Lara Fabian

Lara Fabian was born Lara Crokaert in Etterbeek, Belgium, on January 9, 1970. With a career that began early, a powerful voice and a sense of stage theatricality, by the 1990s she had established herself as one of the most popular "chanteuses à voix" in the French-speaking world, following in the footsteps of international artists such as Céline Dion and Barbra Streisand. A singer from childhood, she competed in competitions, then performed in Brussels piano bars, singing backing vocals for Petula Clark. She won the springboard for the Festival de la Wallonie and began recording, when she was chosen to represent Luxembourg at the 33rd Eurovision Song Contest, where she finished 4th with the song "Croire". After a detour to Quebec, where her first albums Lara Fabian (1991) and Carpe Diem (1994) were released, the Prix Félix-winning singer lent her voice to the animated film Le Bossu de Notre-Dame for the character of Esmerelda in 1996. A Canadian national, she was revealed to the French public in 1997 with the huge hits "Tout" and "Je t'aime", followed by a Victoire de la musique award for Best Newcomer of the Year in 1998. Recorded the same year, her first live album, Live 98, reached No. 1, while her studio albums, conceived in French and English, such as Lara Fabian (1999), were exported for the American market. Her popularity continues with the albums Nue (2001), A Wonderful Life (2004), 9 (2005) and Toutes les Femmes en Moi (2009). A songwriter sought after by other performers, Lara Fabian signed the international album Mademoiselle Zhivago (2010), followed by the double and conceptual Le Secret (2013) and Ma Vie Dans la Tienne (2015). She completely changes register and tackles urban, danceable pop on the following album Camouflage (2017), then returns to the French language in a pop and electronic style on Papillon (2019). Still active during the Covid-19 pandemic, she performs "Nos coeurs à la fenêtre" (2020) and records the acoustic The Lockdown Sessions (2021). In 2024, she made her comeback with the album Je Suis Là.