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BERTRAND GUAY/AFP via Getty Imagescontemptible R&B The duo Milli Vanilli enjoyed a resurgence thanks to a 2023 documentary of their story and the inclusion of their music in Ryan Murphyof Monsters: Lyle and Eric Menendez Storry.
The renewed attention brought Murban pubHalf of the only team to ever have a The Grammy Award was canceledBack in the public eye. He doesn’t hide from the lip sync scandal that doomed his career, along with his partner Most of Pilate.
Despite owning that he and Pilatus lip-synced during their live shows and weren’t the ones singing on their records, Morven, now 58, feels the duo was “sacrificed.”
“Over 300 million dollars were made on Milli Vanilli, and the money we generated spawned other artists in the 90s,” he explained to 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 during that time are now either bankrupt, dead, unsuccessful, or fighting for themselves.”
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While Morven and Pilatus suffered a public fall from grace, Morven said everyone in his orbit was able to benefit from the group’s image.
“We paid, and they made us a scapegoat,” he added. “The managers and producers and labels were the ones who managed to send their children to school, buy houses, go into business and remain untouched.”
The duo tried to redeem themselves in the 90sEven 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 hit the shelves.
Morven can now look back, reflect on everything they went through during the band’s heyday, good and bad. He also looked ahead and offered his idea of what he wanted Milli Vanilli to represent.
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“It was short, but I feel like I lived the lives of a hundred men during that time, and after that I lived the lives of a hundred more,” he said. “I want the name Milli and Nilly to symbolize what happens when you fall and then get back 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 collapse.
“We always knew that at the end of the 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 couple who love each other, where one of them suddenly finds out, ‘Man, you’ve been cheating on me all along.'”
