Based on her son Thomas Dutronc, she died on the age of 80. “Mother is gone,” Dutronc wrote on Tuesday night on on-line networks. He additionally revealed a photograph displaying him as a baby along with his mom.
Hardy, born in Paris in 1944, grew to become well-known in 1962 along with her hit “Tous les garçons et les filles”, which the then 18-year-old Frenchwoman had written herself. Hardy had solely gotten her first guitar two years earlier, on the age of 16.
In checklist of the 200 biggest singers of all time
In 2023, the US journal “Rolling Stone” selected her in its checklist of the 200 biggest singers of all time – as the one consultant of France. “All my life I’ve been searching for lovely melodies. Listening to them places me in seventh heaven,” mentioned Hardy in 2018.
France’s Tradition Minister Rachida Dati paid tribute to a “legend of French chanson” on on-line networks. “For me, she is my complete childhood,” mentioned French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal on the net service X, calling Hardy a “French icon.” “I’m deeply saddened. She impressed me lots…” wrote singer Michel Polnareff.
Jacques Dutronc as nice love
Hardy’s nice love was Jacques Dutronc, who additionally rocked the charts within the Sixties with hits like “Et moi, et moi, et moi” (1966). With him she had a son, Thomas, who additionally grew to become a singer. However the relationship was filled with disappointments, and its issues additionally permeated Hardy’s musical work.
The singer had been affected by most cancers since 2004. She spoke out in favor of euthanasia: “To make somebody who’s terminally ailing undergo unbearably till they die is inhumane,” Hardy mentioned in 2021. Final yr, Hardy informed Paris Match journal that she needed to “go quickly and shortly, with out an excessive amount of trial,” similar to not with the ability to breathe.
