The 77-year-old singer Mireille Mathieu has a very special habit that was passed on to her by her traditional Catholic family.
Mireille Mathieu sold more records than Beyoncé. All in all, the black-haired singer sold 130 million albums and recorded 1200 songs. A success that she owes in part to her commitment to her audience, whose satisfaction she always felt responsible for. Revealed at age 19, who wants to be called “Mademoiselle” by her co-workers, has never stopped singing and moving. And she never deviates from certain deeply rooted habits.
Mireille Mathieu: deep-rooted habits
There are habits that we never give up. Mireille Mathieu is used to it. The nightingale with the monastic haircut, which has never changed in 60 years of work, has been going to Carita every ten days since 1970 to have her hair perfected. And that's not the only habit Miss Mathieu has kept up. She came from a large Catholic family in the South and was raised in religion and traditions. Moving away from this as an adult is out of the question. So, she makes herself drive once a week from her driver – she doesn't have a driver's license – to pray to Saint Rita in the church of Saint-Philippe-du-Roule in the 8th arrondissement of Paris!
Of Habits ? Mireille Mathieu has a lot of them. In addition to her unchanging hairstyle, the 77-year-old singer has also never changed her shoes. “Because you see I wear size 33 and I need it to be measured,” she confided to Libération. To preserve his voice, same story. Mireille Mathieu has adopted a discipline from which we must not deviate: full-time vocalization and forbidden air conditioning. “Every morning I start with my vocalizations. I am very disciplined. I’m working on my breathing,” she explained to France Dimanche.
An almost perfect lifestyle
To stay in shape, Mireille Mathieu follows a completely healthy lifestyle: “I lead a very healthy lifestyle that excludes any exposure to sunlight and alcohol consumption. Nobody smokes around me and I only eat organic food.”, she confided to the magazine Nous Deux. She also wants to protect her skin from the harmful effects of the sun. “I never put my face or body in the sun. They are vitamins, but if there is too much it does harm (…) When I bathe, I always do when I'm in the water, a hat with a veil.” It is certain that Mireille Mathieu imposes a drastic lifestyle to give her fans the best of herself.