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Maizie Williams of BONEY M entertain fans
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Boney M's Maizie Williams being interviewed by Samuel Port at The Beat Herder Fest 2014
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Maizie Williams interview with Samuel Port with Paul Jones on Camera at The Beat Herder Fest 2014
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Gee Morris-Osborne & Maizie Williams at The Beat Herder Fest 2014
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BONEY M with the MC
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Paul Young, Maizie Williams, Real Thing, Sam Scott & Real Thing
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Kelly Rahman & Samantha Scott - Bonny M doing it right on the night
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Maizie Williams signs album for Jay from LEXUS Car after concert
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Sam Scott at The Beat Herder Fest 2014
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Gee Morris-Osborne, Orman, Sam Scott, Lekan Olujinmi, Maizie Williams & Kelly Rahman after concert
Maizie Williams' line-up of Boney M performed at the Tony Denton 'Here & Now' Concert with the likes of Bananarama, T’Pau, Paul Young, Rick Ashley and The Real Thing, all at Delapre Park Northampton in England, recently.
The band also performed at the Beat-Herder Festival 2014.
Boney M is a vocal group created by German record producer Frank Farian. Originally based in Germany, the four original members of the group's official line-up were Jamaican-born singers Liz Mitchell and Marcia Barrett, Maizie Williams from Montserrat and Bobby Farrell from Aruba. The group was formed in 1976 and achieved popularity during the disco era of the late 1970s. Since the 1980s, various line-ups of the band have performed with different personnel.
Boney M's career was comet-like in that they seemed to blast out of nowhere. Their overnight success went on to manifest itself with over 40 hit singles, at least 30 albums (many more if we include the regional variations and ongoing compilations), up to 200 million units sold, plus numerous live tours and TV appearances spanning three decades.
And so from the day Maizie Williams, a classic high-cheekboned, long-legged, (some said "lusciously boney") fashion model and dancer, was discovered in 1975 by impresario Katja Wolf and selected as the very first spark of a brand new band, the fire ignited and the legendary phenomenon of Boney M. was aflame.
Suddenly every discotheque around the world played Boney M and every TV show wanting to be hip had to have this stunning-looking and fabulous-sounding foursome from the Caribbean.
Their sound - a mix of reggae, disco, funk, gospel, soul and rock - hit the charts around the world in a flash. Within moments, it seemed, everyone knew the Boney M. name and music, and their onward progress would maintain its star-studded track through our consciousness, day and night for over ten years, with an endless stream of unforgettable, sensational hits.
Like many bands who subsequently drifted apart, it seems that their members' individual memories tended to tarnish or fade shortly after their glorious heyday of fame, stardom, glitz and glamour.