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[ennostiel]

Now you've made it a topic about Belgium

But now I know Poland is not the only place where there's trouble with finding most of Lara's CDs... In fact I never could understand why she really ISN'T that widely known, at least around here, her only songs people know are 'I will love again' and 'No big deal', and people hardly ever even realise it's the same person who sings them, or how wonderful Lara is... I wish she was at least half as popular as Celine is.

[Bralo20]

ennostiel, on Apr 7 2009, 01:10 PM, said:

Now you've made it a topic about Belgium

But now I know Poland is not the only place where there's trouble with finding most of Lara's CDs... In fact I never could understand why she really ISN'T that widely known, at least around here, her only songs people know are 'I will love again' and 'No big deal', and people hardly ever even realise it's the same person who sings them, or how wonderful Lara is... I wish she was at least half as popular as Celine is.

Lara isn't even to famous in the Flemish part of Belgium although she's a Belgian singer (with Canadian citizenship)...  Probably because she's French...

Belgium is devided in 4 parts in mening of language: 1) Brussels Capital Region: official duallanguage: French & Dutch (in practise mostly French) 2) Flanders: the largest region of Belgium were people speak Dutch 3) Wallonia, the second largest part where people speak French 4) German Language part: Very small part in the east of Belgium where people speak German.  The 3 official languages are "Dutch/French/German"

Lara is a French speaking from the capital region of Brussels and although she is rather famous in the Wallonia part of Belgium she's nearly unknown in the Flemish part of Belgium.  Don't know why exactly but it is known that singers have a problem by getting famous in eachother part of the country.  We have very famous artists in some type of music (for example the Belgian Dance music is rather famous arround the world) and although those (Flemish) groups have great succes in foreign countries they are getting no credibility in the other part of Belgium.  Vica versa the same...  Lara Fabian is a French singer from Brussels.  She's famous in the Wallonia part but not in the Flemish part...  

It's the continues battle between French & Flemish (Dutch) in Belgium

One of the few Flemish singers that are also famous in Wallonia and even France is actually Axelle Red, she's a Flemish singer who sings in French and is actually famous in whole Belgium and other countries.

So if it's hard to get famous in Belgium I certainly can imagine the struggle to get credibility in the rest of the world...


And Lara has also another problem which is for a lot of Flemish people hard to accept.  She has a Flemish father and a Italian mother but she doesn't speaks Flemish (Dutch)...  


It seems that if you are a Belgian artist you have very little luck to succeed in the world



I like Lara a lot, and personal I think she's one of the best singers in the world, sometimes even better then Céline...  

[Bralo20]

ennostiel, on Apr 7 2009, 01:10 PM, said:

Now you've made it a topic about Belgium

I'll ask the mods to split it into another topic

[corr_azy]

Wow! Thanks for all that interesting information.

Lara's only hit here in Singapore was I Will Love Again. Only the two English CDs she has released can be found here, although I've managed to find Nue and Carpe Diem in second hand shops. It's really a struggle trying to find her CDs. I kinda wish she was more famous too!

[celinesounds]

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Edited by celinesounds, 07 April 2009 - 05:43 PM.

[Bralo20]

celinesounds, on Apr 8 2009, 01:42 AM, said:

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I've been to the preview of the CD last october (pictures in the previous page) where we heared about half of the cd and it was very nice...  It's a cover CD with songs from all the female artists where she learned from or who inspired her.  There's also a Céline Dion song on the CD.

I liked what I heard about half a year ago during the preview and since they have been working to the numbers since then I expect a very nice CD...  Can't wait untill the release.

[Filine]

I love Lara's voice too Some of her songs touch me as deep as Céline's, but you really can't compare. What attracts me in Lara's career is the fact that she isn't as big as Céline is It makes her more genuine at some points

[Davey84]

Bralo20, on Apr 7 2009, 01:38 PM, said:

And Lara has also another problem which is for a lot of Flemish people hard to accept.  She has a Flemish father and a Italian mother but she doesn't speaks Flemish (Dutch)...  

she does understand dutch, though! and the one sentence she does know is; heb je al gegeten, cos her father was always keen on his kids eating enough  

celinesounds, on Apr 8 2009, 01:42 AM, said:

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aah it looks great!! I really like this hairdo on her, straight hair makes her look more biatchy! LOL

[Bralo20]

Davey84, on Apr 8 2009, 12:54 PM, said:

she does understand dutch, though! and the one sentence she does know is; heb je al gegeten, cos her father was always keen on his kids eating enough  

Understanding Dutch and speaking Dutch is not the same
Unfortunately she doesn't speak (much) Dutch although she has a Flemish father...

And for some that's a problem (but not for me offcourse, since I barely speak French myself )

[Davey84]

i didn't say that speaking and understanding was the same!! I just said she understands it

[rael1983]

Le Parisien has published an article about Lara. She talks about her new album, "Toutes les femmes en moi", an album of covers out on May 25th 2009 with her favourite songs by female artists that she reinvented on soul, gospel and R'n'B melodies.

