September 28, 1999

In a french tv show called "Exclusif" on monday, the hosts finally mentionned Lara's radio return in mid-october with Adagio, first single off her album now called Lara Fabian, and not Part of Me as we were led to believe for a short while.

Recorded in Montreal and L.A., Adagio will be by a masterful video shot in California and directed by Franco Draggone (Cirque du Soleil) and boosted by special effects made by the same guy who did the special effects for the movie "The Matrix" !! All of this sounds quite unreal and very promising.

After her meeting with the Sony Music representants in Montreal last week, this monday September 27th, Lara was in Los Angeles to present a showcase of some of her songs to the representants of the West Coast gathered for a convention. She will do the same thing before the East Coast representants on October 4th in New York. Adagio will hit the air-waves in mid-october, and the album will be out on December 1, 1999.

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(Source: Flo, Bev @ Showbizz.net, article par Joel Coco Letendre)

September 17, 1999

Lara was invited for the inauguration of the Ex-Entris Complex, in Montreal, which is now the biggest virtual store in North America with 400,000 products.(http://www.archambault.ca). Lara, who had just arrived from London, made the first transaction in the store and bought a compact disc.

She didn't made any declaration...but she talked to journalist and friend Eric

In the Quebec tv show Flash yesterday, Lara also mentionned that on top of the album, there will be a surprised for the fans on December 31, 1999 !!! The singer left Montreal on thursday to LA, where she will spend 2 days to shoot a video for the song Adagio.
(Source: Ginette, Lara words translated by D. Man)

September 12, 1999

A mini-review of the album "Part Of Me" has been published in a Belgium article (10/09/99) called "Lara Fabianglais" : Here is a translated extract :

September 10, 1999

The newspaper La derniere heure reports that Lara has met the Belgium Press on wednesday september the 8th to present her album"Part Of Me".

Lara, along with Allison told the press her album is completed, aside from one song which she needs to record a track for; and the album will be released in countries where is already known at the end of november : namely France, Belgium, Swizerland and Quebec. Canada and the rest of the world will follow later. Among the songs Lara presented to the journalists, there was one recorded with a symphonic orchestra of a 100 musicians.

Another Belgium newspaper called appele Vlan (5/09/99) said that among the 40 songs Lara worked on in the studios, 15 will make it to her record, including a track called Schimo and another one in Italian. French teen magazine Salut in its september issue wrote an article tittled "Where in the world is Lara Fabian" and they say Lara has been busy all summer shooting videos and photos for albums covers, and she met Sony representatives all over the planet for the launching of "Part Of Me". About this project, Lara said with enthusiasm :

September 9, 1999

The nominations for the the Gala are just in, and Lara is featured in 2 categories :

1. Quebec Most Illustrated Artist outside of the country, where she compete among others with the troup from the musical "Notre-Dame de Paris".
2. Female Vocalist of The Year.

The Gala will be held at the Capitole of Québec, and broadcast on Radio-Canada television on October 31 at 7:30pm, to know more go to Adisq site at http://www.adisq.com
(Source: Ginette)

September 2, 1999

This is just in from Belgium newspaper La Dernière Heure (28/09/99):

Bruxelles (28/09/99) A big event : On September 8th, 1999 Sony Music will host a press conference for Lara's American CD called Part Of Me; as part of the program: a 30 min interview with the star and a listening session of 6 tracks from the LP.

"Lara will be in Bruxelles as part of the Epic's annual convention, her spokeperson Candice Stoffels said. In the days preceeding her Bruxelle's stay, she will have taken part in similar conventions in Montreal and Swizerland. Lara will be in the country from the 8th to saturday the 11th, before flying to London"

Exclusive tracklisting and single confirmation !

Regarding the songstress's now completed album, we are told that most tittles will be penned by Walter Afanasieff, Richard Marx and Patrick Leonard; and that her first single will be the soaring Adagio.
In total confidenciality, the journalists were abble to listen to clip from a track called You Are My Heart, which they described as "a jewel; light and refined (...) closer to Barbra Streisand than Celine Dion"

These is the tracklisting of the songs journalist will listen to on september :

1. You Are My Heart
2. Broken Vow
3. Before We Say Goodbye
4. Love Found Me
5. You Are Not From Here
6. Part Of Me
7. Addagio

(Source: Hezia Abel @ Article de Jean-Philippe Darquenne, La Dernière Heure (Belgique) - © 28 août 1999)

August 31, 1999

Today, Columbia Records in New York and Sony Epic Records in Canada gave us the lattest updates concerning the upcoming album.:

The new album will be released in Canada on December 7th, 1999 with her first single "Adiago" hitting the radio waves at the beginning of November '99!! In France, the album will be out a week earlier.
Still, Columbia Records say that they are waiting for an official release date to be announced for the U.S. They also advised that we keep watching for a website to appear under the Columbia Records label !
(Source: Bev)

August 30, 1999

The belgium radios are saying that Lara will be recording with the King of Italian pop music, Eros Ramazzotti for his next project due to be released in 2001 !

