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Mylène Farmer
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French singer and songwriter (born 1961)
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Mylène Farmer, born Mylène Jeanne Gautier on September 12, 1961, is a French singer-songwriter, writer, and actor. She began her professional career in 1984 and works primarily in the fields of poetry and music composing. Her musical output spans genres including pop, synth-pop, trip hop, pop rock, avant-garde, chanson française, dance, electronic, and electropop. She is a member of the SACEM copyright society and has released music through record labels such as RCA Records, Universal Music Group, Polydor, and PolyGram.
Farmer was educated at the Cours Florent and speaks French. Her birth name is Mylène Jeanne Gautier, and she is named after Frances Farmer. While some sources list her place of birth as Pierrefonds, others identify it as Montréal, Québec, Canada. Her discography includes the work *Fragile*.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 1
Top works
- Fragile
via Open Library + Wikidata
Film & TV
Acting · Montréal, Québec, Canada
Mylène Jeanne Gautier (born 12 September 1961), known professionally as Mylène Farmer, is a Canadian-born French singer, lyricist, writer, and entrepreneur. Having sold more than 30 million records in France, she is among the most successful recording artists of all time in that country. She holds the record for the most number one hit singles in the French charts, with twenty-one to date – eight…
Known for
- The Residence — Dalloway (voice)2025
- Mylène Farmer: Nevermore - The Movie — Self2024
- Bambi: A Tale of Life in the Woods — Narrator (voice)2024
- Il était une fois Champs-Élysées — Self (archive footage)2022
- Mylène Farmer - Dans Le Cœur Des Français — Self2021
- Mylène Farmer : Les Clips L'Intégrale (1999-2020) — Self2021
- МУЗ КЛИПЫ - 90х — Self (archive footage)2021
- Mylène Farmer, l’Ultime Création — Self2020
- Mylène Farmer: 2019 - Le Film — Self2019
- Jean Paul Gaultier fait son show — Self2018
via TMDB
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Female
- Origin
- France
- Active from
- 1961
Discography
- Maman a tort1984
- My Mum Is Wrong1984
- On est tous des imbéciles1985
- Plus grandir1985
- Cendres de lune1986
- Libertine1986
- Libertine (Bande originale du clip)1986
- Les Clips1987
- Sans contrefaçon1987
- Tristana1987
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 372,336
- Total plays
- 19,520,373
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Mylène Farmer is a Canadian born French singer, songwriter, occasional actress, and author. Farmer was born Mylène Gautier on 12th September 1961 in Pierrefonds, Quebec, a suburb (now borough) of Montreal. Her parents had moved from France in the late 1950s as Farmer's father, Max, pursued an engineering contract on a dam. Her family returned to France when she was eight, settling in the Parisian suburb of Ville d'Avray. In her teenage years, Farmer was passionate about horse-riding <a href="h
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Genome-wide association study of 14,000 cases of seven common diseases and 3,000 shared controls
· 2007 · cited 7,930x
- Targeting the DNA repair defect in BRCA mutant cells as a therapeutic strategy
· 2005 · cited 5,721x
- Safety and efficacy of the ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 vaccine (AZD1222) against SARS-CoV-2: an interim analysis of four randomised controlled trials in Brazil, South Africa, and the UK
· 2021 · cited 4,166x
- Multi-messenger Observations of a Binary Neutron Star Merger<sup>*</sup>
· 2017 · cited 3,670x
- Calcineurin is a common target of cyclophilin-cyclosporin A and FKBP-FK506 complexes
· 1991 · cited 3,420x
via Crossref · CC0
~30 min read
Encyclopedic overview
Mylène Jeanne Gautier ( French: [milɛn ʒan ɡotje]; born 12 September 1961), known professionally as Mylène Farmer (pronounced [milɛn faʁmœʁ]), is a French singer and songwriter. Having sold more than 35 million records worldwide, she is among the most successful recording artists of all time in France, where she holds the record for the most number one hit singles, with twenty-one – eight of which were consecutive.
Born in Pierrefonds, Quebec, Canada (a former city now part of the Montreal borough of Pierrefonds-Roxboro), to French parents, the family soon relocated to Chaville, near Paris, where Farmer pursued a career in modelling and acting. She later gained prominence as a recording artist with the release of her debut single "Maman a tort" in 1984. In 1988, she released her second studio album, Ainsi soit je..., which sold 1.5 million copies in France. The album spawned Farmer's first number one on the French singles chart, "Pourvu qu'elles soient douces". Her third studio album, L'autre..., sold two million copies, becoming Farmer's best-selling album to date. Its lead single, "Désenchantée", became Farmer's most successful single, and is often described as her signature song.
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