Post by davidhr on May 30, 2023 7:21:00 GMT -5
In what is effectively (though not officially) the last full week of Spring, Lara’s name was in the news primarily because her song Adagio was sung on the French version of The Voice. Here’s the description (https://www.tf1.fr/tf1/the-voice/videos/the-voice-2023-arslane-chante-adagio-de-lara-fabian-72422191.html):
“Arslane is a talent that moved the whole of France and even made his coach Amel Bent cry during the Super Cross Battles. This young talent is a generous man who does not hesitate to miss rehearsals in order to give his free time to take care of the elderly. Tonight, he will try to reach his impossible dream: to win his place in the final! Arslane singing "Adagio" by Lara Fabian. Will he be able to qualify for the final? Excerpt from The Voice of May 27, 2023.”
And…did it work? Yes! (https://www.tf1info.fr/culture/video-en-direct-emission-the-voice-2023-sur-tf1-qui-se-qualifiera-pour-la-finale-2258452.html). It can be seen at
www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2DJOuFqMb0
Definitely worth a listen! The final will consist of all male performers: Arslane and Micha (Amel Bent team), Aurélien (Zazie team) and Jérémy Levif (Vianney team).
This was not the only song Lara sings that he performed. He also did a rendition of Caruso, which can be seen at www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNMsxaD2oGQ. Surprising that people didn’t notice this additional connection to Lara.
An article about the new season in France of the Star Academie (at www.programme-tv.net/news/tv/328111-star-academy-2023-date-de-diffusion-professeurs-casting-ce-que-lon-sait-sur-la-nouvelle-saison-de-lemission/) supplied the names of a few of the teachers: Although nothing is as yet signed, Yanis Marshall and Adeline Toniutti will return to teach dance and singing. Remember that after Lara’s appearance on the show last year, there was some suggestion she might be the singing teacher this year. It was also suggested she might take the post of Director, but her being on the new TF1 reality show for youngsters makes that unlikely. As to who will be the director, the article, in cryptic terms says, “Until now director of the Star Academy, the role of Michael Goldman could evolve.”
As long as we’re bordering on off-topic issues, one that clearly qualifies but is also of interest concerns Celine Dion. You may have heard that she is cancelling her 2023 tour. As noted in an article at (https://www.gala.fr/l_actu/news_de_stars/celine-dion-annule-sa-tournee-que-sait-on-vraiment-de-son-etat-de-sante_521484), “In December 2022, the 55-year-old Quebec singer explained that she had a rare neurological disease, called 'stiff man syndrome'. Carefully cared for by her doctors, Celine Dion suffers in particular from spasms and recurrent muscle pain.”
“Unfortunately, these spasms affect all aspects of my daily life, sometimes causing difficulty when I walk and not allowing me to use my vocal cords to sing as I did before," she said, on the edge of the tears, in December 2022. Unfortunately there is no known cure, though research is continuing.
The article does, after all, have a reference to Lara by noting that she was one of the stars who broke the taboo of talking about one’s disease. In a related article at ((https://photo.gala.fr/photos-lara-fabian-michel-cymes-celine-dion-les-stars-qui-ont-brise-le-tabou-de-la-maladie-en-2022-52138#celine-dion-leve-le-voile-sur-la-maladie-qui-l-empeche-de-remonter-sur-scene-8qpid)), it says:
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Lara Fabian gave herself over to anorexia
In her book, Tout, published on September 22, Lara Fabian talks about eating disorders, which have plagued her life for many years.
"At the end of April 1999, in a popular restaurant in New York called Scalinatella, where all the Oscar-winning cinema throngs, where I am a regular customer with my 'friends' from showbiz, for the first time I do not keep my meal", she writes.
Then begins "a descent into hell", "slowly but surely". "I will fight against an animal called complex eating disorder. I will hurt myself. It will last seven long years", remembers the artist.
“I will oscillate between weeks where everything is apparently fine. Weeks where I will eat an apple cut into seven wedges for each day. (…) Other weeks where I will spend entire nights with my head in the basin".
