Frank
Farian

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Music producer Frank Farian died today
Frank Farian (2008)
Frank Farian (born July 18, 1941 as Franz Reuther in Kirn; † before or on January 23, 2024 in Miami was a German music producer, composer and singer. According to sources, his productions sold over 800 million copies worldwide. He owned recording studios in Brussels , Miami and Ibiza.
Life
Farian grew up in Saarbrücken-Altenkessel after the Second World War. He initially worked as a cook and spent his early musical years in Elversberg. He had a small studio in the attic of his apartment.
Farian has been a producer of pop music since the mid-1970s. He founded globally successful groups such as Boney M. and Milli Vanilli. Milli Vanillis 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 recordings; the male voice came from Farian himself.
Farians productive time as a composer and music producer began with the band Les Copains and reached its zenith with Boney M. In St. Ingbert, Saarland, he opened the Rendezvous discotheque after previously running the Hoch Trepp with his wife Brigitte. Here his bands and titles were tested in public in advance. After Farian had produced a few songs, including with Boney M., in Offenbach-Bieber, he later acquired a property with houses, swimming pools and a studio in Rosbach vor der Höhe, which he used until his death.
Musical creation
Singer
In Elversberg, Franz Reuther appeared as a rock singer with his own band from 1961 under the name “Frankie Farian and the Shadows”. He produced his first record, Shouting Ghost, in 1963 and distributed it himself. As a pop singer, Farian sang titles such as Dana My Love (1969), So Must Love (1973), a version of the standard Smoke Gets in Your Eyes, and Rocky (1976). Austin Roberts. He then lent his voice to the group Boney M., which he produced, but never appeared as a member. In stage performances for television, Bobby Farrell, the groups dancer, moved his lips to Farians singing on tape, but in live concert performances the singing was by Bobby Farrell himself.
Composer and producer
Farian had his greatest successes as a producer with the single Rivers of Babylon (a cover by the Jamaican band The Melodians, who in turn used Psalm 19 and Psalm 137 in the song) and with the album Nightflight to Venus by Boney M. (1978). Boney M. was successful not only in Western nations, but also throughout the African continent and the Caribbean. Some of the pieces are written in Swahili.
With the Far Corporation project, which included Bobby Kimball, David Paich, Robin McAuley and Steve Lukather from the US band Toto as well as drummers Curt Cress and Leslie Mandoki, Farian played predominantly rock classics such as Stairway to Heaven by Led Zeppelin, Sebastian from Cockney Rebel and Mother and Child Reunion by Paul Simon. Stairway to Heaven was the biggest success, reaching eighth place in the British charts (1985).
After around 30 years of collaboration, the contractual relationship between Farian and Hansa (Ariola-Sony BMG) ended in 2004. Two years later he signed a new contract with Sony BMG Germany.
In September 2006, the musical Daddy Cool premiered in London, in which Farian not only used many of Boney M.s hits, but also, according to his own statements, those by Milli Vanilli, Eruption, No Mercy and La Bouche.[6] In spring 2007 Daddy Cool also came to Berlin. The premiere was on April 26, 2007. Farian then worked on the Daddy Cool Kids project, in which his daughter also sang along.
Discography
→ Main article: Frank Farian/Discography
Studio albums
Year
title
Music label
Remarks
1971
What a day
Hansa music production
First published: 1971
1973
Thats how love has to be
Hansa music production
First published: 1973
1976
Rocky
Hansa music production
First published: February 1976
as FAR Corporation
1985
Division One
Ariola • IMP
First published: 1985
1994
Solitude
MCI
First published: October 31, 1994
Author participations and productions (selection)
→ Main article: List of author participations and productions by Frank Farian
Boney M.
Bobby Farrell (King of dancing/I see you)
Milli Vanilli
The Real Milli Vanilli
La Mama
La Bouche
No Mercy
Terence Trent DArby & The Touch
Lorielle London
Try n B
Zorro (aka Ricky Shayne)
Michael Holm
Meatloaf
eruption
Precious Wilson
Gilla
Charlie Marks
Daddy Cool Kids
Benny
Duck sauce
Lusthansa
Daniel Lopes
Herlinde
Chilli
Nemorin

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