In 1999, Lara releases her first English album in the USA (Sony Music). Simultaneously, her first live album “Live 98” tops the charts in France and Belgium and Polydor decides to re-release her Quebec debut albums in Europe. 1998 was also her consecration year: she is nominated as Revelation of the Year at the “Victoires de la Musique”, where she sings an unforgettable duo with Johnny Hallyday, his first show, at the “Stade de France”Ī wax model of her is unveiled at Musée Grévin… A success that continues in 1999 while she receives an award for having sold the most albums in Benelux at the World Music Award. In 1998, Lara Fabian goes on a large tour for the first time in Belgium and France.
Lara’s success goes beyond all frontiers, headlining major newspapers and enjoying her work in main radio stations and TV shows. Her Belgian fellow citizens (Lara has kept her Belgian citizenship) and the French that she misses so much discover her album through the single “Tout”. Which neds up selling more than 3 million copies. The two accomplices then start writing on Lara’s third album “Pure”. In 1994, her second album “Carpe Diem”, goes triple platinum and inks the very special link between her and Canada, where she performs more than 200 concerts in two years and a country of which she becomes an official citizen in 1995. The album is an immediate success in Quebec. Lara and Rick decide to immigrate to Canada and Quebec, where they write her very first album “Lara Fabian”.
It’s love at first sight on a professional and personal level. In May 1990, while covering “La Fille d’Ipanema” in a piano bar in Brussels, she encounters the singer-songwriter Rick Allison. Two years later, she represents Luxemburg at the Eurovision Song Contest with the song “Croire”, which reached 4th position. In 1986, the year of her sixteenth birthday, she wins the contest “Tremplin de Bruxelles” and records her first single “L’Aziza est en pleurs”. Her father, a musician keeps on encouraging her young daughter to follow the path that she already chosen. In the eyes of the young singer, this piano gave her the opportunity to compose her very early melodies and helped her to cover various songs that she heard and loved via the radio. On December 6th, 1978, Saint Nicholas Day, Lara receives a piano from her parents, a gift marked by destiny. Once she returns to the capital of Europe, her father who is also Petula Clark’s guitarist and her Sicilian mother immediately suggest her to take singing lessons. Born in Brussels on January 9th, 1970, Lara whose surname is not Fabian yet, but Crokaert, spends the first five years of her life in Italy, at the foot of Mount Etna.