Post by davidhr on Jul 26, 2022 6:02:54 GMT -5
This past week marked the ‘National Holiday’ of Belgium (e.g.,from the Lara Fabian est ton autre FB site),
www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=586730252821780&set=a.216252733202869
A video celebrating the day from RTBF featured a number of Belgian celebrities [thanks to the ‘Lara Fabian Coeur de lumiere’ FB site for the link] at
www.facebook.com/rtbf/videos/1243884013039875
and Lara shows up at the 47 sec mark with the comment, “On this very special evening I just wanted to tell you happy holidays, I love you my Belgium, happy holidays”.
Otherwise, with Lara largely out of the picture on her vacation, we can at least explore where she has been living . Last week it was noted that Lara had put her house in Bromont, Quebec up for sale (for 3 million Canadian dollars). An article in (https://www.lesmaisons.co/maisons-de-stars/lara-fabian-vend-sa-luxueuse-maison-de-bromont-avec-son-lac-prive) shows just what a buyer will be getting:
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Lara Fabian sells her luxurious Bromont house with its private lake
We completely love the solarium and the master bedroom!
Lara Fabian sells her house! The splendid property is located in Bromont and you just have to see the photos to fall under its spell. The singer is not thinking of leaving Quebec, according to her press officer at 7 Jours magazine.
Instead, she wants to spend a few months alongside her father in Europe and resume her tour, which had been postponed due to the health crisis. Lara Fabian will also promote her cookbook Je passe à table, which will be published in Europe this fall.
In Quebec, she will start looking for a new property closer to the metropolis.
A quick land register confirms that the house, located on a magnificent 8-acre lot with a private lake in Bromont, belongs to the director of the Academy.
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The house, priced at $2,999,999, has 4 bedrooms, two bathrooms and a powder room spread over three floors. There is also a double garage and a gym.
In the event of a breakdown, the property is equipped with a generator which provides energy for up to a week of power interruption.
The garden is fully landscaped with taste.
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The vestibule is warm with its wood paneling on the ceiling.
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We also find a country side throughout the house, which still has a touch of modernity.
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The kitchen has plenty of storage in addition to a large central island.
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Next door is the large dining room lit by the natural light that enters from the bay window.
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Natural light also abounds in the living room, with plenty of windows.
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Our favorite is the solarium, which makes you want to spend the whole day there.
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The first bedroom is quite large and even has its own office.
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The second bedroom is worthy of a decoration magazine with its boho style .
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There is a first large bathroom nearby.
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Let's now take a look in the basement, where a large family room awaits us.
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This is also where we find the other rooms of the house.
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A second full bathroom also awaits us in the basement.
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Another room is used here as a workshop and a sports hall.
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All this next to a beautiful private lake.
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To consult the complete file or to request a visit, click on the link below...
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Wow – these are the luxurious surroundings that Lara has been living in the past several years. One can imagine the amount of work that went into optimizing each of these rooms/locales (and the cost that entailed!). We’ve seen the kitchen, both when Lara cooked with Star Academie candidates, and last week, in the interview on ‘Sucre sale’ with Patrice Belanger. The beautiful large dining room has a magnificent piano! There are many glass windows letting in a lot of light, wonderfully warm wood paneling in some rooms, the bathrooms and bedrooms are scrumptious, as is the private lake. One imagines it will be hard for Lara and her family to leave – or reproduce – this ‘country home’; as the articles notes, she simply wants to move closer to Montreal, which, professionally, would seem beneficial now that she's no longer associated with the Star Academie.
Note also how far removed this is from Lara’s humble upbringings in Belgium, where her father worked as a chimney sweep. Lara has said, and her father has verified, that he had no idea she would be this successful; this home 'drums in' that sentiment in spades!
Interesting pictures/videos of the week: The above pictures really fill out this category, but it’s also worthwhile to mention the many videos that the Lara Fabian Fan Espana site has posted on youtube, at
www.youtube.com/channel/UCsEnKtdg_or0hWbA4Dt_rJw/videos
A number of them come with French subtitles. A beautiful job of collecting them all.
