Legendary disco producer Frank Farian - founder and mastermind behind the hit Nineteen Seventies band Boney M - has died on the age of 82, in response to his household.

The German producer fashioned the group in 1976, and was their main author as they recorded a string of disco hits together with Daddy Cool, Rasputin, and a well-liked remake of the Christmas track, Mary's Boy Child.

He later based the pop duo Milli Vanilli, and labored with music legends together with Meat Loaf and Stevie Wonder.

Farian handed away at his residence in Miami, in response to an announcement launched by his company on behalf of his household on Tuesday.

Liz Mitchell, one of many unique singers of Boney M, paid tribute to Farian in a publish on Facebook.

"May Frank rest in peace. Our work was blessed and helped the people who had the privilege to hear it," she wrote.

"We shared and united under a star and rose above and beyond what we dared to expect. I say well done to the work that we did. Rest in peace, Frank Farian."

Born Franz Reuther in 1941 in Kirn, Germany, Farian began out his music profession as a singer earlier than turning his focus to producing.

Farian initially fashioned Boney M as a pseudonym for his personal work in 1974, releasing the dance observe Baby Do You Want To Bump beneath the title.

After the track noticed success in Belgium and the Netherlands, Farian labored to deliver collectively a troupe, made up of Mitchell, Maizie Williams, Bobby Farrell, and Marcia Barrett, who would turn out to be Boney M.

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The lead track of their first album was Daddy Cool, which reached primary in Switzerland, Sweden, Norway, Spain, France, and Austria, and peaked at quantity six within the UK charts.

They scored a UK primary with a canopy of Rivers Of Babylon, a double A-side with Brown Girl In The Ring, whereas Ma Baker and Rasputin peaked at quantity two. Mary's Boy Child was Christmas primary in 1978.

More success adopted within the late Eighties with the German hip-hop band Milli Vanilli, made up of Fab Morvan and Rob Pilatus, who had hits together with Girl You Know It's True.

However, Farian and the group turned embroiled in a lip-syncing scandal in 1990 when he confessed the duo had not sung on their information - an admission which later noticed their Grammy Award for greatest new artist revoked.

It is estimated that Farian bought over 850 million information and earned 800 gold and platinum certifications throughout his profession.

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