It is to him that we owe “Daddy Cool” or “Rasputin”, and with a number of wild choreographies.
German music producer Frank Farian, the man behind most of the band Boney M's successes, has died at the age of 82, his family announced on Tuesday, January 23, cited by the daily Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.
Born on July 18, 1941, in Kirn (Germany), about a hundred kilometers from the border with Lorraine, he has always gravitated towards the world of music.
Although he briefly attempted a career as a performer in the 1970s, it was as a producer that he achieved success.
A trained chef, he turned towards music
“I never knew my father, he died in the war before I was born.
My mother was a housekeeper.
She removed all the stones from the path and allowed me everything, even though we had no money,” he told a German press agency a few years ago.
At 14, the teenager went to live with family in Saarland and learned the trade of cooking “because I was always hungry and I thought I would always have something to eat”.
In 1975 he recorded the single “Baby Do You Wanna Bump?”
", marketed with "Boney M." as performer, while Frank Farian performed all the vocals on the title.
Since he could not perform this polyphonic song solo on stage, he looked for a band to perform it.
Two members sang live, two others moved their lips.
“I almost succeeded in everything”
It was from this small success that he formed the group that became a global star.
Behind came the hits “Rivers of Babylon” and “Ma Baker”, which have now become part of pop history.
A trained chef, he always remembered his first job when he mixed a song: “It’s always a question of ingredients.
You can certainly tell yourself that you are going to become a musician, but a lot of things then come down to luck.
Success cannot be planned.”
He died in the United States, in the city of Miami (Florida), where he resided for many years.
“I succeeded almost everything.
I am living the American dream in German,” he told the German press on the occasion of his 80th birthday.