Singer, Actress, and Model, Françoise Hardy, Dies at 80

The French singing legend, icon, and muse leaves behind a legacy.

Françoise Hardy in Paris 1969. Getty Images.

Françoise Hardy, a French singer-songwriter whose mesmerizing voice, classic beauty, and trendsetting style first captured the world's attention in the 1960s, has passed away at 80. Her son, also a musician, Thomas Dutronc, announced his mother's passing in a baby photo Instagram post with the caption, “Maman est partie.” Over the past two decades, Hardy battled lymphatic and laryngeal cancer, and in 2021, said she felt “close to the end” of her life. ...

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