The group "Boney M" was originally just Frank Farian singing in a deep voice, backed up by himself singing, overdubbed, in a falsetto chorus. ... Milli Vanilli quickly became one of the top pop acts of the late '80s, until it came out that Fab Morvan and Rob Pilatus did not sing the songs.

Who actually sang in Boney M?

The lead vocals for songs on Boney M. albums in the 1970s were sung by Farian, Marcia Barrett and Liz Mitchell, who quickly became synonymous with the group. Boney M.'s frontman, Bobby Farrell, was allowed to record vocals only in the 1980s.

Was Boney Ma a fake group?

And of course, the very concept of a real Boney M is inherently bogus. This band was gloriously fake right from the start: a funky Frankenstein's monster stitched together by German record producer Frank Farian after his 1976 single Baby, Do You Wanna Bump? hit the charts in Holland and Belgium.