Singer Françoise Hardyan icon of French music since the 60s who became famous throughout the world, He has died at the age of 80, as announced by his son, the singer Thomas Dutronc, who is also a singer. “Mom is gone…” he expressed in a brief message on Instagram, accompanied by a photo of her mother with him when he was a baby.
Hardy became famous in 1962, at only 18 years old, thanks to the song ‘All the garçons and the girls’ which she composed herself, and which propelled her to stardom from a television program for young talents. Since then, released a total of 28 albums, three of them in English, and he continued to be active until his illness allowed him to. His last album appeared in 2018.
She composed most of the material he sangsomething very unusual at the time, and he performed it in several languages, which made him famous from the United States to Japanand even covered by admiring artists in the 80s. She was also a muse of the Spanish-born fashion designer Paco Rabannedied last year.
Hardy first suffered from lymphatic cancer, in 2004, from which she recovered, and then from larynx 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.
In December of last year, the performer and composer expressed in some interviews that He wanted to “leave soon and quickly” and called on President Emmanuel Macron to “make possible” the right to euthanasia.
