Thérèse Coquerelle, or Isabelle Aubret on stage, was born in Lille on July 27, 1938. A brilliant interpreter of the poems of Louis Aragon and songs by Jean Ferrat, Jacques Brel, Léo Ferré and Leonard Cohen, she had a dazzling debut followed by eclipses due to accidents and media ignorance. The singer of "Un premier amour " (Grand Prix de l'Eurovision 1962) and "Deux enfants au soleil", recognized the world over and showered with awards, has continued to record and tour with a repertoire spanning fifty years. Faithful to a committed style inherited from the Left Bank spirit, she distinguished herself from the yé-yé vogue of the 1960s, singing for children too. In 1989, she celebrated the bicentenary of the French Revolution with an album, and ten years later, the capital in Parisabelle. Meanwhile, she was awarded the Légion d'Honneur by François Mitterrand and released the album Coups de Coeur (1992), followed by Changer le Monde (1997). After the nostalgic album Le Paradis des Musiciens (2001), Isabelle Aubret recorded Claude Lemesle's songs in 2006 and, three years later, took part in the Âge tendre et Têtes de bois tour. On October 3, 2016, she bids farewell on stage at the Olympia in Paris, a few days after the release of the album Allons Enfants.