Faced with the disease, she can count on the support of several women: "For many years, they will engage, repeat themselves, also get angry... They will do everything possible to get me cured. It will work, it will take years , but I will recover". "Very slowly I will regain hope, I will regain a taste for everything. I will once again touch the confines of what defines me, beyond the shadows", she concludes.
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And one last out-of-topic which we can relate to Lara, is that Laura Pausini (whose duet with Lara is well known) has announced the start of her long awaited world tour (https://www.notaalpie.com.ar/2023/05/26/cuando-es-la-gira-de-laura-pausini/). [Hence this is the inverse of what is happening with Celine]. As noted in the article, “It will start in December in Rome. And it will take her to more than thirty cities between Europe and America, stepping on Argentine soil on Wednesday, February 28, 2024, at the Movistar Arena in Buenos Aires.” It’s worth noting that she also includes Brazil, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia and Mexico. This is appropriate, since she released an album in Spanish in 1994, a production made up of songs from her two albums in Italian. “This opened the doors for her both in Spain and in most Latin American countries, as well as the United States.” [She also has albums in English, French and Portuguese].
We can contrast this with Lara who released a few wonderful (and popular) songs in Spanish on the European Version of her first English album with Sony, and has had several others over the years, but has made little effort to pursue the Latin American audience. As those in the “Lara Fabian Brasil” fanclub (once one of the most active) know, despite a very enthusiastic reception there, she has never gone back; the one concert she actually scheduled there years later was cancelled because the ticket sales did not justify her bringing her musicians that distance. Sony was the company that was pushing for Lara to have truly world-wide familiarity, and when she broke up with them, that impetus was lost. As with the U.S., one can’t maintain popularity in a country (or continent) one doesn’t visit for many years.
Interesting photo(s)/video(s) of the week: Continuing the unintentional theme of ‘other singers of note’ in this Update, The Lara Fabian America FB site posted a video of Lara performing a rock video that included a Tina Turner cover, Proud Mary, in the wake of her death this past week. It can be found at
www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1YEy7_sJ2k
These News Updates were involved in the video of that full concert (Brussels, 1998) from which this video was taken. [An up-scaled version was provided by Lara Fabian multi-media last year (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2jUO1ahVqU), but the original was posted in 2007 (https://www.youtube.com/mcbg1 /videos)]. Back then I had provided an earlier, poor quality version of this concert for which I had managed to improve the audio, but had lamented the video quality. As noted in the following post from 3/10/2007, [at the third site on which these News Updates are posted, www.tapatalk.com/groups/lfiag/bruxelles-1998-videos-better-quality-t669.html],
From kcmc13:
“I was lucky enough to receive recently a high quality video of Lara's 1998 Bruxelles concert. Only problem: the sound quality sucked. David here was nice enough to fix the audio and put it over the better quality video so here's the first file, let me know if you guys think it would be worth it to upload the full concert:
Je T'aime: www.sendspace.com/file/03qp6a
Special thanks again to David”
Needless to say, there was great enthusiasm for posting the entire concert, and so on 3/17/07, kcmc13 wrote, “I uploaded the full concert to youtube: www.youtube.com/profile?user=mcbg1
I'll upload the rest of the mpgs this week.” And so he did. [On a more personal note, I have no idea whether this person knows that the work is still being appreciated…]
From the Lara Fabian Family FB page, a truly beautiful picture of Lara,
www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=203933285852613&set=a.111099345136008
The Lara Fabian Tribute Channel uploaded a compendium of beautiful pictures of Lara to the soundtrack of Saisir le Jour, available at
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWImfKcymVE
There was a time when many such compendiums were put together of her; nice to see another one.
Since there were a number of non-Lara singers discussed in this news update, it seems appropriate to end by mentioning that the Lara Fabian The Netherlands FB site has a weekly feature of non-Lara topics from youtube. This week it was on Eva Cassidy, at
www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=726919062774820&set=a.669836675149726
From the Eva Cassidy website (https://evacassidy.org/): “Eva died in 1996 from melanoma, the most deadly form of skin cancer. Her music was little-known during her 33 years of life, but today her soul-stirring voice is reaching people all over the world.”
