Editing Isabelle Aubret (section)

==Early life==
Thérèse Coquerelle was born in [[Lille]], France, on 27 July 1938. She was the fifth of eleven children; her father was a foreman in a spinning mill, while her mother, of Ukrainian origin, was a housewife.<ref name="RFI">"[http://www.rfimusique.com/artiste/chanson/isabelle-aubret/biographie Isabelle Aubret Biography] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160104224518/http://www.rfimusique.com/artiste/chanson/isabelle-aubret/biographie |date=4 January 2016 }}", RFI Musique. Retrieved 17 August 2014</ref> Coquerelle trained in gymnastics as a child, and in 1952 she won the national [[French Gymnastics Championships|French Gymnastics Championship]].<ref name="Thompson" /> That same year, she left school and was hired as a winder in the Lemaire-Destombes factory in Saint-André, where her father worked.{{Cite needed|date=September 2022}}  

A few years later, she returned to this spinning mill to sing in the theatre of her family house, as part of a radio program. She continued to take drama and classical dance classes. At the same time, she participated in local singing competitions. Her drama teacher introduced her to the director of a Lille radio station, and Coquerelle took the stage for the first time.{{Cite needed|date=September 2022}} She sang in ensembles, and in 1956, at the age of eighteen, she joined an orchestra in [[Le Havre]].<ref name="RFI" /> In 1960 she won a singing competition at the [[Olympia (Paris)|Olympia]], where she was noticed by the director of the room, [[Bruno Coquatrix]]. After Coquerelle secured a cabaret spot in [[Pigalle, Paris|Pigalle]], she released her debut single "Nous les Amoureux" in 1961 under the name Isabelle Aubret.<ref name="Thompson" />