Lara Fabian is what we call a voice, and one of the most powerful in French-speaking song. Since the release of his album
Pure in 1996, the Belgian singer was one of the must-sees. Strong of a career already thirty years oldthe artist is now donating his talents to the next generation.
This year, the singer set out to find young sopranos and other contraltos on TF1’s most eclectic music scene. The new coach of The Voice Kids got his ear for the first time on the red chair. Saturday October 5, Lara Fabian attended the Tim’s victoryhis little protégé. Together, they covered the song Mistral Winner by Renaud, a flawless performance for the young boy and the “merciless” juror.
Lara Fabian: “I have zero complacency with myself”
If there is one person she can be with to be inflexibleit is with herself. In the columns of the latest issue of Ciné Télé Revuethe star detailed why she wasn’t completely satisfied with her performance. “I have zero complacency with myself, but it allows me to always progress. For example, my performance on the set of The Voice last Saturday was okay. I’m not 100% satisfied with it. I was tense vocally, but my approach remained sincere”, she explained.
The race for perfection is unfortunately all too familiar to him. This infernal quest began in the 1990s. At the time, the weight displayed on the scale obsessed
both the young singer and her performances.
THE “seven years of fighting anorexia” by Lara Fabian
The 1997 tour marked the beginning of Lara Fabian’s descent into hell. To meet the demands of financial partners who wanted her to look more like the skinny pop stars of the moment, the singer starved herself.
Thanks to an interview given to the Quebec magazine
Chatelaine in 2013, Lara Fabian looked back on these dark years. To lose weight, she may have self-inflicted terrible treatment. “One evening, after a show, she vomited in the toilets of a chic restaurant in New York. Seven years of struggle with anorexia followed”she confided.
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The descent into hell and the rebirth of Lara Fabian
For her part, her friend Masayo Hashimoto revealed that Lara Fabian barely ate at one time. “It went
up to 47-48 kilos. I hid, I was only one face with two eyes”confirmed the main interested party. Certain weeks, the artist only fed on one
“apple cut into seven quarters for each day”.
It was finally after approaching the bottom that Lara Fabian managed to resurface. In 2010, the interpreter of I love youweakened by her eating disorders, breaks two vertebrae, a first signal. In 2012, she met her husband, the magician Gabriel di Giorgio. Gently and carried by all her love, Lara Fabian go back up the slope. “I have accepted both the faults and the fragilities. Of course, I am not a model, I do not have 1.80 m legs. But, as I get older, I have the impression of having harvested the best of what I could become. I accept myself as I am, with my imperfections.she concluded.