This Update has featured performers in all stages of their career: just starting out, flourishing, perhaps ending, and ended. And then there’s Lara, who appears to be in a low key phase as far as her active recording career is concerned, but who is becoming more of a TV star/teacher and occasional performer. The circle of life… (with acknowledgement to yet one more singer, Elton John).
David
“Arslane is a talent that moved the whole of France and even made his coach Amel Bent cry during the Super Cross Battles. This young talent is a generous man who does not hesitate to miss rehearsals in order to give his free time to take care of the elderly. Tonight, he will try to reach his impossible dream: to win his place in the final! Arslane singing "Adagio" by Lara Fabian. Will he be able to qualify for the final? Excerpt from The Voice of May 27, 2023.”
And…did it work? Yes! (https://www.tf1info.fr/culture/video-en-direct-emission-the-voice-2023-sur-tf1-qui-se-qualifiera-pour-la-finale-2258452.html). It can be seen at
www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2DJOuFqMb0
Definitely worth a listen! The final will consist of all male performers: Arslane and Micha (Amel Bent team), Aurélien (Zazie team) and Jérémy Levif (Vianney team).
This was not the only song Lara sings that he performed. He also did a rendition of Caruso, which can be seen at www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNMsxaD2oGQ. Surprising that people didn’t notice this additional connection to Lara.
An article about the new season in France of the Star Academie (at www.programme-tv.net/news/tv/328111-star-academy-2023-date-de-diffusion-professeurs-casting-ce-que-lon-sait-sur-la-nouvelle-saison-de-lemission/) supplied the names of a few of the teachers: Although nothing is as yet signed, Yanis Marshall and Adeline Toniutti will return to teach dance and singing. Remember that after Lara’s appearance on the show last year, there was some suggestion she might be the singing teacher this year. It was also suggested she might take the post of Director, but her being on the new TF1 reality show for youngsters makes that unlikely. As to who will be the director, the article, in cryptic terms says, “Until now director of the Star Academy, the role of Michael Goldman could evolve.”
As long as we’re bordering on off-topic issues, one that clearly qualifies but is also of interest concerns Celine Dion. You may have heard that she is cancelling her 2023 tour. As noted in an article at (https://www.gala.fr/l_actu/news_de_stars/celine-dion-annule-sa-tournee-que-sait-on-vraiment-de-son-etat-de-sante_521484), “In December 2022, the 55-year-old Quebec singer explained that she had a rare neurological disease, called 'stiff man syndrome'. Carefully cared for by her doctors, Celine Dion suffers in particular from spasms and recurrent muscle pain.”
“Unfortunately, these spasms affect all aspects of my daily life, sometimes causing difficulty when I walk and not allowing me to use my vocal cords to sing as I did before," she said, on the edge of the tears, in December 2022. Unfortunately there is no known cure, though research is continuing.
The article does, after all, have a reference to Lara by noting that she was one of the stars who broke the taboo of talking about one’s disease. In a related article at ((https://photo.gala.fr/photos-lara-fabian-michel-cymes-celine-dion-les-stars-qui-ont-brise-le-tabou-de-la-maladie-en-2022-52138#celine-dion-leve-le-voile-sur-la-maladie-qui-l-empeche-de-remonter-sur-scene-8qpid)), it says:
-----------------------------
Lara Fabian gave herself over to anorexia
In her book, Tout, published on September 22, Lara Fabian talks about eating disorders, which have plagued her life for many years.
"At the end of April 1999, in a popular restaurant in New York called Scalinatella, where all the Oscar-winning cinema throngs, where I am a regular customer with my 'friends' from showbiz, for the first time I do not keep my meal", she writes.
Then begins "a descent into hell", "slowly but surely". "I will fight against an animal called complex eating disorder. I will hurt myself. It will last seven long years", remembers the artist.
“I will oscillate between weeks where everything is apparently fine. Weeks where I will eat an apple cut into seven wedges for each day. (…) Other weeks where I will spend entire nights with my head in the basin".
Faced with the disease, she can count on the support of several women: "For many years, they will engage, repeat themselves, also get angry... They will do everything possible to get me cured. It will work, it will take years , but I will recover". "Very slowly I will regain hope, I will regain a taste for everything. I will once again touch the confines of what defines me, beyond the shadows", she concludes.
