Biography
Mylène Farmer is a mysterious French singer who has glorified her country on the world music stage. Her image of a rebel, an ethereal woman with an angelic face and an incredible voice attracts fans around the world. The star’s creative biography included ups and downs, attempts at writing in other areas of activity, and famous duets with popular world performers.
The artist does not limit herself to one format of music - she tries her hand at different genres, while remaining true to her essence and unique style.
Photo of Mylene Farmer in Playboy magazine
Photos of Mylene Farmer in Playboy magazine, where she appeared naked in front of the audience, greatly shocked the male audience. Even women still admire her figure. Because, already at the age of Mylene Farmer, she has a fairly good weight-to-height ratio. Videos for girls are another reason to show themselves in all their glory. During her career, Mylene has exposed herself more than once for the covers of glossy magazines. This in no way embarrasses her, but only gives her a reason to show off her body in front of the other stars.
Childhood and youth
Farmer (real name Gaultier) was born in 1961 in Canada, then raised in France, and is of French origin. The girl had a large family: Milen, her younger brother and older brother and sister were raised by her mother, a housewife, and her father, an engineer.
After moving to France, Mylene felt uncomfortable for a long time and was unsociable - adaptation to the new country was difficult. The accent acquired in Canada also got in the way. Despite her young age, the girl preferred visiting an orphanage and working there as a volunteer to communicating with peers. She hung out mostly with boys and was considered a tomboy in a skirt. The daughter’s reluctance to normally join the school community and acquire a hobby frightened her parents.
The solution was to communicate with my grandmother and jointly care for the horses on the farm. Mylene liked these stately animals so much that she began to engage in equestrian sports, and then decided to devote her future life to working with horses. These plans were not destined to come true. Nevertheless, the girl carried her love for horses, which began in her youth, throughout her life - horses more than once became full-fledged participants in her videos.
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Mylene Farmer in her youth
The girl inherited from her grandmother a love of painting and performing; during her school years she already successfully participated in music competitions.
A sharp turn in Mylene's fate occurred after she was expelled from high school for poor academic performance. The girl realized that this was a good reason to start life from scratch, and decided to get creative. Farmer moved to Paris and began trying to break into the big screen. In parallel with her work, the singer studied at a theater school; she paid for these courses herself.
In her youth, the performer sang well, was artistic, and had excellent characteristics - a beautiful figure and attractive appearance. The girl got into the modeling business, her photos became part of advertising campaigns for several large brands.
But there the career stalled - there were no invitations to film or television projects. And then she received an offer that she could not refuse: to become a rebel singer and perform the bold songs of an aspiring director and musician named Laurent.
Childhood
The star of the French stage was born in 1961 in Canada. The first years of her life were spent in the small town of Pierrefonds, where her father, an engineer by profession, was building a dam. When the girl was just over 10 years old, her parents decided to move to France.
Despite the fact that the family moved from a remote province to the suburbs of Paris, Milen was not at all happy about such changes. Being very shy and vulnerable, she had a hard time getting along with strangers. Moreover, those few friends who remained in distant Canada were especially dear to her.
In her new place she never got along with anyone. The girl preferred to read about insects and watch them alone.
Therefore, no one paid much attention to the fact that one fine day, already in her senior year, the girl suddenly disappeared. Unexpected for others, but not for herself. In fact, Mylene realized long ago that she wanted to become an actress. Therefore, I saw no point in continuing my education. Instead, the girl went to Paris.
Music
Laurent Buttona at that time was looking for a young performer for a provocative song and video about rebellion against social conventions. Mylene fit the description perfectly, she showed herself perfectly in the Maman a tort video, so she instantly became famous. Having changed her native surname Gautier to the pseudonym Farmer, Mylene also changed in appearance. The fair-haired beauty turned into a redhead; instead of an ordinary girl, she became an insidious rebel and a social provocateur.
The singer's first album, Cendres de Lune, was liked by the public, but it was the video clips that made Farmer famous. The performer was not afraid to expose herself in front of the camera and portray a real minx. The scandalousness and frankness of the first videos amazed the audience, and the talented performance of the songs also attracted the attention of fans. Farmer became a star.
Ainsi soit je... - the performer's next collection - became the first French diamond album, the number of copies of which exceeded a million. The video for Pourvu qu'elles soient douces from this album was criticized due to the abundance of explicit shots.
Mylene Farmer - California
The hit Desenchantèe from the singer's third disc L'Autre... occupied a leading position in the French radio charts for 9 weeks, and the song Regrets, performed in a duet with Jean-Louis Murat, also competed for the title of best.
Mylene's melodies were varied - both lyrical, melancholic tracks, and aggressive or life-affirming, almost rock operas. Her repertoire included popular videos and songs in the dance style, for example Du Temps. And what especially stood out against the general background was the now legendary song California, the video for which also turned out to be incredibly frank and cinematic.
Each of her concerts was an amazing combination of talented strong vocals, bright unusual production and amazing costumes.
Mylene Farmer and Sting – Stolen Car
Milen takes her appearance calmly, does not like to look at herself on the screen, but during concerts she simply gives the viewer all of herself without a trace, without thinking about how it looks from the outside. According to fans, this always makes a deep impression.
