Lara Crokaert (born January 9, 1970), better known as Lara Fabian, is a Belgian–Canadian singer. She has sold over 32 million records worldwide and is the best-selling Belgian female artist of all time.
She was born in Brussels (Etterbeek) to a Belgian father and a Sicilian mother. Since 1996 she has also held a Canadian passport alongside her original Belgian passport.
Fabian is the only child of Pierre Crokaert (who is Flemish) and Maria Luisa Serio (born in Sicily). She spent her first five years in her mother's hometown of Catania in Sicily. After that she moved to Ruisbroek near Brussels, Belgium. Italian was her first language.
She began singing, dancing and taking piano lessons at a young age, and began formal music lessons at age eight. She began writing and performing her own songs during her ten years of formal music study. Fabian's songs were influenced by her classical vocal training and by contemporary artists such as Barbra Streisand and Queen.
She was named Lara after the main character of the novel Doctor Zhivago. Her last name is taken from an uncle named Fabiano.
Lara Fabian's eponymous French debut album is the only album Lara has ever recorded that is very upbeat (other upbeat songs are found in Lara Fabian's two English Albums from 2000 and 2004). It is also notable because it is her only album that is dominated by dance-pop type songs instead of ballads. The album became a modest hit, selling over 100,000 copies.
"Lara Fabian" is the fourth studio album and the first English album by the Belgian recording artist Lara Fabian. It was first released on 29 November 1999 in France and later it was released worldwide in 2000. The album features the hit singles "I Will Love Again", "I Am Who I Am" and "Love by Grace".
After the Francophone star's huge success, in 1998 and 1999, Lara went to New York City and San Francisco to record her first album in English. She wrote or co-wrote most of the songs, working with Rick Allison and producers Walter Afanasieff (Mariah Carey, Céline Dion, Michael Bolton), Patrick Leonard (Madonna), Sam Watters (Color Me Badd, Jessica Simpson, Anastacia) and Mark Taylor (Cher, Enrique Iglesias).
Produced by Sony Music, the self-titled album was launched in May 2000 on America's most popular morning television show, NBC's Today Show. Invitations poured in, and Lara Fabian appeared on The Tonight Show, The View, Access Hollywood, Craig Kilborn, and Entertainment Tonight.
Lara Fabian is a Belgian-Italian international singer. It is also the name of two albums by that singer:
I'm only happy when I'm with you
I only feel good when I'm talking to you
And I'm a mess when you don't call me
Call me at night
Where did you go?
Where did you go?
And did you think of me?
It's hard to breath when my heart is sinking
I'm slipping fast as I'm reaching for you
It's gonna hurt 'cause I have been there before
Can't take much more
Can't take another night
Without you here beside me
I want to review my kisses
On every inch of your body
I want to reveal my secrets
That only you should know
I feel all this pain inside me
That only your lips can make better
I wanna review my kisses
So you won't forget that you are mine
Don't wanna care more than you do
Don't wanna be the one who's out in the rain
Don't wanna get that call where you sound so cold
So far away, So far away
Like the distant roll of thunder
I want to review my kisses
On every inch of your body
I want to reveal my secrets
That only you should know
I feel all this pain inside me
That only your lips can make better
I wanna review my kisses
So you won't forget that you are mine
It's a cave in the darkness
And I'm lost inside you
Don't go...
I want to review my kisses
On every inch of your body
I want to reveal my secrets
That only you should know
I feel all this pain inside me
That only your lips can make better
I wanna review my kisses
So you won't forget that you are mine