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St-Pier, Fiori and Kaas featured in Les Enfoirés
Fiori is one of the most regular guests of the event as he took part every year since 1999. Patricia Kaas first entered the cast in 1992 (on the 3rd edition) and was on stage on 14 occasions till then. She returned in 2010 after 2 years of absence. Les Enfoirés is the name given to the singers and performers in the concert for the Restaurants du Cœur (Les Restos du Cœur), a charity providing food and daily goods to people in need. The funds raised by the concerts and derived records and DVD are donated to Les Restos du Cœur.
The show is not a concert in which artists come to sing their own material. It is built as a kind of musical, with cover versions of famous songs, performed with funny and poetic costumes and routines. To promote sales of the CD and DVD, a song performed by all is broadcast on radio stations and musical TV channels. This year's anthem is a French version of Kiss' classic, I was made for loving you (Si l'on s'aimait, si) and a video was shooted on it. The clip video showed volunteers of Les Restos du Coeur holding mirrors in which singers and actors appeared:
One will recognize Fiori, St-Pier and Kaas... but also 2010's French "non-entrant" Willem (the one singing the high notes at 2'16"). Other artists with connection to Eurovision are Patrick Bruel (2002 French song's composer) and Thomas Dutronc, Françoise Hardy's son.
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oh that's an interesting charity event. Go Patricia!!!
i love french...
actually if france send average song in french, it would be great for me hehe 
but france dont use that property 
Aurelyan
Don't be so sure!!
My second favorite French entry is Ortal in 2005!
First is 2001 Natasha St-Pier! 
Laila
Coz he is the only one, black who will be in ESC this year!
Germany didn't send Leon! 
In Portugal there were some AMAZING black backing vocalists for Catarina Pereira and V-boy!! Miss Fitz from the UK had black singer! In Sweden was black singer, but "Yeba" wasn't good!
And of course Mira Craig is a bit black!
Only Jessy is in competition now!
Laila are you black!? , If yes, I'll forgive you all bashing of female singers! joke, don't be angry!!
Hey Marko is back !!!!
France will disappoint you for sure because i'm sure our entry will be very bad
@sanka
Come on, Jessy's material is hardly "europop"...
@Marko
How come you can't make a comment about Jessy Matador/France without mentioning: "black".
@Rob Dell
I so agree. Overrated song and certainly not the most classy...
Nice try of them, but no one can outdo the original by Kiss. I guess it's become a standard to cover songs for all charities.
Gooooo Jessy!!!
Long live black ESC singers! 
jessy Matador ... come one , i am quite sure France is going to send something silly. Some people are still true to their beloved europop and i think France is not going to dissapoint them. last year france was amazing.
Poor version of an old song but hey it was fr charity.
And I still think that people here vastly over rate Patricia.
A classy lady? Not in my book. I didn't like her song at all last year and her outfit certainly wasn't classy, more like a lady of the night.
i only liked from France "Les Fatals Picards"
I love this, it's so AMAZING!! XD
I have high hopes for Jessy Matador this year!
Don't disappoint me France!
loveESC GREAT - Thanks for the link. What show has that come from? I believe that Albania can do it too. She has had a fab make over. Really raunchy
Patricia Kaas is a classy lady. Loved her song last year. 
@ chica
How can you say that without even knowing the entry?
I don't think France will get any closer to the place they got llast year 
it's a cover!!!
Don"t you know the song "I was made for loving you" by KISS??
and 'Ici les Enfoirés" another cover from Status Quo "In the Army now"
@tom jones [52210]
Maybe you don't like this song, but it's for a good cause, to help people who have money problems and can't buy food, so please be more respectful, and we don't care because it's not french entry. Thanks !
j'adore les enfoire...magnifique!!!
"ici les enfoire" chanson est excellent!!
shit shit song like ireland
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