A voice and a look that evoked a sweet spleen, a melancholy apple time, characterized by that lovesickness that seems infinite. Francoise Hardy embodied all this. The French singer died today Francoise Hardypop culture icon, yéyé idol, who with his song «All boys and girls» (1962) became a symbol of youth crises around the world.
The French singer Francoise Hardy dies, generational melancholy and lovesickness in her «Tous les garçons et les filles»
The singer died on Tuesday 11 June in Paris at the age of 80 after a long illness. In 2004 she was diagnosed with lymphoma. In June 2019 she revealed that she was ill with cancer and last March he announced that he “would never be able to sing again”. For months in France all that had been talked about was her illness and her publicly expressed desire to end it. The announcement of his passing was made on social networks by his son Thomas Dutronc, born from the relationship with the singer and actor Jacques Dutronc, which lasted from 1967 to 1988.
Like the incipit of the most famous French existentialist novel, “The Stranger”, Thomas gives the news of his mother’s passing. «Maman est partie…» wrote the son simply, musician who accompanied his mother in many productions, adding thirteen little red hearts and a photo showing him as a little boy with his smiling mother.
Francoise Hardy, debut at 16 and her song sung by Catherine Spaak
Born in Paris on January 17, 1944, Francoise Hardy he made his debut at just 16 years old, in 1960, and was launched in 1962 by the television program «Salut les copains» which popularized her song «Tous les garçons et les filles»: her first 45 quickly sold two million copies in France alone and enjoyed great success throughout Europe, including Italy (where, translated as title «Those of my age», was brought to the charts by Hardy herself and Catherine Spaak).
Since then she began to enjoy immense popularity at home and abroad thanks to a series of songs, largely written by herself, full of references to the life of teenagers with her voice, elusive and ethereal, giving voice to melancholy. In 1963 Hardy took part in the Eurovision Song Contest with «L’amour s’en va» and ranked fifth. Since then he has often sung in English, Italian, Spanish and German. In Italy she had great success in 1963 as well as with the cover “Quelli della mia ages” with the songs “È all’amore che pensiero”, “L’età dell’amore” and “L’amore va”.
In 1966 he also participated in the Sanremo Festival with «Parlami di te» sung together with Edoardo Vianello. And among her songs there is «La Maison où j’ai grandi», cover of «The boy from via Gluck» by Adriano Celentano. In 1967 the compilation «Antoine & Françoise» was published with 6 songs by Antoine and 6 songs by Françoise Hardy. In 1968 she got with «Comment te dire adieu» (with text by Serge Gainsbourg) another of his major recording successes, also sung in Italian with the title «The pretext».
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