Published video “Françoise Hardy - J'ai jeté mon coeur (Toute la chanson - Diffusion 21/01/1963)”.
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Françoise Hardy
Françoise Madeleine Hardy was a French singer-songwriter, actress, and author. She was known for singing melancholic, sentimental ballads. Hardy rose to prominence in the early 1960s as a leading figure in French yé-yé music and became a cultural icon in France and internationally. In addition to her native French, she also sang in English, Italian, and German. Her musical career spanned more than…
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entertainment · French singer (1944–2024) · astrologer · singer · songwriter · writer · actor · singer-songwriter · film actor · composer · musician · also Françoise Hardy, Françoise Madeleine Hardy, Hardy
Born 17 January 1944 · Died 11 June 2024 · Q53939
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2026· 17 entries
Published video “Françoise Hardy - Le premier bonheur du jour (Sacha Show - Diffusion 30/12/1963)”.
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Published video “Des ronds dans l'eau”.
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Published video “Comment te dire adieu”.
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Published video “Françoise Hardy - Ce petit coeur (Picadilly Show - Diffusion 25/12/1965)”.
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Published video “Partir quand même”.
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Published video “Françoise Hardy - Saurai-je ? (Scopitone officiel)”.
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Published video “Françoise Hardy - Comme (Françoise Hardy Blues - Diffusion 15/10/1966)”.
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Published video “Françoise Hardy - J'suis d'accord (DU COTE DE LA MUSIQUE - Diffusion 21/12/1963)”.
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Published video “Françoise Hardy - Tous les garçons et les filles (Scopitone officiel)”.
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Published video “Le temps des souvenirs (Picadilly Show 1965)”.
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Published video “Françoise Hardy - Le temps des souvenirs (Picadilly Show - Diffusion 25/12/1965)”.
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Published video “V.I.P.”.
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Published video “« J’aurais voulu » dans l’émission Rendez-Vous avec du 5 mars 1964. #françoisehardy #music”.
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Published video “Le temps de l'amour”.
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Published video “Tous les garçons et les filles”.
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Published video “J'suis d'accord”.
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2024· 16 entries
The Guardian: Françoise Hardy: France’s girlish yé-yé star was a groundbreaking musical artist
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The Guardian: Miniskirts and masculine looks: how Françoise Hardy epitomised French chic – in pictures
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WSLS 10: Francoise Hardy, French singing legend and pop icon, dies at 80
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The Guardian: Françoise Hardy obituary
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Yahoo: Françoise Hardy, French pop star and fashion icon, dies at 80
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Yahoo: Françoise Hardy Dies at 80
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The Mirror: French singer and sixties icon Francoise Hardy dies at 80 after twenty year cancer battle
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Yahoo News Australia: Françoise Hardy, French music and pop culture icon, dies aged 80
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The Guardian: Françoise Hardy, French pop singer and fashion muse, dies aged 80
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Vulture: French National Treasure Françoise Hardy Dead at 80
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Deadline.com: Françoise Hardy Dies: French Singer & ‘Grand Prix’ Actor Was 80
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Died 2024-06-11.
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The Guardian: ‘Power of a woman’: Sharon Stone and Françoise Hardy offer inspiration at Tom Ford
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“Koncert Elvisa zapierał dech w piersiach. Wart był każdej przelecianej mili i każdego wydanego franka. Elvis jest jednym z bardzo nielicznych ludzi z estradową prezencją.”
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“Opis: tekst Françoise Hardy.”
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“Opis: tekst Lucien Morisse i André Salvet.”
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2023· 1 entry
Rolling Stone ranked Hardy at number 162 on its list of the 200 Greatest Singers of All Time
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2021· 3 entries
Released album “Ten Songs for You”.
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The Guardian: Françoise Hardy, ‘close to the end’ of her life, argues for assisted suicide
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Rivers Cuomo of American rock band Weezer cited Hardy as one of his "sonic ideals", and side he was particularly influenced by her album Message personnel
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2019· 1 entry
Released album “Françoise Hardy: Françoise Hardy / Canta Per Voi In Italiano, Sacha Distel / Swinging Jazz Guitarist”.
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2018· 7 entries
The Guardian: The Despair of Monkeys and Other Trifles review – Françoise Hardy’s memoir
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The Guardian: Françoise Hardy: ‘I sing about death in a symbolic, even positive way’
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Released album “Personne d’autre”.
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Hardy told Uncut that she had drafts of the poem that Dylan had left in a café
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“... I was very moved. This was a young man, a very romantic artist, who had a fixation on somebody only from a picture. You know how very young people are... I realised it had been very important for him.”
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Dealt with her advancing years and her own mortality
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That she "felt very frustrated because I wanted to have beautiful electric guitars
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2017· 3 entries
Released album “Le Coffret essentiel”.
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Released album “Quelle merveille !”.
