They were both icons of the 1960s-70s. Same slender and androgynous look, both wearing the metallic mini-skirts signed Paco Rabanne to perfection… Françoise Hardy, very moved after the announcement of the disappearance of Jane Birkin, this Sunday July 16, 2023, wanted to share her emotion and her memories with the one she knew very well and with whom she had sung a duet several times. “I had texted him on Saturday, because I hadn’t received one since the end of June. It was Thomas (Dutronc, his son), who works in the South, who informed me. It was a big shock and I am very affected“, wrote the singer, who has difficulty speaking due to the consequences of her pharyngeal cancer and her lymphatic cancer. “I hope her death was not too painful because she suffered enough as it was, and I think of her daughters and her family who were everything to her”, continued the ex-wife of Jacques Dutronc. The two artists had collaborated on numerous occasions, notably on the titles “How to say goodbye to you” And “Little Papers”. “Iespecially remember the duet recording of outdated, a song by Keren Ann and Benjamin Biolay. Jane kept singing Siranné and nobody flinched, it was me who ended up telling her that she had to sing Suranné”, she said, referring to the terribly British accent of Jane Birkin.
And Françoise Hardy also wrote the title Full moon for the mother of Charlotte Gainsbourg and Lou Doillon in 1998, for her album Lightly. His first disc to contain no Serge Gainsbourg title, which disappeared a few years earlier. “I especially wanted to write a good text and I thought that the word sorry was enhanced by the English accent. It all started with this qualifier”, explains the interpreter of All the boys and girls.
EXCLUSIVE @RTLFrance : Françoise Hardy reacts to the disappearance of Jane Birkin: “I had sent her an SMS on Saturday. It was above all her personality, everything she gave off, her way of being, which seduced me.”https:/ /t.co/ZcqzYlzOBJ
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Françoise Hardy especially remembers a woman “very funny, his way of speaking French too, (…) It was above all her personality, everything she gave off, her way of being, that seduced me. I knew her before she sang”, adds the one who knew her when she was in a relationship with Serge Gainsbourg. “Serge made me come to his house to let me hear the great songs he had made for her and I had thus discovered his very personal way of singing. I always met her with Serge, and when she left him, I became even closer to Serge“, adds the mother of Thomas Dutronc. But above all to pay tribute to his friend who has now passed away: “We think of his humor, his fantasy, his surreal side. Jane was a great artist, a terrific performer for Serge and she was extraordinarily beautiful.”
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