ magazine www.closermag.fr/people/interview-lara-fabian-50-ans-c-est-un-chiffre-pas-un-etat-d-esprit-981860?fbclid=IwAR2_94_sC1PTFNJI8t-H27odiLSi6eJQllO5S1tiz5tfeduN1ZMP3h65mG00, dated June 22. However, scans for it were available several months earlier, and in fact it was translated in the News Update for 4/9/19].
In Belgium, Lara was on the program “C’est une tre bonne question…Lara Fabian” on Bel RTL with the audio available at
With respect to Lara’s appearance last week at the benefit for the Leski Foundation, a video is available at
www.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=8jRzYndpK5k&fbclid=IwAR1_c7wunU1OOEvdHzPlVQoQFwMcmjpYJNITPHUGgnMjYmt5xsrXBEYr_Uo&app=desktop
You get to see both Lara and cute dogs!
Interesting photo(s) of the week: from the Lara Fabian Bein Plus qu’une Passion: Corse Reunion site,
www.facebook.com/LaraFabianBienPlusQuunePassionCorseReunion/photos/a.501228263404688/1136895116504663/?type=3&theater
Later this week, Lara will join a dozen or more artists to raise funds for those affected by the spring-time floods in Quebec. A poster, re-posted by the Lara Fabian web FB site, at
www.facebook.com/825848224126161/photos/a.827587117285605/2519216848122615/?type=3&theater
shows Lara to be one of the headliners. It’s somewhat surprising, then, that Lara is not advertising it on her FB site (at least not at the time of this writing).
Outside of this event, the only thing we know of is the “Festival d'été” of Québec on July 9. She has now mentioned that the school she intends to open will be first in Quebec; one wonders when she will get started on that. And of course there's the tour to plan...But, after all, it is now summer, so hopefully she can relax and enjoy the outdoors (and so can we).
David
www.facebook.com/larafabianofficial/photos/a.622966977744803/2890571680984310/?type=3&theater
had the caption “Happy holiday to the Quebecers of my heart ... I love you...”
while the second, at
www.facebook.com/larafabianofficial/photos/a.622966977744803/2891327617575383/?type=3&theater
included the comment, “In Mont-Tremblant... beautiful day... Happy Saint-Jean to all Quebecers...”
From Wikipedia: “Saint-Jean-Baptiste Day (French: Fête de la Saint-Jean-Baptiste, la Saint-Jean, Fête Nationale du Québec), also known in English as St John the Baptist Day, is a holiday celebrated on June 24 in the Canadian province of Quebec and by French Canadians across Canada and the United States. It was brought to Canada by French settlers celebrating the traditional feast day of the Nativity of St. John the Baptist. It has been declared a public holiday in Quebec with publicly financed events organized province-wide by a Comité organisateur de la fête nationale du Québec.”
In other news, various interviews with Lara are continuing to emerge from her recent trip to France. One such occurred on Europe 1 (https://www.europe1.fr/culture/lara-fabian-je-ne-changerais-pas-un-iota-un-centimetre-du-chemin-3905943?fbclid=IwAR1o4yxvP3zoA9LEd-hV56KD2oFqvHPt84ENeREH7Dv3pMvJUATTXrCYkpk); here’s the translation of the accompanying article:
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I Would Not Change One Iota, One Centimeter of the Road
The singer is releasing a new album called "Papillon", continues her coaching work in "The Voice" Canada and envisages opening a school. Among all these activities, she confided in Isabelle Morizet.
She has made herself rather scarce to the French media. Yet, she carries a career of 25 years, which moreover is international. Currently in Quebec to be a coach in La Voix, the Canadian version of The Voice, the singer known in France since 1997, is also releasing a new album, Papillon. She returned to her cosmopolitan life and her upcoming projects in the show “Il n'y a pas qu'une vie dans la vie”.
A "child who sang"
From Lara Fabian, we know the almost diva voice, and her songs with powerful flights: Je t’aime. Adagio. I will love again …We know less that she has traveled and lived in different parts of the globe. Born in Belgium to a Sicilian mother of Andalusian descent and a Belgian father, Lara Fabian was the only child of parents who sang. "It defined me, I was always a child singing." At age 5, she announces: "Dad I'm a singer." Twelve years later, she wears the colors of Luxembourg at Eurovision 1988, then it is in Canada that her career takes off.
Pedagogy and art school
She went on to conquer at age 20 with her composer Rick Allison. Her father had put "the savings of a lifetime" in her first album. A hope that had turned into glory. Quickly, Canada had adopted her "childlike, solar, cheerful" side. Today, after leaving her Andalusian home with daughter and husband, she is back in Quebec where for two seasons she has been coaching in "La Voix". "We should stay in Montreal for a few more years. It was a real gamble. The mom in me was very worried and finally, it was a very good choice (...) I found an audience who sees me differently, not just like the singer but as a human being. It's a bombshell of love that's quite overwhelming", she says, filled by the pedagogue side of the show.
She who has also just released a new album titled Papillon has the distance of maturity: "The time is no longer one of lyrical recurring flights just to mark the performance. It can be on stage if it is our DNA and it's mine but it's not the most popular musical modality today." By combining her own experience and her coaching experience, she hopes to create an artists' school in 2020.
