Fab Morvan.
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Bring renewed interest Fab MorvanOnly half of the group got it The Grammy Award was cancelledback into the public eye. He's not hiding from the lip sync scandal that ruined his and his partner's career Rob Pilatus.
Despite acknowledging the fact that he and Pilatus were lip-syncing during their live shows and were not the ones singing on their recordings, Morvan, now 58, feels the duo was “sacrificed”.
“More than $300 million has been raised at Milli Vanilli, and the money we raised led to the emergence of other artists in the 1990s,” he explained. interview In a story published on Tuesday, December 10. Some people seem to forget this part, but that's okay. The majority of those labels and the majority of artists that were signed during that period are now either bankrupt, dead, not doing well, or fighting for themselves.
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While Morvan and Pilatus suffered a public fall from grace, Morvan said everyone in their orbit was able to benefit from the group's image.
He added: “We paid, and they made us a scapegoat.” “It was the executives, producers, and brands who were able to put their kids in school, buy homes, start businesses, and remain untouched.”
The duo tried to extricate themselves In the 1990seven planning a comeback tour to promote a new album, but Pilatus died of a drug overdose in 1998 at the age of 33 and the album never reached shelves.
Morvan can now look back, and reflect on everything they went through during the band's heyday, both good and bad. He also looked forward, offering his idea of what he wanted Milli Vanilli to stand for.
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“It was short, but I feel like I lived the lives of a hundred men during that time, and then I lived the lives of a hundred more,” he said. “I want the name Milli Vanilli to symbolize what happens when you fall and get back up, rediscover yourself, and fight for yourself. If you give up on yourself, you give up on your life.”
He added that, even in the best of times, he knew it would eventually fall apart.
“We always knew that at the end of this tunnel, people would find out, and it wouldn't be pretty,” he said. “I looked at our relationship with the public as a relationship between a couple who loved each other, where one of them suddenly discovered, ‘Man, you've been cheating on me the whole time.'”
