Anthony Monn a.k.a. Tony Monn (born March 17, 1944) is a German

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

 singer, composer, and record producer.

Monn started his career as a singer in the German schlager

Schlager

Schlager music is a style of popular music prevalent in Central and Northern Europe and the Balkans and also in France and Poland. In Portugal, it was adapted and became pimba music...

 genre in the early 1970s. Among his best known songs from that period are 1975's "Du Gehst Fort", a duet with singer and actress Marion Maerz, "Lucky" (1978), and "Johnny und Mary

Johnny and Mary

"Johnny and Mary" is a song written by Robert Palmer and was recorded in 1980 at Compass Point Studios, New Providence, in the Bahamas. The song was featured on Palmer's album Clues . "Johnny and Mary" only went to #44 on the UK Singles Chart, but did reach #18 on Billboard's Club Play Singles chart...

" (a German-language cover version of Robert Palmer's 1981 hit), although these met limited commercial success in Germany.

Monn instead achieved his greatest international success with French

France

The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

 disco

Disco

Disco is a genre of dance music. Disco acts charted high during the mid-1970s, and the genre's popularity peaked during the late 1970s. It had its roots in clubs that catered to African American, gay, psychedelic, and other communities in New York City and Philadelphia during the late 1960s and...

 queen Amanda Lear

Amanda Lear

Amanda Lear is a French singer, lyricist, composer, painter, TV presenter, actress and novelist....

, for whom he produced albums I Am a Photograph

I Am a Photograph

I Am A Photograph is the debut album by French singer Amanda Lear, released in April 1977 by West German label Ariola Records. It contains the European hit singles "La Bagarre" , "Blood and Honey" , "Tomorrow", "Alphabet" and "Blue Tango." Later editions of the album also feature the single "Queen...

(1977), Sweet Revenge

Sweet Revenge (Amanda Lear album)

Sweet Revenge is the second studio album by French singer Amanda Lear, released in February, 1978 by West German label Ariola-Eurodisc. The album contained European hit singles "Follow Me", "Enigma ", "Gold" and "Run Baby Run"...

(1978), Never Trust a Pretty Face

Never Trust a Pretty Face

Never Trust a Pretty Face is the third studio album by French singer Amanda Lear, released in January, 1979 by West German label Ariola-Eurodisc...

(1979) — recorded in Giorgio Moroder

Giorgio Moroder

Hansjörg "Giorgio" Moroder is an Italian record producer, songwriter and performer based in Los Angeles. When in Munich in the 1970s, he started his own record label called Oasis Records, which several years later became a subdivision of Casablanca Records...

's Musicland Studios

Musicland Studios

Musicland Studios was a recording studio located in Munich, Germany. It was established by Italian record producer, songwriter and performer Giorgio Moroder in the late 1960s...

 in Munich — Diamonds for Breakfast

Diamonds for Breakfast

Diamonds For Breakfast is the fourth studio album by French singer Amanda Lear, released in January, 1980 by West German label Ariola-Eurodisc...

(1980), and Incognito

Incognito (Amanda Lear album)

Incognito is the fifth studio album by French singer Amanda Lear, released in March, 1981 by West German label Ariola-Eurodisc. The album contains singles "Nymphomania", "Hollywood Is Just A Dream When You're Seventeen", "Love Amnesia", "Red Tape", "New York" and "Égal". Just like 1978's Sweet...

(1981). Monn also composed most of Lear's hit singles during this period, including classics like "Blood and Honey", "Follow Me" and "Fashion Pack (Studio 54)". He also produced albums for American singer Judy Cheeks

Judy Cheeks

Judy Cheeks is a female dance music singer born in Miami, Florida in 1954 and is the daughter of gospel singer and preacher Rev. Julius Cheeks. In 1978 she hit #10 on the Hot Dance Club Play chart with "Mellow Lovin'," and then had a career resurgence in the 1990s, when she re-emerged with a...

, released on label Salsoul in the U.S. The single "Mellow Lovin'" reached #10 on the American dance charts in 1978. In the 1980s he wrote and produced a number of albums and singles for German Euro disco star Fancy, hits for Italian

Italy

Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...

 couple Al Bano and Romina Power

Romina Power

Romina Francesca Power is an American-born singer and actress.-Biography:Born in Los Angeles, California, Romina Power is the eldest daughter of American actor Tyrone Power and his second wife, actress Linda Christian....

 ("Sempre Sempre" (1986), German synth-pop star Peter Schilling, LaToya Jackson, as well as Saragossa Band ("Big Bamboo", "Agadou", "Zabadak") and Orlando Riva Sound

Orlando Riva Sound

Orlando Riva Sound was a German eurodisco group founded in 1977 by Anthony Monn and Rainer Pietsch.Their first success was in 1977 with the song "Moon Boots", a mostly instrumental piece. Soon after the group's founding, they added Sophia Reaney as a singer/dancer...

("Moon Boots", "Fire on the Water", "Indian Reservation"), the latter a novelty disco band of which both Monn and longtime collaborator Rainer Pietsch were members.

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