Three years after the release of her first album, which went gold and platinum, she released her second album, Carpe Diem, which launched the career of this singer-songwriter in French-speaking countries, especially in Quebec. Within three weeks, the album went gold. She then took her music on tour, performing to over 150,000 admirers, while her album went three times platinum. She was especially appreciated by the Canadian public and music industry. In 1995, she was awarded two Félix awards by Quebec's association of recording artists (ADISQ), namely Best Female Vocalist of the year (by popular vote), and Best Live Performance of the year.
Then, things began to pick up!
In 1996, Walt Disney Studios immortalized Lara's voice. In addition to incarnating Esmeralda, the heroine of the animated feature The Hunchback of Notre Dame, she sang the theme song ("Que Dieu aide les exclus") on the film's soundtrack.
In October, her third album "Pure" went platinum in less than two weeks. Thanks to this album, she won the 1997 Félix for Album of the Year. The same year, "Pure" was launched in France where over two million albums were sold within two years. Thanks to this resounding success, which eloquently expressed the affection of her loving and faithful fans, Lara was awarded the prize for New Artist of the Year at the prestigious French gala Les Victoires de la Musique. This was in February 1998, a few months before the concert tour in several French cities that led to the recording of an album (Lara Fabian Live) in March 1999 which went platinum a few months later. Lara Fabian was praised by music lovers and critics alike...
In addition to receiving the Félix for Quebec Artist Having the Most Impact Outside Quebec, she was voted Personality of the Year by the magazine Paris Match, which featured her on its front cover. While her fame grew, she was honored at the World Music Awards for Best Selling Artist for "Pure". Between appearances in Europe, Lara often returned to New York City and San Francisco to record her first album in English. She wrote or co-wrote most of the songs, working with Rick Allison and producers Walter Afanasieff (Mariah Carey), Pat Leonard (Madonna), Sam Watters (ex-Color Me Badd) and Brian Rawling (Cher's "I Believe").
Produced by Sony Records, the self-titled album was launched in May 2000 on America's most popular morning television show, NBC's Today Show. Invitations poured in, and Lara Fabian appeared on The Tonight Show, The View, Access Hollywood, Craig Kilborn, Entertainment Tonight...
The album's first excerpt, I will Love Again, hit No. 1 on the Billboard Dance Music charts and settled in for 58 weeks! Thanks to this resounding success, she received the Félix for Quebec Artist Having the Most Impact in a Language other than French. The songs on the album thrilled audiences worldwide.
In February 2001, Love By Grace became the theme song of the lead couple in the Brazilian soap opera Laços de Familia, broadcast by TV Globo for millions of viewers in Brazil and Portugal. For several weeks, the song was number 1 on most Brazilian and Portuguese radio stations. Love by Grace generated an incredible frenzy around the artist… You just don't top the billboards of Portuguese speaking countries everyday!
After From Lara with Love, her first American TV special broadcast by PBS, the singer-songwriter participated in the very popular WTKU New York radio special, Miracle on 34th Street, where many popular artists appeared, including Michael Jackson, Christina Aguilera, Marc Anthony, Ricky Martin and Toni Braxton.
Shortly after, when her self-titled English-language album was released in Asia, Lara scored a number one hit on the Taiwanese top ten, a great moment for the artist. Many were particularly impressed with the song Light of my Life (found only on the Asian edition of the album), which she interpreted with Lee-Hom, Asia's top male Chinese-speaking vocalist. This song was included in the movie feature China Strike Force, starring newcomer Lee-Horn along with Aaron Kwok, a box-office idol throughout Asia.
Eagerly awaited in several cities throughout the world, Lara has brilliantly dealt with her growing popularity by frequently appearing abroad. The artist has performed in several European and American capitals, and has enjoyed every minute of her travels. Solid gold in Canada, Germany, Switzerland and Norway, Lara Fabian went platinum in Belgium, Brazil and France and triple platinum in Portugal. She enjoyed the longest number 1 run on Billboard's Heatseeker Chart in 2000.
