♭♯ Boney M. Group ♯♭

Boney M. was a Euro-Caribbean vocal group created by German record producer Frank Farian, who was the group's primary songwriter. Originally based in West Germany, the four original members of the group's official line-up were Liz Mitchell and Marcia Barrett from Jamaica, Maizie Williams from Montserrat and Bobby Farrell, a performing artist 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.

The band has sold around 80 million records worldwide and is known for international hits including "Daddy Cool", "Ma Baker", "Belfast", "Sunny", "Rasputin", "Mary's Boy Child – Oh My Lord" and "Rivers of Babylon".

 When the record was released as a single, it was credited to "Boney M.", a pseudonym Farian had created for himself after watching the Australian television detective series Boney After a slow start, the song became a hit in the Netherlands and Belgium. Boney M.'s first album, Take the Heat off Me, was released in 1976.Boney M. was immensely popular in India through the 1970s and 1980s. Liz Mitchell recalled her visits to India in the 1980s in a 2015 interview with Hindustan Times: "It was amazing. We’ve had the most-wonderful tours here. We even went out shopping to so many places. We met several Bollywood stars and had dinners with them."