--------------------------
And one last out-of-topic which we can relate to Lara, is that Laura Pausini (whose duet with Lara is well known) has announced the start of her long awaited world tour (https://www.notaalpie.com.ar/2023/05/26/cuando-es-la-gira-de-laura-pausini/). [Hence this is the inverse of what is happening with Celine]. As noted in the article, “It will start in December in Rome. And it will take her to more than thirty cities between Europe and America, stepping on Argentine soil on Wednesday, February 28, 2024, at the Movistar Arena in Buenos Aires.” It’s worth noting that she also includes Brazil, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia and Mexico. This is appropriate, since she released an album in Spanish in 1994, a production made up of songs from her two albums in Italian. “This opened the doors for her both in Spain and in most Latin American countries, as well as the United States.” [She also has albums in English, French and Portuguese].
We can contrast this with Lara who released a few wonderful (and popular) songs in Spanish on the European Version of her first English album with Sony, and has had several others over the years, but has made little effort to pursue the Latin American audience. As those in the “Lara Fabian Brasil” fanclub (once one of the most active) know, despite a very enthusiastic reception there, she has never gone back; the one concert she actually scheduled there years later was cancelled because the ticket sales did not justify her bringing her musicians that distance. Sony was the company that was pushing for Lara to have truly world-wide familiarity, and when she broke up with them, that impetus was lost. As with the U.S., one can’t maintain popularity in a country (or continent) one doesn’t visit for many years.
Interesting photo(s)/video(s) of the week: Continuing the unintentional theme of ‘other singers of note’ in this Update, The Lara Fabian America FB site posted a video of Lara performing a rock video that included a Tina Turner cover, Proud Mary, in the wake of her death this past week. It can be found at
www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1YEy7_sJ2k
These News Updates were involved in the video of that full concert (Brussels, 1998) from which this video was taken. [An up-scaled version was provided by Lara Fabian multi-media last year (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2jUO1ahVqU), but the original was posted in 2007 (https://www.youtube.com/mcbg1 /videos)]. Back then I had provided an earlier, poor quality version of this concert for which I had managed to improve the audio, but had lamented the video quality. As noted in the following post from 3/10/2007, [at the third site on which these News Updates are posted, www.tapatalk.com/groups/lfiag/bruxelles-1998-videos-better-quality-t669.html],
From kcmc13:
“I was lucky enough to receive recently a high quality video of Lara's 1998 Bruxelles concert. Only problem: the sound quality sucked. David here was nice enough to fix the audio and put it over the better quality video so here's the first file, let me know if you guys think it would be worth it to upload the full concert:
Je T'aime: www.sendspace.com/file/03qp6a
Special thanks again to David”
Needless to say, there was great enthusiasm for posting the entire concert, and so on 3/17/07, kcmc13 wrote, “I uploaded the full concert to youtube: www.youtube.com/profile?user=mcbg1
I'll upload the rest of the mpgs this week.” And so he did. [On a more personal note, I have no idea whether this person knows that the work is still being appreciated…]
From the Lara Fabian Family FB page, a truly beautiful picture of Lara,
www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=203933285852613&set=a.111099345136008
The Lara Fabian Tribute Channel uploaded a compendium of beautiful pictures of Lara to the soundtrack of Saisir le Jour, available at
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWImfKcymVE
There was a time when many such compendiums were put together of her; nice to see another one.
Since there were a number of non-Lara singers discussed in this news update, it seems appropriate to end by mentioning that the Lara Fabian The Netherlands FB site has a weekly feature of non-Lara topics from youtube. This week it was on Eva Cassidy, at
www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=726919062774820&set=a.669836675149726
From the Eva Cassidy website (https://evacassidy.org/): “Eva died in 1996 from melanoma, the most deadly form of skin cancer. Her music was little-known during her 33 years of life, but today her soul-stirring voice is reaching people all over the world.”
This Update has featured performers in all stages of their career: just starting out, flourishing, perhaps ending, and ended. And then there’s Lara, who appears to be in a low key phase as far as her active recording career is concerned, but who is becoming more of a TV star/teacher and occasional performer. The circle of life… (with acknowledgement to yet one more singer, Elton John).
David