Montreal Gazette - Story - canada.com network Click here to make canada.com your home page! canada.com » Montreal » Montreal Gazette » Story Montreal Gazette NEWS STORY » Headlines Fabian revisits French » Contests After a shot at the English-language market, chanteuse is back with Nue » Editorials » Letters to the Editor BRENDAN KELLY » Columnists Montreal Gazette » Subscribe » Contact Us Monday, September 10, 2001 » Send us a news tip Belgian-born Montreal singer » Special Sections Lara Fabian is back singing en français, with the recent launch of » Archives her first French-language studio » In the community album in four years. » Advertising She took a break from her franco » Customer Service career last year to follow in Céline » About Us Dion's footsteps and take a shot at topping the charts in the language of Mariah Carey. Classifieds » Montreal Gazette Fabian's self-titled English debut Classified Ads was given the big promotional push stateside by powerful » carclick.com multinational label Sony Music. » careerclick.com The high-profile campaign landed » homesclick.com Fabian on the front page of U.S. music-biz bible Billboard. OUR NEWSPAPERS The album did not, however, do Céline-like business south of the border and it failed to click with American music fans. But, in a chat shortly after the release of THE GAZETTE Nue, her latest CD, Fabian said Singer Lara Fabian recently launched she plans to make another English Nue, her new French-language album. record for Sony and she begged to differ with the view that her English debut was a total stiff. "You think (sales of) 2 million is a bit of a disappointment for a first English release," said the feisty Fabian. "To be honest, of course I didn't sell 20 million http://www.canada.com/montreal/montrealgazette/...y.asp?id={967657F0-3623-47F8-8A35-941871D98F18} (1 van 3) [12/09/2001 21:58:52] Montreal Gazette - Story - canada.com network » Victoria records. But I don't think you sell that with your first shot." Times-Colonist Fabian suggested that perhaps there were some marketing problems with the » Vancouver Province English album in the U.S. The first single, I Will Love Again, was an uptempo » Vancouver Sun dance-flavoured track, hardly representative of Fabian's regular » Calgary Herald vocal-cord-straining adult-contemporary style. She feels American fans still haven't really gotten a proper sense of what she can do best. » Edmonton Journal » Regina Leader Post "Was I Will Love Again exactly the song to explain who I was?" asked Fabian. "I don't think so. It was the first colour you could see and if you didn't go any » Saskatoon further with the album, I don't think you'd know completely who I was. I think StarPhoenix all the real work will be done on the second (English) record. » National Post "But for a first start as a completely unknown act coming from the French scene, » Ottawa Citizen for a first record to sell 2 million, it's not really a failure. It was just that damn » Montreal Gazette song and then they didn't follow up with a ballad which could explain me in a » Halifax Daily News better way." » more newspapers... Fabian's latest album, Nue, is chock-full of the big ballads that have become her trademark over the past 10 years. Slickly produced by her longtime musical partner Rick Allison, most of the songs are - as usual - co-written by Fabian and OUR COMMUNITY Allison, and there is little on her sixth album likely to shock her longtime fans. » Canadian Centre for Philanthropy Since Carpe Diem in 1994, Fabian has been one of the most popular Québécois singers in France and she has sold more than 8 million albums around the globe. » Historica Fabian is presently on the other side of the Atlantic putting in long hours Foundation promoting Nue for the French public and industry. » Concerned Children's There might not be any major musical shifts on Nue, but Fabian feels her return to French pop features a more personal approach to songwriting. More naked, as Advertisers it were, which explains the tasteful pics of Fabian in the buff on the album » SmartRisk jacket. Foundation "This album speaks of the journey, what I've been through over the past five or » United Way six years," said Fabian, 31. "It's about the pains I've gone through as a woman, things that I've been through like any other woman. I'm not unique. The only OUR PARTNERS difference is that I've lived it in front of the cameras. » National Post Online "Nue talks about surrender and forgiveness and love. You have to sometimes » Faceoff.com admit that whatever you go through in life, it's not such a big deal. We all go » allCanadiansport.ca through it and you have to forgive. We don't have all the answers and music should be a way out." » MedBroadcast.com » Canada NewsWire She called it Nue to reflect the idea of letting loose, of opening yourself to the world. "You choose your moment to get naked and you have to cross a lot of barriers to do that," Fabian said. "I chose this moment to talk about suicide, to talk about friendship, to talk about real love." Born in Belgium to a Sicilian mother and a half-Dutch, half-Belgian father, Fabian grew up in a household where more than one language was the norm, and that's one reason she figures it is only natural to sing in languages other than French. Fabian slipped back into the English milieu this summer, belting out songs in two prominent Hollywood flicks, Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within and Steven Spielberg's A.I. She is set to begin production at the end of the year on her second English effort. - Brendan Kelly's E-mail address is [email protected]. © Copyright 2001 Montreal Gazette About Us | Contact Us | Advertising | Privacy | Terms | FAQ | Site Map | Our Cities | U.S. Cities http://www.canada.com/montreal/montrealgazette/...y.asp?id={967657F0-3623-47F8-8A35-941871D98F18} (2 van 3) [12/09/2001 21:58:52].