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Françoise Hardy
Françoise Hardy (1992).
Background information
Birth name	Françoise Madeleine Hardy
Born	17 January 1944 (1944-01-17) (age 65)
Origin	Paris, France
Occupations	Actress/Singer
Years active	1961–present
Associated acts	Jacques Dutronc
Website	francoise-hardy.com
Notable instruments
Voice

Françoise Madeleine Hardy (pronounced [fʁɑ̃swaz aʁˈdi]; born 17 January 1944) is a French singer, actress and astrologer. Hardy is an iconic figure in fashion, music and style.^[1]

Contents 1 Biography 2 Cultural references 3 Selected songs 4 Selected discography 4.1 Soundtracks 5 Selected filmography 6 References 7 External links

[edit] Biography

She grew up in the 9th arrondissement of Paris, the daughter of an unmarried mother. She received a guitar on her sixteenth birthday as a reward for passing her baccalaureat. After a year at the Sorbonne she answered a newspaper advertisement looking for young singers. Hardy signed her first contract with the record label Vogue in November 1961. In April 1962, shortly after finishing school, her first record "Oh Oh Chéri" appeared, written by Johnny Hallyday's writing duo. Her own flip side of the record, "Tous les garçons et les filles" became a success, riding the wave of Yé-yé music in France, with two million sales. 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. In 1963 she came fifth for Monaco in the Eurovision Song Contest with "L'amour s'en va". In 1963, she was awarded the Grand Prix Du Disque of the Charles Cros Academy.

In 1981, she married her long-time companion Jacques Dutronc, with whom she had had a son, Thomas Dutronc, in 1973. In 1994, she collaborated with the British pop group Blur for their "La Comedie" version of "To The End". In May 2000, she made a comeback with the album Clair Obscur. Her son played guitar and her husband sang the duet "Puisque Vous Partez En Voyage." Iggy Pop and Étienne Daho 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. Hardy lives near Paris and Dutronc lives in Monticello, Corsica, although they remain a couple.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] Cultural references

Films

Hardy makes a cameo appearance in a scene from Jean-Luc Godard's film Masculin, féminin.^[2] She had a small part in the 1966 film Grand Prix. In a scene from director John G. Avildsen's film Save the Tiger (1973), Jack Lemmon'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" plays during the British film Metroland. * Her song "L'Amitié" plays during the end credits of Denys Arcand's The Barbarian Invasions (Les Invasions barbares) which won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 2003.

Fashion and popular song

Hardy is mentioned in a poem by Bob Dylan "Some other kinds of songs" on the cover of his album Another Side of Bob Dylan, released in 1964.^[3] Hardy's style influences Nicolas Ghesquière, head of the couture house, Balenciaga.^[4] The tune of "Tous les garçons et les filles" is used in one of Latin America's popular Christian Evangelical songs ("Quiero Cantar una Linda Canción").^{[citation needed]} Her song "Tous les garçons et les filles" inspired Rei Kawakubo in creating the name Comme des Garçons for her fashion line.^{[citation needed]} Robbie Williams's single "You Know Me" (to be released in December 2009) is based on her song "Voilà".^{[citation needed]}

[edit] Selected songs

• "Tous les garçons et les filles" (1962)
• "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" (1964)
• "All Over The World" (Dans Le Monde Entier) - reached #16 in UK charts (1965)
• "L'amitié" (1965)
• "La maison où j'ai grandi" (1966)
• "Voilà" (1967)
• "Comment te dire adieu?" (1968, lyrics by Serge Gainsbourg)
• "Message personnel" (1973, lyrics by Michel Berger)
• "J'écoute de la musique saoûle" (1978)

[edit] Selected discography

• Tous les garçons et les filles (1962)
• Le premier bonheur du jour (1963)
• Françoise Hardy canta per voi in italiano (1963)
• Mon amie la rose (1964)
• L’Amitié (1965)
• Françoise in Germany (1965)
• Françoise Hardy in English (1966)
• La maison où j'ai grandi (1966)
• Ma jeunesse fout le camp… (1967)
• Comment te dire adieu? (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)

[edit] Soundtracks

• "L'Amitié", in The Barbarian Invasions, Denys Arcand (2003)
• "Des ronds dans l'eau", in Remember Me, My Love, Gabriele Muccino (2003)
• "Tous les garçons et les filles", in The Dreamers, Bernardo Bertolucci (2003)
• "Tous les garçons et les filles", "Le Premier Bonheur du jour", in The Statement, Norman Jewison (2003)

[edit] Selected filmography

• Château en Suède (1963)
• What's New Pussycat? (1965, uncredited appearance in final scene)
• Une Balle au Cœur (1965)
• Grand Prix (1966)

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Official website (French)
• Myspace
• Totally Hardy: Internet forum with also an English section
• Françoise Hardy at the Internet Movie Database
• Biography of Françoise Hardy, from Radio France Internationale
• Discography of Françoise Hardy
• Complete Lyrics and Discography

Preceded by François Deguelt

Monaco in the Eurovision Song Contest 1963

Succeeded by Romuald

Persondata
NAME	Hardy, Françoise Madeline
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION	Actress, astrologer, pop singer
DATE OF BIRTH	17 January 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH	Paris, France
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH