Frank Farian

I think it was actually him singing the male vocal on most of the Boney M singles.


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German music producer Frank Farian - founder of the disco band Boney M - has died at the age of 82, according to his family.



They released a statement on Tuesday via Farian's agency saying he had passed away at his home in Miami.



Boney M, which formed in 1976, had a string of hit singles including Daddy Cool, Rasputin and Rivers of Babylon.



Farian also went on to found the duo Milli Vanilli, who were involved in a lip-synching controversy.



He was born Franz Reuther in 1941 in Kirn, south-western Germany, and trained as a chef while also pursuing a musical career - first as a singer and then as a producer.



He also worked with the likes of Meat Loaf and Stevie Wonder and is reported to have sold an estimated 800 million records worldwide.



In 1990, Farian was embroiled in a scandal surrounding Milli Vanilli when he confessed they had not sung on their records.



The duo - who scored a clutch of hits in the late 1980s - later had their Grammy Award for best new artist revoked.



In 2022, Farian revealed he had undergone heart surgery and had a pig heart valve inserted, which he said saved his life.