Lara said in recent interviews that following her English album, there will an Italian one made of new compositions. According to Eros Ramazzotti Internet Fan Club, Ramazzotti spoke to the press in July and said "They've asked me for material for Lara Fabian, who they want to launch as the new Celine Dion. And Mattola has some of my pieces". Ramazzotti started to gain world exposure after his duet with Tina Turner last year.

Lara's French re-release album enters the French charts at No 70

As of 21/08/99, the french edition of the 91' Quebec LP Lara Fabian debuts at No 70 in the album charts, which is quite good considering it was release without any promotion or single. Soon, we will have a charts links on this page to help you follow Lara's singles all over the world.
(Source : koudywoudy)

August 26, 1999

According to the Stephen Gately Fan Page, the duet between Lara Fabian and Boyzone's lead singer Stephen Gately has already been recorded earlier this year. In an interview on Radio 1 UK last april, Gately revealed he had just worked with Lara, although there has been no mention of the collaboration coming from Lara or her team throughout the press surrounding the long awaited album.

August 23, 1999

After Lara's declaration at "50 years of hits" TV show last friday, there seems to be more evidence coming forth that the album will in fact be released in january 2000. Lara's explanation to the host was that "Sony Music wants an international release, and there's something magical about a millenium release".

Lara's representatives at Columbia NY wouldn't confirm nor deny any dates until the end of the month, but they said the buzz at Sony was very positive :
"There is a tremendous amount of enthusiasm around Lara's album here at Sony, they said, because no-one before has made an album this personal. Lara has worked very hard with Glen Ballard and Pat Leonard, and the melodies all sound incredible and unique"
(Source: Alex)

August 22, 1999

Lara made quite an impression in the TF1 Tv special last friday, when her song Tout got voted by the viewers as third-most-liked hit of the last 50 years.

Lara in the early 90s

Lara was invited among many other French recording industry stars for this telecast recorded last june in Monaco. In her interview segment, Lara was asked to select a year for an image retrospective, and she chosed 1990 because she "just turned 20 and also met Rick Allison that same year". Lara also admitted that many political events in 1990 had inspired her in the writing of her first album; specifically Reveille-toi brother which deals with racism (Nelson was freed from prison in 1990) and Il suffit d'un eclair which was inspired by the Gulf War.

Lara was then asked to chose a singer for a clip retrospective, and she chosed Elvis Presley because she said : "my dad raised me with Elvis; and he's a great singer and a handsome man". As her pick for the song of the last 50 years, Lara chosed La langue de chez nous ("Our mother's tongue") by Yves Duteil, which has been a huge succes in Quebec where the song struck a chord with French speaking majority.
(Source: Gaelle)

August 18, 1999

Sources at Epic records, Paris are saying today that another song than Adagio is being considered as the first single off Lara's album this september. Although they wouldn't reveal the tittle of the possibles songs and whether the song were upbeat or ballads, they added : "we think another song than Adagio could be better for Lara...But, nothing has been decided yet , cuz we have to check Sony, NY before"

As far as the release date is concerned, Epic Paris said the album is indeed scheduled for late November 1999 for Europe, but that Sony NY still hesitate about a fall release cause it's too risky considering the fierce christmas competition.
(Source: Alex)

August 13, 1999

A lot of rumours have been circulating for a while that Lara will go back in the Studios in september to record some more material for her now finished English debut. Sources told us that Lara has been discussing for awhile the possibility of a duet with Stephen Gately, one of the leads of the hugely succesful group UK Bozone.

Stephen Gately has been front news in England in june, when he granted an interview to Sun magazine to disclose his homosexuality. Fabian and Gately will reportedly record the song in a studio in Paris. The duet, if true, could mean instant succes for Lara in Europe & the middle east where Boyzone has aligned number one hits for a couple of years, including the Tim Rice/Andrew Lyod Webber composition No Matter What.

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August 12, 1999

Through a call at Columbia Records, New York - where Lara is officially signed - , we were abble to get a confirmation that the release date for Lara's album is the end of November '99!!!! First single will be out end of September or October and her website should be ready sometime in November through Columbia Records! From what we understand, the release date is international, including the U.S.!! At the present time, Lara's team at Columbia NY said a lot is being done on the promotional material soon to be seen, especially photo sessions with Lara.. They also said we should keep checking the website for Columbia on updates regarding her website.

