Françoise Hardy, French singer-songwriter, writer and actress, one of the icons of the Sixties and face of the yé-yé movement has died. She was 80 years old. The son on social media Thomas Dutronc he shared a photo of him very young next to his mother, with a short message: “Mom is gone.”
In June 2019, Hardy said she was suffering from cancer and last March she announced that she would “never be able to sing again”.
Among his great successes Tous the boys and the girls of 1962. The song, which became the flag of French adolescent distress, sold over two million copies all over the world (in the Italian version it has the title Those my age). Throughout her career, Hardy has often performed in English, Italian, Spanish and German. In Italy she had great success in 1963 with the songs It’s love that I think of And The age of love, which comes first in the rankings. In 1966 she took part in the Sanremo Festival with tell me about you sung paired with Edoardo Vianello. In his repertoire also the cover of The boy of Gluck street Of Adriano Celentano.
