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
Meu grande amor
Lara Fabian Lyrics
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E esperei
Por seu amor
E o meu coração se acostumou
A sonhar com você
E de repente eu te encontrei
Eu vi no seu olhar
A paixão que eu sonhei pra mim
Quando eu te vi
Acreditei
Que o amor
Não era só um sonho meu
(sonho meu, sonho meu)
Eu acordei
E o mundo inteiro acendeu
Não pára de brilhar
E o meu olhar
Só vê o seu
Eu encontrei
Meu grande amor
Pode chover
O céu cair
Que nada vai
Tirar o que eu guardei
Dentro de mim
É só pensar em você
No amor que guia
Os nossos corações
Se o mundo te esconder
Por traz de muros e prisões
Te encontrarei
Meu grande amor
Só os tolos podem pensar
Que o amor se deixa enganar
Nada poderá
Mudar os rumos da paixão
Foi ele que nos escolheu
Não foi você, nem eu
Meu grande amor
Grande amor
Aconteceu
Estava escrito assim
Eu em você, você em mim
Eu te encontrei
Meu grande amor
Grande amor
These lyrics are about finding true love after waiting and dreaming about it for a long time. The singer confesses that she had been dreaming and waiting for her true love, and her heart had gotten used to the idea of him. Finally, she meets him and sees in his eyes the passion she had been dreaming of all along. She believes that her dreams had come true and that true love existed.
After meeting him, the singer feels as though the world has come alive, and nothing can take away the love she has found. She declares that even if the sky falls or the world comes to an end, nothing can take away the love she has found within herself. She goes on to say that nothing can change the path of love because it is love that chooses us, and we do not choose it.
The song is a heartfelt confession of true love that has finally been found after waiting for it for so long. It shows the power of love and how it can change our perspective on life.
Line by Line Meaning
Eu sonhei
I dreamed
E esperei
And waited
Por seu amor
For your love
E o meu coração se acostumou
And my heart got used to
A sonhar com você
Dreaming of you
E de repente eu te encontrei
And suddenly I found you
Eu vi no seu olhar
I saw in your eyes
A paixão que eu sonhei pra mim
The passion I dreamed for myself
Quando eu te vi
When I saw you
Acreditei
I believed
Que o amor
That love
Não era só um sonho meu
Wasn't just my own dream
(sonho meu, sonho meu)
(my dream, my dream)
Eu acordei
I woke up
E o mundo inteiro acendeu
And the whole world lit up
Não pára de brilhar
It keeps shining
E o meu olhar
And my gaze
Só vê o seu
Only sees yours
Eu encontrei
I found
Meu grande amor
My great love
Pode chover
It might rain
O céu cair
The sky might fall
Que nada vai
But nothing will
Tirar o que eu guardei
Take away what I've kept
Dentro de mim
Inside of me
É só pensar em você
Just thinking of you
No amor que guia
In the love that guides
Os nossos corações
Our hearts
Se o mundo te esconder
If the world hides you
Por traz de muros e prisões
Behind walls and prisons
Te encontrarei
I'll find you
Meu grande amor
My great love
Só os tolos podem pensar
Only fools can think
Que o amor se deixa enganar
Love can be fooled
Nada poderá
Nothing can
Mudar os rumos da paixão
Change the course of passion
Foi ele que nos escolheu
It was he who chose us
Não foi você, nem eu
Not you, nor me
Meu grande amor
My great love
Grande amor
Great love
Aconteceu
It happened
Estava escrito assim
It was written so
Eu em você, você em mim
Me in you, you in me
Eu te encontrei
I found you
Meu grande amor
My great love
Grande amor
Great love
Lyrics © Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada (SOCAN), Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
Written by: CARLOS EDUARDO CARNEIRO DE ALBUQUERQUE FALCAO, LARA FABIAN, RICK ALLISON
Lyrics Licensed & Provided by LyricFind
@maryina8164
Eu sonhei
E esperei
Por seu amor
E o meu coração se acostumou
A sonhar com você
E de repente eu te encontrei
Eu vi no seu olhar
A paixão que eu sonhei pra mim
Quando eu te vi
Acreditei
Que o amor
Não era só um sonho meu
(sonho meu, sonho meu)
Eu acordei
E o mundo inteiro acendeu
Não pára de brilhar
E o meu olhar
Só vê o seu
Eu encontrei
Meu grande amor
Pode chover
O céu cair
Que nada vai
Tirar o que eu guardei
Dentro de mim
É só pensar em você
No amor que guia
Os nossos corações
Se o mundo te esconder
Por traz de muros e prisões
Te encontrarei
Meu grande amor
Só os tolos podem pensar
Que o amor se deixa enganar
Nada poderá
Mudar os rumos da paixão
Foi ele que nos escolheu
Não foi você, nem eu
Meu grande amor
Grande amor
Aconteceu
Estava escrito assim
Eu em você, você em mim
Eu te encontrei
Meu grande amor
Grande amor
@luhrosa1879
Alguém juntinho em 2024 escutando essa bela canção ❤
@rawennalarissa7134
❤
@ricardomonteiro9657
Sempre escuto essa música pensando na minha esposa, pois ela é a prova viva de que nós não escolhemos o amor... ele que nos escolhe ❤
@teixeiramiriam8065
EU OUVINDO 😢
@teixeiramiriam8065
Vdd😂😊
@ManelSantos-lq4lf
@@luhrosa1879 eu estou escutando aqui agora esse lindo sucesso que marcou a minha geração, novela o clone uma das melhores novelas que já passou na globo
@nicenika
Alguém curtindo em 2023? Melhores músicas estão no passado, ainda bem que temos memórias e um acervo infinito gravados. Só recordações
@ivanasousa12
Eu aqui 😢
@roseliaandrade757
Falou. A verdade
Essa música a letra são lindas 👏
@luccimoura8512
Eu! Amooo