Mylene Farmer was born on the 12th September 1961 in Pierrefonds, Quebec, Canada. She is a Canadian-born French singe rand songwriter. She is the most successful French recording female artist of all time, having sold some 25 million records. In her teenage years, Mylene was passionate about horses and she would devote all her time to riding (going on to pass her riding instructor exam at the famous equestrian centre in Saumur). But at 17, Mylene discovered her other great passion - acting and she would eventually abandon the stables to take a three-year course at the Cours Florent, a prestigious drama school in Paris. Changing her name to Mylene Farmer (after her favourite American actress Frances Farmer), she began to earn a living as a model and even went on to star in several TV ads. It was then in 1984, Mylene met Laurent Boutonnat, a young film student also enrolled in Cours Florent. They quickly became friends and ultimately forged a lifetime creative partnership, together writing and producing all of her music. Laurent, whose ambition was to become a film director, was also the driving force behind Mylene’s amazing videos, some of which go for up to twenty minutes and cost millions of dollars to produce. They are very famous for their shocking lyrics and graphic music videos.
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