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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.
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- wc Gender: Female
- calendar_month Birth Date: 1946-07-22
- event Death Date Unknown
- school Known for: Acting
- star Popularity: 2.8
- info Birth Place Avignon, Vaucluse, France
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Les Enfoirés - Les Enfoirés en chœur de 1985 à aujourd'hui
2014-12-13
7.2
Happy New Year
1973-04-13
8
Peter Alexander presents Walt Disney's World
1976-12-02
5.7
A Slightly Pregnant Man
1973-09-20
9
Mireille Mathieu, la mystérieuse demoiselle d'Avignon
2023-07-21
6.5
L'Âge d'or de la pub
2023-06-02
7.2
La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président
2022-01-07
6.9
Reporters
1981-06-10
5.4
The Journalist
1967-09-23
7.3
Les Enfoirés 1998 - Enfoirés en cœur
1998-02-07
0
Concerto di Natale in Vaticano 2019
2019-12-24
0
Michel Sardou, les meilleures chansons
2021-05-09
0
Die Schlagerparty der 70er
2021-12-30
6
Numéro un
1975-04-05
5.6
The Merv Griffin Show
1962-10-01
2
Victoires de la musique
1985-11-23
0
Le monde est à vous
1987-09-13
3.4
Vivement dimanche prochain
1998-09-11
0
Lahaye d'honneur
1987-09-25
6
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
1975-01-12
8
Dalli Dalli
1971-05-13
0
Disco
1971-02-13
6
Musik ist Trumpf
1975-01-02
0
Die Montagsmaler
1974-01-14
5.1
The Mike Douglas Show
1961-12-11
0
Peter Alexander: Wir gratulieren
1979-11-29
0
Denk ich an Weihnacht
2011-12-22
0
Don-Lurio-Show
1972-06-03
3
Leute heute
1997-07-23
0
Hätten Sie heut’ Zeit für mich?
1972-06-01
6.2
Sacrée soirée
1987-09-02
8
Dalli Dalli
1971-05-13
7
Einer wird gewinnen
1964-01-25
1.8
A Kettle of Colour
1972-01-29
0
Flitterabend
1988-12-01
0
Musik liegt in der Luft
1991-02-02
1
Na sowas!
1982-03-29
7.5
Die Rudi Carrell Show
1965-10-25
3.8
Verstehen Sie Spaß?
1980-01-31
0
Peter Alexander präsentiert Spezialitäten
1969-03-09
0
Musik aus Studio B
1961-10-22
0
Starparade
1968-03-14
6
Die Pyramide
1979-03-16
0
Musikalische Reise
2010-01-03
8
Le Grand Échiquier
1972-01-12
0
Cadet Rousselle
1971-11-04
9
Bambi Awards
1948-01-01
8
Le Grand Échiquier
1972-01-12
1.5
ZDF-Fernsehgarten
1986-06-29
0
Die ZDF-Hitparade
1969-01-18
8
Die ultimative Chartshow
2003-05-21
4
Willkommen bei Carmen Nebel
2004-01-31
6
Zum blauen Bock
1957-08-03
0
Auf los geht's los
1977-01-22
6
Dim Dam Dom
1965-03-07
7
Drei mal neun
1970-09-10
6
Der goldene Schuß
1964-11-26
0
Vergißmeinnicht
1964-10-09
6
Midi trente
1972-03-06
0
Show & Co. mit Carlo
1984-03-29
0
Show-Express
1980-09-25
6
Numéro un
1975-04-05
6
Numéro un
1975-04-05
5.2
Le Petit Rapporteur
1975-01-19
0
Système 2
1975-01-19
6.2
Champs-Elysées
1982-01-16
10
Midi Première
1975-01-06
6.6
Il était une fois Champs-Élysées
2022-12-21
6.5
Fan School
1977-01-30
0
Die verflixte 7
1984-04-07
0
Wie wär’s heut’ mit Revue?
1983-05-14
2
Beckmann
1999-01-25
0
Starnacht am Wörthersee
2000-08-25
6
Anneliese Rothenberger gibt sich die Ehre
1971-12-25
0
Tag des deutschen Schlagers
1981-01-01
6
Die Drehscheibe
1964-04-01
0
Melodien für Millionen
1985-02-02
0
Wünsch dir was
1969-12-20
6
Der große Preis
1974-09-05
6.4
Star Academy
2001-10-20
0
Das Sonntagskonzert
1969-04-26
6
40° à l'ombre
1987-06-29
0
Discorama
1959-02-04
0
Die Feste mit Florian Silbereisen
1994-06-02
3.2
Vivement dimanche
1998-09-20
6.2
Stars 90
1990-09-03
6.5
Was bin ich?
1955-01-02
5.8
30 millions d'amis
1976-01-06
6.3
The Danny Kaye Show
1963-09-25
6
Samedi soir
1971-01-09
5
Téléthon
1987-12-04