Mireille Mathieu
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- July 22, 1946 (age 80)
- Birthplace
- Avignon, Vaucluse, France
Biography
Mireille Mathieu (born 22 July 1946), is a French singer. She has recorded over 1200 songs in eleven languages, with more than 122 million records sold worldwide. Mireille Mathieu was born on 22 July 1946 in Avignon, France, the eldest daughter of a family of fourteen children; the youngest brother was born after she moved to Paris. Her father Roger and his family were native to Avignon, while her mother Marcelle-Sophie (née Poirier) was from Dunkirk. She arrived in Avignon in 1944 as a refugee from World War II after her grandmother had died, and her mother went missing. Roger, with his father Arcade, ran the family stonemason shop just outside the Saint-Véran cemetery main gate. The Mathieu family have been stonemasons for four generations. Today the shop is named Pompes Funèbres Mathieu-Mardoyan, owned and managed by her sister Réjane's family. The Mathieu family lived in poverty, with a huge improvement in their living conditions in 1954, when subsidized housing was built in the Malpeigné quarter near the cemetery. Then again in 1961 they moved to a large tenement in the Croix des Oiseaux quarter southeast of the city. Roger had once dreamed of becoming a singer, but his father Arcade disapproved, inspiring him to have one of his children learn to sing with him in church. Mireille included her father's operatic voice on her 1968 Christmas album, where it was mixed in with the Minuit Chrétiens song. Mireille's first paid performance before an audience, at age four, was rewarded with a lollipop when she sang on Christmas Eve 1950 during Midnight Mass. A defining moment was seeing Édith Piaf sing on television. Mireille performed poorly in elementary school because of dyslexia, requiring an extra year to graduate. She was born left-handed, and her teachers used a ruler to strike her hand each time she was caught writing with it. She became right-handed, although her left hand remains quite animated while singing. She has a fantastic memory, and never uses a prompter on stage. Abandoning higher education, at age 14 (1961), and after moving to Croix des Oiseaux, she began work in a local factory in Montfavet (a suburb southeast of town) where she helped with the family income and paid for her singing lessons. Popular at work, she often sang songs at lunch, or while working. Like her parents, she is a short woman at 1.52 m (5 feet) in height. Her sister Monique, born on 8 July 1947, began work at the same factory a few months later. Both were given bicycles on credit to commute with, making for very long days, and many bad memories of riding against the mistral winds. The factory went out of business, so Mireille and two sisters (Monique, and Christiane) became youth counselors at a summer camp before her rise to fame, a summer where she had her fortune told by Tarot cards by an old Gypsy woman, saying she would soon mingle with kings and queens. ... Source: Article "Mireille Mathieu" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.
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Filmography
50 ans de Numéro Un - Les Carpentier
Movie · as Self : Guest
Mireille Mathieu, la mystérieuse demoiselle d'Avignon
Movie · as Self
L'Âge d'or de la pub
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Il était une fois Champs-Élysées
TV · as Self (archive footage) · 1 ep
Die Beatrice Egli Show
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Michel Sardou, les meilleures chansons
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Die Schlagerparty der 70er
Movie · as Self
Mireille Mathieu - Singen, nur singen
Movie · as Self
Concerto di Natale in Vaticano 2019
Movie · as Self
Schlager nonstop Die 60er – Merci, Cherie
Movie · as Self
Les Enfoirés - Les Enfoirés en chœur de 1985 à aujourd'hui
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Musikgeschichten
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Denk ich an Weihnacht
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Musikalische Reise
TV · as Self · 1 ep
C à vous
TV · as Self - Guest · 1 ep
Willkommen bei Carmen Nebel
TV · as Self · 5 eps
Die ultimative Chartshow
TV · as Self · 2 eps
Star Academy
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Starnacht am Wörthersee
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Beckmann
TV · as Self · 2 eps
Les Enfoirés 1998 - Enfoirés en cœur
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Vivement dimanche prochain
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Vivement dimanche
TV · as Self · 5 eps
Die Krone der Volksmusik
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Leute heute
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Die Feste mit Florian Silbereisen
TV · as Self · 10 eps
Musik liegt in der Luft
TV · as Self - Singer · 1 ep
Stars 90
TV · as Self · 2 eps
Flitterabend
TV · as Self - Singer · 1 ep
Super-Chancen
TV · as Mireille Mathieu · 1 ep
Le monde est à vous
TV · as Self · 16 eps
Lahaye d'honneur
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Sacrée soirée
TV · as Self · 8 eps
40° à l'ombre
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Téléthon
TV · as Self · 4 eps
ZDF-Fernsehgarten
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Victoires de la musique
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Melodien für Millionen
TV · as Self · 2 eps
Show & Co. mit Carlo
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Die verflixte 7
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Wie wär’s heut’ mit Revue?
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Na sowas!
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Champs-Elysées
TV · as Self · 17 eps
Reporters
Movie · as Self
Tag des deutschen Schlagers
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Verstehen Sie Spaß?
TV · as Self · 2 eps
Show-Express
TV · as Self · 3 eps
Peter Alexander: Wir gratulieren
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Die Pyramide
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Auf los geht's los
TV · as Self · 2 eps
Fan School
TV · as Self · 16 eps
Peter Alexander presents Walt Disney's World
Movie · as Self - Guest
30 millions d'amis
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Numéro un
TV · as Self, Self - Host, Self (archive footage) · 23 eps
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
TV · as Self · 15 eps
Musik ist Trumpf
TV · as Self · 2 eps
Le Petit Rapporteur
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Système 2
TV · as Self · 7 eps
Midi Première
TV · as Self · 4 eps
Die Montagsmaler
TV · as Self · 3 eps
Der große Preis
TV · as Self · 2 eps
Happy New Year
Movie · as Self
A Slightly Pregnant Man
Movie · as Mireille Mathieu
Don-Lurio-Show
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Hätten Sie heut’ Zeit für mich?
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Ein Kessel Buntes
TV · as Self · 2 eps
Le Grand Échiquier
TV · as Self, Self - Main Guest · 2 eps
Midi trente
TV · as Self · 9 eps
Dalli Dalli
TV · as Self - Singer · 1 ep
Disco
TV · as Self · 5 eps
Cadet Rousselle
TV · as Self · 2 eps
Anneliese Rothenberger gibt sich die Ehre
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Samedi soir
TV · as Self · 4 eps
Drei mal neun
TV · as Self · 1 ep
France, Song
Movie · as Herself
Peter Alexander präsentiert Spezialitäten
TV · as Self · 2 eps
Die ZDF-Hitparade
TV · as Self · 4 eps
Wünsch dir was
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Das Sonntagskonzert
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Unsere kleine Show - Musik zur blauen Stunde
TV · as Self · 3 eps
Starparade
TV · as Self · 6 eps
The Journalist
Movie · as Self
Die Rudi Carrell Show
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Dim Dam Dom
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Einer wird gewinnen
TV · as Self · 2 eps
Der goldene Schuß
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Vergißmeinnicht
TV · as Self · 2 eps
Die Drehscheibe
TV · as Self · 9 eps
The Danny Kaye Show
TV · as Self · 1 ep
The Merv Griffin Show
TV · as Self · 1 ep
The Mike Douglas Show
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Musik aus Studio B
TV · as Self · 3 eps
Discorama
TV · as Self · 4 eps
Zum blauen Bock
TV · as Self · 3 eps
Was bin ich?
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Bambi
TV · as Self · 5 eps