She says Nana Mouskouri was a the first singer her mother would listen constantly, and Lara sang it a lot in front of the mirror. "Mamy Blue" was the first song sang by Lara (when she was 2); and the first song she ever sang in public was "L'amour existe encore", by Celine Dion.

She also talks about this so-discussed subject, the rivality with Celine: "It was a fake rivality, created by out respective fans. This version is not a joke, it's a true reverence!".

Lara tell us a little bit more of her life, she says that after giving birth to her daughter, her priorities have changed. She also says that the "chanteuse-a-voix"'s time is over.

Besides that, it is also confirmed that Lara will be part of a musical, interpreting the character Julie Andrews did in the past: a travesti in "Victor Victoria", in 2010. "It's the first time I'm composing completely someone who's not me".

Edited by rael1983, 17 April 2009 - 04:37 PM.

[Esty]

Thanks for the article! I am really curious to hear this album!

[Petra5]

you guys are so lucky  

I've been searching over the stores here....  there's NO Lara albums  

nothing completely nothing  

[Davey84]

rael1983, on Apr 18 2009, 12:34 AM, said:

She says Nana Mouskouri was a the first singer her mother would listen constantly, and Lara sang it a lot in front of the mirror. "Mamy Blue" was the first song sang by Lara (when she was 2); and the first song she ever sang in public was "L'amour existe encore", by Celine Dion.

hmmm she must have very bad memory, because Céline recorded LAEE in 1990/1991.... 2/3 years after they performed together at the Eurovision songcontest!!!!   


thanks for the article! She said she's also doing 2 concert in October in Le Zenith in Paris!

[Bralo20]

September 25 she will be performing in Brussels in Foret National (Vorst Nationaal).  I have allready tickets

[Davey84]

ooooooooooh!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Davey84]

Bralo20, on Apr 20 2009, 11:56 AM, said:

September 25 she will be performing in Brussels in Foret National (Vorst Nationaal). I have allready tickets

I got tickets too!!

[Edwin]

Oh, you two are going together? I see how it is

[Bralo20]

Passing trough France last week I bought a couple of tickets for her show in Paris on October the 7th

[Bralo20]

Davey84, on Apr 28 2009, 12:43 PM, said:

I got tickets too!!

I'll be the one that will get picked out of the crowd for taking pictures with a DSLR  

Been there allready in Brussels for a John Fogerty concert and they picked me out so the same thing will probably happen again

[Ray]

Davey84, on Apr 28 2009, 12:43 PM, said:

Bralo20, on Apr 20 2009, 11:56 AM, said:

September 25 she will be performing in Brussels in Foret National (Vorst Nationaal). I have allready tickets

I got tickets too!!

How lucky you are!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Wish I could go to, but we already got tickets for Mylene Farmer who comes one week earlier in Brussels.
Going to Brussels two weekends in a row means spending lots of money...
(Still I just need to know: how much were the Lara tickets and where did you buy them?)

[Bralo20]

Ray, on May 7 2009, 12:05 AM, said:

(Still I just need to know: how much were the Lara tickets and where did you buy them?)

Don't know the exact price anymore, thought about 60 EUR at most.  Tickets are sold on www.sherpa.be and www.fnac.be

[Davey84]

the golden seat tickets were already gone we got tickets for around 50 euros... i think we are on the floor, but I dunno for sure, cos that sherpa site sucks!!!

DSLR??? you mean you get to take pix on stage or something like that

[Davey84]

you can now watch the video for Soleil Soleil on http://www.larafabian.com/

the album is due May 25th!

WHYYYYYYYYY isn't my sound working!?!?

Edited by Davey84, 20 May 2009 - 04:37 PM.

[JP]

Davey84, on May 20 2009, 06:37 PM, said:

you can now watch the video for Soleil Soleil on http://www.larafabian.com/

the album is due May 25th!

:crybaby: WHYYYYYYYYY isn't my sound working!?!? :ranting: :crybaby:

[rael1983]

Lara has included a personal letter to each of the women she covers in her new album. Here's the letter she wrote to Celine, but it is in French and I can't understand it so maybe some French fan can for the rest of us to know what she is saying?:

It's letter number 9: Lara Fabian - Toutes Les Femmes En Moi (booklet)

[Davey84]

Lara will be in

Quote

"10H LE MAG"
Présentée par Julien Arnaud et Sandrine Quetier

EN DIRECT - Jeudi 28 MAI 2009
De 09h00 à 11h00

Avec LARA FABIAN


BONS D'ACHATS DE 10 €

Lieu de tournage : Studios EMGP - La Plaine Saint Denis

so if you're in paris around that time... you still can get tickets

[celinesounds]

the album is amazing

[Davey84]

i ordered the cd, but it hasn't shipped yet!

[ticktock]

you can hear the clips from the new album on youtube. so far i'm impressed with it. although i couldn't find the album on itunes for ireland!