Since she was five years old, music has accompanied her, guided her, also and above all allowed her to fulfill herself as a woman. She, the hypersensitive, the artist on edge. Lara Fabian was this little girl lacking a declaration of love from her father and for a long time in conflict with her mother. Her parents simply did not have the words, these essential words in the construction of a being, but they gave everything, the little they had in any case, so that she could fulfill her dream and this need to sing. with more than 25 million albums sold. Suffice to say that she made the right choice and that she has been able to conquer the public since the release of her first eponymous album in 1991.
Today, Lara Fabian is releasing the latest, I am here and has just announced the dates of his 2025 tour. It will take place from October 4 in Amnéville to March 25, 2026 at the Zénith in Saint-Étienne, with two visits to the Accor Arena in Paris on December 7, 2025 and March 10, 2026 .
franceinfo: The common thread of this album is presence. It comes to confront absence, as if you needed to cancel it.
Lara Fabian: Yes, it’s presence that wins. I have the feeling that it is more of a response through beauty, whatever happens, through adversity, through the trials of a life that impacts us all. I think that I am really not the only woman who was able to feel or experience what I experienced in childhood, who consequently saw the mirror of these absences reverberate throughout the rest of the journey.
You have to know how to face your childhood. You tell us about these devastating heartbreaks that you experienced, which have marked your journey a little. Was it a necessary step today to face these “demons”?
In fact, if it can contribute, if it can be of service to others, it has meaning. Because for me, these are things that I have resolved. I don’t fix them by writing them down or I didn’t need to I am here to find a space to be heard.
“The beauty of writing, for me, today, is that it serves me much more as an interface to others and not as a place of healing for myself.”
Lara Fabianat franceinfo
You sing Hypersensitiveit’s true that you talk about the other perspective, that of others which can impact us and also damage us and you proclaim loud and clear through this song, how important it is to keep our difference.
And our hypersensitivity. It comes from a discussion with a beautiful young woman who said to me: “You know, my problem is that I’m hypersensitive“and I paused a little, I thought about it and I said to him: you’re right, you are like all of us.”Oh no not at all, there are people who are not at all sensitive or hypersensitive and they crush it in your face“. I replied to him that the people who choose to avoid this hypersensitivity, it is because they know the price. And the vulnerable space into which it brings us cannot be perceived when we suffer from it, as a strength.
“We are all hypersensitive. We all have, at certain times, an ultra-sensitive way of reacting to what impacts us. And that’s ok. It’s not a defect.”
Lara Fabianat franceinfo
What does this album represent?
The freest expression of what I am today, but also above all the desire to contribute and the desire to offer I am here like a missive to the other. If you haven’t found the words to say certain things, maybe it exists in A flower in the mouthif you wanted to talk about your childhood maybe I am from you te correspond.
You sing I looked for youthis is your latest single. You make a declaration of love with a little nostalgia and at the same time resilience. Resilience is the key then?
For me, resilience means turning an obstacle into an opportunity. Understand that in this obstacle, there is a lot of food, sometimes not very easy to swallow, it’s true, and therefore in I looked for youis what do we do with time through a great love story? Can we make him an ally or do we decide that this time defines the allotted time?
This proves that there is still this fire!
Peace does not exclude fire. Serenity does not exclude fire. You can be serene by the fireplace watching with great intensity and joy what is crackling.
In this album. There are two songs that totally grab us. There is A flower in the mouth et I am from you with which you end this album. You speak to all the parents, to all the people who share the lives of those they gave birth to. Was it important for you to say it out loud that everything is okay today?
Of course, and then say thank you. To say thank you, I owe it to you. If I am here, if I am alive, it is because I carry you within me and that a part of all these transmitted cells as well as the transmitted pots make me who I am today. Thanks for that.
A word about the tour. It starts on October 4. Two dates in Bercy. What does it mean to go on stage, to meet your audience today, who are absolutely loyal?
It’s an absolute commitment. I take this very, very seriously. I take it almost in the athletic sense of the term, because there is a reality. Next to “I go on stage, it’s great“, we are going to go see our audience, this actually requires standing on a stage three, four, five, even six times a week, which will be the case for me. It’s a very dense tour. So, I you would say, it represents reconnection to all the real reasons why I do this job.
