
Bernard Baribeau
Since his first performance at 14 years old, the passion and symbiosis between Bernard and his saxophone has never faded away. After graduating from the Québec music conservatory in 1995, Bernard moved to Montreal to enhance his skills in jazz and pop music with great musicians such as Jean-Pierre Zanella and Lauraine Desmarais at Cegep Saint-Laurent. A few months later, he joined the famous disco-funk tribute Boogie Wonder Band and toured all over Canada, the USA, Caribbean, China and Japan for over 13 years. He also contributed as a writer and performer on several of this colorful and energic band’s albums. Winner of the "Couleur Jazz Award" in 2009 (Université de Montréal), this versatile musician was given the opportunity to perform with his Coalition Jazz Band at the Montreal International Jazz Festival that same year. It’s with a lot of enthusiasm and devotion that Bernard brings his extensive experience and background to Tramp of The Century for almost 15 years now. It is a great privilege for him to reproduce the sound and soul of Supertramp in the modern day. Since the last two years, he joined the high energy band Cloud9 Funk Project, and he’s also proud to share the stage with the passionate members of the great OLP family.