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Pitchfork ranked Tous les garçons et les filles ninetieth on its list of "The 200 Best Albums of the 1960s", with Marc Hogan describing it as "an enduring middle ground between rockabilly shimmy and Gallic introspection,
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2016· 1 entry
Released album “Real… Françoise Hardy”.
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2015· 3 entries
Released album “Le Temps de l’amour et beaucoup plus”.
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On Éditions des Équateurs, in which she described the difficulties of reaching old age
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The singer criticized feminist activists in her essay "Avis non autorisés
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2014· 3 entries
Released album “5 Albums originaux”.
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Released album “Le Premier Bonheur du jour”.
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Released album “Je pense à lui”.
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2013· 2 entries
An Italian-language edition of the novel was released by Florence's Edizioni Clichy
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Released album “Midnight Blues Paris‐London 1968–72”.
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2012· 4 entries
Released album “L’Amour fou”.
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Hardy celebrated her 50th anniversary in music with the release of her first novel and an album, both titled L'Amour fou
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“In music, I like above all the slow, sad melodies... Not in a way that plunges, but in a way that uplifts... I still aspire to find the heartbreaking melody that will bring tears to my eyes. A melody whose quality gives it a sacred dimension.”
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Hardy published her first novel, L'amour fou, on Éditions Albin Michel
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2011· 1 entry
Hardy was included in Le Petit Larousse Illustré
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2010· 2 entries
Released album “La Pluie sans parapluie”.
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And denounced François Hollande's tax program during the 2012 French presidential election, telling Paris Match: "I believe that most people do not realize the tragedy that the ISF causes to people in my category
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2009· 2 entries
Released album “Triple Best of Françoise Hardy”.
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Released album “La Collection 62–66”.
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2008· 2 entries
Released album “Collection Platinum”.
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That at the start of the 1960s, her slender build which had made her self-conscious suddenly became fashionable
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2007· 1 entry
Released album “100 Chansons”.
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2006· 3 entries
Released album “(Parenthèses…)”.
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Received the Grande médaille de la chanson française award, given by the Académie Française in recognition of her music career
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Was awarded the Grande médaille de la chanson française, an honorary award given by the Académie française, in recognition of her career in music
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2005· 3 entries
Released album “Le Temps des souvenirs”.
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Awarded Victoires de la Musique – Female artist of the year (2005).
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Hardy received the 'Female Artist of the Year' award for her album Tant de belles choses at the Victoires de la Musique
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2004· 1 entry
Released album “Tant de belles choses”.
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2003· 2 entries
Released album “Tous les garçons et les filles”.
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Released album “Messages personnels”.
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2002· 1 entry
Released album “Françoise Hardy : des stars et des hits”.
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2001· 3 entries
Released album “60 Chansons”.
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Released album “The Vogue Years”.
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Released album “Frag’ den Abendwind”.
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2000· 4 entries
Released album “En résumé…”.
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Released album “Clair‐Obscur”.
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And her final five albums were characterized by an elegant and melancholic sound
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Released album “Le Meilleur de Françoise Hardy”.
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1999· 2 entries
Released album “Les Grands numéros 1”.
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Released album “Françoise Hardy, Volume 1”.
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1997· 1 entry
Hardy collaborated with French duo Air on the track "Jeanne", a B-side on their maxi-single "Sexy Boy"
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1996· 7 entries
Released album “Le Danger”.
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Released album “Le Meilleur des deux”.
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Interview with The Independent, Hardy said she believed that most people did not know her artistry, and that she always had to talk about the 1960s and the Beatles
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Released album “Chansons d’amour”.
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Released album “The Very Best Of”.
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Inspired by the alternative rock scene, Hardy veered into an assertive, guitar-oriented, modern rock style with Le danger, her first album in seven years
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Released album “Les Chansons d’amour”.
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1995· 3 entries
Released album “L’Intégrale des disques Vogue 1962/1967”.
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Released album “Greatest Recordings”.
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Hardy collaborated with English band Blur for the French version of "To the End", recorded at Abbey Road Studios
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1994· 1 entry
Released album “La Collection”.
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1993· 2 entries
Released album “Les Années Flarenasch 1980-1990”.
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Released album “Blues 1962–1993”.
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1992· 1 entry
Released album “Profil”.
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1991· 1 entry
The singer recalled her experience of working with the producer:
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1990· 5 entries
Hardy continued her astrological work by writing articles in Swiss newspaper Le Matin and by hosting a weekly section in Thierry Ardisson's program Télé Zèbre on Antenne 2
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Released album “Tamalou”.
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Released album “36 grands succès”.
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Hardy wrote "Fais-moi une place" for Julien Clerc and the song was included on his album of the same name
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Released album “Story : 1967–69”.
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1989· 5 entries
Released album “Vingt ans, vingt titres”.
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Released album “Story : 1964–65”.
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Released album “Story : 1965–67”.
