Les Variations was a French

France

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 rock

Rock music

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 band from the 1960s and 1970s that sang in English

English language

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 and was known for its rock guitar-based music. They were France's first band 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

Hebrew language

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 songs of the band members’ youth growing up in North Africa.