Françoise Hardy
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Françoise Madeleine Hardy is a French singer, actress and astrologer
Astrologer
An astrologer practices one or more forms of astrology. Typically an astrologer draws a horoscope for the time of an event, such as a person's birth, and interprets celestial points and their placements at the time of the event to better understand someone, determine the auspiciousness of an...

. Hardy is an icon
Icon
An icon is a religious work of art, most commonly a painting, from Eastern Christianity and in certain Eastern Catholic churches...

ic figure in fashion, music and style. She is married to the singer and movie actor Jacques Dutronc
Jacques Dutronc
Jacques Dutronc is a French singer, songwriter, guitarist, composer, and actor. He has been married to singer Françoise Hardy since 30 March 1981 and the two have a son . He also has been a longtime songwriting collaborator with Jacques Lanzmann...

.

Biography

Hardy grew up in the 9th arrondissement of Paris with her younger sister Michèle. Her parents lived apart when she was young and her father contributed little financially to the family and had little to do with his daughters. He was, however, persuaded by the girls' mother to buy Françoise a guitar for her birthday as a reward for passing her baccalaureat
Baccalauréat
The baccalauréat , often known in France colloquially as le bac, is an academic qualification which French and international students take at the end of the lycée . It was introduced by Napoleon I in 1808. It is the main diploma required to pursue university studies...

. Her early musical influences were the French chanson
Chanson
A chanson is in general any lyric-driven French song, usually polyphonic and secular. A singer specialising in chansons is known as a "chanteur" or "chanteuse" ; a collection of chansons, especially from the late Middle Ages and Renaissance, is also known as a chansonnier.-Chanson de geste:The...

 stars Charles Trenet
Charles Trenet
Charles Trenet was a French singer and songwriter, most famous for his recordings from the late 1930s until the mid-1950s, though his career continued through the 1990s...

 and Cora Vaucaire as well as Anglophone singers Paul Anka
Paul Anka
Paul Albert Anka, is a Canadian singer, songwriter, and actor.Anka first became famous as a teen idol in the late 1950s and 1960s with hit songs like "Diana'", "Lonely Boy", and "Put Your Head on My Shoulder"...

, the Everly Brothers, Cliff Richard
Cliff Richard
Sir Cliff Richard, OBE is a British pop singer, musician, performer, actor, and philanthropist who has sold over an estimated 250 million records worldwide....

, Connie Francis
Connie Francis
Connie Francis is an American pop singer of Italian heritage and the top-charting female vocalist of the 1950s and 1960s. Although her chart success waned in the second half of the 1960s, Francis remained a top concert draw...

 and Marty Wilde
Marty Wilde
Marty Wilde is an English singer and songwriter. He was among the first generation of British pop stars to emulate American rock and roll, and is the father of pop singers Ricky Wilde, Kim Wilde and Roxanne Wilde.-Career:Wilde was performing under the name Reg Patterson at London's Condor Club in...

 whom she heard on the English language radio station, Radio Luxembourg
Radio Luxembourg (English)
Radio Luxembourg is a commercial broadcaster in many languages from the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. It is nowadays known in most non-English languages as RTL ....

. After a year at the Sorbonne
Sorbonne
The Sorbonne is an edifice of the Latin Quarter, in Paris, France, which has been the historical house of the former University of Paris...

 she answered a newspaper advertisement looking for young singers. Hardy signed her first contract with the record label
Record label
In the music industry, a record label is a brand and a trademark associated with the marketing of music recordings and music videos. Most commonly, a record label is the company that manages such brands and trademarks, coordinates the production, manufacture, distribution, marketing and promotion,...

 Vogue
Disques Vogue
Disques Vogue was founded in France in 1947, the same year that the USA Vogue closed shop. They originally specialized in jazz recordings, featuring such artists as Sidney Bechet, Django Reinhardt, Dizzy Gillespie, Lionel Hampton, and Errol Garner. In the late 1950s Vogue expanded into pop music,...

 in November 1961. In April 1962, shortly after she left university, her first record "Oh Oh Chéri" appeared, written by Johnny Hallyday
Johnny Hallyday
Johnny Hallyday is a French singer and actor. An icon in the French-speaking world since the beginning of his career, he was considered by some to have been the French Elvis Presley. He was married for 15 years to one of the most popular French female singers: Sylvie Vartan...

's writing duo. Her own flip side
A-side and B-side
A-side and B-side originally referred to the two sides of gramophone records on which singles were released beginning in the 1950s. The terms have come to refer to the types of song conventionally placed on each side of the record, with the A-side being the featured song , while the B-side, or...

 of the record, "Tous les garçons et les filles
Tous les garçons et les filles (song)
"Tous les garçons et les filles" is a song of the French popular singer Françoise Hardy, released in 1962. It recounts the feelings of a young person who has never known love and her envy of the couples which surround her....