In America in 1995, Farmer recorded the most melancholic, light and sunny album, Anamorphosee, but realized that the collection created the image of a singer who she actually was not.
The celebrity returned to Laurent Boutonnat in France, continued their joint work, revealing her love of freedom and the unique nervous, hysterical tone of her performance, and did not regret it - the singer’s 5th disc Innamoramento became one of the most successful in her career. The track Je te rends ton amour made a lot of noise, the video for which was negatively received by the Catholic Church because it offended the feelings of believers, and a version of the video cut down to 2 minutes was broadcast on television.
Mylene Farmer – Fuck Them All
Before this, Mylene already had a banned video for the track Beyond my control, in which the singer starred naked, and she had to share the frame with live wolves.
In the early 2000s, the artist released her 6th studio album Avant que l'ombre and went on a world tour. The best-selling single of this time was Fuck Them All, the lyrics to which Mylene wrote personally.
With the concert program of the 7th collection Point de Suture, the singer actively toured and visited Moscow. The album contains 11 tracks, including Dégénération and Appelle mon numéro.
Farmer also tried herself as a producer. Her chosen one was the young singer Alizee, winner of the French competition for talented performers. Mylene took care of the girl in every possible way, promoted her career and produced her first solo album.
Mylène Farmer – Desenchantèe
In 2015, the singer released her 10th studio album, Interstellaires, which included a cover version of the legendary track Stolen car, performed in a duet with Sting. The joint performance of Sting and Mylene was accompanied by a music video in which serious sparks of passion fly between the singers. The beautiful video sequence and soulful performance of the artists pleased the world audience.
However, this duet failed to repeat the glory of the stunning song that Farmer recorded with American artist Moby. The track Slipping away, recorded back in 2007, literally blew up the music world. The incredible electronic melody, along with Farmer's ethereal performance and Moby's male vocals, topped the charts around the world. In Russia, this track also topped the music charts for a long time.
For Russian listeners, Mylène Farmer is a bright figure and one of the few European artists who sings in French rather than English, who has become the favorite of entire generations, especially the so-called MTV generation. Her music appealed to the taste of the Russian audience, and the videos - mysterious, aggressive, sometimes mystical and always original - literally wedged themselves into the people's memory.
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Mylene Farmer and Alize
The image of Mylene Farmer - dramatic, sharp, unearthly - also charmed the people of the country. In Russia, the artist has many fans; Farmer’s concerts attract full houses.
During her career, the singer has released a number of music albums, some of which received platinum and diamond status. Farmer's discs were sold out both in France and around the world. Throughout her career, she remained one of the most famous French singers in the world.
In addition to studio albums, the performer also presented a series of concert albums. The digital release of Live 2021 took place in the fall of the corresponding year. A year later, the disc Désobéissance was released, presented with 12 compositions, including N'oublie pas, performed as a duet from the LP.
Mylene...
The popular French singer, actress and songwriter, the charming Mylène Farmer, celebrates her 55th birthday on September 12.
No wonder I remembered her))
Mylène Farmer , who holds the record for the most diamond discs and is the only contemporary performer whose singles have topped the national Top Singles & Tracks ranking 15 times. She became notorious thanks to her videos, in which she behaved very openly, which cannot be said about her behavior outside the set. In ordinary life, Mylene Farmer is a secretive person; she prefers not to talk about some aspects of her biography at all.
She remains incredibly in demand and is a frequent guest on the red carpet of various official events. Throughout her rather bright career, the artist was famous for her desire for originality, some shocking, not devoid of chic, with a touch of eroticism and frank sensuality. Mylene always paid great attention to her appearance, carefully selecting outfits, styling her hair and applying impeccable makeup.
A distinctive feature of this celebrity can be considered her fiery red curls, because she never changed this color. Farmer could only change the shades of her hair, as well as do different haircuts and styling, but color... it was always her main feature.
In recent years, the paparazzi have started a real hunt for the aging star, trying at all costs to capture her without makeup. However, this task turned out to be not an easy one, because the performer fundamentally does not appear in public without high-quality and professionally done makeup on her face. Naturally, you can find photographs of the French diva a la naturel, but they all date back to an earlier period of her work, when the celebrity was much younger. It is impossible not to pay attention to the fact that this woman in them is distinguished by a special charm, she is very well-groomed and looks unsurpassed, and her main adornment is not cosmetics at all, but only her radiant smile and charming gaze.
So that the annoying paparazzi and “great” critics would finally leave her alone, the French celebrity decided to take a desperate step and herself provided them with such a photograph in order to satisfy their curiosity.
Mylene is just as beautiful at 55
The singer's real hair color is dark blond | Photo: uznayvse.ru
Mylene Farmer in her youth | Photo: theplace2.ru and i.ucrazy.ru
The singer's real name is Mylène Gautier, and she took her pseudonym in honor of her favorite Hollywood actress Frances Farmer, who in the 1930s. She was known as a rebel and a wayward beauty. This is how producer Laurent Boutonnat also saw her, who at that time was looking for a performer for his composition “Mom is Wrong.”
