Who did the real singing for the playback band Milli Vanilli?
Milli Vanilli was a duo, Fab Morvan and Rob Pilatus, formed in Germany in the mid-1980s. They are notorious for being the only group to have their Grammy Award stripped from them after it was revealed that they had not been involved in the creation of their breakthrough album, Girl You Know It’s True and did not sing in concert. Their photos were pictured on the album cover and they lip-synced in concert. Frank Farian used Pilatus and Morvan to front Charles Shaw, Johnny Davis and Brad Howell; he felt that these musicians were talented but unmarketable. With Morvan and Pilatus pressuring him to let them sing on the next album, Farian revealed the truth to reporters on November 15, 1990 after the record of Girl You Know It’s True skipped during a live performance on MTV. The Grammy was rescinded four days later. Arista dropped the act from its rosters and a court ruling in the US allowed anyone who had bought the album to get a refund.