" became a success, riding the wave of Yé-yé
Yé-yé
Yé-yé was a style of pop music that emerged from France, Québec and Spain in the early 1960s. The term "yé-yé" derived from "yeah! yeah!" The style expanded worldwide, due to the success of figures such as the French singer-songwriter Serge Gainsbourg....

 music in France. It sold over a million copies, and was awarded a gold disc
Music recording sales certification
Music recording sales certification is a system of certifying that a music recording has shipped or sold a certain number of copies, where the threshold quantity varies by type and by nation or territory .Almost all countries follow variations of the RIAA certification categories,...

. The track peaked at #36 in the UK Singles Chart
UK Singles Chart
The UK Singles Chart is compiled by The Official Charts Company on behalf of the British record-industry. The full chart contains the top selling 200 singles in the United Kingdom based upon combined record sales and download numbers, though some media outlets only list the Top 40 or the Top 75 ...

 in 1964. She first appeared on television in 1962 during an interlude in a programme reporting the results of a presidential referendum.

Hardy sings in French, English, Italian, Spanish and German, and has one interpretation in Portuguese. In 1963 she came fifth for Monaco in the Eurovision Song Contest
Eurovision Song Contest
The Eurovision Song Contest is an annual competition held among active member countries of the European Broadcasting Union .Each member country submits a song to be performed on live television and then casts votes for the other countries' songs to determine the most popular song in the competition...

 with "L'amour s'en va
L'Amour S'En Va
"L'amour s'en va" was the Monegasque entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1963, performed in French by French singer and actress Françoise Hardy....

". In 1963, she was awarded the Grand Prix Du Disque
L'Académie Charles Cros
The Académie Charles-Cros, is an organization in France that acts as an intermediary between government cultural policy makers and professionals in music and the recording industry....

 of the Charles Cros Academy.

In 1981, she married her long-time companion Jacques Dutronc, who is the father of her son, Thomas Dutronc
Thomas Dutronc
Thomas Dutronc is a jazz French guitarist. His mother is the singer Françoise Hardy. His father is the singer, songwriter, guitarist, and film actor Jacques Dutronc....

, born in 1973. Hardy lives near Paris and Dutronc in Monticello
Monticello, Haute-Corse
Monticello is a commune in the Haute-Corse department of France on the island of Corsica.-Population:-References:*...

, Corsica, although they remain a couple.

She allegedly had an affair with Dr Christiaan Barnard
Christiaan Barnard
Christiaan Neethling Barnard was a South African cardiac surgeon who performed the world's first successful human-to-human heart transplant.- Early life :...

, the South African heart surgeon.

In 1994, she collaborated with the British pop group Blur
Blur (band)
Blur is an English alternative rock band. Formed in London in 1989 as Seymour, the group consists of singer Damon Albarn, guitarist Graham Coxon, bassist Alex James and drummer Dave Rowntree. Blur's debut album Leisure incorporated the sounds of Madchester and shoegazing...

 for their "La Comedie" version of "To The End". In May 2000, she made a comeback with the album Clair Obscur on which her son played guitar and her husband sang the duet
Duet (music)
A duet is a musical composition for two performers. In classical music, the term is most often used for a composition for two singers or pianists; with other instruments, the word duo is also often used. A piece performed by two pianists performing together on the same piano is referred to as...

 "Puisque Vous Partez En Voyage". Iggy Pop
Iggy Pop
Iggy Pop is an American singer, songwriter, musician, and actor. Though considered an innovator of punk rock, Pop's music has encompassed a number of styles over the years, including pop, metal, jazz and blues...

 and Étienne Daho
Étienne Daho
Étienne Daho is a French singer, songwriter and record producer who has released a number of synth-driven and rock-surf influenced pop hit singles since 1981.- Career :...

 also took part. She has also recorded a duet with Perry Blake who wrote two songs for her award winning Tant de belles choses album.

