Today, legendary performers from such famous Frank Farian's projects as Boney M., ERUPTION and NO MERCY will appear on two concert stages in Bucharest and Cluj.
Boney M. feat. Liz Mitchell and Eruption feat. Precious Wilson will perform in Cluj at the BT Arena Polyvalent concert hall. Also announced the participation of such famous European stars of the 80s as Gazebo, JOY, F.R. David and tribute bands ABBA.
NO MERCY feat. Marty Cintron will take to the stage at the National Arena in Bucharest, where the FOREVER HIT festival is taking place on a grand scale. The organizers expect this event to be included in the World Records Book, as, among others, the concert program will include 80-year-old Jimmy Helms (Londonbeat), who on his anniversary will perform as "the oldest active male pop group singer". Representatives of the Guinness Book of Records have already arrived in the Romanian capital to record this event. Also, viewers will meet with such artists as Haddaway, Sandra, Dr. Alban, Thomas Anders (ex-Modern Talking), Alphaville, Snap !, Nana, Technotronic, Las Ketchup, Ice MC, Mr. President and C-Block.
Two weeks earlier Marty Cintron performed with great success in Dubai, where he told local journalists about the upcoming series of 6 documentaries about his producer Frank Farian.
Speaking to "The National" newspaper before a Dubai Opera concert, Marty Cintron, lead singer and sole member of former Europop trio NO MERCY, says he will appear in the series that examines Farian’s Midas touch over his four-decade career.
"Not many people today really know who Frank is and what he achieved in the industry. It's pretty crazy how much he did," says Cintron.
"It's made by a production company based in Germany and it will be a six-part series which will really go into his work. I will probably be on it because Frank wants me to and a few other acts he worked with."
Farian, 80, will have a lot of options to draw from.
After failing to make his mark as a solo act in the 1960s, he did the next best thing and recorded hits and promoted them by hiring musicians for public performances.
This was how Boney M. and Milli Vanilli were formed and ruled the charts through the 1970s and 1980s.
Farian wrote, produced and sung a many of the tracks while the hired help did the song and dance routine on stage.
While such a move proved relatively successful for the performing artists, it wasn't so for Milli Vanilli.
Cintron’s contributions to the series will focus on the next phase of Farian’s career, when he helped lead the 1990s Europop scene by creating and producing hit groups such as La Bouche, Le Click, Eruption and No Mercy.
Where La Bouche and Le Click anthems Sweet Dreams and Call Me subscribed to Farian’s vision of layering soulful vocals over tightly coiled dance beats and surging synths, No Mercy was where the maestro recorded his most organic sounds.
This was thanks to Cintron, whose parents migrated to the US from Cuba, being an accomplished flamenco guitar player.
“I first met Frank in Miami in 1992 before the band started and back then I was a big fan of the Spanish guitar,” Cintron recalls.
“At the time, I was hanging out with the Gipsy Kings before they really exploded on the scene and they showed me all these guitar techniques. I went on to infuse that into the No Mercy sound.”
While Cintron was a key player in the recording sessions, Farian was in charge of proceedings.
"The thing with Frank is that he was formerly a cook before he started singing and that's how he approaches the studio in that he has his hand in everything," Cintron explains.
"He is hands-on in the console, he does the songwriting, the lead and background vocals and the mixing.
“But at the same time, he also leaves us in the studio to kind of finish the song or for us to come up with something new which he would then go on to rearrange."
That approach is responsible for Cintron putting his mark on No Mercy’s biggest hits Where Do You Go and Kiss You All Over, which features his sensual guitar flutter over the euphoric dance production.
“It is a formula that went on to work,” he says.
“It also, I feel, helped bring a bit of the Latin sound to a new audience and I feel we played our part in that before Ricky Martin, Jennifer Lopez and now Maluma took it into a cool new direction."
While Cintron may have not achieved the relative commercial heights of those names, he is content with his enduring career.
“It’s not that there is a revival of '90s pop music, it has always been there,” he says.
“Before Covid, I have been touring non-stop and I recently played a show in Budapest, Hungary. And in all these shows I just see people smiling and really enjoying the happiness the music from that era really embodied.
“I look forward to sharing those happy moments now with all of you in Dubai.”
Сразу несколько артистов из команды Фрэнка Фариана выступают в Румынии 18 сентября
Сегодня сразу на двух концертных площадках в Бухаресте и Клуже появятся легендарные исполнители из таких знаменитых проектов Фрэнка Фариана как Boney M., ERUPTION и NO MERCY.
Группы Boney M. feat. Liz Mitchell и Eruption feat. Precious Wilson выступят в городе Клуж на сцене концертного зала BT Arena Polyvalent Hall. Также заявлено об участии таких знаменитых европейских звёзд 80-х как Gazebo, JOY, F.R. David и трибют-группы ABBA.
NO MERCY feat. Marty Cintron выйдут на сцену National Arena в Бухаресте, где проходит грандиозный по масштабу фестиваль FOREVER HIT. Организаторы ожидают, что это мероприятие попадёт в "Мировую книгу рекордов", поскольку, среди прочих, в концертной программе запланировано выступление 80-летнего Джимми Хелмса (Jimmy Helms, Londonbeat), который в свой юбилей выступит в статусе "старейшего активного участника мужской поп-группы". Представители Книги Рекордов Гиннесса уже прибыли в столицу Румынии, чтобы зафиксировать это событие. Также зрителей ожидает встреча с такими артистами как Haddaway, Sandra, Dr. Alban, Thomas Anders (ex-Modern Talking), Alphaville, Snap!, Nana, Technotronic, Las Ketchup, Ice MC, Mr. President и C-Block.
Двумя неделями ранее Марти Цинтрон с большим успехом выступил в Дубае, где рассказал местным журналистам о готовящейся к выходу серии из 6-ти документальных фильмов о своём продюсере Фрэнке Фариане. "Я появлюсь в одной из серий фильма, которая посвящена хитам 90-х. Фрэнк пригласил меня поучаствовать в съёмках, как и некоторых других своих артистов.", - сказал лидер NO MERCY.
Ожидается, что документальный сериал будет показан на крупнейшей медиаплатформе NETFLIX.
