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French singer-songwriter, actress, and model Francoise Hardy has died at 80.
Hardys son, fellow musician Thomas Dutronc,confirmedthe news of her death on social media.
Born in 1944 in Paris, Hardy signed a contract with a record label as a teenager.
I far preferred music to cinema, she reflected.
In 2004, Hardy found out she had lymphatic cancer.
Luckily for me, the most beautiful songs are not happy songs.
The songs we remember are the sad, romantic songs.
