look back at her little-known romance with the brother of a famous singer

This Thursday, January 9, Lara Fabian celebrates her 55th birthday. Some people don’t know it but, in the 2000s, the interpreter of I love you was in a relationship with the brother of a famous singer. But then, who is it about?

It’s hard to hide when you’re a star like her. During her life, Lara Fabian experienced several love stories, some being more publicized than others. If the general public has not forgotten her romance with Patrick Fiori, the singer, who celebrates her 55th birthday this Thursday, January 9, also dated the brother of a famous singer. In the 2000s, the interpreter of I love you formed a couple with Jean-Félix Lalanne, the brother of Francis Lalanne.

In addition to having worked with him, Lara Fabian shared the life of this songwriter, from 2003 to 2006. The person also returned to this idyll, while he was the guest of At Jordan’sthis Tuesday, January 7. If he refused to talk about this relationship, Francis Lalanne’s brother spoke of their artistic collaboration: “We made a very beautiful album, called 9. I really had an absolutely incredible pleasure working with her, simply because she is a musician. More than a musician, she is an instrumentalist”, he observed, before adding admiringly: “Her voice is an instrument and she masters her voice like an instrumentalist masters his instrument (…) We can take her wherever we want, really.”

Jean-Félix Lalanne: why he has always “refused” the media coverage of his relationship with Lara Fabian

During his face-to-face meeting with Jordan de Luxe, Jean-Félix Lalanne explained that he did not want to publicize this relationship at the time. “I always refused all the covers in which I was asked to come with her, in the mainstream press. I asked myself the question each time and the answer was undeniable: ‘If it wasn’t for Lara, would Paris Match would make a blanket with me alone?’ If the answer is no, that means I don’t have to go do this cover with her”, he detailed. “In this case, I’m going there for the wrong reasons, because they are private reasons.”, estimated the 62-year-old songwriter. If the two protagonists never dwelled on the subject, Jean-Félix Lalanne recognizes that their secret of their love story was difficult to maintain. “It’s difficult not to know”, he remarked.

It must be believed that the two exes left on good terms, since twenty years later, they are still in contact. “We exchange. From time to time, we send each other little text messages, we give each other a little news“, told Jean-Felix Lalanne, on the air of Non Stop People, in 2015. Information that he confirmed on the set of At Jordan’s : “We exchange. Not very long ago, two days ago, we called each other because someone wanted to write a biography. I called her precisely out of respect for her, because I didn’t want there to be some kind of bio that wasn’t validated by her“, he confided, ensuring that their exchanges “are very simple.”