As of: January 23, 2024 1:25 p.m
The German pop music producer and former pop singer Frank Farian is dead. He died at home in Miami at the age of 82. The Allendorf Media agency announced this on Tuesday, citing his family.
Frank Farian was born Franz Reuther on July 18, 1941 in Kirn/Rhineland-Palatinate and worked with a number of superstars over his long career, including Stevie Wonder and Meat Loaf.
Farian had been a pop producer since the mid-1970s. He founded globally successful groups such as Boney M. and Milli Vanilli. Milli Vanilli’s first songs had already been recorded and produced before the band was put together. When this became known in late 1990, it led to a scandal and the two supposed singers, Fab Morvan and Rob Pilatus, were stripped of their Grammy awards. With Boney M., only two of the four group members, Liz Mitchell and Marcia Barrett, were involved in the recording – the male voice came from Farian himself.
Greatest successes as a Boney M. producer
Farian had his greatest successes as a producer with the single “Rivers of Babylon” and with the album “Nightflight to Venus” by Boney M. In September 2006, the musical “Daddy Cool” premiered in London, in which Farian not only performed many hits from Boney M., but also those by Milli Vanilli, Eruption, No Mercy and La Bouche.
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