(Source: Bev)

August 11, 1999

50 ans de Tubes, a program that will celebrates all the songs that stayed in the history of French music will be broadcast friday, August 20, 1999 at 8pm on the TF1 channel.

Lara is to talk about her assencion to fame in the last two years, and might also perform. Some fans suggested she might perform the next single from her recently released Eponyme album (Reveille-toi brother ?) or even the first English single, but there no comfirmations yet.
(Source: Stefan)

August 9, 1999

An article was published in TV publication Télé Poche invisting fans to send their questions for Lara Fabian, and the magazine would be publishing the answers in the next edition. Here's the address where to send reader's mail :

Tele Poche-Courrier des lecteurs
150, Rue Gallieni
92644 Boulogne-Billancourt Cedex
(France)
(Source: Helene)

August 6, 1999

Lara and her fiance Patrick Fiori have been interviewed by Paris Match (http://www.parismatch.com) while they were vacationning for 3 weeks in the Porto-Vecchio Island, Corse this june. The two took the time to enjoy the sun as well as sit down at the piano to write new songs for Patrick Fiori's next project.

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The photographs are splendid and quite similar in both publications, and both state the album "made in America" is scheduled for january 2000. On Europe 1 radio, a journalist who had the chance to talk to Lara in Corse said Sony's actual plan was an international release for April 2000 (at the very lattest). You can pick up those magazines at major news stand near you.

August 3, 1999

As of today, Sony is planning to release Lara's new English album in Canada and France only prior to Chrismas '99. They are looking at a release date of November 99.
Lara's first single (which song they would not say) will hopefully be released at the end of September 99 or beginning of October 99!!!

Unfortunately, it is the release for the U.S. will not be till March/April '99! This delay may be due to the release of all other albums by other well known artists, but it also compromise original plans for a major international launching for Lara's debut.
(Source: Bev)

July 25, 1999

Diane Warren (http://www.dianewarren.com) has written a song for Lara's debut and now we know that song will be Love Found Me. In past interviews Lara mentionned that Diane Warren and herself met in Nashville to write some material, and she seemed unsure at the time as to whether the songs would make it to the final cut.
(Source: Conrad)

July 18, 1999

The album Lara Fabian, released in Quebec in 1992 will now be available in France & Europe. The new edition of the "eponyme" album , features a superb brand new cover and a bonus track, Croire, from the 1988 Eurovision song contest. This is a very special gift from Lara and also a nice way to celebrate 10 years of career.
Album references : Polygram 5570732 (CD), 5570732 (Audio tapes)

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Preview the album here ! ( Streaming Real Audio)

1. Qui pense a l'amour
2. Les murs
3. Pourquoi pas l'exotisme
4. Je m'arreterais pas de t'aimer
5. Le jour ou tu partiras
6. Simplement
7. Reveille-toi brother
8. Dire
9. Il suffit d'un eclair
10. Croire (Bonus track)

May 21, 1999

Lara gave the best performance ever of her French hit Je t'aime, and she got a stading ovation way before she could even finish the song. The whole thing was very emotional and you had the sense something very unreal was happening in that room. Lara got her award, and later posed for photographs and gave interviews.

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The show was a world-wide broadcast, but only a minute of Lara was shown as part of an international meddley. I was disturbed by Much Music Canada's choice to show the US version of the program, whereas Musique Plus Quebec rebroacasted the 3 hour show. I adressed a letter of complaint to Much Music, pointing the fact no airtime or interview was devoted to Lara, despite the fact she is a Canadian and a Juno recipient. This is the reply I got from Much :

April 25, 1999

In an article that reveals the behind-the-scenes of the making of the Lara's album, we learn that Sony's head Tommy Mottola is committed to promote Lara as the Diva of the next decade. Lara herself is very involved in writing the songs and has agreed to promote the album around the world over a period of 18 months where she will tour the USA, Canada, Europe, Australia and Japan for 3 months each. That should keep Lara busy until at least until the end of 2001 when she will next go for a world tour.

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(Source: Duchesse)

March 25, 1999

Lara's career couldn't get any better than this : She will be among Prince Rainier and the Royal Family of Monaco on may 6th, 1999, as she will be awarded the Benelux prize for her astounding record sales in Belgium, Luxembourg and Netherlands.

On top of recieving her prize, Lara has been invited to sing during the ceremonies, and the show will be rebroadcast worldwide on a later date. This year, the show will be hosted by latin sensation Ricky Martin and Pamela Anderson. Other performers for the night include Cher, Lauryn Hill and Andréa Bocelli (Source : Showbizz.net)