Les Enfoirés

A group of mainly French-speaking artists and public figures, the Enfoirés troupe was created in 1985 to raise funds for the Restos du Cœur charity founded by Coluche. Singer Jean-Jacques Goldman first brought the project to life by composing "La Chanson des Restos," which was performed by numerous personalities, including Yves Montand, Nathalie Baye, Michel Platini, Coluche, and Michel Drucker. Starting in 1986, television shows took over and were used to raise funds, but starting in 1989, a new principle was explored. Several artists collectively gave a series of concerts, which were then released as an album, the sales of which helped fund the Restos du Cœur. For the first edition, Véronique Sanson, Jean-Jacques Goldman, Michel Sardou, Eddy Mitchell, and Johnny Hallyday joined forces around their repertoires and released the album Tournée d'Enfoirés. From 1992 onwards, the exercise became annual, and systematically welcomed new figures from the musical, cinematic and even sporting scene, even if certain personalities, such as Patrick Bruel (+30 participations), Michael Jones or Jean-Jacques Goldman (27) remained its most emblematic ambassadors. Each release from Enfoirés en 2000 (2000) to Mission Enfoirés in 2017 reached the number one spot in the French charts. The series was briefly broken that year with Génération Enfoirés, which only reached number 6. With Music! in 2018, the Enfoirés returned to the top of the charts, and followed in the following years with Le Monde des Enfoirés (2019), Le Pari(s) des Enfoirés (2020), À Côté de Vous (2021) and also 2022 : Un Air d’Enfoirés (2022), although these last two shows were recorded without an audience due to the Covid-19 pandemic. In 2023, the show Enfoirés Un Jour, Toujours was presented at the Tony Garnier hall in Lyon. The stage recording gave rise to a self-titled album, which did not fail to take the top spot in the best-selling charts in France. In 2024, the troupe celebrated its 35th anniversary with a show aptly named On A 35 Ans!, and performed at the Arkéa Arena in Bordeaux. The resulting album, Les Enfoirés 2024 : On A 35 Ans!, reached number one in sales in France upon its release, as did its successor 2025 : Au Pays des Enfoirés.