LARA FABIAN. Guest of the Star Academy final, Lara Fabian had already confided in TF1 about the disease from which she has suffered for years.
She is the guest of the grand finale of Star Academy 2022: Lara Fabian! The singer was able to share privileged moments at the castle of Dammarie-les-Lys with the finalist students of the Star Ac’, surprised by the arrival of the singer, with whom they will be able to sing on the last bonus of the season, this Saturday November 26 on TF1.
The opportunity for us to take an interest in the private life of the artist and in particular in the disease against which she has been fighting for years. In 2020, when Lara Fabian had to cancel a series of concerts in Romania, she explained on her Facebook page: “I am currently completely unable to go on stage and the doctor stopped me.”
In the columns of Télé Loisirs, Lara Fabian had explained that she had Ménière’s disease, which causes dizziness and ringing in the ears. “I’m better, I suffered from Meniere’s Vertigo. I couldn’t stand up (…) When Meniere’s disease breaks out, you lose your balance and you can’t stand up”, described Lara Fabian , explaining not to be “a machine”. Knowing how to manage the stress and fatigue of a tour, the singer will also be able to teach it to the students of the Star Academy…
Short biography of Lara Fabian
It was in Etterbeek, in the region of Brussels, in Belgium, that Lara Crokaert, who became Lara Fabian, was born on January 9, 1970. She is the only daughter of Pierre Crokaert, originally from Belgium, and Maria Luisa Serio, Sicilian. . At a very young age, she began to take an interest in music, began to take singing, music theory, piano and theater lessons. Then, at the Brussels Conservatory, at the end of the 1970s, she turned to opera singing and began to write her own songs. From small concert halls to singing competitions, Lara Fabian was appointed, in 1988, as Belgian representative at theEurovision, in Dublin, with the song “Croire”: she will finish at the foot of the podium, in fourth position. But his career is launched.
Lara Fabian then leaves Belgium for Quebec. In 1991, she released her first album, eponymous, then a second in 1994, called “Carpe Diem”, which was a great success across the Atlantic. She then returned to France, sang with Serge Lama on “I am sick” and lent her voice to Esméralda in the Disney cartoon “The Hunchback of Notre-Dame” in 1996. That same year, Lara Fabian officially became Canadian. His third album, “Pure”, was released in France and Belgium in 1997. Carried in particular by the single “Je t’aime”, more than two million copies were sold.
In 1998, Lara Fabian was crowned revelation of the year at the Victoires de la Musique, went on stage with Johnny Hallyday at the Stade de France and obtained her wax double at the Grévin museum. His fame goes beyond borders: his career is now launched internationally. In 2001, she unveiled her fourth album, “Nue”, on which appears her unforgettable title with Maurane, “Tu es mon autre”. New success for Lara Fabian, who won double platinum certification in France and gold in Switzerland and Belgium. The following years were marked by new successes, albums in English and several triumphal tours.
Who is Lara Fabian’s husband?
After spending her career alongside composer Rick Allison, her lifelong companion, she distanced herself in 2005. A separation marked by the release of her fifth French album, “9”. Lara Fabian also had a relationship with Patrick Fiori and guitarist Jean-Félix Lalanne. Two years later, in 2007, Lara Fabian gave birth to her first child, a granddaughter named Lou, born of her relationship with Gérard Pullicino. Born in 1958, the latter is a French director, producer and composer from Italy. And Lara Fabian to confide to Public, about her daughter: “I am sure that she will be an artist. She is a very empathetic little girl, she helped me a lot when I lost my hearing. is a wise little girl with an old soul inside”.
In 2012, Lara Fabian and Gérard Pullicino separated. “Hello everyone… in order to get ahead of the rumours, it seemed normal to tell you that Gérard and I have decided by mutual agreement to separate after seven years of life together and happiness”, wrote the singer on Facebook. Some time later, Lara Fabian met the Sicilian magician Gabriel Di Giorgio, with whom she married in June 2013.
Lara Fabian and Maurane
Between the two singers, the friendship is sealed with the essential and unforgettable duet baptized You are my other and released in 2001. With the death of Maurane, on May 7, 2018, if all of the French-speaking world cried one of its greatest faces, Lara Fabian lost a dear friend. “We do not detach ourselves from someone we love. We love him in the absence, we love him otherwise (…) We must be in absolute respect. And even I would say in silence. Today what I experience is a kind of continuous attachment that appears to me in dotted lines when I think of her. Often I happen to imagine her, to see her in my head. so that I don’t lose her, by continuing to produce this link. But it’s difficult, difficult to say to myself that I will never hear her sing again”, she confided to the site Purecharts in March 2019.
Lara Fabian and the death of her mother
Lara Fabian’s mother, who died in March 2019, had Lewy body dementia, a complex pathology that affects the brain like Alzheimer’s or Parkinson’s disease. “It’s very difficult. It forces you to enjoy life when it’s there. This disease is a great lesson for me…”, confided the artist in the columns of Télé Star. “We all have little pebbles in our shoe. I have a very sick mother. She suffers from a neurodegenerative disease. In these painful moments, I learned not to tinker with my pain, because it is useless “I’m moving forward. But I have to admit, this is the only part of my life where the word ‘fight’ applies. As soon as I see a health issue coming up, I look it straight in the eye. and tell him: ‘No, outside!'”, added Lara Fabian to Paris Match.