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Embarrassed R&B duo Milli Vanilli is enjoying a resurgence thanks to a 2023 documentary about their story and the inclusion of their music in Ryan Murphy‘s Monsters: Lyle and Eric Menendez Storrand.
It attracted renewed attention Fab Morvanone half of the only group ever to have a The Grammy Award was taken awayback in the public eye. He doesn’t hide from the lip-syncing scandal that doomed his career, along with his partner’s Slave Pilatus.
Despite the fact that he and Pilatus lip-synced during their live performances and did not sing on their records, Morvan, now 58, feels the duo were “victimised”.
“Over $300 million was made on Milli Vanilla, and the money we made spawned other artists in the ’90s,” he explained. An interview in a story published on Tuesday, December 10. “Some people seem to forget that part, but that’s okay.” Most of those labels and most of the artists that were signed at that time are now either bankrupt, dead, not doing very well or struggling for themselves.”
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While Morvan and Pilatus endured a public fall from grace, Morvan said everyone in their orbit stood to profit from the group’s image.
“We paid and they scapegoated us,” he added. “CEOs and producers and record companies were the ones who could put their kids through school, buy houses, start businesses and stay intact.”
The duo tried to make amends 90’seven planning a comeback tour to promote the new album, but Pilatus died of a drug overdose in 1998 at the age of 33 and the album never hit the shelves.
Morvan can now look back, thinking about everything they went through during the band’s heyday, the good and the bad. He also rejoiced, offering his idea of what he wanted to represent Milli Vanilli.
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“It was short, but I feel like I lived the lives of a hundred people during that period, and then I lived the lives of another hundred,” he said. “I want the name Milli Vanilli to symbolize what happens when you fall and then get up, reinvent 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 come crashing down.
“We always knew that at the end of that tunnel people would find out and it wouldn’t be pretty,” he said. “I looked at our relationship with the public like a relationship between a loving couple, where one of them suddenly finds out, ‘Man, you’ve been cheating on me all along.’
