Françoise Hardy, the French pop icon who led the yé-yé music movement and who was recently honored by Rolling Stone as one of the greatest singers of all time, died Tuesday after battling lymphatic and laryngeal cancer for decades. She was 80. Variety reports the singer's son announced simply on Instagram, "Mom is gone." Hardy was born January 17, 1944, in Paris. While still a teen, she created a sensation with the classic "Tous les garçons et les filles" in 1962. The melancholy tune -- whic...
Françoise Hardy, the French pop icon who led the yé-yé music movement and who was recently honored by Rolling Stone as one of the greatest singers of all time, died Tuesday after battling lymphatic and laryngeal cancer for decades. She was 80. Variety reports the singer's son announced simply on Instagram, "Mom is gone." Hardy was born January 17, 1944, in Paris. While still a teen, she created a sensation with the classic "Tous les garçons et les filles" in 1962. The melancholy tune -- whic...
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