Plus, in that era, it wasn’t unusual for singers to lip-sync since the live demands of running around a stage could get in the way with vocals. With that level of confidence, it’s no wonder they were comfortable getting up in front of a live crowd and performing. “They became believers in their own false story.” Despite being common for musicians to sing to track on tour, a broken single gave away Milli Vanilli's lip-syncing secret “Their egos were so big, because they were such big stars, that they were like, ‘We can sing, no problem,” Wieger said.

Having gone through the rags-to-riches rise so quickly, even Pilatus and Morvan got caught up. After all, they had the looks, moves and charisma - they were just lacking the vocal talent that it was all built on. The duo did an appearance in Los Angeles where they were mobbed to the point that the cops were brought in. He had a pretty thick French/Guadalupan accent, so on ‘Girl I’m Gonna Miss You’ he couldn’t say ‘miss,’ and he said ‘meeees.’'īut fans were in love. “I remember there were some words Fab couldn’t pronounce. Their former Arista product manager, Robert Wieger, recalled the situation to Billboard. ″The more we talked, the worse things got.″

″We didn’t want to do any more interviews,″ Pilatus added. They even had dialect specialists brought in - paid by Arista Records - to try to help the situation. How could these guys have sung the songs?’” Morvan told the Los Angeles Times. “Every time we gave an interview, the reporters would hear my French accent or Rob’s German accent and they’d say, ’No way. In short, they were everywhere.Īnd with that, the suspicions started to come.

1 and “All or Nothing” which peaked at No. Soon the music video for “Girl You Know It’s True” was a global hit and Milli Vanilli also had four other hit songs - “Blame It On the Rain,” “Girl I’m Gonna Miss You” and “Baby Don’t Forget My Number,” which all hit No. Photo: Ebet Roberts/Redferns Pilatus and Morvan were catapulted into stardom

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