To make a “rebel star” out of a provincial girl, he changed her image: Mylene dyed her hair from dark blond to fiery red and began to exploit the image of a minx with an innocent face and a gentle voice.
Famous French singer | Photo: persones.ru
In fact, Mylene felt uncomfortable in this image, which she admitted many years later in an interview, in response to a question about what tormented her in the past: “To come face to face with the views that are directed at me when I I enter a public place. Without feeling the urge to hide even for a split second. To suffer from a lack of gullibility, from shyness that sometimes does not allow you to get close to someone else, from coldness is not the best quality for a person in a public profession. Only truly shy people can understand what we have to go through sometimes...”
In many videos the singer rides horseback | Photo: milen-formen.ru
Mylene has been withdrawn since childhood - she considered herself an “ugly duckling”, was unsociable, avoided her peers, and every Sunday she visited disabled children in the Garches hospital, which her grandmother taught her to do. For 5 years, Mylene was involved in equestrian sports and even wanted to become a riding instructor and devote her life to horses.
Mylene Farmer | Photo: liveinternet.ru
Photo from Mylene Farmer concert, 1989 | Photo: uznayvse.ru
The star calls loneliness and solitude one of the sources of inspiration. She never married, although in fact she was rarely alone, and openly stated her reluctance to have children. Her personal life has always been a closely guarded secret; the singer prefers not to talk about this topic with journalists. Although the main recipe for beauty for herself is the state of falling in love and the need to be loved.
Mylène Farmer and her producer Laurent Buttona in the recording studio | Photo: uznayvse.ru
Mylène Farmer and her producer Laurent Buttona | Photo: uznayvse.ru
Jeff Dahlgren and Mylene Farmer in the film *Giorgino* | Photo: uznayvse.ru
From a young age, Mylene dreamed not of a singing career, but of an acting future. That is why she left the lyceum while in her senior year and moved to Paris. There she had to work as a shoe saleswoman, a dentist's assistant, a model, and even a gynecologist's assistant. She later also preferred not to comment on these facts. The girl attended all the castings for filming for catalogs or television advertisements and starred in several commercials. In the future, her dream of playing in a movie was realized by Laurent Boutonnat, who cast her in the title role in his film “Giorgino.” This picture was a complete failure for both the director and the actress - the film was withdrawn from distribution after 3 weeks. After this failure, Mylene Farmer parted ways with the producer for some time and went to conquer the USA, where she lived for about 2 years.
Mylene Farmer in Moscow, 2000 | Photo: uznayvse.ru
Mylene Farmer does not like to remember the terrible episode of her biography, when a young girl died because of her. In 1991, her distraught fan burst into the Polydor record office and demanded the address of his idol from the secretary. The girl refused to fulfill his demand, for which she paid with her life: the fanatic shot her.
Photos from Mylène Farmer's concert in Paris, 2006 | Photo: persones.ru
In 2015, Mylène Farmer's 10th studio album was released, the star continues to appear in explicit videos and does not give up the idea of acting in a movie: according to rumors, a film with her participation should be released in 2021, however, the singer also prefers not to comment on this fact .
Mylene Farmer on stage | Photo: persones.ru
Creation
The actress first tried herself in cinema in 1994 in the film Giorgino, directed by Laurent. The film failed at the box office and received negative reviews from critics. Farmer did not expect such a failure and chose to hide from shame in America.
In 2001, Farmer published the children's book “Lisa-Lou and the Storyteller,” which she dedicated to the memory of her brother, who passed away early. Here she also acted as a history illustrator, showing her talent in painting.
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Mylène Farmer and Laurent Boutonnat
The performer was involved in the voice acting of the animated series of films about Arthur in the land of minimoys directed by Luc Besson. Mylène became the voice of Princess Selenia in the French version.
The artist’s cinematic biography was replenished with new work in 2021. It was the horror film “Ghostland,” which won a series of awards at the 25th Gérardmer International Festival.
Personal life
Throughout her career, Milen was credited with numerous affairs with colleagues, producers and other representatives of bohemia. For years, the singer's relationship was far from the eyes of the press. The affair between Farmer and her first producer, Laurent Boutonnat, was carefully hidden. The artist was sure that their relationship would remain a secret, but the ubiquitous journalists found a number of confirmations that the couple had more than just a professional connection.
Mylene was credited with a relationship with the British performer Silom, suggesting that the singer fell in love with him while creating a duet on the song Les Mots.
The press also wrote about Farmer’s affair with her Giorgino co-star, actor Jeff Dahlgren, believing that after him the artist moved to the USA, and after a couple of years returned to France. However, the beauty refused to comment on this page of her personal life.
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Mylene Farmer and Benoit Di Sabatino
But the singer did not hide her relationship with director Benoit di Sabatino. The stormy romance lasted for many years, in this relationship the artist was very happy.
The singer’s husband never appeared. Moreover, even in her youth, Farmer openly stated that she did not want children. Over time, this position remained unchanged for her.
In everyday life, the singer adores animals, prefers cold to heat, values loneliness and personal freedom.