Last May, Lara was awarded yet another prize at the World Music Awards in Monaco, where she sang Adagio. She also returned to New York and Los Angeles to lend her voice to the original soundtracks of two long-awaited international super productions in July 2001: She interpreted the song The Dreams Within, featured in the movie Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within, as well as For Always, the vocal version of the title song of A.I., Steven Spielberg's latest feature.
In addition to a new French-language album in September 2001, Lara Fabian launched the first single on her new album in May, "J'y crois encore", which can be heard on radio stations in Quebec and Europe.
From France to Brazil, in Italy, Belgium, Norway, Switzerland, Germany, Portugal, Japan and the United States, Lara Fabian has established her reputation as a determined singer-songwriter. Barely 10 years after the release of her first album, Lara has conquered the hearts of millions of fans throughout the world, whose fervor is equaled only by their affection for this talented and authentic artist. Eight million records sold worldwide to this day testify to her achievement.
Her best-selling European DVD and CD, En Toute Intimité, released in October 2003, was an intimate, acoustic piano-based collection showcasing Ms. Fabian performing songs in English, Italian and French.
After En Toute Intimité Lara Fabian released her 2nd English language album called "A wonderful life". Lara Fabian's latest release is an album in the French language with the title "Toutes Les Femmes en Moi", released in May 2009.
2010: "Tour Les Femmes Font Leur Show", Mademoiselle Zhivago
Throughout the first half of 2010, Fabian embarked on a European tour of concerts, throughout France, Switzerland, and Belgium, incorporating the main repertoire of her last album "Toutes Les Femmes En Moi" along with some classic and fan favorites. She also performed again in Eastern Europe, with a more acoustic set (piano-voice), and included English recordings from the album Every Woman in Me. In September 2010, she finally released her 2009 album "Toutes Les Femmes En Moi" in Québec. She also recorded the album "Nuit Magique" with Canadian singer Coral Egan.
Later in 2010, Fabian released a concept album in Russia and Ukraine called Mademoiselle Zhivago which has sold over 800.000 copies in Russia. It features 11 songs in different languages by Russian composer Igor Krutoy. It features stories about a woman who experiences several lives over the years and centuries. Eleven music videos, one each song, were combined to create a full-length film, produced and directed by Ukrainian film producer Alan Badoev. The album itself, containing a CD and a DVD, was first released in Ukraine in October 2010 and in Russia in November.
2020–present: Lockdown Sessions
On December 16, 2020, Lara Fabian discreetly unveiled a collection of 12 experimental musical tracks, the fruit of her introspection and her isolation during confinement. Lockdown Sessions came out in a limited edition without a label, and offers a unique journey of the singer accompanied again by Moh Denebi.
Fabian is a full lyric soprano with a vocal range that spans three octaves from C3 to G5 in live performances.
She is multilingual, she speaks Italian, French, Spanish, Sicilian, English and some Flemish.[citation needed] She has also sung in Azerbaijani, German, Greek, Hebrew, Mandarin Chinese, Portuguese, Russian, and Turkish
La Lettre
Lara Fabian Lyrics
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En m'expliquant toutes les raisons
Qui t'ont fait t'évanouir dans la nature
Qui m'font mélanger toutes les saisons
Choisis bien tes mots, choisis les justes
Comme un artisan prend
Son temps quand il ajuste
Ecris-moi une lettre de rupture
Envoie-moi seulement le brouillon
Promis j'vais rien chercher dans tes ratures
Ecris-moi une lettre au crayon
Ecris-moi comme on écrit la musique
Sacrifies-moi aux dieux
Des amours amnésiques
Même si partir quand l'autre reste
Ça fait du mal aux sentiments
Ça peut quand même faire un beau geste
Sauf si bien sûr l'un des deux ment
Ecris-moi une lettre de rupture
Comme quand on s'laissait des mots à la maison
Je noterai pas les fautes d'écriture
J'verrai pas les fautes de liaisons
Et j'irai bien les chercher moi-même
Si j'n'étais pas si sûre
Pas si sûre que je t'aime
Même si partir quand l'autre reste
Ça fait du mal aux sentiments
Ça peut quand même faire un beau geste
Sauf si bien sûr l'un des deux ment
Pour nous toujours, pour nous peut-être
Comme laisser mes illusions
Quand tu me l'écrieras cette lettre
Ne signes pas ou d'un faux nom
Même si partir quand l'autre reste
Ça fait du mal aux sentiments
Ça peut quand même faire un beau geste
Sauf si bien sûr l'un des deux ment
Écris-moi une lettre de rupture
En m'expliquant toutes les raisons
Qui t'ont fait t'évanouir
The lyrics of Lara Fabian's song "La Lettre" revolve around a woman's request to her partner that he writes her a breakup letter explaining everything that has led him to disappear from her life. She wants him to choose his words wisely, as if he were an artisan carefully crafting a masterpiece. She emphasizes that she won't search for hidden meanings in his letter, and she encourages him to write it in pencil, like writing a musical composition. She suggests that writing such a letter can be a beautiful gesture, even if painful for both parties involved, as long as neither of them is dishonest.
