Despite his age, Mireille Mathieu continues to tour the world and release new songs, delighting his longtime fans and penetrating the souls of those who hear her excellent, incomparable voice for the first time.
Difficult childhood
Mireille Mathieu was born on July 22, 1946 in the French commune of Avignon. Mireille was not the only child with her parents. In total, the family had 14 children. It is easy to guess that they all lived very poorly. The father of the family was a mason, continued the family business, owning a small gravestone shop. By the way, the Mathieu family runs this store to this day. Returning to the childhood of Mireille, I must say that she was the oldest of all her sisters and brothers. Therefore, she felt all the difficulties of a poor life like no other. For a long time the family lived in a frozen hut. All this continued until the 8th child was born. Then they were given a 4-room apartment.
At school, the girl studied very poorly. Her report card was full of deuces, but not because she was stupid and could not learn the material. The thing is in a bad relationship with the teacher, who made the left-handed Mireille write exclusively with her right hand. And when she wrote with her usual left hand, she received a blow with a ruler. Since then, she stammered for a long time during the reading, and then it was decided to put her on the last desk, as a result of which Mireille closed herself in and stopped listening to the evil teacher.
Over time, a new teacher came to the classroom, however, young Mathieu found it very difficult to get rid of the shackles of shame and feelings, and at the age of 13 she drops out. Without any education or skills, she goes to work at an envelope factory.
Soon the factory went bankrupt, and the girl, without hesitation, found work in a youth camp.
Long-awaited success
It is worth noting that the love of singing little Mireille instilled in her father, who himself often sang and even for some time dreamed of becoming a singer. For the first time in front of a huge audience, the girl sang when she was only 4 years old. It happened at a celebration on Christmas Eve.
Much later, when Mireille worked in the camp, she met an elderly gypsy who, on Tarot cards, saw a very successful future for the girl.
She gave part of the money that Mathieu earned in the camp for private singing lessons.
At the age of 16, the young singer entered the city vocal contest, but could not win anything. Only two years later, she was able to get the main prize by performing the song "Life in Pink" by the famous chansonnier Edith Piaf. For winning the competition, she was awarded a trip to the French capital, where she was to become a participant in a talent show. The performance again caused a sensation among the audience, and in 1965 Mathieu signed a contract with manager Johnny Stark. A year later, she was honored to perform in the Olympia Hall, one of the main world scenes. The career of the singer went up rapidly.
In 1966, her debut album entitled "En Direct de L'Olympia" was released. Although this was a concert album, which included covers of songs by other artists, nevertheless, despite this, he makes the singer truly famous not only in France, but also abroad.
Since then, Mireille began to tour a lot. Numerous concerts brought her a lot of money, some of which she first spent on buying a house for her parents, who spent most of their lives in deep poverty.
During her creative career, she had the opportunity to personally meet with such mastodons of the music industry as Frank Sinatra, Elvis Presley, Dean Martin.
The discography of the French singer has 84 albums, which include a total of more than 1000 songs performed in 11 foreign languages. The last disc of the famous chansonnier was released in 2018, and many are sure that the performer will definitely continue to delight her fans with new songs.
