Françoise Hardy siblings: Meet Michèle Hardy

Françoise Madeleine Hardy 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.

Françoise Hardy siblings: Meet Michèle Hardy

Michèle Hardy is the younger sibling of famous Fench singer and songwriter, Françoise Hardy. The duo was born to Madeleine Hardy and Pierre Dillard. Her mother came from an ordinary background and raised Françoise and her younger sister Michèle—born eighteen months after them as a single parent.

Their father Étienne Dillard was a married man who came from a much wealthier family did little to help them financially and was largely an absent figure in their upbringing, only visiting the children a couple of times a year. 

Their mother raised them strictly, and in a modest apartment on the 9th arrondissement’s Rue d’Aumale street.

Not much is known about Michèle Hardy, as she has always loved to keep a private life away fro the media.