Lara Fabian was born in Etterbeek, Belgium, in 1970, to a Belgian father and a Sicilian mother, and started singing lessons before she'd really learned to talk. She trained for ten years at the Brussels Royal Conservatory of Music, piano and composition included, and was already working the Brussels club circuit as a teenager. A fourth-place finish at the 1988 Eurovision Song Contest with "Croire" got her noticed at home, but it was a move to Quebec in 1991 that changed the trajectory of her career: her French-language records found a much bigger audience across the Atlantic than they had in Belgium.
Carpe Diem went triple platinum in 1994 and 1997's Pure carried the hit "Je t'aime." By 1999 she'd crossed into English with a self-titled album built around "Adagio" and the dance-pop hit "I Will Love Again." She still records in French, English and Italian, drawing on her mother's language for songs like this one, and she remains the best-selling Belgian-born female artist of all time.