Melanie Thornton

Melanie Thornton was born in 1967 in South Carolina, USA. Since she was a child, Melanie loved music and dreamed of becoming a singer. Inspired by the greatest Soul singers of our time, like Aretha Franklin and Roberta Flack, she started taking vocal lessons when she was 11. In college she began singing in bars and had her first gigs with cover-bands. After learning about the potential of the emerging Dancefloor- and Eurodance scene in Germany, she moved to Kaiserslautern. There, together with D. Lane McCray Jr., she created the internationally successful duo La Bouche. After their hit single “Sweet Dreams”, she grabbed the attention of the belated, legendary German music producer Frank Farian, who played a crucial part in their success in Europe and the US. In 2000 Melanie left her old label and started her solo career with “Love How You Love Me”. Shortly after, she released her biggest solo hit “Wonderful Dream (Holidays Are Coming)” as part of a massive Coca Cola Christmas commercial which has become a X-Mas cult classic in all Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Melanie Thornton unfortunately passed away in 2001 in a tragic plane crash at the age of only 34.

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