MYLÈNE FARMER. Singer Mylène Farmer, who released her twelfth album, called “L’emprise”, this Friday, November 25, 2022, had already filled several of her tour dates before this release.
[Mis à jour le 25 novembre 2022 à 15h06] For Mylène Farmer, no need to release an album to sell hundreds of thousands of tickets: for her tour Nevermore 2023, 550,000 tickets have already been sold and several dates are already sold out. And this, even before the release of The influencereleased this Friday, November 25, 2022. The very proof of the strike force of Mylène Farmer and her community of fans, inevitably present at each of the artist’s releases.
baptized The influence, the singer’s long-awaited twelfth album was released this Friday, November 25. Composed of fourteen songs (including two covers in piano/voice), it is carried by For ever and green ray, the two singles released in recent weeks. Two first extracts, respectively created in collaboration with Woodkid and AaRON, released with their clip. Because on L’Empire, Mylène Farmer has called on several renowned artists, Woodkid and AaRON therefore, but also Moby, with whom the singer has already worked and the English rock group Archive.
What are the songs on the album The influence by Mylene Farmer?
Like the name, the release date and the cover of the album, Mylène Farmer had revealed, before the release of The influence, the name of the fourteen songs that make it up (including two covers in piano/voice). Here they are :
- invisible
- For ever
- How beautiful is the dawn
- The influence
- Do You Know Who I Am
- Rekindle the stars
- Green Ray feat. Aaron
- Ode to weightlessness
- That I become…
- no longer reborn
- On the other hand
- Bottle in the sea
- green ray – piano/voice
- invisible – piano/voice
The clip of Green Ray by Mylène Farmer and AaRON
On Tuesday November 15, 2022, Mylène Farmer offered the clip of the second taste of her twelfth album: that of the song Green Ray, in duet with the French group AaRON. A video directed by François Hanss and which totals 317,000 views in one week.
Mylène Farmer unveils the single For ever
Mylène Farmer’s next album has her first hit: For ever, a song released on Friday August 26 and composed by French artist Woodkid. A breaking title, which announces the release of his new album, whose name and date of publication still remain a mystery. This Monday, September 12, Mylène Farmer publishes the clip of this first single. Coincidence or not, the singer is also celebrating her 61st birthday today!
With this clip, signed by Tobias Gremmler, Mylène Farmer once again bets on originality: we discover the singer in 3D modeling, surrounded by different strange creatures, a strong allusion to the lyrics of the song. Other artist news: two dates have been added to the tour Nevermoreone in Lyon on June 23, 2023, the other in Bordeaux on July 14, 2023. All the dates can be found below.
Mylene Farmer in concert
After the release of this long-awaited album, Mylène Farmer will go on tour again: baptized Nevermore, this new salvo of concerts of 12 dates will pass through 9 cities in France, Switzerland and Belgium in 2023. The concerts planned in Russia were canceled in the first hours of the invasion of Ukraine by troops of Vladimir Putin. For this eighth tour of Mylène Farmer, 550,000 tickets have already been sold.
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Tour dates Nevermore 2023 by Mylene Farmer
For his event tour Nevermore 2023, fans of Mylène Farmer have an appointment in nine cities of France, Switzerland and Belgium, for twelve concerts. Here is the list of dates for Nevermore 2023 :
- Lille – Pierre Mauroy Stadium: June 3, 2023 – SOLD OUT
- Nantes – Stade de la Beaujoire: June 9 and 10, 2023 – SOLD OUT
- Geneva – Stade de Genève: 16 and 17 June 2023
- Lyons – Groupama Stadium: 23 and 24 June 2023 – SOLD OUT ON 24
- Paris – Stade de France: June 30 and July 1, 2023 – FULL JULY 1
- Marseilles – Orange Velodrome: July 8, 2023
- Bordeaux – Matmut Atlantique: July 14 and 15, 2023 – FULL JULY 15
- Brussels – King Baudouin Stadium: July 22, 2023
- Nice – Allianz Riviera: July 29, 2023
Mylène Farmer, the return of 2023
Needless to say, each of Mylène Farmer’s tours is an event for fans of different generations. With seven (soon to be eight) tours and ten albums, the singer with the mane of fire has nothing more to prove, her popularity remains at its maximum since her immense first success, Libertinea song released in 1986. Also, the twelve concerts of Nevermore 2023 will not escape the rule and the enthusiasm of the fans: 340,000 tickets have been sold.
