Reggie Tsiboe (born 7 September 1950) is a Ghanaian-British entertainer, dancer and one of the singers of the

disco Disco is a music genre, genre of dance music and a subculture that emerged in the late 1960s from the United States' urban nightclub, nightlife, particularly in African Americans, African-American, Italian-Americans, Italian-American, LGBTQ ...

group Boney M. between 1982 and 1986 and later between 1989 and 1990.

Career

During the 1970s, Tsiboe was a member of the group

Sugarcane Sugarcane or sugar cane is a species of tall, Perennial plant, perennial grass (in the genus ''Saccharum'', tribe Andropogoneae) that is used for sugar Sugar industry, production. The plants are 2–6 m (6–20 ft) tall with stout, jointed, fib ...

who had a 1978 hit with Bobby Bloom's "

Montego Bay Montego Bay () is the capital of the Parishes of Jamaica, parish of Saint James Parish, Jamaica, St. James in Jamaica. The city is the fourth most populous urban area in the country, after Kingston, Jamaica, Kingston, Spanish Town, and Portmore ...

". The group also included

Linda Taylor Linda Taylor (born Martha Louise White; January 1926 – April 18, 2002) was an American woman who committed extensive welfare fraud and, after the publication of an article in the ''Chicago Tribune'' in fall 1974, became identified as the "wel ...

in its line up. In 1981, having joined

Boney M Boney M. is a German reggae, funk and disco music group founded in 1974. It achieved popularity during the disco era in the second half of the 1970s. The band was created by German record producer Frank Farian, who was the group's primary song ...

, Tsiboe originally replaced the dancer Bobby Farrell, but in 1984 Farrell rejoined the group and they became a quintet. In 1986, the original band split after 10 successful years, but in 1989 after an unexpected reunion of Boney M., Liz Mitchell and Tsiboe formed a new official version of Boney M. and in 1990 released with the help of the producer

Frank Farian Franz Reuther (18 July 1941 – 23 January 2024), known professionally as Frank Farian, was a German record producer and singer who founded the 1970s disco-pop group Boney M., the pop band No Mercy, and the pop band Milli Vanilli. He frequent ...

the single "Stories", but a few months later both went their separate ways. Tsiboe appeared on the last three Boney M. albums: '' Ten Thousand Lightyears'' (1984), '' Kalimba de Luna - 16 Happy Songs'' (1984) and '' Eye Dance'' (1985) and also recorded Christmas songs with the group, which were internationally released only after the split of the band on the new Boney M. Christmas album, '' The 20 Greatest Christmas Songs'' in 1986. Reggie sang the main vocals on a number of Boney M. songs, including " Kalimba de Luna", " Happy Song", "Going Back West", " My Chérie Amour", " Young, Free and Single", " Bang Bang Lulu", "Dreadlock Holiday", "Barbarella Fortuneteller", " Mother and Child Reunion" and the Christmas songs "Joy to the World", "Oh Christmas Tree", "The First Noël" and "Auld Lang Syne". On 21 September 2006, Tsiboe and the two other lead singers of Boney M., Liz Mitchell and

Marcia Barrett Marcia Barrett (born 14 October 1948) is a British singer and one of the original singers with the vocal group Boney M. Early years Barrett was born in Saint Catherine Parish, British Jamaica; her parents brought her to Croydon, England in ...

, were special guests in

London London is the Capital city, capital and List of urban areas in the United Kingdom, largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in . London metropolitan area, Its wider metropolitan area is the largest in Wester ...

at the premiere of the musical '' Daddy Cool'', which is based on the music of the famous group. Before he joined the group he was a movie star in Ghana he also released a few singles in the UK & Germany in the early 70s One of the movies that gained him popularity was the film '' Love Brewed in the African Pot''. Following his Boney M period Tsiboe returned to acting, He has also starred in a few UK TV productions including ''

Doctor Who ''Doctor Who'' is a British science fiction television series broadcast by the BBC since 1963. The series, created by Sydney Newman, C. E. Webber and Donald Wilson (writer and producer), Donald Wilson, depicts the adventures of an extraterre ...

''. Tsiboe now resides in

Marlborough, Wiltshire Marlborough ( , ) is a market town and Civil parishes in England, civil parish in the England, English Counties of England, county of Wiltshire on the A4 road (England), Old Bath Road, the old main road from London to Bath, Somerset, Bath. Th ...

in England.

References

1950 births Boney M. members Living people Ghanaian musicians Ghanaian emigrants to England People from Kumasi Ghanaian male film actors 20th-century Ghanaian male actors Ghanaian male actors {{ghana-singer-stub