While fans of Mylène Farmer are waiting with mad impatience for the release of her new album, “L’Emprise”, on November 25, Le Parisien returns in a series of retrospectives on the incredible career of the singer. This Monday, November 21, they evoke the abortive career of the artist in horse riding. Indeed, before becoming a singer, the most famous redhead in the French record industry had intended to work in the equine environment.
“When she arrived at our house, she already knew how to ride”, remembers Florence Michau, her instructor in Conches with the Parisian. “She was discreet, quite reserved, but on horseback, she was skilful and had a certain finesse and tact. What we call riding with feeling. Judging by her clips, she still rides with ease.”
“I had successfully passed a riding diploma”, told the singer in 1984 to France Sunday before revealing a terrible accident which occurred when she dreamed of passing her instructor’s diploma. “It was probably written that I would never teach riding since I suffered a fall which prevented me from continuing my training. A broken collarbone and head trauma ruined my riding career. I was really afraid of remaining paralyzed“, she confided then.
Mylène Farmer says she almost “stopped everything”
At the dawn of releasing her new opus, Mylène Farmer has also entrusted to the JDD to have been beset by many doubts. “There is this existential question: what is important in my life? For a long time I was unable to write a single word. I was thinking of stopping everything. Then it happened all of a sudden. I was like the rising tide”, confessed the singer to the millions of records sold.
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