MYLÈNE FARMER. Before the release of her new album, singer Mylène Farmer publishes “Forever”, a first single, Friday August 26.
[Mis à jour le 26 août 2022 à 08h36] Mylène Farmer’s next album has her first hit: For ever, a song released this Friday August 26 and composed by the French artist Woodkid. A breaking title, which announces the release of his new album, whose name and date of publication still remain a mystery.
Two days before the release of this first single, Mylène Farmer had unveiled, via the twitter account of the NP agency, founded by Pascal Nègre and managing his career, the title and cover of For ever.
Four years after the release of Disobedience, the singer announced on Friday, May 13, that a new album will be released by the end of the year. Good news published in a very short press release from this same NP calendar, which manages the artist’s career. In the document, no release date is specified: “Mylène Farmer is currently in the studio for her next album which will be released at the end of 2022”, can we simply read.
If the precise release date is not indicated, the NP calendar published the (pretty) list of artists with whom Mylène Farmer collaborated on this new disc. These are Woodkid, AaRON, Moby, with whom the singer has already worked and the English rock band Archive.
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, 340,000 tickets have already been sold.
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
- Nantes – Beaujoire Stadium: June 9 and 10, 2023
- Geneva – Stade de Genève: 16 and 17 June 2023
- Lyons – Groupama Stadium: June 24, 2023
- Paris – Stade de France: June 30 and July 1, 2023
- Marseilles – Orange Velodrome: July 8, 2023
- Bordeaux – Matmut Atlantic: July 15, 2023
- Brussels – King Baudouin Stadium: July 22, 2023
- Nice – Allianz Riviera: July 29, 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.