Lara Fabian owns a charming villa in Sicily, between the sea and Etna. And the 56-year-old singer decided to exploit this space for a whole new adventure…
In addition to being one of the most gifted French-speaking vocalists, Lara Fabian, currently on tour, is concerned with transmission. Always ready to help emerging talents, the coach of The Voice has just opened a singing school in his villa in Sicily, located between the sea and the Etna volcano…
Lara Fabian, her singing school in her Sicilian villa: “I welcome into my home…”
For some time now, the interpreter of I still believe in it, who has long been in competition with Céline Dion, harbored the hope of opening his own singing school to offer his expertise. And that dream finally came true. The artist hesitated between Rome or the south of Italy, and finally chose his villa in Sicily to welcome budding talents. This concept will even be the subject of a program which will be broadcast on the Quebec channel TVA+.
“I would like this school, which for the moment gives rise to a television program called The Lara effectbecome a sacred place where people come to share their emotions in complete freedom“, she explained to 7 Days TV. “This project was born from everything I experienced, as a coach and director of Star Académie in Quebec. I imagined this concept before proposing it to Canadian producers”added the one who led the Star Academy for 2021 editions and 2022 and was godmother of the 2025 season.
The concept of his show The Lara effect ? “I welcome five artists into my home to help them improve vocally, through activities that are both educational and personal.“. And if Lara Fabian, in a relationship with Gabriel Di Giorgio and mother of a 19-year-old daughter named Lou, makes it a point of honor to help young artists, it is because the singer experienced many disappointments and difficulties before succeeding in making a living from her passion.
Lara Fabian struggled to achieve success: “We rowed…”
Before finding success in music, she even embarked on studying law and child criminology in Italy, before stopping them a year later. In 1990, she met the songwriter Rick Allison, who later became her partner, in a piano bar in Brussels. Together, they decided to fly to Quebec, where the singer tried her luck.
“For seven years, we rowed, ate peas, worked three jobs a day to develop my career. I know the taste for work, for perseverance, for failure, for risk-taking, for jumping into a void, for hunger, for lack of money… As a result, the first success was supernatural. Part of you never believes it. It still haunts me today“, confided the star who began to experience success in Europe in the early 90s, through perseverance.
