Personne d'autre

She received a guitar on her sixteenth birthday as a reward for passing her baccalaureat. After a year at the Sorbonne she answered a newspaper advertisement looking for young singers.
Hardy signed her first contract with the record label Vogue in November 1961.
In April 1962, shortly after finishing school, her first record "Oh Oh Chéri" appeared.
Her own flip side of the record, "Tous les garçons et les filles" became a success, riding the wave of Yé-yé music in France.
Hardy sang of young love with both fetching moodiness and unrestrained ebullience; although she often wrote both her music and lyrics, she often co-wrote tunes with others as well.
She was greatly aided by a number of talented arrangers who seemed to be attempting (usually successfully) to blend American and British production sophistication with a Continental European sensibility.