At the Marie-Louise Clinic in the 9th arrondissement of Paris, in Nazi-occupied France during World War II, Françoise Madeleine Hardy was born on January 17, 1944.
She is a former singer and songwriter from France. She is 79 years old.
With a career spanning more than fifty years and the release of more than thirty studio albums, Hardy is most known for singing depressing sentimental ballads. Since her debut, Hardy has been a significant figure in French pop music.
She gained fame in the early 1960s as a key player in the yé-yé wave, a pop music genre and related youth culture phenomena that translated American and British pop and rock genres into French.
Who is Françoise Hardy husband Jacques Dutronc?
French singer, songwriter, guitarist, composer, and actor Jacques Dutronc was born on April 28, 1943.
He wed singer Françoise Hardy on March 30, 1981, and the two had a son, guitarist and manouche jazz vocalist Thomas Dutronc, who was born in 1973. The couple divorced in 1988.
