Dubbed the "new Edith Piaf" in her early days, Mireille Mathieu was revealed on
live television after winning a singing competition. born in 1946, "La
demoiselle d'Avignon" enjoyed dazzling success in the mid-1960s, thanks to a
made-to-measure repertoire ranging from "Paris en colère " to "La Dernière
valse", and on stage, where she sold out the Olympia several times. An
ambassador for French chanson abroad, Mireille Mathieu's international career
expanded as her popularity in France waned. Numerous tours of Japan, the USA,
China and the USSR, then Russia, gave her a label that h...