The Lara the Ring Fabian repeated for ‘Je t’aime’ what she had done for Caruso previously, putting together a complete performance based on Lara’s singing of the song from 1998-2022, at
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TYYTIetrVI&ab_channel=LaraTheRingFabian
Another wonderful ‘medley’…
[And while Lara has not sung ‘Tout’ in the last number of years, it would be interesting to do the same thing with that song, because she altered it in various ways over several decades – the beat, the harmonies, etc. – perhaps looking for a way to make this, one of her original highly popular songs, acceptable to her].
The Lara Fabian est ton autre FB site posted a picture of the ‘piano bar’ that helped Lara early in her career, at
www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=589523425875796&set=pcb.589523442542461
with the caption, “Where it all began for Lara and where encounters built a promising career. An accomplished artist...
See you soon on the concert roads Lara”
And we know Lara met a certain ‘Rick Allison’ in the piano bar…With that in mind, Lara the Ring Fabian posted the video of the wonderful interview with Lara from last September on the show ‘Pour em porter’ (with English subtitles added), available at
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuutseQft1M&ab_channel=LaraTheRingFabian
At about the 11:08 mark, Lara was asked what she thought about the description that “Rick Allison the pygmalion, ‘shaped’ the little Italo-Belgian girl into an international diva.” In particular, Lara was asked what she thought about the word ‘shaped’, and also the use of the name Pygmalion, who is defined as “man who teaches his mistress, man who advises and shapes a woman to build her into a successful person”. Lara’s response was that definition was likely written by a man, and those terms were not chosen by them. Furthermore, “Rick and I were a team. So when somebody says he shaped me, he simply encouraged me. When someone says he taught me, he simply informed me when I didn’t know. We could use much better terms to define what we gave each other…I’ve never been afraid of saying that I wouldn’t be who I am today without Rick. That without his faith, his vision and his courage, I wouldn’t have the career I have today.”
Fan sites will likely continue to scramble to provide Lara-related material for the rest of the summer, unless something unforeseen arises (such as, ‘what I did on my vacation’ photos from Lara – not impossible, but don’t hold your breath). Stay safe, everybody,
David
www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=586730252821780&set=a.216252733202869
A video celebrating the day from RTBF featured a number of Belgian celebrities [thanks to the ‘Lara Fabian Coeur de lumiere’ FB site for the link] at
www.facebook.com/rtbf/videos/1243884013039875
and Lara shows up at the 47 sec mark with the comment, “On this very special evening I just wanted to tell you happy holidays, I love you my Belgium, happy holidays”.
Otherwise, with Lara largely out of the picture on her vacation, we can at least explore where she has been living . Last week it was noted that Lara had put her house in Bromont, Quebec up for sale (for 3 million Canadian dollars). An article in (https://www.lesmaisons.co/maisons-de-stars/lara-fabian-vend-sa-luxueuse-maison-de-bromont-avec-son-lac-prive) shows just what a buyer will be getting:
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Lara Fabian sells her luxurious Bromont house with its private lake
We completely love the solarium and the master bedroom!
Lara Fabian sells her house! The splendid property is located in Bromont and you just have to see the photos to fall under its spell. The singer is not thinking of leaving Quebec, according to her press officer at 7 Jours magazine.
Instead, she wants to spend a few months alongside her father in Europe and resume her tour, which had been postponed due to the health crisis. Lara Fabian will also promote her cookbook Je passe à table, which will be published in Europe this fall.
In Quebec, she will start looking for a new property closer to the metropolis.
A quick land register confirms that the house, located on a magnificent 8-acre lot with a private lake in Bromont, belongs to the director of the Academy.
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The house, priced at $2,999,999, has 4 bedrooms, two bathrooms and a powder room spread over three floors. There is also a double garage and a gym.
In the event of a breakdown, the property is equipped with a generator which provides energy for up to a week of power interruption.
The garden is fully landscaped with taste.
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The vestibule is warm with its wood paneling on the ceiling.
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We also find a country side throughout the house, which still has a touch of modernity.
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The kitchen has plenty of storage in addition to a large central island.
