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Lara Fabian
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Belgian and Canadian singer and songwriter
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Lara Fabian, born Lara Sophie Katy Crokaert on January 9, 1970, in Etterbeek, Belgium, is a Canadian and Belgian singer, songwriter, actor, and musician. She holds citizenship in both Canada and Belgium. Her professional career began in 1986, and she is educated at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels. She performs as a soprano, utilizing her voice and piano, and has participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 1988.
Her musical output spans pop music, pop rock, and operatic pop genres. She speaks French, English, Italian, and Spanish. Her discography includes releases under Polydor, Universal Music Group, and Sony Music. She was influenced by Céline Dion. Her official website is listed as Lara Fabian – Site Officiel | Official Website.
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Etterbeek, Brussels-Capital Region, Belgium
Lara Sophie Katy Crokaert (born January 9, 1970), better known as Lara Fabian, is a Belgian-Canadian pop singer and songwriter. She has sold over 20 million records worldwide as of 2021 and is one of the best-selling Belgian artists of all time. She was born in Etterbeek, Brussels, to a Belgian father and a Sicilian mother. She lived the first part of her childhood in Sicily, Catania, speaking…
Known for
- Les Enfoirés 2026 - La Ballade des Enfoirés — Self2026
- The Lara Effect2026
- Hiba Tawaji à l'Olympia — Self2025
- Laurent Gerra, l'anniversaire-événement — Self2025
- Serge Lama, le dernier rappel — Self2025
- Vos 40 chansons préférées des Enfoirés — Self (archive footage)2025
- Les Enfoirés 2024 - On a 35 ans !2024
- Saint-Denis le pré-show2024
- Nos Voix Pour Toutes 2024 — Self2024
- Avec Florent Pagny, tout le monde ELA — Self2023
via TMDB
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Female
- Country
- Belgium
- Active from
- 1970
Discography
Member of
- Les Enfoirés1998–1998
- Les Enfoirés2001–2001
- Les Enfoirés2005–2005
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 358,334
- Total plays
- 6,435,955
Tags
At the age of 14, the Belgian-Italian Lara Fabian was unknowingly setting the stage for an impressive international career by singing in Brussels's clubs. A few years later, after winning many European contests and gaining some popularity, she launched her first single, followed by her first self-titled album... Three years after the release of her first album, which went gold and platinum, she released her second album, Carpe Diem, which launched the career of this singer-songwriter in French-
Official website
Lara Fabian – Site Officiel | Official Website
larafabian.com →Link to the official site · 3,672 chars · not written by Vinony
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- Belgium
- Place of birth
- Etterbeek
- Occupation
- actor
- Educated at
- Royal Conservatory of Brussels
- Languages spoken
- Flemish Dutch
- Native language
- Italian
- Notable work
- Mademoiselle Zhivago
- Participant in
- Eurovision Song Contest 1988
- Hair colour
- brown hair
- Genre
- pop rock
- Instrument
- piano
- Discography
- Lara Fabian discography
- Official website
- www.larafabian.com
- Image
- Lara Fabian - Ma vie dans la tienne (26452248690) (cropped).jpg
- Height
- 163
- Number of children
- 1
- Residence
- Walloon Brabant
- Voice type
- soprano
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- Commons category
- Lara Fabian
- date of birth
- 1970-01-09
- birth name
- Lara Sophie Katy Crokaert
- influenced by
- Céline Dion
- name in native language
- Lara Crokaert
- start of work period
- 1986-00-00
- pseudonym
- Lara Fabian
- Fach vocal classification
- lyric soprano
- social media followers
- 846000
- copyright representative
- Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada
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Encyclopedic overview
Lara Sophie Katy Crokaert (born 9 January 1970), known professionally as Lara Fabian, is a Belgian and Canadian singer and songwriter. Having sold over 12 million records worldwide, she is one of the best-selling Belgian artists of all time.
Born in Brussels to a Belgian father and an Italian mother, she moved to Quebec in 1990 and, since 1995, has held Canadian citizenship alongside her Belgian one.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Lara Fabian” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.