Milli Vanilli remains one of the most intriguing groups in dance-pop history. Why? Well after selling millions of records and winning a Grammy Award, Rob Pilatus and Fabrice Morvan were revealed to be models who publicly lip-synced to tracks recorded by anonymous studio vocalists.
Milli Vanilli was the brainchild of German producer Frank Farian, who'd previously masterminded the European disco group Boney M. Seeking to fuse European dance-pop with elements of American rap, Farian assembled a number session musicians and vocalists, including rapper Charles Shaw and two middle-aged American singers living in Germany.
Realizing that he had made a marketable record but a distinctly unmarketable image, Farian hired two aspiring models and former breakdancers, Pilatus and Morvan, to pretend to be the group in videos, concerts, interviews, and the like. In spite of the controversy that surrounded the group, no-one doubts that Farian and his team created music that remains a great example of late 80's, early 90's dance pop.
Songs like "Girl You Know It's True", "Baby Don't Forget My Number", "I'm Gonna Miss You", and the Diane Warren-penned "Blame It on the Rain" were all number one hits. Milli Vanilli's GREATEST HITS gathers these, and plenty of others together, as a reminder of the life and times of this troubled, but gigantically successful group...