Françoise Hardy

Françoise Hardy

Françoise Madeleine Hardy (French pronunciation: ​[fʁɑ̃swaz madlɛn aʁdi]; born 17 January 1944) is a French former singer and songwriter. Mainly known for singing melancholic sentimental ballads, Hardy has been an important figure in French pop music since her debut, spanning a career of more than fifty years with over thirty studio albums released. She rose to prominence in the early 1960s as a leading figure of the yé-yé wave, a genre of pop music and associated youth culture phenomenon that adapted to French the pop and rock styles that came from the United States and the United Kingdom. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Françoise Hardy has received more than 1,808,313 page views. Her biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 31 in 2019). Françoise Hardy is the 105th most popular singer (up from 113th in 2019), the 716th most popular biography from France (up from 771st in 2019) and the 8th most popular French Singer.

Françoise Hardy is a French singer-songwriter who began her career in the early 1960s. She is most famous for her singles "Tous les garçons et les filles" and "Tu trouveras".