Françoise Hardy, the icon of the yéyé years, has passed away

Slender figure and melancholy over her shoulder, Françoise Hardy entered music at the age of 18 with All the boys and girls, a song she wrote and composed which became an international hit. It was in 1962, at the beginning of the yéyé years, but Françoise Hardy always preferred “sad and slow” songs to faster and happier songs.

Born in 1944, raised between her mother and her sister, the young Parisian is very sentimental and lets her heart guide her. She fell in love with the rock rhythms discovered while listening to English radio and then with the singer Jacques Dutronc, who would be “the love of her life”. Their passionate and painful relationship never ceased to fuel his inspiration. Her deep emotions and aspirations push Françoise Hardy from the stage into the hazardous paths of astrology, before returning to song.

She had been battling lymphoma since 2004. It was her son, the singer Thomas Dutronc, who announced his death on April 11 by soberly posting on social networks “Mom is gone”. With her extreme sensitivity, Françoise Hardy will have accompanied the lives of several generations in song.