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Happy heavenly birthday, Françoise Hardy, #botd in 1944
Once upon a time… Françoise Hardy, eternal icon of the sixties.
Born on January 17, 1944 in Paris, Françoise Hardy grew up in the 9th arrondissement of Paris with a mother who was an accountant, Madeleine Hardy, and a sister a year and a half her junior. She has very little contact with her father, who came from a bourgeois family in Blois and was married to another woman. Shy and self-conscious, young Françoise took refuge in music and took up the guitar. She dreamed of singing and enrolled at the Petit Conservatoire de la chanson de Mireille, where she stayed for two years.
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She achieved success at the age of 18 with Tous les garçons et les filles de mon âge (All the boys and girls of my age), a song for which she wrote the lyrics and music, and which immediately became a hit. The press is interested in her and Paris Match offers her coverage which propels her to glory.
In 1963, Françoise hardy defended the colors of Monaco at Eurovision with one of her compositions, L’Amour s’en va, which ranked in 5th place. Noticed by Roger Vadim, she debuted in cinema in Château en Suède.
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At the end of 1963, the song Tous les garçons et les filles reached a million records sold and crossed borders. Françoise Hardy released several albums and singles which all topped the charts. The successes follow one another: Le temps de l’amour, L’amour d’un garçon, Je veux qu’il revienne, Mon amie la rose, Dis-lui non, Des ronds dans l’eau…Companion of the photographer Jean- Marie Périer, she also became a fashion icon by wearing on stage the creations of Paco Rabanne, Yves Saint Laurent and Courrèges.
In 1967, she fell in love with Jacques Dutronc with whom she had a son, Thomas, born June 16, 1973. In 1969 she made her comeback with Comment te dire adieu? The title written by Serge Gainsbourg is a success.
At the height of her career, she decided to take a step back and no longer go on stage to devote herself to her family. In her free time, she also devotes herself to astrology, her other passion. She published several works on the subject and even hosted astrological programs on RMC from 1974 to 1982, then on RFM.
The singer did not abandon music however and collaborated with Michel Berger in 1973 with whom she recorded Message personnel Personal Message. She released a few successful albums before declaring in 1988 that Décalages would be her last opus. In a few weeks, the album went gold.
While continuing to write for other singers (Julien Clerc, Patrick Juvet, Viktor Lazlo, Jean-Pierre Mader and Guesch Patti) she published her autobiography in 2007, Le Désespoir des singes, which ranked first in sales. In 2012, the singer celebrated her 50th career with the album L’amour fou.
Françoise Hardy also experiences serious health problems. After fighting cancer of the lymphatic system diagnosed in 2015, then of the pharynx, she was treated in 2018 for a cavum tumor, but suffered from the side effects of her treatment. “The radios and immunotherapies that followed had nightmarish side effects which have ruined my life for two years and weakened me more and more,” confided in June 2021 the singer who became deaf in one ear.
“I find that physical suffering, when it is irremediable, is absolutely useless. I have been a supporter of euthanasia for a very long time. And I am scandalized every time doctors or unfortunate parents find themselves in nightmarish situations because of the inhumanity of the administration and society,” she explained in Le Parisien in 2018.
Françoise Hardy “Ten songs for you”
Track List:
01 Comment te dire adieu 00:00 02 Mon amie la rose 02:24 03 La maison ou j’ai grandi 04:37 04 Tous les garçons et filles 08:13 05 Voilà 11:19 06 Le temps de l’amour 14:35 07 A quoi ça sert 16:57 08 Des ronds dans l’eau 20:25 09 Oh oh cheri 22:44 10 Soleil 25:02