Françoise Madeleine Hardy is a French former singer and songwriter. Mainly known for singing melancholic sentimental ballads, Hardy has been an important figure in French pop music since her debut, spanning a career of more than fifty years with over thirty studio albums released. She rose to prominence in the early 1960s as a leading figure of the yé-yé wave, a genre of pop music and associated youth culture phenomenon that adapted to French pop and rock styles that came from the United States and the United Kingdom.
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Hardy had no formal training. Her largely absent father gave her a guitar when she passed her baccalaureate exam and graduated from high school. Hardy began writing songs obsessively with only a few chords. Hardy laughs about her first recordings and admits her songs and her limited voice have taken her further than she ever expected to go. She says her singing began to sound better when she went to London to record, soon after her debut.
Did Francoise Hardy write her own songs?
She translated American songs and Italian songs. And she wrote herself. It was very important because the other Yé-yé girls didn’t write anything.” Hardy was influenced by British pop long before she ever crossed the Channel
