At 78, singer Françoise Hardy is going through a difficult end of life. The star suffered from serious health problems and, if “His days are not in danger“As her son Thomas said, she remains very tested. For her, music is ancient history. This is confirmed by a close collaborator.
Producer Erick Benzi – who has worked with Jean-Jacques Goldman or Céline Dion – gave an interview to the newspaper The Parisian (on newsstands this Saturday, January 29) in which he talks about his career, his encounters and his new project: The Goldman Legacy, Volume 1. A disc recorded with the agreement of the discreet JJG, on which we can find Lilian Renaud, Marina Kaye or even Michael Jones. The producer has a recording studio in Bois-Colombes (Hauts-de-Seine) in which many stars have paraded. He declares : “We record everything in the same room. This is where Françoise Hardy did the vocals for her latest album. This will be his last album. Unfortunately, she can no longer sing.” Françoise Hardy has released her ultimate album entitled Nobody else in 2018.
The singer – who says she is in voluntary confinement “For 3 years” – had herself had the opportunity to mention her failing health which prevents her from being able to record other records. Françoise Hardy fought for several years against cancer of the pharynx which left sequels. “Thanks to 45 radiotherapy sessions, I have become deaf in one ear, no longer have saliva, my nasal passages are no longer irrigated and neither is my back of the throat, with all the respiratory, hemorrhagic and food problems that this causes. continuously for two years“, she told AFP in April 2021. For her, he was then “totally“excluded from returning to the studio one day.
Annoyed by his situation, the interpreter of the tubes How to say goodbye to you, The time of love or My friend the Rose added: “My life has become a nightmare, but it’s better not to talk about it too much.“