With her countless hits, Françoise Hardy has become an emblematic figure of the French music industry. Unique, hypnotic and talented, the star continues to inspire her audience despite having stepped away from the spotlight due to her health concerns. Affected by lymphatic cancer in 2015 and another of the pharynx three years later, her daily life has become hell, according to her words.
“The 45 radiotherapies that were sent to me from left to right from the bottom of the head and the other 10 from top to bottom destroyed what allows me to irrigate the mouth, the throat, the nose, the ears, the eyes and the scalp. I let you imagine the incurable problems that this causes”, confided the interpreter of “How to say goodbye” on RTL in January 2023. Last summer in the columns of “JDD”, Françoise Hardy also underlined that “the definitive absence of saliva and the lack of irrigation of the skull and the entire ENT area“had given up his life”nightmarish“.
In the turmoil, the main interested party has always been able to count on her companion Jacques Dutronc and their only son Thomas. “Mom is not in great shape. To spend time with her, it’s not very simple. You get there. But poor thing, it’s not easy for her“, underlined the latter in a number of seven to eight, on TF1. Propelled in the Yéyé years, Françoise Hardy quickly seduced the crowds with her unique timbre of voice.
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“She hears Johnny Hallyday on the radio…”
If some artists of the time quickly charmed her, this was not the case with Johnny Hallyday, according to the indiscretions of the writer Pierre Mikaïloff, who agreed to testify in “Françoise Hardy, la discrete”, a report focused on the artist that Arte will broadcast on May 12, 2023. Exclusively, our colleagues from “Télé-Loisirs” who were able to see it in preview relayed his confidences: “She hears Johnny Hallyday on the radio and it seems so bad to her, she says, that she thinks that the record company that signed Johnny Hallyday must be quite easy to contact”.
Believing in her lucky star, Françoise Hardy then tried her luck at Vogue to audition with Jacques Wolfsohn, the artistic director who was one of the first to bet on the talent of Johnny Hallyday. Same story for Jacques Dutronc! Neither one nor two, the music publisher makes her sign a contract and takes her under his wing. The rest, you know it…
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