This Tuesday, November 19, Lara Fabian was the special guest of journalist Nathalie Levy, in As an aside. During her visit, the singer was able to rediscover a video in which she sang alongside Maurane. A touching memory which then encouraged her to share tender confidences about her late friend…
A death still difficult to forget… After more than thirty years of career, the singer Maurane was found dead on May 7, 2018, at her home located in Schaerbeek (a suburb of Brussels). A disappearance which not only upset his fans, but especially the people who may have crossed his path. Present in the show As an asidethis Tuesday, November 19, Lara Fabian had the opportunity to watch a performance again during which she sang You are my other on stage alongside the late artist. With great emotion, the 54-year-old artist revealed sweet secrets about her missing friend.
“What is she missing! I miss her so much…”Lara Fabian first said, with a nostalgic pout. Regarding her friend, the 54-year-old singer only had positive things to say about her. Explaining in particular that in his eyes, Maurane remains “one of the most beautiful voices on the planet“. But in addition to the compliments on the legendary career of the Belgian singer, Lara Fabian then particularly remembered their very first meeting. “I met her, I'm barely 17, I'm absolutely nobody“, she fondly remembered. And to get in touch with Maurane, the interpreter of I'm sick had then made sure to meet her as often as possible. “I went to see her everywhere, I bought tickets for all the shows and, at the time, it was a mutual friend who introduced us“, she added, affectionately. Before concluding: “And it will remain in my life, in filigree, dotted lines, at very very strong moments, at others a little less…“
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Lara Fabian: this collaboration that Maurane did not want to do
Always during his passage in As an asideLara Fabian subsequently revealed extensive details about her relationship with Maurane. If the two artists were united, it sometimes happened that they did not agree on the same things. For good reason, according to Lou Pullicino's mother, the Belgian artist did not want to collaborate with her on his title, You are my other. “You are my other […] is a song I wrote with the wish that she would sing it with me. [C’était] not won! I can tell you! At first, she didn't want to!“, revealed Lara Fabian. Fortunately, the Belgian artist gave in to her friend's expectations and thus recorded this song which, since 2001, has left its mark on a good number of their fans!
Article written with the collaboration of 6Medias.
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