Here is a short list of suggestions to start a journey with Lara: Songs she wrote: • Adagio (english version) : ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-bqoS-KOLV_4.html (covered among others by Dimash, Floor Jansen, Dame Shirley Bassey, Il Divo) • You are not from here (english): ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Vv8XFXKXRLI.html • Broken Vow (english): ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-kJBGCI8aSE4.html (covered by Barbra Streisand, Josh Groban, Linda Eder, Gigi de Lana, Almira (4th impact), Morissette Amon, Katrina Velarde, Regine Velasquez, Cakra Khan, Harrison Craig, ...) • I guess I loved you (english): ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-EwI-HIfSyqU.html • Je t'aime (french): ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-l826rlBOn9w.html (covered by Polina Gagarina, Amir, Giulia Falcone, …) • I am A-WA (english): ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-mKLdLox918A.html • Tu es mon autre (French, duet with Maurane): ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-kfQbUMZXhAE.html • Si tu m’aimes (French): ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Wg-Zv9cWuDE.html • Pas sans toi (French): ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-H12LGDnl6pI.html • Par Amour (French): ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-rjrTd8VeP64.html • Llora (Spanish): ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-8Fh35Foo9CA.html • Dites-moi pourquoi je l’aime (French): ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE--85T-iR7dfc.html • Tout (French): ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-P1637o5_OuA.html • Mademoiselle Hyde (English): ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-SZm-lhuSyI4.html (covered by Dimash) • Quedate (Spanish): ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-cX0CPdBV75E.html Original songs but she didn’t write these: • For Always (Soundtrack of Spielberg’s A.I. movie, english, duet with Josh Groban): ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-V4dttmn3ppU.html • I will love again (english): ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-RuNPZwN13Q0.html When she covers a song, she often makes it her own. Some amazing covers she made: • Je suis malade (french, song from Serge Lama): ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-eHSyk4SGtuY.html ( her version was covered by Forestella, Giulia Falcone, …) • Caruso (italian, song from Lucio Dalla): ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-BP2KnLemT78.html • Perdere L'Amore (italian, song from Massimo Ranieri): ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-mcmhCfH9OfQ.html • Yentl Medley (Papa can you hear me + A piece of sky, chained , cover of her idol Barbra Streisand, english): ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-zW8lalHMwxk.html • I will always love you (cover of Dolly Parton / Whitney Houston, english): ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-4f-wx-ue89U.html • Love by grace (cover of Wynona Judd, english): ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-8V0pGXZxxzE.html (her version was covered by Gabriel Henrique) • Calling You (cover of Jevetta Steele, english): ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-KkfXEb_VyLM.html • Voir un ami pleurer (cover of Jacques Brel, french): ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-FR7LfGytwO4.html Also a few famous duets: • Requiem pour un fou (with Johnny Hallyday, french) : ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-zR1rkt_0biA.html • The Prayer (with Michael Bolton, english): ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-M__6PFD1YEw.html • La Solitudine (with Laura Pausini, italian): ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Bgv-jUZH60w.html • Il y a (with Isabelle Boulay, french): ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-F61JEarOwuo.html • Et maintenant (with Florent Pagny, french): ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Mi0E0pLLxf0.html And her famous trio: • Ti Amo Cosi (with Dimash and Aida Garafulina, italian): ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-XaQFfqC3lnU.html
“Je suis Malade”, now a french classic, was written by famous French singer & songwriter Serge Lama together with composer/singer Alice Dona in 1973. This is based on his own experience and he was the original performer, hence some lyrics are a bit male-oriented (eg my mother leaves me, whiskies, I pour my blood in your body, …). When Serge Lama had a dinner with Alice Dona and told her about his obsessive love that was leading to a road block, she came back home and composed the music in a couple of hours. The morning after, she presented him the music and he wrote the lyrics in … 20 minutes. Serge Lama was the original performer in 1973, it started to be promoted on the radio, and the song was brought to fame only when, a few months after, Dalida covered it. She was an absolute mega star in France, another emotional powerhouse, and this song resonated very much with her own feelings. Her success with this song transformed it into a french classic, and started to make it famous abroad. But it is Lara Fabian that really made this song a very popular song in many countries with her cover in the mid 90s. At that time Dalida had already passed away, but Serge Lama was (and is) still alive. Dalida and Serge were two inspirations for Lara, so she sent an audio copy to Serge of her version. She was unknown at that time in France but he was so impressed with her vocal skills and her emotions rendering that he invited her in France to sing it as a duet during his own Paris concert in January 1995. It was a triumph. So he sat in a front row seat and asked her to sing it again alone. Lara also had made some subtle changes to the song that gave it even more power. Serge and Lara became good friends and performed several other duets later on. The 1999 version ("From Lara with Love" Concert in Montreal) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-eHSyk4SGtuY.html is legendary internationally and has attracted many artists to do a cover, even from non french-speaking countries. The most recent ones I am aware of are from italian singer Giulia Falcone, from the korean singer Choi Sung Hoon or from the korean band Forestella. Lara is used to perform the song very differently in each of her tour and for instance the En Toute Intimité, 2003, Paris Olympia version is even more dramatic ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-SyILdRAOS88.html
She is the real beast live. Her performances from the same concert as this song are insane! "Adagio" --> ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-bqoS-KOLV_4.html "You're not from here" --> ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Vv8XFXKXRLI.html "Perdere l'Amore" in Italian --> ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-mcmhCfH9OfQ.html "Caruso" --> ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-BP2KnLemT78.html "Quédate" in Spanish --> ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-cX0CPdBV75E.html
Wooow!!! She’s such a wonderful singer. As much as I do not understand the language, I could resonate with it. And the audience was really thrilled. You could tell from the ovation
Lara is the antithesis of Mariah Carey. The first is of absolute humility, while the second behaves like an ultra-spoiled, undrinkable, pampered mother's little girl with the people in her service whom she takes for mops. And, yet, Lara is indeed the queen. Despite all her talent, Maria would be incapable of delivering such a performance.
