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See Jacques Offenbach For The French Classical Composer Offenbach Is A Canadian Blues Rock Band Formed In Quebec In 1969 By Gerry Boulet Michael Lamonthe Jr. And Wezo. The Band Signed With The Independent Barclay Label In 1972 And Released The French Album Offenbach Soap Opera. Four Years Later A&M Provided A Record Deal And Released The Band's Self-Titled Album In 1977. Also Released That Year Was Never Too Tender And Another Self-Titled LP. Lamonthe And Wezo Left Around That Time And Were Replaced By Pierre Lavoie And Norman Kerr Though Kerr Left Soon After . In 1979 Offenbach Recorded Traversion And Added More New Members Breen LeBoeuf And John McVale. Four More Studio Albums Followed — En Fusion 1980 Tonnedebrick 1983 Live A Fond D'Train 1984 And Rockorama 1985 — Before The Band Split Up In 1986. Recorded Live In Montreal The Offenbach Album Le Dernier Show Appeared In 1986. Gerry Boulet Recorded Two Solo Albums Presque 40s In 1984 And Rendezvous Doux In 1988. N 1996 McGale Gravel And Leboeuf Reunited As Offenbach Inc. For A Reunion Tour. Due To Boulet's Death They Selected Martin Deschamps Who Had Recently Won Quebec's L'Empire Des Futures Stars Competition As The Band's New Vocalist. They Toured Extensively For Two Years And Released A Greatest Hits Compilation In 1999. A Second Volume Of Hits Followed In 2002. In 2005 The Band Released Nature Which Consisted Of Acoustic Versions Of Their Classic Hits. It Also Includes One New Song "L'amour Est Cruel" Love Is Cruel . The Music Was Written By Gravel In The 1980s And The Words Were Later Added By Deschamps. A Concert At Montrteal's Bell Center On April 1 2005 Marked The 25th Anniversary Of Offenbach's First Forum Show. In 2018 Offenbach Released Renaissance The First Disc Of New Material In 33 Years. read less