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The only complaint I have is that her music is hard to purchase in stores in this country. If we can entice this lady to visit the USA, I want to be the first in line for concert tickets. I will be buying more of her recordings. The voice is magical, the songs are beautiful, and together they are pure heaven. There is a good mix of tempos and subjects.
3 stars only because this cd does sound very 90s, if I were giving a review 8 years ago, it would have been 4. Try going to the youtube website and looking up Broken Vow, and see just how powerful and gymnastic-ky her voice actually is. (Josh Groban does a nice version on Broken Vow as well).
Sounds very 90's in a way. I feel she is singing perfectly for her voice range, not trying to sound like she tries to hit notes she shouldn't attempt, instead hitting them perfectly and with emotion. Keep in mind this cd was released in 2000, so it has distinct "sounds" from that time period.
Broken Vow and The Dream Within are my favorites. Nonetheless, her voice does do 'gymnastics' like the overly mean critics review above, (geez, amazon).
but not in a bad way.
I will likely never hear another who's so gifted vocally; who can better the power of Dion, has cleaner virtuosity than Mariah and yet can suddenly drop down into the most mesmerizing pianissimos. Lara Fabian is gifted in many languages and easily represents herself in French, Italian and Spanish (oh and English of course). I would simply consider this voice to be akin to a concert pianist who can at will do whatever is wished musically.If you've not heard her, you miss a superbe talent. My family has owned and listened to Lara for years yet remain always in complete awe of her near perfect vocal abilities. She is an amazing melding of Celine Dion & Mariah Carey, but unlike those two, she presents her vocal talents without pretense - pure music.
Stands to repeated listenings without it hardly getting old, Lara Fabian is a beautiful lady with a beautiful voice and an expertly produced album to boot. There is not a bad cut on this it is well written easy listening to neo classical music, begining with the song that got her noticed in the U.S.; "I Will Love Again", "Giving Up On You", "I Am What I Am", Yeliel(My Angel), Adagio and "Love By Grace".
She deserves to be better known. With her beautiful and passionate voice, it completely blew me away. I was on Yahoo Answers when I saw a question with a link to a video by Lara. It was fantastic.
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