French song icon Françoise Hardy has died at the age of 80, her son Thomas Dutronc announced Tuesday evening.
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“He was truly an icon, it was more than a presence, a voice, it was an aura”greets Tuesday June 11 on franceinfo, Olivier Cachin, journalist at Rock&Folk, after the death of Françoise Hardy at the age of 80. “He was someone who greatly impressed Anglo-Saxon artists, we obviously think of Mick Jaggerexplains Olivier Cachin. Even if the end was near, it’s always a shock when we learn of the departure of someone who meant so much for so many decades.”
“She is someone who was quite discreet with a kind of perpetual nostalgia, whether at the age of 18 when she sang All the boys and girls or later in the 1990s when under the leadership of Etienne Daho she returned to the stage, something she wasn’t necessarily a fan ofsays Olivier Cachin.
“He is someone who has truly spanned the decades and who has always kept this scent of mystery, of nostalgia, of saudade.”
Olivier Cachin, journalistat franceinfo
She was “the incarnation of a certain French song, very soft, very calm, very melodic. It’s not just these hits because there are many of his records which did not work commercially and which left a memory indelible in the memory of many French and Anglo-Saxon music lovers”adds the journalist.
François Hardy “was a certain elegance of French fashion, there was her look, her voice, her songs, there is this close couple with Jacques Dutronc from whom she had been separated for more than 20 years and with whom she had remained close”.
