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Boney M featuring Maizie Williams to play Cork Jazz Festival

Original Boney M member Maizie Williams will bring an ensemble to perform the group's hit songs at the upcoming Guinness Cork Jazz Festival.

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Original band member Maizie Williams will lead an ensemble performing Boney M's classic hits at the Guinness Cork Jazz Festival, the Irish Examiner and the Irish Independent reported. The appearance coincides with the 50th anniversary of the disco group's first hit. [1][2]

The Irish Examiner reported that the group will perform popular tracks such as Rivers of Babylon. Group creator Frank Farian originally established Boney M, which achieved a string of major hit records throughout the 1970s and 1980s. [1]

Williams was born on the Caribbean island of Montserrat and later moved to Birmingham, England. She worked as a model and won the Miss Black Beautiful beauty contest in 1973 before being recruited to join Boney M in Germany in 1975. Although Williams did not sing on the group's studio recordings, she performed with them live. [4][6]

The Cork Jazz Festival is an annual music event held in Cork City, Ireland, every late October since it was founded in 1978. [3]

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In short

  • Maizie Williams is performing at the Guinness Cork Jazz Festival with an ensemble.
  • The performance marks the 50th anniversary of Boney M's first hit song.
  • Boney M was originally created by producer Frank Farian.
  • The Cork Jazz Festival has been held annually in Cork City since 1978.

Sources

Every paragraph above points to the numbered items it rests on. Read the originals here.

  1. [1]Boney M: Maizie Williams on bringing the hit machine to Cork Jazz Festivalirishexaminer.com, 21h ago (the report this story comes from)
  2. [2]Disco royalty Boney M to mark 50th anniversary of first hit with Cork Jazz Festival appearanceIrish Independent, 2d ago

Background

  1. [3]Cork Jazz Festival on Wikipedia
  2. [4]Maizie Williams on Wikipedia
  3. [5]Rasputin (song) on Wikipedia
  4. [6]Maizie Williams on Grokipedia

Our newsroom writes these reports with the help of software, from the 6 sources listed and nothing else, and checks them against those sources. Facts can still be wrong or move on; the originals are the record. Spotted a mistake? Write to daniel@monsterkong.com.

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