La Bouche

In 1994, Frank Farian—already known for shaping Boney M and Milli Vanilli—launched his 1990s project La Bouche. The German-based lineup featured vocalist Melanie Thornton and rapper Lane McCray, whose singles “Sweet Dreams” and “Be My Lover” reached the top of the charts across Europe and Canada. Thornton additionally appeared on Le Click’s Logic Records hit “Tonight Is the Night.”

Merging R&B, house, and pop, the group’s Farian-produced debut Sweet Dreams surfaced in September 1995. All Mixed Up followed in 1996, then Moment of Love arrived a year later. La Bouche released S.O.S. in 1998. Thornton exited the duo in 2001 and died in a Swiss plane crash while flying from Berlin to Zurich; the accident claimed the lives of all 24 people on board. McCray kept the La Bouche name alive with successive vocalists and, in 2016, formed a new partnership with Hungarian singer Sophie Cairo. The pair issued “Sweet Dreams” in 2017 and “Night After Night” in 2018.