Singer Françoise Hardyan icon of French music since the sixties who became famous throughout the world, died at the age of 80, as announced tonight by his son, also the singer Thomas Dutronc. Mom is gone, Dutronc said in a brief message on Instagram, accompanied by a photo of his mother with her mother when he was a baby.
Hardy became famous in 1962, at only 18 years old, thanks to the song Tous les garons et les filles that she composed herself., and that propelled him to stardom from a television program for young talents. From then on, he published a total of 28 albums, three of them in English, and remained active until his illness allowed him to. His last album appeared in 2018.
She composed most of the material she sang, something very unusual at the time, and interpret in several languageswhich made her famous from the United States to Japan, and even covered by admiring artists in the eighties. Also She was a muse of the Spanish-born fashion designer Paco Rabanne.died last year.
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The illness
Hardy first suffered lymphatic cancer, in 2004, from which he recovered, and then laryngeal cancer, since 2015. In recent years she had become a defender of the right to euthanasianot yet recognized in France, and on which a bill is now being processed in the National Assembly.
Last December, the performer and composer said in some interviews that she wanted to leave soon and quickly, and called on President Emmanuel Macron to make the right to euthanasia possible.
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