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.

Known For: Acting

Born: Avignon, Vaucluse, France, 1946-07-22

Died: null

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1967	The Journalist	Self	54
2	1973	Happy New Year	Self	72
3	1973	A Slightly Pregnant Man	Mireille Mathieu	57
4	1976	Peter Alexander presents Walt Disney's World	Self - Guest	80
5	1981	Reporters	Self	69
6	1998	Les Enfoirés 1998 - Enfoirés en cœur		73
7	2014	Les Enfoirés - Les Enfoirés en chœur de 1985 à aujourd'hui		80
8	2019	Concerto di Natale in Vaticano 2019	Self	0
9	2021	Michel Sardou, les meilleures chansons	Self (archive footage)	0
10	2021	Die Schlagerparty der 70er	Self	0
11	2022	La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président	Self (archive footage)	72
12	2023	L'Âge d'or de la pub	Self (archive footage)	65
13	2023	Mireille Mathieu, la mystérieuse demoiselle d'Avignon	Self	90

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1948	Bambi-Verleihung	Self	90
2	1955	What Am I?	Self	65
3	1957	Zum blauen Bock	Self	60
4	1959	Discorama	Self	0
5	1961	Musik aus Studio B	Self	0
6	1961	The Mike Douglas Show	Self	54
7	1962	The Merv Griffin Show	Self	58
8	1963	The Danny Kaye Show	Self	63
9	1964	Einer wird gewinnen	Self	70
10	1964	Die Drehscheibe	Self	60
11	1964	Vergißmeinnicht	Self	0
12	1964	Der goldene Schuß	Self	60
13	1965	Dim Dam Dom	Self	60
14	1965	Die Rudi Carrell Show	Self	75
15	1968	Starparade	Self	0
16	1969	Die ZDF-Hitparade	Self	0
17	1969	Peter Alexander präsentiert Spezialitäten	Self	0
18	1969	Das Sonntagskonzert	Self	0
19	1969	Wünsch dir was	Self	0
20	1970	Drei mal neun	Self	70
21	1971	Samedi soir	Self	60
22	1971	Disco	Self	0
23	1971	Dalli Dalli	Self - Singer	80
24	1971	Dalli Dalli	Self	80
25	1971	Cadet Rousselle	Self	0
26	1971	Anneliese Rothenberger gibt sich die Ehre	Self	60
27	1972	Le Grand Échiquier	Self	80
28	1972	Le Grand Échiquier	Self - Main Guest	80
29	1972	Ein Kessel Buntes	Self	18
30	1972	Midi trente	Self	60
31	1972	Hätten Sie heut’ Zeit für mich?	Self	0
32	1972	Don-Lurio-Show	Self	0
33	1974	Die Montagsmaler	Self	0
34	1974	Der große Preis	Self	60
35	1975	Musik ist Trumpf	Self	60
36	1975	Midi Première	Self	100
37	1975	Les Rendez-vous du dimanche	Self	60
38	1975	Le Petit Rapporteur	Self	52
39	1975	Système 2	Self	0
40	1975	Numéro un	Self	60
41	1975	Numéro un	Self - Host	60
42	1975	Numéro un	Self (archive footage)	60
43	1976	30 millions d'amis	Self	58
44	1977	Auf los geht's los	Self	0
45	1977	Fan School	Self	73
46	1979	Die Pyramide	Self	60
47	1979	Peter Alexander: Wir gratulieren	Self	0
48	1980	Verstehen Sie Spaß?	Self	38
49	1980	Show-Express	Self	0
50	1981	Tag des deutschen Schlagers	Self	0
51	1982	Champs-Elysées	Self	63
52	1982	Na sowas!	Self	10
53	1983	Wie wär’s heut’ mit Revue?	Self	0
54	1984	Show & Co. mit Carlo	Self	0
55	1984	Die verflixte 7	Self	0
56	1985	Melodien für Millionen	Self	0
57	1985	Victoires de la musique	Self	20
58	1986	ZDF-Fernsehgarten	Self	15
59	1987	40° à l'ombre	Self	60
60	1987	Sacrée soirée	Self	65
61	1987	Le monde est à vous	Self	0
62	1987	Lahaye d'honneur	Self	0
63	1987	Téléthon	Self	50
64	1988	Super-Chancen	Mireille Mathieu	0
65	1988	Flitterabend	Self - Singer	0
66	1990	Stars 90	Self	62
67	1991	Musik liegt in der Luft	Self - Singer	0
68	1994	Die Feste mit Florian Silbereisen	Self	0
69	1997	Leute heute	Self	48
70	1998	Vivement dimanche prochain	Self	34
71	1998	Vivement dimanche	Self	30
72	1999	Beckmann	Self	20
73	2000	Starnacht am Wörthersee	Self	0
74	2001	Star Academy	Self	64
75	2003	Die ultimative Chartshow	Self	50
76	2004	Willkommen bei Carmen Nebel	Self	40
77	2010	Musikalische Reise	Self	0
78	2011	Denk ich an Weihnacht	Self	0
79	2022	Il était une fois Champs-Élysées	Self (archive footage)	66

Mireille Mathieu

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