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Mireille Mathieu

Mireille Mathieu

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 3.0.

Personal information

Birthday

1946-07-22

Birth Place

Avignon, Vaucluse, France

Movies and TV shows :

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30 millions d'amis

1976

5.8

TV
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40° à l'ombre

1987

0.0

TV
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A Kettle of Colour

1972

1.8

TV
A Slightly Pregnant Man

A Slightly Pregnant Man

1973

5.6

Movie
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Anneliese Rothenberger gibt sich die Ehre

1971

6.0

TV
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Auf los geht's los

1977

0.0

TV
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Bambi Awards

1948

9.0

TV
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Beckmann

1999

3.0

TV
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Cadet Rousselle

1971

0.0

TV
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Champs-Elysées

1982

6.2

TV
Concerto di Natale in Vaticano 2019

Concerto di Natale in Vaticano 2019

2019

0.0

Movie
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Dalli Dalli

1971

8.0

TV
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Das Sonntagskonzert

1969

0.0

TV
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Denk ich an Weihnacht

2011

0.0

TV
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Der goldene Schuß

1964

6.0

TV
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Der große Preis

1974

6.0

TV
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Die Drehscheibe

1964

6.0

TV
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Die Feste mit Florian Silbereisen

1994

0.0

TV
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Die Montagsmaler

1974

0.0

TV
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Die Pyramide

1979

6.0

TV
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Die Rudi Carrell Show

1965

7.5

TV
Die Schlagerparty der 70er

Die Schlagerparty der 70er

2021

0.0

Movie
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Die ultimative Chartshow

2003

8.0

TV
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Die verflixte 7

1984

0.0

TV
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Die ZDF-Hitparade

1969

0.0

TV
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Dim Dam Dom

1965

6.0

TV
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Disco

1971

0.0

TV
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Discorama

1959

0.0

TV
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Don-Lurio-Show

1972

0.0

TV
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Drei mal neun

1970

7.0

TV
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Einer wird gewinnen

1964

7.0

TV
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Fan School

1977

6.5

TV
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Flitterabend

1988

0.0

TV
Happy New Year

Happy New Year

1973

7.2

Movie
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Hätten Sie heut’ Zeit für mich?

1972

0.0

TV
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Il était une fois Champs-Élysées

2022

6.6

TV
L'Âge d'or de la pub

L'Âge d'or de la pub

2023

6.5

Movie
La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président

La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président

2022

7.2

Movie
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Lahaye d'honneur

1987

0.0

TV
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Le Grand Échiquier

1972

8.0

TV
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Le monde est à vous

1987

0.0

TV
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Le Petit Rapporteur

1975

5.2

TV
Les Enfoirés - Les Enfoirés en chœur de 1985 à aujourd'hui

Les Enfoirés - Les Enfoirés en chœur de 1985 à aujourd'hui

2014

8.0

Movie
Les Enfoirés 1998 - Enfoirés en cœur

Les Enfoirés 1998 - Enfoirés en cœur

1998

7.3

Movie
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Les Rendez-vous du dimanche

1975

6.0

TV
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Leute heute

1997

3.0

TV
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Melodien für Millionen

1985

0.0

TV
Michel Sardou, les meilleures chansons

Michel Sardou, les meilleures chansons

2021

0.0

Movie
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Midi Première

1975

10.0

TV
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Midi trente

1972

6.0

TV
Mireille Mathieu, la mystérieuse demoiselle d'Avignon

Mireille Mathieu, la mystérieuse demoiselle d'Avignon

2023

9.0

Movie
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Musik aus Studio B

1961

0.0

TV
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Musik ist Trumpf

1975

6.0

TV
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Musik liegt in der Luft

1991

0.0

TV
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Musikalische Reise

2010

0.0

TV
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Na sowas!

1982

1.0

TV
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Numéro un

1975

6.0

TV
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Peter Alexander präsentiert Spezialitäten

1969

0.0

TV
Peter Alexander presents Walt Disney's World

Peter Alexander presents Walt Disney's World

1976

8.0

Movie
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Peter Alexander: Wir gratulieren

1979

0.0

TV
Reporters

Reporters

1981

6.9

Movie
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Sacrée soirée

1987

6.2

TV
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Samedi soir

1971

6.0

TV
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Show & Co. mit Carlo

1984

0.0

TV
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Show-Express

1980

0.0

TV
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Star Academy

2001

6.4

TV
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Starnacht am Wörthersee

2000

0.0

TV
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Starparade

1968

0.0

TV
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Stars 90

1990

6.2

TV
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Système 2

1975

0.0

TV
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Tag des deutschen Schlagers

1981

0.0

TV
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Téléthon

1987

5.0

TV
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The Danny Kaye Show

1963

6.3

TV
The Journalist

The Journalist

1967

5.4

Movie
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The Merv Griffin Show

1962

5.6

TV
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The Mike Douglas Show

1961

5.1

TV
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Vergißmeinnicht

1964

0.0

TV
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Verstehen Sie Spaß?

1980

3.8

TV
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Victoires de la musique

1985

2.0

TV
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Vivement dimanche

1998

3.2

TV
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Vivement dimanche prochain

1998

3.4

TV
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Was bin ich?

1955

6.5

TV
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Wie wär’s heut’ mit Revue?

1983

0.0

TV
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Willkommen bei Carmen Nebel

2004

4.0

TV
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Wünsch dir was

1969

0.0

TV
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ZDF-Fernsehgarten

1986

1.7

TV
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Zum blauen Bock

1957

6.0

TV