The French singer Françoise Hardywho died this Tuesday at the age of 80, was an icon of the 1960s without meaning to, an artist who made discretion her shield and melancholy her musical style.
Your son Thomas Dutronc The death of the artist, who was diagnosed with her first cancer in 2004, was announced online.
His greatest success was “All the garçons and the girls”a song he performed when he was barely 18 years old (1962).
The enormous impact of that song on an entire generation of young French people could classify her as a yeyé idol, but Hardy knew how to cultivate other musical fields, without losing popularity.
The extensive career of Françoise Hardy
Born in 1944 in a working-class neighborhood of Paris, the daughter of a single mother, she got her first guitar at the age of 16 and studied at a small music conservatory.
He managed to make himself noticed in the bustling Parisian musical world of the early 1960s, where rising stars like Johnny Halliday (a neighborhood resident) were plotting a destiny in the shadow of Anglo-Saxon rock and roll.
In 1964 he performed “Mon amie la rose”another great success. “Comment I’ll tell you goodbye”of Serge Gainsbourgcame out in 1968.
Françoise Hardy is also a fashion icon. Her androgynous physique and her discretion mark distances from exuberant stars like Brigitte Bardot. It is a harbinger of the slenderness that will soon flood the catwalks of the entire world.
She has long hair, bangs and perfectly wears the futuristic metallic dresses by couturier Paco Rabanne.
She became a model for magazines such as Paris Match. The famous American photographer William Klein immortalizes her in black and white.
“When Mick Jagger said that I represented his feminine ideal, oh, là, là… This phrase ended my image of a naive young woman with an unattractive physique,” she once commented.
“Singing was not something natural for me”he acknowledged years later.
Their great love story is called Jacques Dutronc, another of the stars of that rebellious generation. Together they had their son Thomas, who would also become a singer.
Dutronc is unfaithful (among others, with the actress Romy Schneider) and the couple ends up separating, although they live in the same building.
That bittersweet experience permeates all of his work. He composed “Message personnel” in 1973, again a great success.
Like other French stars, Hardy took advantage of his international popularity to dare to speak other languages. In Spanish she released two songs in 1970: “The phone cut off” and “Sun”of little success.
The following year he released the album “The question”made in collaboration with Brazilian guitarist Tuca.
“All my life I looked for beautiful melodies. Listening to them takes me to ecstasy,” Hardy explained in an interview with AFP in 2018.
“The most beautiful melodic songs are always melancholic or romantic,” he added.
Her tortuous relationship with Dutronc became official in 1981, when they married, although they separated again years later.
She put an end to her musical career in 1988, although in the 2000s she resumed it, supported by stars of her generation.
Astrology fan, His first cancer was detected in 2004. Although she was cured, she suffered from other types of cancer in the following years.
“Death only affects the body. When we die, the body releases the soul.. But in any case the death of the body is a considerable test, and I am afraid of it, like everyone else,” he confessed to the AFP agency in 2018.
Source: Ambito
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