Mylène Farmer

Mylène Jeanne Gautier (born September 12, 1961), known professionally as Mylène Farmer, is a Canadian-born French singer-songwriter and occasional actress.

Taking her stage name from American actress Frances Farmer, she started her career in 1984 with the single Maman a tort, written by longtime producer Laurent Boutonnat and Jérôme Dahan. Since then, she went on to be one of the most successful artists of the Francophone area, scoring fourteen number-one-albums and eighteen number-one-singles in France. As of 2019, she sold more than 13.75 million records in France, and around 30 million worldwide.

Outside the Francophone area, Farmer is primarly known in countries of the Soviet Union. In other countries, she is rather unknown, but scored minor hits in Germany and the Netherlands.

She and producer Boutonnat were also the songwriters of the first two albums of French singer Alizée, her debut album included her European smash hit Moi... Lolita. Furthermore, Belgian eurodance artist Kate Ryan covered the songs Désenchantée and Libertine, scoring hits with both singles in the early 2000s.

Discography
Main article: Mylène Farmer discography