Whether “Daddy Cool” or “Rasputin”: music producer Frank Farian created danceable world hits like on an assembly line. Now he has died.
The German pop music producer and former pop singer Frank Farian is dead. He died peacefully at home in Miami at the age of 82, the Allendorf Media agency announced on behalf of his family.
Farian had produced famous songs since the 1970s. Whether “Daddy Cool” or “Rasputin”: his songs are classics of pop music and the soundtrack of a generation. He founded globally successful groups such as Boney M. and Milli Vanilli, about whom a film was recently released. At the beginning of the 1990s it became known that the two members of the band Milli Vanilli did not sing themselves.
Farian was born Franz Reuther in Kirn an der Nahe. At 14 he moved to Saarland and learned to be a chef. He recorded his first record with his band Die Schatten in 1963 in a former cowshed. From Saarland we went to Rosbach near Frankfurt and later to the USA.
Source: Stern
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