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Next door is the large dining room lit by the natural light that enters from the bay window.
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Natural light also abounds in the living room, with plenty of windows.
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Our favorite is the solarium, which makes you want to spend the whole day there.
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The first bedroom is quite large and even has its own office.
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The second bedroom is worthy of a decoration magazine with its boho style .
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There is a first large bathroom nearby.
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Let's now take a look in the basement, where a large family room awaits us.
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This is also where we find the other rooms of the house.
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A second full bathroom also awaits us in the basement.
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Another room is used here as a workshop and a sports hall.
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All this next to a beautiful private lake.
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To consult the complete file or to request a visit, click on the link below...
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Wow – these are the luxurious surroundings that Lara has been living in the past several years. One can imagine the amount of work that went into optimizing each of these rooms/locales (and the cost that entailed!). We’ve seen the kitchen, both when Lara cooked with Star Academie candidates, and last week, in the interview on ‘Sucre sale’ with Patrice Belanger. The beautiful large dining room has a magnificent piano! There are many glass windows letting in a lot of light, wonderfully warm wood paneling in some rooms, the bathrooms and bedrooms are scrumptious, as is the private lake. One imagines it will be hard for Lara and her family to leave – or reproduce – this ‘country home’; as the articles notes, she simply wants to move closer to Montreal, which, professionally, would seem beneficial now that she's no longer associated with the Star Academie.
Note also how far removed this is from Lara’s humble upbringings in Belgium, where her father worked as a chimney sweep. Lara has said, and her father has verified, that he had no idea she would be this successful; this home 'drums in' that sentiment in spades!
Interesting pictures/videos of the week: The above pictures really fill out this category, but it’s also worthwhile to mention the many videos that the Lara Fabian Fan Espana site has posted on youtube, at
www.youtube.com/channel/UCsEnKtdg_or0hWbA4Dt_rJw/videos
A number of them come with French subtitles. A beautiful job of collecting them all.
The Lara the Ring Fabian repeated for ‘Je t’aime’ what she had done for Caruso previously, putting together a complete performance based on Lara’s singing of the song from 1998-2022, at
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TYYTIetrVI&ab_channel=LaraTheRingFabian
Another wonderful ‘medley’…
[And while Lara has not sung ‘Tout’ in the last number of years, it would be interesting to do the same thing with that song, because she altered it in various ways over several decades – the beat, the harmonies, etc. – perhaps looking for a way to make this, one of her original highly popular songs, acceptable to her].
The Lara Fabian est ton autre FB site posted a picture of the ‘piano bar’ that helped Lara early in her career, at
www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=589523425875796&set=pcb.589523442542461
with the caption, “Where it all began for Lara and where encounters built a promising career. An accomplished artist...
See you soon on the concert roads Lara”
And we know Lara met a certain ‘Rick Allison’ in the piano bar…With that in mind, Lara the Ring Fabian posted the video of the wonderful interview with Lara from last September on the show ‘Pour em porter’ (with English subtitles added), available at
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuutseQft1M&ab_channel=LaraTheRingFabian
At about the 11:08 mark, Lara was asked what she thought about the description that “Rick Allison the pygmalion, ‘shaped’ the little Italo-Belgian girl into an international diva.” In particular, Lara was asked what she thought about the word ‘shaped’, and also the use of the name Pygmalion, who is defined as “man who teaches his mistress, man who advises and shapes a woman to build her into a successful person”. Lara’s response was that definition was likely written by a man, and those terms were not chosen by them. Furthermore, “Rick and I were a team. So when somebody says he shaped me, he simply encouraged me. When someone says he taught me, he simply informed me when I didn’t know. We could use much better terms to define what we gave each other…I’ve never been afraid of saying that I wouldn’t be who I am today without Rick. That without his faith, his vision and his courage, I wouldn’t have the career I have today.”
Fan sites will likely continue to scramble to provide Lara-related material for the rest of the summer, unless something unforeseen arises (such as, ‘what I did on my vacation’ photos from Lara – not impossible, but don’t hold your breath). Stay safe, everybody,
David