Francoise Hardy died at the age of 80. She was a singer, actress, and fashion pioneer.
She had more than 30 albums, and her sad ballads made her famous. In 1964, her song “All Around the World” was a big hit in the UK.
While the Nazis were in charge of Paris, Hardy was born there in 1944 and grew up there.
She started writing her own songs when she was 16 and became one of the most famous people in the 1960s.
She modeled for Yves Saint Laurent and was in movies, like the drama Grand Prix in 1966.
Mick Jagger famously called her his “ideal woman.”
She sang on a French version of Blur’s “To The End” in 1995. It was the B-side to Country House, which was a No. 1 hit.
He started dating another French singer, Jacques Dutronc, in 1967, and the two of them had a son named Thomas six years later.
They got married in 1981 “for financial reasons,” even though their relationship was bad.
In 1988, they broke up, but they never got divorced.
Hardy was told in 2004 that he had lymphatic cancer and in 2012 that he had laryngeal cancer.
2018 saw the release of her last album.
Because she was sick, she had to stop singing in 2021.
Yesterday, musician Thomas said, “Maman est partie,” which means she has died.