The woman in the song also reminisces about leaving notes for each other at home and not paying attention to grammatical errors or spelling mistakes. She says that she will look for her own explanations if not confident of her own love for him. The song ends with a reminder to her ex-partner not to sign the letter with a false name when he writes it, so that she knows for sure it is over between them.
Overall, the lyrics seem to express a longing for clarity and closure in a relationship, even as it comes to an end. Writing a breakup letter is one way to provide that, and the woman in the song seems to be taking control of the situation by requesting it from her partner.
Line by Line Meaning
Ecris-moi une lettre de rupture
Write me a letter of separation
En m'expliquant toutes les raisons
Explaining to me all the reasons
Qui t'ont fait t'évanouir dans la nature
That made you disappear into nature
Qui m'font mélanger toutes les saisons
That make me mix up all the seasons
Choisis bien tes mots, choisis les justes
Choose your words carefully, choose the right ones
Comme un artisan prend Son temps quand il ajuste
Like an artisan takes his time when he adjusts
Envois-moi seulement le brouillon
Just send me the draft
Promis j'vais rien chercher dans tes ratures
I promise I won't search for anything in your erasures
Ecris-moi une lettre au crayon
Write me a letter in pencil
Ecris-moi comme on écrit la musique
Write to me like one writes music
Sacrifies-moi aux dieux Des amours amnésiques
Sacrifice me to the gods of forgetful love
{Refrain:} Même si partir quand l'autre reste
Even if leaving when the other stays
Ça fait du mal aux sentiments
It hurts the feelings
Ça peut quand même faire un beau geste
It can still be a beautiful gesture
Sauf si bien sûr l'un des deux ment
Unless, of course, one of the two is lying
Comme quand on s'laissait des mots à la maison
Like when we used to leave notes at home
Je noterai pas les fautes d'écriture
I won't note any writing mistakes
J'verrai pas les fautes de liaisons
I won't see any grammatical errors
Et j'irai bien les chercher moi-même
And I'll look for them myself
Si j'n'étais pas si sûre Pas si sûre que je t'aime
If I wasn't so sure, not so sure that I love you
{au Refrain} Pour nous toujours, pour nous peut-être
For us always, for us maybe
Comme laisser mes illusions
Like leaving my illusions
Quand tu me l'écrieras cette lettre
When you write me this letter
Ne signes pas ou d'un faux nom
Don't sign it with a fake name
{au Refrain}
(Repeated refrain)
En m'expliquant toutes les raisons
Explaining to me all the reasons
Qui t'ont fait t'évanouir dans la nature
That made you disappear into nature
Lyrics © PREMIERE MUSIC GROUP, Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada (SOCAN)
Written by: Lara Fabian, Jean-Felix Lalanne
Lyrics Licensed & Provided by LyricFind
@mariecornu727
Magnifique chanson ❤❤
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Lara lara qu est ce que tu ma fais avec cette voix mysterieuse ❤❤❤❤
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Love Lara ❤
Love from Denmark ❤