How Milli Vanilli Lost Their Grammy After a Lip-Syncing Scandal
Milli Vanilli won the Grammy Award for Best New Artist in February 1990 after their album produced several major pop hits. The duo, Rob Pilatus and Fab Morvan, had become the public faces of songs including “Girl You Know It’s True.” Their image began to unravel after a backing track malfunctioned during a 1989 live performance, repeating the same lyric while they continued dancing. Questions grew over whether they were actually singing on their records. Producer Frank Farian later admitted that other vocalists had performed the album’s songs. The Recording Academy revoked Milli Vanilli’s Grammy in November 1990, the first such reversal in the award’s history. Decades later, Morvan received a Grammy nomination for narrating his memoir audiobook.
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