François Hardy, an icon of French pop who rose to fame in the 1960s Yes yes And the view before branching off, died after a long battle with illness, BBC News reports. “Maman est party” (in English, meaning “mother is gone”) was her son Thomas Dutrank, wrote on Instagram. Hardy is 80 years old.
Born in 1944, François Hardy grew up in a Parisian apartment with his mother and sister, falling in love with pop songs on the radio. After receiving a guitar for his 16th birthday and auditioning with Vogue Records at age 18, he released his first record. All men and women– in 1962. The success of the title track, about a melancholy walker surrounded by happy couples, helped her grow Yes yes In that scene, he was a star, a maverick outlier, wary of fame and determined to write his own songs.
The record’s timeless songs, delivered in a tone of introspection and lust, made her a national treasure and won her fans around the world, especially in the UK and the US, where she remains one of the few crossover French pop stars. He acted in films but preferred to concentrate on music. “Music and Chanson To go deep inside yourself and allow yourself to feel how you feel, cinema plays a role, playing a character that is miles away from who you are,” he said. The New York Times In 2018. A string Yes yes Albums followed (and reissued in 2015 with Light in the Attic), 1966’s masterpiece. The house I grew up in.
Hardy continued from his first fame with a determination that would mark his career. She resisted both industrial intervention and collaboration for her own sake, tending to keep her distance from the era’s male songwriters who lurked in the shadows. In 1968, when Hardy and Serge Gainsbourg struck gold with their famous recording “How to say goodbye to you,” the songwriting legend invited her to record a full album with him. She declined, instead charting her own course in the pop years. His subsequent early 70s albums, question And News staffBold and original, she cemented herself in the French singer-songwriter canon in her own right.
In the 1990s, Hardy delved into astrological literature, while expanding his adult-contemporary pop horizons with albums such as danger And songs Ambiguity And Iggy Pop. He received a lymphoma diagnosis in 2004 and, in 2012, defied doctors by surviving a life-threatening coma. She wrote a memoir, Frustration of monkeys and other triviaIt was translated into English and published in 2018. she argued In his final years of euthanasia, France criticized the practice for outlawing it, writing in a memoir that “I fear that death will subject me to more physical suffering.” His final album, No one elsefeatured the song “Special Train”, in which he said UK Observer: “At my age, I can only sing about that one special train that takes me out of this world. But, of course, I believe it will send me to the stars and help me discover the mystery of the universe.
