La Bouche

As a tribute to the singer, Farian released "In Your Life", a previously unreleased song featuring vocals recorded earlier with Thornton and McCray.

Prior to forming La Bouche in 1994, Melanie Thornton and Lane McCray were lead vocalists in a German cover band called Groovin' Affairs.

While touring with the band in various parts of Germany, Thornton also did regular studio session work with producers Amir Saraf and Ulli Brenner.

The song "Sweet Dreams" had quickly caught the attention of Farian and he later secured the track through his MCI label.

It was later revealed that the rap performance was not done by Lane McCray, but by Robert Haynes, a former member of Le Click.

It was followed by "Be My Lover" in March 1995, which peaked at number one in Germany and Sweden, while also reaching the Top 10 in fourteen European countries.

While still with the group, Thornton had some American chart success as featured vocalist on the Le Click hit "Tonight Is the Night", which reached number 68 on the Billboard Hot 100.

Thornton provided guest vocals on a lot of dance projects on single releases such as on Orange Blue's "If You Wanna Be (My Only)", Comic's "I Surrender to Your Love", 100%'s "Power of the Light", Trance-Vision's "Take Me 2 Heaven 2 Nite" and Men Behind's "How Can I".

Towards the end of 2001, Thornton was asked to record "Wonderful Dream (Holidays are Coming)" for a Coca-Cola Christmas TV commercial to be shown on German television.

In November 2002, one year following Thornton's death, Farian prepared a tribute single entitled "In Your Life", a song which was previously unreleased.