French singer-songwriter Françoise Hardy, who rose to fame in the 1960s and was the voice of the song “Tous les Garçons et les filles,” died on Tuesday at the age of 80.
The death was announced by his son, Thomas Dutronc.
The cause of death has not yet been revealed, but it is known that the artist suffered from cancer, and in December 2023 she wrote a letter to French President Emmanuel Macron, requesting the legalization of euthanasia.
Hardy, one of the great characters Yes Yes In the 1960s, he had been battling lymphoma for nearly twenty years, having also been diagnosed with oropharyngeal cancer. Hardy's health condition, who turned 80 in January this year, has deteriorated since 2021.
Therefore, in the message, Published by La Tribune newspaperHardy stated that he was living a “nightmare” and asked Macron for “sympathy,” recalling the artist’s mother, Madeleine, who suffered from Charcot’s disease and whom the doctors and Hardy helped to die peacefully: “Thanks to two brave and understanding doctors, she did not have to witness the end of an incurable disease.” He wrote: “I want to leave soon and quickly.”
Françoise Madeleine Hardy was born in Paris on January 17, 1944, during the Nazi occupation of France, and released her first songs in 1962, when she was eighteen years old. “Tous les Garçons et les filles”, which he wrote, was released that year and sold over two million copies and became a huge hit around the world.
In the same year he published an album of the same name which included another song called “Le Temps de L'Amour”. He participated in the Eurovision Festival in 1963, representing Monaco with the song L'Amour S'En Va.
In 1967, he began a romantic relationship with fellow singer Jacques Dutronc, with whom he had a son, Thomas, in 1973. Between the 1960s and the end of the 1970s, he released about 20 albums. During these decades, he also had several cinematic roles: he participated in films by Roger Vardem, Jean-Luc Godard, Claude Lellouche, and others. He married Dutronc in 1981, and they divorced in 1988.
His musical output has declined significantly since the end of the 1980s, however, in 1995, he gained fame in a duet with Blur on a new version of the song “To The End”, a song included on the album “Parklife” (1994) by the Brits. The band originally recorded with Laetitia Sadier of Stereolab.
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