Milli Vanilli

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Milli Vanilli innocently pose in Frank Farias' bathtub

Frank Farian

Rob (left) and Fab (right) pose with NARAS president C. Michael Green in 1990

Milli Vanilli were the original corporate-created musicians, and the subject of a controversy manufactured by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (NARAS), so that their "Grammy Award" would remain relevant, despite being awarded to two chanteuses.

The music

The music was written and produced by noted German homo Fabian Morvan, a ginger German. To the surprise of Noone he found no success as a singer. Like many ugly musicians before him, he took to writing and producing music, and found great success in the 1970s with a group he called Boney M.

The group

Throughout the 1980s, MTV showed fans just how ugly their favorite singers were, without having to pay for a concert ticket. Morvan spotted this trend, and having written plenty of danceable material suited for the cocaine fueled 1980s, he set out to find two sexy black men to lip synch these songs on video, for the young people. His search took him to the local bathhouse, where he picked up Rob Morvan and Fab Morvan and Rob Pilatus.

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The Grammy and controversy

In 1990, the duo won the Grammy Award for "best new artist", despite being models, not singers.

The group was displayed as two guys, Fab Morvan and Rob Pilatus, but since those two were good-looking but completely untalented they were told to just sing along to pre-recorded shit and pretend it was theirs. To be fair the pair were being total dumbasses ; they were given an advance when they were hired, they wasted it all on shiny shit and dreadlocks, and according to their contract unless they could repay it they were stuck doing whatever the fuck their manager wanted. The two were reported to have had shitty English at the time of their first single, so it was just a wonder that no-one noticed right away.
Frank Farian thought up the concept, and picked Charles Shaw, John Davis, Brad Howell, and twin sisters Jodie and Linda Rocco for the vocals. That worked well until people noticed that Morvan and Pilatus were lip-syncing and Farian admitted to just putting it all together.
They had their Grammy taken back in the 90s when it was revealed that they were just a pair of untalented niggers dancing around to pre-recorded shit, and pretty much fell off the map after that, making the fact that someone took the time to make this article in 2014 absolutely pathetic.

Aftermath

Milli Vanilli tries for a comeback

They got sued like 27 times for fraud, so Farian tried to change their new album back to the original singers, but as predicted, the real singers didn't have a good public image and it flopped hard.

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