On shyness and fame

Because of her difficult upbringing Hardy became painfully shy — a trait which is still part of her character today. When asked about her shyness in an interview with John Andrew, broadcast on BBC Radio 4
BBC Radio 4
BBC Radio 4 is a British domestic radio station, operated and owned by the BBC, that broadcasts a wide variety of spoken-word programmes, including news, drama, comedy, science and history. It replaced the BBC Home Service in 1967. The station controller is currently Gwyneth Williams, and the...

 in 2011 she said:

I thought at first my parents were divorced — at that time it was not a good thing, it was a kind of shame. My father didn't help much financially my mother, and all the other girls, little girls, were dressed differently than I was — their parents had more money...I didn’t enjoy at all everything, the trappings, when all of a sudden you become very famous... [on being taken up by the fashion houses] it was work, things I had to do, a chore - I didn't enjoy it at all...It is quite impossible to stand — to be admired too much — it is not a normal situation...I don't like that at all...I am not comfortable with my professional life really, so the word 'icon'- it's as though you were talking about someone else, it's not me really...I feel happy when I'm on my bed, in my room with a good book.

Films

Hardy makes a cameo appearance in a scene from Jean-Luc Godard
Jean-Luc Godard
Jean-Luc Godard is a French-Swiss film director, screenwriter and film critic. He is often identified with the 1960s French film movement, French Nouvelle Vague, or "New Wave"....

's film Masculin, féminin
Masculin, féminin
Masculin, féminin is a 1966 black-and-white French film directed by Jean-Luc Godard.The film stars French New Wave icon Jean-Pierre Léaud as Paul, a romantic young idealist and literary lion-wannabe who chases budding pop star, Madeleine...

. She played a minor role in the 1965 film What's New Pussycat?
What's New Pussycat?
What's New Pussycat? is a 1965 comedy film directed by Clive Donner and starring Peter Sellers, Peter O'Toole, Romy Schneider, Capucine, Paula Prentiss and Ursula Andress. It was Woody Allen's film debut, as well as his first produced script. The Academy Award-nominated title song by Burt Bacharach...

and also acted in the 1966 film Grand Prix. In a scene from director John G. Avildsen
John G. Avildsen
John Guilbert Avildsen is an American film director.-Life and career:Avildsen was born in Oak Park, Illinois, the son of Ivy and Clarence John Avildsen...

's film Save the Tiger
Save the Tiger
Save the Tiger is a 1973 film about moral conflict in contemporary America. It stars Jack Lemmon, Jack Gilford, Laurie Heineman, Thayer David, Lara Parker and Liv Lindeland. The film is directed by John G...

(1973), Jack Lemmon
Jack Lemmon
John Uhler "Jack" Lemmon III was an American actor and musician. He starred in more than 60 films including Some Like It Hot, The Apartment, Mister Roberts , Days of Wine and Roses, The Great Race, Irma la Douce, The Odd Couple, Save the Tiger John Uhler "Jack" Lemmon III (February 8, 1925June...

's character Harry Stoner makes a reference to Hardy during a melancholy telephone call to his wife. Her song "Tous les garçons et les filles" played during the British film Metroland
Metroland (1997 film)
Metroland is a 1997 British film starring Christian Bale and Emily Watson. It was directed by Philip Saville and written by Adrian Hodges, based on the 1980 novel by Julian Barnes...

. Her song "L'Amitié" played during the end credits of Denys Arcand
Denys Arcand
Georges-Henri Denys Arcand, is a Canadian film director, screenwriter and producer. He has won an Academy Award for Best Foreign Film in 2004 for The Barbarian Invasions...

's The Barbarian Invasions (Les Invasions barbares) which won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 2003. Her recording of the song "Il n'y a pas d' amour heureux", composed by Georges Brassens
Georges Brassens
Georges Brassens , 22 October 1921 – 29 October 1981), was a French singer-songwriter and poet.Brassens was born in Sète, a town in southern France near Montpellier...

 is played in the Norwegian film, Tatt av Kvinnen.

Fashion and popular song

Hardy is mentioned in a poem by Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan is an American singer-songwriter, musician, poet, film director and painter. He has been a major and profoundly influential figure in popular music and culture for five decades. Much of his most celebrated work dates from the 1960s when he was an informal chronicler and a seemingly...

 "Some other kinds of songs" which he wrote on the cover of his album Another Side of Bob Dylan
Another Side of Bob Dylan
Another Side of Bob Dylan is the fourth studio album by American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan. It was released August 8, 1964 by Columbia Records....

, released in 1964. Hardy's style influences Nicolas Ghesquière
Nicolas Ghesquière
Nicolas Ghesquière is a fashion designer and is currently creative director for the house of Balenciaga owned by the Gucci Group . He grew up in Loudun, Vienne....

, head of the couture house, Balenciaga
Balenciaga
Balenciaga is a fashion house founded by Cristóbal Balenciaga, a Basque designer, born in the Basque Country, Spain. He had a reputation as a couturier of uncompromising standards and was referred to as "the master of us all" by Christian Dior. His bubble skirts and odd, feminine, yet ultra-modern...

