Jean-Michel Jarre

About

Jean-Michel Jarre (Lyon, 1948) is a French composer and electronic musician who broke through internationally with Oxygène in 1976. He has sold over 80 million albums and holds the world record for the largest outdoor concert audience - his 1997 Moscow show drew 3.5 million people. Jarre is equally renowned as a pioneer of large-scale outdoor spectacles that fuse music, laser projections and architecture.

80M+

albums sold worldwide

3.5M

visitors Moscow concert 1997 (world record)

75M

viewers 'Welcome to the Other Side' (2021)

684.5K

monthly listeners on Spotify

What's new

2026-06
Jarre kicked off his summer tour 2026 on June 19 at the Radomiak Radom Stadium in Poland, as the artistic center of the commemoration of the Radom protests of 1976.
2026
For the light show of the summer tour 2026, Jarre collaborated with the Slovak company Kvant Lasers, which deployed new laser technology.
2025-11
On November 1, 2025, Jarre gave his first ever concert in Uzbekistan, at the UNESCO World Heritage site Registan in Samarkand.
2025-09
Via Sony Music Entertainment, Jarre released a concert film on September 5, 2025, including an unseen director's cut.
2025-01
The album Zoolook (1984) was released in a fully remastered 40-year anniversary edition on vinyl via Sony Music, with bonus track 'Moon Machine'.