Lara Fabian's life has not been a long, quiet river. Propelled to the forefront after her hit I love youthe singer has had complicated years. Particularly because of the strong criticism she suffered, notably on his powerful voice and his physique. Enough to make Léa Salamé mad with rage. “The least we can say is that your journey is strewn with trials. (…) It's very interesting when we reread your journey over the past thirty years, sorry to say it a little violently, see what you took in your mouth“she said on France inter.
“It's amazing! Fortunately, today we couldn't anymore. The sentences you had to endure…”, the journalist got angry on November 28. Outraged by the criticisms received by Lara Fabian, she recalled some of them. “At the beginning, we told you: 'you sing too well, you're not going to succeed', 'we don't need a 20-year-old Mireille Matthieu', 'you're too fat', 'when you're ugly, you don't do this job‘…”listed Léa Salamé.
Léa Salamé shocked by the life of Lara Fabian
Obviously affected by his degrading sentences, Lara Fabian went through several difficult years. “I gave up in my heart. There was a part of me that completely let go, that completely collapsed. A part of me truly had need to sink and hit rock bottom“remembered the singer on the airwaves of France Inter. Looking back, she considers this moment important.
“I needed to understand the true meaning of everything that was happening. It's my destiny! My destiny was to find a place within myself where, despite everything that could be said, I would end up by finding myself pretty enough, gifted enough, fair enough, but that's not what matters to me anymore.
she added to Léa Salamé. Long outside the music industry, she finally makes her return with an album that means a lot.
Lara Fabian: “getting out of certain pains”
“You co-wrote this new album with Slimane, Vianney and Vitaa. It's a very personal album that talks about you, your father, your daughter. It's an album that you present as
a spiritual journey, an inner journeyan ode to resilience and self-love. For what ?”she asked Nicolas Demorand's sidekick. And for Lara Fabian, this record was a kind of necessary outlet.
“It allowed me to overcome certain pains, which seemed inextricable. From a journey which was marked by quite a few trials, she told the host of Quelle époque. As a woman, I feel like I really needed strip myself of this blanket of stones at a given moment, to find tools, ways to reconnect with the joy of living, the taste of life and its simplicity.” A journey that touched and moved Léa Salamé.