.

Hardy's song, "Ce Petit Coeur", was featured in the Gilmore Girls
Gilmore Girls
Gilmore Girls is an American family comedy-drama series created by Amy Sherman-Palladino, starring Lauren Graham and Alexis Bledel. On October 5, 2000, the series debuted on The WB and was cancelled in its seventh season, ending on May 15, 2007 on The CW...

episode, "French Twist."

Her song "Ma Jeunesse Fout Le Camp" was also played in the television series La Femme Nikita's third season episode "Beyond The Pale" when Nikita pulls out an old record and plays the song.

Selected songs

  • "Tous les garçons et les filles
    Tous les garçons et les filles (song)
    "Tous les garçons et les filles" is a song of the French popular singer Françoise Hardy, released in 1962. It recounts the feelings of a young person who has never known love and her envy of the couples which surround her....

    " (1962) – UK
    UK Singles Chart
    The UK Singles Chart is compiled by The Official Charts Company on behalf of the British record-industry. The full chart contains the top selling 200 singles in the United Kingdom based upon combined record sales and download numbers, though some media outlets only list the Top 40 or the Top 75 ...

     #36
  • "J'suis d'accord" (1962)
  • "Le temps de l'amour" (1962)
  • "Le premier bonheur du jour" (1963)
  • "L'amour s'en va" (1963)
  • "Only friends / Ton meilleur ami" (1964)
  • "Mon amie la rose
    Mon amie la rose
    Mon amie la rose is a studio album of the French popular singer Françoise Hardy. Like many of Hardy's earlier albums, it was released with no title, except for her name on the cover, but has become known by the title of the most successful song on the album, "Mon amie la rose".In 1964, Hardy...

    " (1964)
  • "Et Meme" (1964) – UK #31
  • "All Over the World" ("Dans Le Monde Entier") (1965) – UK #16
  • "L'amitié" (1965)
  • "La maison où j'ai grandi" (1966)
  • "Voilà" (1967)
  • "Comment te dire adieu?" (1968, lyrics by Serge Gainsbourg
    Serge Gainsbourg
    Serge Gainsbourg, born Lucien Ginsburg was a French singer-songwriter, actor and director. Gainsbourg's extremely varied musical style and individuality make him difficult to categorize...

    )
  • "Fleur de Lune" (1970)
  • "Message personnel" (1973, lyrics by Michel Berger
    Michel Berger
    Michel Berger , born Michel Jean Hamburger, was a very successful French singer and songwriter. He was a central figure of France's pop music scene for two decades both as a singer and as a songwriter for well-known French artists like his wife France Gall, Françoise Hardy and Johnny Hallyday...

    )
  • "J'écoute de la musique saoûle" (1978)

Selected discography

  • Tous les garçons et les filles
    Tous les garçons et les filles
    Tous les garçons et les filles is the first studio album of the French popular singer Françoise Hardy. Like many of Hardy's earlier albums, it was released with no title, except for her name on the cover, but has become known by the title of the most successful song on the album, "Tous les garçons...

    (1962); re-released as The Yeh-Yeh Girl from Paris! (1965)
  • Le premier bonheur du jour
    Le premier bonheur du jour
    Le premier bonheur du jour is the second studio album of the French popular singer Françoise Hardy. Like many of Hardy's earlier albums, it was released with no title, except for her name on the cover, but has become known by the title of the most successful song on the album, "Le premier bonheur...

    (1963)
  • Françoise Hardy canta per voi in italiano
    Françoise Hardy canta per voi in italiano
    Françoise Hardy canta per voi in italiano is a 1963 album of the French popular singer Françoise Hardy. It was her first Italian-language album.-Track listing:All songs were adapted into Italian by Vito Pallavicini...

    (1963)
  • Mon amie la rose (1964)
  • L’Amitié
    L’Amitié
    L’Amitié is a 1965 studio album of the French popular singer Françoise Hardy. Like many of Hardy's earlier albums, it was released with no title, except for her name on the cover, but has become known by the title of the most successful song on the album, "L’Amitié".- Tracklist :Hardy is...

    (1965)
  • Françoise in Germany
    Françoise in Germany
    Françoise in Germany is a 1965 album of the French popular singer Françoise Hardy.- Tracklist :# "Dann bist Du verliebt" – 2:39Lyrics by: Fred Gordini and Joachim RelinMusic written by: Fred Gordini, Joachim Relin and Françoise Hardy...

    (1965)
  • Françoise Hardy in English
    Françoise Hardy in English
    Françoise Hardy in English is a 1966 studio album of the French popular singer Françoise Hardy. In 1965, the song "All Over The World" from this album reached the Top 20 in the United Kingdom, remaining there for 15 weeks...

