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Mireille Mathieu
Birth at
22 July 1946
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Mireille Mathieu was born in 1946, on July 22, in Avignon in a large family. They lived in poverty and lived in a cold barracks. Only after the birth of the eighth child (fourteen in total) they moved to a four-room apartment of the municipal house. At school, the girl was a bachelor, but this does not mean that she did not have a desire to learn. It was her first teacher who tried to get Mathieu to write with her right hand, even though she was left-handed. As a result, at the age of 13, she quit
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Mireille Mathieu was born in 1946, on July 22, in Avignon in a large family. They lived in poverty and lived in a cold barracks. Only after the birth of the eighth child (fourteen in total) they moved to a four-room apartment of the municipal house. At school, the girl was a bachelor, but this does not mean that she did not have a desire to learn. It was her first teacher who tried to get Mathieu to write with her right hand, even though she was left-handed. As a result, at the age of 13, she quit her studies and went to work in a factory where envelopes were made.
Since childhood, she loved to sing, and it was the merit of father Mireille, who had a beautiful tenor. At the age of sixteen, she took part in the competition, where she took second place, and in 1965 became the winner. As a result, the mayor’s office of Avignon sent the girl to Paris so that she could participate in the TV show of the Tele Dimanche channel called “The Game of Fortune”.
Mathieu first appeared in front of French television audiences in 1965, when she sang the song Jezebel. This speech caused a furor, but many compared it to
Edith Piaf . Therefore, her producer banned listening to the songs of the famous singer, trying to make her become a person who would be remembered as Mireille Mathieu and did not make any comparisons. This was followed by her training in musical notation, vocals, the ability to properly show themselves to the public, etiquette and much more.
Having earned popularity among the French, Mathieu began to master the world stage. She has a large repertoire, which includes more than 1000 songs in a variety of languages. She was also the first to perform in China. Along with this, she tried herself as an actress when she starred in such films as
Journalist (1967) and
"Happy New Year" (1973)