Lara Fabian
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Lara Fabian, 2012
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Lara Crokaert |
| Born | January 9, 1970 |
| Origin | Etterbeek, Belgium |
| Genres | |
| Occupation(s) | Singer, songwriter, musician, actress |
| Instruments | Vocals, piano, keyboards |
| Years active | 1986–present |
| Labels |
Polydor Sony Music Universal Music Group Warner Music France |
| Website | larafabian |
Lara Crokaert (born January 9, 1970), better known as Lara Fabian, is a Belgian-Canadian singer. She has sold over 20 million records worldwide and is the best-selling Belgian female artist of all time.
She was born in Etterbeek, Brussels to a Belgian father and a Sicilian mother. Since 1996 she has also held a Canadian citizenship alongside her original Belgian citizenship.
Fabian is the only child of Pierre Crokaert, who is Flemish, and Maria Luisa Serio, a native of 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 professional name is a modified spelling of the given name of an uncle, Fabiano.
During the 1980s, Fabian entered a number of European competitions and won several prizes. She released her first single, "L'Aziza est en pleurs" / "Il y avait" in 1986. Both songs were written by the Belgian composer Marc Lerchs as an homage to Daniel Balavoine.
In 1988, the RTL TV channel in Luxembourg invited Fabian to represent the country at the 33rd Eurovision Song Contest, held that year in Dublin, Ireland. The song was a composition by Jacques Cardona and Alain Garcia entitled Croire (Trust) which reached a respectable fourth place (while Celine Dion won the contest representing Switzerland). The single became a hit in Europe, selling nearly 500,000 copies.
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