Lara Fabian was born Lara Crokaert in Etterbeek, Belgium, on January 9, 1970.
With a career that began early, a powerful voice and a sense of stage
theatricality, by the 1990s she had established herself as one of the most
popular "chanteuses à voix" in the French-speaking world, following in the
footsteps of international artists such as Céline Dion and Barbra Streisand. A
singer from childhood, she competed in competitions, then performed in Brussels
piano bars, singing backing vocals for Petula Clark. She won the springboard for
the Festival de la Wallonie and began recording,...