La Bouche, featuring Melanie Thornton (Charleston, May 13, 1967 – Bassersdorf, November 24, 2001) and D. Lane McCray Jr., fueled for the 90s with their own brand of pop, dance, and a twist of R&B. Melanie's voice was discovered by the FMP Studios team in Germany, and she was undoubtedly the perfect singer for their long dreamed of project, La Bouche. Thornton died in a plane crash of the Crossair Flight 3597 near Zürich in Switzerland. Thornton had given her final performance in Leipzig and afterwards taken the ill-fated plane from Berlin to Zurich for radio and TV appearances.