    (1966)
  • La maison où j'ai grandi
    La maison où j'ai grandi (album)
    La maison où j'ai grandi is a studio album of the French popular singer Françoise Hardy. It was released without title, except for the word Françoise on the cover, but has become known by the title of the most successful song on the album, "La maison où j'ai grandi".- Tracklist :Except as noted,...

    (1966)
  • Ma jeunesse fout le camp…
    Ma jeunesse fout le camp…
    Ma jeunesse fout le camp… is a studio album of the French popular singer Françoise Hardy. This album was the first produced by Hardy's own production company, Asparagus Productions...

    (1967)
  • Comment te dire adieu?
    Comment te dire adieu?
    Comment te dire adieu? is a studio album by the French popular singer Françoise Hardy. Although it was released without title, except for Hardy's name on the cover, it has become known by the name of the most successful song on the album, "Comment te dire adieu?".- Track listing :# "Comment te...

    (1968)
  • Françoise Hardy en Anglais (1969)
  • Françoise (1970)
  • Soleil (1970)
  • One-Nine-Seven-Zero (1970)
  • Träume (1970)
  • La Question (1971)
  • Et si je m'en vais avant toi (1972)
  • If You Listen (1972)
  • Message Personnel (1973)
  • Entr'acte (1974)
  • Star (1977)
  • J'écoute de la musique saoûle (1978)
  • Gin Tonic (1980)
  • À Suivre (1981)
  • Quelqu'un qui s'en va (1982)
  • Décalages (1988)
  • Le Danger (1996)
  • Clair Obscur (2000)
  • Tant de belles choses (2004)
  • (Parenthèses...) (2006)
  • La Pluie sans parapluie (2010)

Soundtracks

  • "L'Amitié", in The Barbarian Invasions, Denys Arcand
    Denys Arcand
    Georges-Henri Denys Arcand, is a Canadian film director, screenwriter and producer. He has won an Academy Award for Best Foreign Film in 2004 for The Barbarian Invasions...

     (2003)
  • "Des ronds dans l'eau", in Remember Me, My Love
    Remember Me, My Love
    Remember Me, My Love is a 2003 Italian movie directed by Gabriele Muccino.Tagline: Some loves are never forgotten.-Plot:...

    , Gabriele Muccino
    Gabriele Muccino
    Gabriele Muccino is an Italian film director. He is the elder brother of actor Silvio Muccino, who often appears in his brother's films....

     (2003)
  • "Tous les garçons et les filles", in The Dreamers, Bernardo Bertolucci
    Bernardo Bertolucci
    Bernardo Bertolucci is an Italian film director and screenwriter, whose films include The Conformist, Last Tango in Paris, 1900, The Last Emperor and The Dreamers...

     (2003)
  • "Tous les garçons et les filles", "Le Premier Bonheur du jour", in The Statement, Norman Jewison
    Norman Jewison
    Norman Frederick Jewison, CC, O.Ont is a Canadian film director, producer, actor and founder of the Canadian Film Centre. Highlights of his directing career include In the Heat of the Night , The Thomas Crown Affair , Fiddler on the Roof , Jesus Christ Superstar , Moonstruck , The Hurricane and The...

     (2003)
  • "All Over The World", in The Boat That Rocked
    The Boat That Rocked
    The Boat That Rocked is a 2009 British comedy film written and directed by Richard Curtis, with pirate radio in the United Kingdom during the 1960s as its setting. The film has an ensemble cast featuring Philip Seymour Hoffman, Bill Nighy, Rhys Ifans, Nick Frost, and Kenneth Branagh...

    , Richard Curtis
    Richard Curtis
    Richard Whalley Anthony Curtis, CBE is a New Zealand-born British screenwriter, music producer, actor and film director, known primarily for romantic comedy films such as Four Weddings and a Funeral, Bridget Jones's Diary, Notting Hill, Love Actually and The Girl in the Café, as well as the hit...

     (2009)

Selected filmography

  • Château en Suède (1963)
  • What's New Pussycat?
    What's New Pussycat?
    What's New Pussycat? is a 1965 comedy film directed by Clive Donner and starring Peter Sellers, Peter O'Toole, Romy Schneider, Capucine, Paula Prentiss and Ursula Andress. It was Woody Allen's film debut, as well as his first produced script. The Academy Award-nominated title song by Burt Bacharach...

    (1965, uncredited appearance in final scene)
  • Une Balle au Cœur (1965)
  • Grand Prix (1966)

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