Steve Vogel
just the name Milli Vanilli. Milli was the nickname of Ingrid, Frank’s girlfriend at the time, who was the office manager — and he used to rhyme it and call her “Milli Vanilli.” Once [“Girl”] became a huge hit and there were [still] no faces, Frank created the faces. ...
JOHN DAVIS, one of the real singers behind the lip-synching pop duo Milli Vanilli, died of the coronavirus last week, according to his family. He was 66. Davis died on Monday in Nuremberg, Germany, where he had lived and performed for a long time, his daughter Jasmin Davis said in a ...
The Milli Vanilli fiasco hinges on the vocal credit given to “Rob and Fab” on the Arista Records album. But neither Pilatus nor Morvan actually sang on the album. Singers Davis and Shaw are credited as background vocalists; Howell is not mentioned at all. Pilatus and Morvan allege that t...
Vanilli were confessing, their U.S. distributor, Arista, was denying any knowledge of the ruse, despite evidence to the contrary. The truth easily might have surfaced months earlier. Last year an Arista VP caught a snatch of a live-performance tape by Milli Vanilli. ”What is this crap?
“When I heard the news of Rob’s death, everything went blank at that moment. Silence,” Morvan said. “It was like losing a part of myself. In order to honor him, and for myself, I said a vow that I would do my thing. And I would make sure the name Milli Vanilli itself ...
The Milli Vanilli duo said today they made a "pact with the devil" when they pretended they sang on a hit album, and they contended it was all with the knowledge of their record company.
When Milli Vanilli was supposed to be in the studio recording, Frank Farian said, ‘You can't be there. They don't want people around.’ So the Milli Vanilli scandal must have been a surprise? Were you caught up in that? “Well, Milli Vanilli was maybe the first time there was an ...
Freund: The second album, as The Real Milli Vanilli, was the same constellation, the same singers as the first one. Sekuler: By November they were preparing for the second album. I’m kicking myself that I didn’t keep the proofs, but they came into my office at [PR firm] Rogers ...