LES VARIATIONS
Proto-Metal • France
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Les Variations was a French rock band from the 1960s and 1970s that sang in English and was known for its rock guitar based music. They were France's first major rock band, the first to headline the famed Olympia Theatre, the first to tour America, the first to sign with a US label and the first to achieve hit records in America. On their last two albums, "Moroccan Roll" and "Cafe de Paris," their compositions, arrangements and lyrics contained sounds and stories of North African and Jewish Sephardic culture as well as the Hebrew songs of the band members’ youth growing up in North African. With this sound, they introduced a new rock fusion which is now referred to as Moroccanroll music, which is played throughout North Africa and has influenced many western rock bands over the past four decades.
Three of the original four members were Moroccan Jews. Joe Leb
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Proto-Metal
1970
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