Tuesday, June 11, 2024

RIP Françoise Hardy

 


French singer, musician, writer, actress Françoise Hardy died on June 11, 2024, in Paris, Île-de-France, France from cancer she was 80. Born Françoise Madeleine Hardy in Paris on January 17, 1944, she began her career at 18 in 1962 with a first appearance on French TV. She was immediately successful and became an icon of the "yéyé" period in France but soon developed her own peculiar style. She sang mainly in French but also in English, German and Italian. She toured extensively during the first six years of her career and then retired to continue writing, composing and singing with various composers and musicians. In 1981 she married the French singer Jacques Dutronc in 1981. They previously had a son Thomas in 1973. Hardy appeared in two Euro-westerns: “A Fistful of Songs” (1966) as a performer where she sang “Parla mi di te” and in the 1969 TV movie ‘The Man Who Came from Cher’ (TV) as Suzanne and where she sang “Comment te dire adieu”.

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