Celebrated progressive rock keyboardist Guy LeBlanc passed away April 27, 2015 of kidney cancer complications. Guy LeBlanc was the founder of two significant Canadian progressive rock bands, Delerium and Nathan Mahl. He was also a member of pioneering British band Camel.
Guy LeBlanc was born October 16, 1960 in Moncton, Canada. He started taking formal lessons and playing the piano at 4, and drums at age 12. LeBlanc joined a rock band at 15, playing electric piano and synthesizers.
In 1978, LeBlanc and his friend Don Prince formed Delerium with the intention of playing and recording original material. Delerium recruited Mark Spenard, and Dan Lacasse.
The next band was Nathan Mahl. They released their first LP in 1983. Fifteen years later, the second Mahl disc came out, titled the Clever use of Shadows. The interest generated by that recording led to a performance at the first NEARfest (1999) progressive rock festival. That same year Guy LeBlanc released his first solo album Subversia.
Camel invited Guy LeBlanc to join the band in 2000. He became the group’s keyboardist and also wrote some of the new material. He left Camel in 2003 to care for his ailing wife.
The second solo album, All the Rage, came out in 2004.
In 2008, Nathan Mahl released Exodus on the Unicorn Digital label.
Guy LeBlanc was invited to rejoin Camel in March of 2013.
Discography:
With Nathan Mahl
Parallel Eccentricities (1983)
The Clever Use of Shadows (1999)
Heretik volume 1 – Body of Accusations (2000)
Heretik volume 2 – the Trial (2001)
Heretik volume 3 – the Sentence (2002)
Shadows Unbound (2003)
Live at NEARfest 1999 (2003)
Exodus (2008)
Justify (2015)
Solo albums
Subversia (1999)
All the Rage (2004)