Bernard Brumberg " Francoise Hardy  "

Françoise Madeleine Hardy (born January 17, 1944 at Paris 1) is a French singer.
Author songwriter, Francoise Hardy debut in the musical world at age 18 and meets an immediate success. After performing on stage for six years, she abandoned this aspect of demonstrative art.

Since then, she pursued a career primarily as a record. Parallel to the songwriting, she has a definite interest in astrology it apprehends as a complement to psychology.

On melancholic melodies she likes, her repertoire is largely a reflection of doubts, questions, anxiety aroused in her the torment of romantic relationships.

Francoise Hardy share their lives with the singer and movie actor, Jacques Dutronc in 1967.

They have one child, Thomas, born June 16, 1973. They were married March 30, 1981 in Monticello in Corsica.

His youth is happening in a vacuum in the 9th district of Paris with a mother, a bookkeeper, remained célibataire, and sister, her younger sister . His father, a factory director of computing machines, married to another woman, is rarely present.

Complexed and sentimental adolescent is his fondness for the song and the discovery of rock and roll on his radio, which are chosen at sixteen, a guitar in recognition of his achievement at BA in June 1961.

Using a method summary, she tries to put some chords on the words that reflect his moods and begins to dream of a career with, of near or far, with the music community.

After the first year of graduate study at the Sorbonne, an ad in the newspaper France-Soir holds his attention: a record company wants to audition young singer. Frances gets a visit and spent a test that remains unanswered. Before contacting other companies, she enrolled at the Petit Conservatoire de la Mireille song (she stayed two years). It then presents the disks in Vogue, a label that Johnny Hallyday has in its catalog and asks his female counterpart. Interested in his style, responsible for prompt hearings to perfect and he teaches music theory. A few months later, in mid-November 1961, the artistic director of Vogue him sign a contract.

Le Petit Conservatoire of the song is also a television broadcast of the ORTF and February 6, 1962, "Miss Hardy made his first public appearance. The recording his first LP record is completed April 25. It adaptation a French American song (Oh oh baby), which set production, and three of his own compositions. The Super 45s out in June and four titles are soon to be heard in transistor radios. Three months later, 2,000 copies are sold.

From 27 to 29 January 1966, she participated in the 16th Song Festival of Sanremo.
In June, second round held his singing at the Savoy stage: a tuxedo designed by Yves Saint Laurent.
Recognizing it one of the characters he has in mind for his future film director John Frankenheimer on the set of commits Grand Prix, a blockbuster racing cars. Five months, it is present on all circuits in Formula 1: Monaco, Spa-Francorchamps, Zandwoort, Monza ...

For the first public screening, she was invited by Metro Goldwyn Mayer with the French film star Yves Montand, to travel to New York, December 21, 1966. On this occasion, Warner, according to Vogue, distributes its records on the U.S. market. To promote, Hardy is involved in several shows and been featured in magazines.
In 1967 she created "Asparagus", his own production company and sign a new contract with Vogue for distribution. The singer Jacques Dutronc is now in his life since the summer and long separations are challenging him. The tours are at a steady pace: 73 recitals in France, 15 galas in Canada (the latter, accompanied by Udo Jürgens).

In February 1968, Françoise Hardy occurs in British universities: Brighton, Cambridge, Liverpool, Durham, Birmingham, Southampton.

Journey to South Africa from 26 February to 16 March: Pretoria, Johannesburg, Durban, Cape Town.
Following the success abroad, it was decided to pause the tour to record new songs in English, Italian and German.

Before that, it honors his final contracts: a gala event in Kinshasa, from 22 April, a final round of singing at the Savoy in London. The couturier, Paco Rabanne it "shapes" for the occasion an impressive combination of metal that makes sense.

The designer continued his collaboration with singer and create the event by making him wear "the minidress most expensive in the world" - made of gold plates encrusted with diamonds - at the inauguration of the International Exhibition of diamonds , May 15, when the country won the student revolt.
Faced with the "events" that are growing, his record company advised her to leave the capital. She returned to her home in Corsica with Jacques Dutronc.

The rumor about his desire to abandon the stage for the benefit of the disk spreads. Indeed, the singer thinks seriously and this break in the tour is that it will seize the opportunity to take the plunge.

When the artist takes the path of the recording studios, Thomas Dutronc is once again part of the adventure as a musician and producer for some titles. In fall 2004 CD So many beautiful things gives the opportunity to Françoise Hardy make a comeback in neighboring countries (especially Germany) and Canada.

With this album certified gold a month after its release, it is distinguished as a female performer of the year to the 20th victory of the music, March 5, 2005.

In the media, the word "idol" has long since fallen into disuse. That of "icon" has replaced it. Francoise Hardy has become a recognized benchmark and an inspiration claimed, both in France and Great Britain, or Quebec. To cap off a career as a writer and performer for over forty years, the singer has received 30 November 2006 under the dome of the Institute de France to give him the Grand Medal of the French song, awarded by the Academy French. At this sort (Parenthèses. ..), which consists of duets album are present, among other guests, singer Maureen McGovern, the pianist, singer Julio Iglesias, the actor Alain Delon. Five months later he was certified platinum.
In 2007, driven by Editions Robert Laffont, Francoise Hardy is working to writing his memoirs. The book appeared in October 2008 under the title The Despair monkeys ... and other bagatelles. Some aspects of his professional and private life are revealed.
"I have strived to restore the truth with as much accuracy and sensitivity than possible I just hope being immodest ... . "
Placed in the top tier of sales during the three months following its release, the book happens to be one of the most read in 2008 by The Express-RTL2 charts and is one of six titles nominated for the Award Test France Televisions 2009.
From the beginning of 2009, the singer begins to search for songs for an upcoming album. Title, rain without an umbrella, it seems to spring 2010.