"Myself, I met some really important women on the way, it was a great trip, a great voyage this profession. I saw at what point technical advice was important, like listening to and understanding the needs of women. an artist. It takes a little courage and a little determination. And above all, I think you have to be lucid. It is something that you sometimes forget, especially after a success", she says.
Stromae, Mathilde Seigner
The singer would start this new page in Quebec, again. "I will see how it is received, welcomed" before perhaps continuing the school experience in Belgium." On the eve of her 50th birthday, she assures: "I will not change one iota, one centimeter of the way, that leads me to be here. I have the feeling that it's my destiny and it's right that it be like that." Remain some dreams thrown on the fly: perhaps collaborate with Stromae , who she finds "pioneering and inspiring", spending time in Japan for the culture of the country that she "loves deeply" and also why not turn a comedy with ... Mathilde Seigner.
--------------------------------------------
The French public has certainly been getting reminders that Lara is not the typical ‘French’ singer, and that she has returned to the country of her professional origin in going back to Quebec. One imagines that had been forgotten to some extent throughout all her time, availability, and battles in the French media.
Then there was an article about Lara in ‘Femme Actuelle’ (https://www.femmeactuelle.fr/actu/news-actu/lara-fabian-ses-confidences-bouleversantes-sur-la-mort-de-sa-mere-2079879?fbclid=IwAR2e0ZoEshZYxkYy6XjJhQehNegWJmHGxRpKtQEFRp2VlAP2FzNKTMIPG-g). Here’s the translation:
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Lara Fabian: Her Heartbreaking Confidences About Her Mother's Death
Faustine Bollaert received Lara Fabian in her kitchen. The opportunity for the singer to confide on the death of her mother she loved so much.
She is celebrating her 30-year career, has sold more than 20 million albums, could boast of having sung with Johnny Hallyday at the Stade de France and owning her wax statue at the Musée Grévin. Everything smiles on Lara Fabian as can be seen as Faustine Bollaert has invited her into her kitchen to taste a delicious salad from Nice concocted by Benoit Gauthier, the chef of Gran Pan.
The tour she organized to celebrate her 50th birthday, her daughter Lou, whom she is so close to, the ‘magical love story’ she lives with her beautiful Italian Gabriel Di Giorgio: the singer with dual Belgian and Canadian nationality has confided with an open heart. She has no longer hidden having gone through gray, sad days since the death of her beloved mother who she loved so much. She went away from it a few weeks ago. And obviously, for Lara Fabian, it was terrible. "This is the greatest sorrow," she confided to Faustine from the outset. The weather may well pass, nothing alleviates this immense sorrow. But to keep hold, Lara Fabian wants to remember that her mother would have liked to see her standing up, valiant. "I think that she would like me to live, I think about what she instilled in me, I think about the collapse that she would not allow me", she says.
Courageous and fighter. This is how her mother raised her. That's how she likes to see her daughter. So for her, to be at the height of her memory, worthy of the love she has for her and the one she gave her, Lara Fabian dried up her tears. Even if she still sometimes pours them.
-------------------------------------
The link provided above has the short video of this interview. Lara had to keep a ‘stiff upper lip’ in the time after her mother’s death, since she had La Voix appearances, and then her promotional tour in France. It must have taken quite an effort…
[An interview with Lara appeared in ‘Closer’ magazine www.closermag.fr/people/interview-lara-fabian-50-ans-c-est-un-chiffre-pas-un-etat-d-esprit-981860?fbclid=IwAR2_94_sC1PTFNJI8t-H27odiLSi6eJQllO5S1tiz5tfeduN1ZMP3h65mG00, dated June 22. However, scans for it were available several months earlier, and in fact it was translated in the News Update for 4/9/19].
In Belgium, Lara was on the program “C’est une tre bonne question…Lara Fabian” on Bel RTL with the audio available at
The focus was on Papillon, her name/history, the return to Canada, Life, Love, etc. ending in a series of short questions. In sum, a quite intelligent interview. It is now becoming more apparent to the various hosts that Lara is actually living in Quebec, and not in Belgium, and as much as she tries to ‘soft sell’ this occurrence, it’s becoming real to all concerned.
With respect to Lara’s appearance last week at the benefit for the Leski Foundation, a video is available at
www.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=8jRzYndpK5k&fbclid=IwAR1_c7wunU1OOEvdHzPlVQoQFwMcmjpYJNITPHUGgnMjYmt5xsrXBEYr_Uo&app=desktop
You get to see both Lara and cute dogs!
Interesting photo(s) of the week: from the Lara Fabian Bein Plus qu’une Passion: Corse Reunion site,
www.facebook.com/LaraFabianBienPlusQuunePassionCorseReunion/photos/a.501228263404688/1136895116504663/?type=3&theater
Later this week, Lara will join a dozen or more artists to raise funds for those affected by the spring-time floods in Quebec. A poster, re-posted by the Lara Fabian web FB site, at
www.facebook.com/825848224126161/photos/a.827587117285605/2519216848122615/?type=3&theater
shows Lara to be one of the headliners. It’s somewhat surprising, then, that Lara is not advertising it on her FB site (at least not at the time of this writing).
Outside of this event, the only thing we know of is the “Festival d'été” of Québec on July 9. She has now mentioned that the school she intends to open will be first in Quebec; one wonders when she will get started on that. And of course there's the tour to plan...But, after all, it is now summer, so hopefully she can relax and enjoy the outdoors (and so can we).
David