Billboard Spotlight Reviews Search the Review Database LARA FABIAN Search by ARTIST Lara Fabian NAME: News Index Producer(s): various Artist of The Day Columbia 12599 Special Report Genre: POP Use the Review This Week's Poll SPOTLIGHT Originally reviewed for week ending 6/10/00 Finder for in-depth searches. Hot Product This Week New Releases Album Reviews Click here to find the best prices for this album! Here are all the reviews in Digital Downloads this week's Billboard: Gold & Platinum BILLY BRAGG & French-Canadian WILCO, Mermaid Avenue Vol. II Hits of the Web singer/songwriter Lara Billboard Charts Fabian is the consummate CHRIS WHITLEY, adult-appealing newcomer. Live At Martyrs' Music To My Ears With four French-language albums already under her DIANA DARBY, Chart Beat Online Naked Time Ask Billboard belt and worldwide sales Sites + Sounds surpassing 6 million, she ERIC WOOD, hits U.S. shores with the Illustrated Night aplomb -- and musical Tour Finder prowess -- of an established superstar. Her self-titled debut GISSELLE, Voy A Live Reviews serves up the very essence of heart through 13 mature Enamorarte Boxscore songs that grow with each successive play, ranging from JIM PHOTOGLO, Fly Tunes On TV guttural epic ballads to dance-ready throwdowns. But The Musician's Guide Straight Home when the dishes are cleared, it's all about the voice here, a vehicle through which life's essence emits on love, in pain, JONN SERRIE & This Day In Music and with hope. There's not a miss to be found on the GARY STROUTSOS, Fred's Trivia Corner album, from the self-empowering "I Am Who I Am" and Hidden World Music Crossword heart-wrenching "Broken Vow" to current uptempo single LARA FABIAN, Lara Billboard Challenge "I Will Love Again" and the album's finest moment, Fabian "Adagio," performed in both English and Italian. "Lara Fabian" is a cleanser for the soul. Wholly mesmerizing. LUCIANO BERIO, Billboard Minutes http://www.billboard.com/reviews/reviewdisplay.asp?ID=87504 (1 of 3) [30-11-2000 16:11:37].