Frank Farian was a well-known German singer as well as a record producer.
Frank Farian founded the 1970s disco-pop group Boney M., the pop band Milli Vanilli, and the Latin pop band No Mercy.
He often formed singing groups where famous members would move their lips to songs sung by other musicians. Farian owned a music company called MCI and some other smaller companies. Throughout his career, Farian sold over 850 million records and received 800 gold and platinum awards.
Recently the news of Frank Farian’s death is coming to light. Frank Farian died on January 23, 2024, in Florida, US, at the age of 82. The cause of Frank Farian’s death has not been revealed yet.
After hearing the news of Frank Farian’s death, his fans began paying tribute to him on social media.
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In the late 1970s, he recorded a song called “Baby Do You Wanna Bump”, a reworked version of Prince Buster’s 1967 hit “Al Capone”. The song was released under the name Boney M in 1976 as a single and on the album “Take the Heat of Me”.
Farian also created a special conglomerate called the Far Corporation, named after the first part of his last name. The group included famous musicians such as Steve Lukather, Bobby Kimball, David Paich, and Simon Phillips of the band Toto, as well as Robin McAuley.
In 1986, Farian worked on the Meat Loaf album Blind Before I Stop, both producing and mixing it. He even lent his voice as a background vocalist to the album’s lead song, “Rock ‘n’ Roll Mercenaries”, which was credited to Meat Loaf featuring John Parr.
Then, on November 14, 1990, Farian admitted to being behind the Milli Vanilli scandal. He revealed that, as a producer, he put together a group of talented musicians and presented it with exotic dancers named Robert Pilatus and Fabrice Morvan.
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