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Released album “Tous les garçons et les filles & Other Hits”.
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Released album “Story : 1962–64”.
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1988· 2 entries
Released album “Décalages”.
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Released album “All Over the World”.
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1987· 5 entries
Released album “Les Grands Succès de Françoise Hardy”.
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Released album “Françoise Hardy in Vogue, volume 2”.
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Released album “Françoise Hardy in Vogue”.
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Released album “Françoise Hardy in Vogue, volume 1”.
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Released album “Love Songs”.
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1982· 2 entries
Hardy began a new weekly broadcast, titled Entre les lignes, entre les signes, in which she interviewed a film or music figure using their birth chart, and graphologist Anne-Marie Simmond, whose courses Hardy had taken,
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Released album “Quelqu’un qui s’en va”.
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1981· 3 entries
Released album “À suivre…”.
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Hardy and Dutronc were married on 30 March 1981 in a private ceremony.
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Released album “Les Plus Belles Chansons de Francoise Hardy”.
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1980· 2 entries
Yared and collaborator Bernard Ilous gave her next album, Gin Tonic, an even more commercial style
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Released album “Gin tonic”.
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1979· 1 entry
Hardy collaborated on a book series on the zodiac signs by Tchou Editions, and worked on the book dedicated to Virgo with fellow astrologer Béatrice Guénin
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1978· 2 entries
Released album “Musique saoule”.
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As disco dominated the music industry, Yared sought to adapt her sound to the era with the release of Musique saoûle, which incorporated rhythms influenced by funk music
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1977· 1 entry
Released album “Star”.
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1974· 2 entries
Released album “Entr’acte”.
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Who asked her to be part of a new magazine he was developing
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1973· 1 entry
Released album “Message personnel”.
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1972· 3 entries
Released album “Et si je m’en vais avant toi”.
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Véronique Sanson's debut album made an impression on Hardy, who began to feel that her own music was outdated
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Released album “Le Double Disque d’or”.
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1971· 1 entry
Released album “La Question”.
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1970· 6 entries
Released album “Françoise”.
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Released album “Träume”.
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Released album “Soleil”.
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Broke with the label and signed a three-year contract with Sonopresse, a subsidiary of Hachette
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Hardy met Tuca (Valeniza Zagni da Silva), a Brazilian singer and guitarist based in Paris, and they became close friends
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Released album “Les Grands Succès de Françoise Hardy – Greatest Hits”.
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1969· 2 entries
Starred in the television film L'homme qui venait du Cher alongside Eddy Mitchell
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Released album “Alone”.
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1968· 7 entries
Released album “Comment te dire adieu”.
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Hardy told a reporter that: "If it weren't for the way I dress, no one would notice me"
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Released album “Portrait in Musik: Françoise Hardy - Udo Jürgens”.
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Released album “Francoise Hardy Sings About Love”.
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Released album “En anglais”.
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Modeled a plated mini-dress made of pure gold at the International Diamond Fair
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Hardy released a French cover of Vera Lynn's "It Hurts to Say Goodbye", titled "Comment te dire adieu", on the album of the same name
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1967· 5 entries
Released album “This Is Françoise Hardy”.
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Released album “Francoise Hardy Goes Italian”.
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Teen magazine Special Pop wrote: "[Hardy] manages to attract both kids and their parents, men and women alike
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Released album “Ma jeunesse fout le camp…”.
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Released album “Françoise & Udo”.
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1966· 4 entries
Released album “Francoise Hardy Sings in English”.
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But remained close friends and collaborators
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Released album “Maid in Paris”.
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Released album “La Maison où j’ai grandi”.
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1965· 4 entries
Released album “Françoise Hardy in Deutschland”.
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Jacques Prévert wrote a poem dedicated to the singer titled Une plante verte, which was read as part of Hardy's performance at the Olympia
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Released album “Françoise Hardy”.
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Hardy flew to New York to sign a record deal with Kapp to distribute her records in the United States
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1964· 2 entries
Which allowed her to broaden her sound with albums such as Mon amie la rose, L'amitié, La maison où j'ai grandi, and Ma jeunesse fout le camp
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Revealed a growing complexity in her music, with stronger vocals and increased experimentation in song structure
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1963· 5 entries
To record new albums, she felt able "to make another kind of music, not this mechanical music I had been trapped in
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Hardy went to London record new music
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Translated re-recordings of "Tous les garçons et les filles" were exported to Italian, German, and English-speaking markets
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Released album “Françoise Hardy canta per voi in italiano”.
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Hardy made her film debut as Ophelia in Roger Vadim's Château en Suède
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1962· 2 entries
Hardy formed a romantic and professional relationship with Salut Les Copains photographer Jean-Marie Périer
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On French label Disques Vogue and found immediate success through the song "Tous les garçons et les filles"
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1961· 1 entry
A school for performers that aired on radio and television
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1944· 1 entry
Born 1944-01-17.
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