To announce the tour Nevermore 2023 and remind everyone that her shows are worth the trip, Mylène Farmer has unveiled a trailer featuring excerpts from her latest tour, Live 2019 and documentary The ultimate creation, available on Amazon Prime Video. Something to put the mouth water to his admirers.
Short biography of Mylène Farmer
Mylène Gautier, known as Mylène Farmer, was born on September 12, 1961 in Pierrefonds, Quebec. Her parents settled there at the end of the 1950s with their two first children, Brigitte, born in 1959 and Jean-Loup, born in 1960. Mylène spent almost nine years in Canada, near Montreal, before settling settle with his family in 1969 in Chaville, in the suburbs of Paris.
After training as an actress at the Cours Florent in Paris and a bit of modeling, Mylène Gautier met Jérôme Dahan, acolyte of producer and composer Laurent Boutonnat. The two men write the song Mom wronglythe singer’s very first single, released in 1984. She changed her name to Farmer in tribute to American actress Frances Farmer, who died of cancer on August 1, 1970.
Mylène Farmer, from her youth to success
Since her debut in the early 1980s, she has had a string of successes, becoming today the French female artist to have sold the most albums: sales estimated at more than 30 million records sold worldwide. It is also Mylène Farmer who has the greatest number of singles ranked number 1 in the Top 50 in France: 17! A figure to which is added the 53 pieces classified in the first ten places. Since her debut in 1984, the singer has also accumulated eight diamond discs, reported Nostalgia in 2018.
A striking example of this colossal success: in 1987, the single “Sans contrefaçon” sold 1.8 million copies, which earned it a place in the famous “Guinness Book of Records” in 1988. Mylène Farmer is also designated in 2014 the best paid singer of the French-speaking musical landscape, with income estimated at 4.7 million euros, according to the specialized magazine Challenges.
Mylène Farmer facing the death of her loved ones
Ten years after the death of her father, who died in Marseille in 1986, Mylène Farmer was confronted with a new tragedy: the brutal death of her older brother Jean-Loup Gautier who died at the age of 36 in 1996 in a road accident. Born on April 13, 1960, the eldest of the Gautier siblings lost his life after hitting a car while leaving his home in Saint-Cloud, at the gates of Paris. “The driver had not noticed the presence of Mylène Farmer’s brother, who died in the minutes following the shock”, reported Closer magazine in 2018.
In 2016, Mylène Farmer had to face mourning again: her mother, Marguerite, born in 1928 in Lennon, Finistère, Brittany, died on July 8, 2016. She has since been buried in the Père-Lachaise cemetery in Paris, alongside her husband, Max Gautier, who died in 1986.
Who is Benoît Di Sabatino, his companion?
For 20 years, Mylène Farmer has shared the life of Benoît Di Sabatino, a French director of Italian origin, born August 30, 1965, reports the magazine Here. Associated with his brother Christophe, he would have founded MoonScoop, a company for the creation, production and exploitation of animated series, which has become the European leader in the sector. He would have met Mylène Farmer in 2002, on the set of the clip “It’s a beautiful day”, his single released that year and announcing the album “Les mots”.
The couple worked together again on the video for “Call my number”, released in 2008. Benoît Di Sabatino has worked on famous animated films, including Code Lyoko in 2003 or even Titeuf in 2010 and 2011. The couple broke up in 2022, according to information from Closer.