With Robert Pilatus, he sold millions of albums, given concerts worldwide, then it was the face of a resonant scandal. The Frenchman Fabrice Morvan, half of the duo Bill Vanilli, who is now 58 years old, trusts in an interview with El Parisian published on Wednesday, May 14. “We have been exploited, they have always exposed me,” he shouts, in this interview, given on the occasion of liberation in the theaters of the Theater of the Theater of the Theater of the Theater of the Theater of the Theaters of One billion vanilli, from glory to nightmare, of the German director Simon Verhoeven.
After a documentary transmitted in Paramount+ in 2023, this film tells the story of the Franco-Alman duo that did not interpret his successes and behind which Frank Farian was hiding, also known for having produced the Disco Boney M group.
The advisor and co -producer of the film, Fabrice Morvan, explains that it was in memory of Robert Pilatus, who died in 1998 of an overdose, that “does all this” and that he wishes “to show that, behind, we were humans.” “There were many problems and a producer, who held a trap for us,” he said. “In addition, when the latter saw that the film told the truth and did not speak only of it, he retired from the project.”
“We could sing”
Trained in 1988, one billion Vanilli immediately had great success, especially thanks to a tube, Girl, you know it’s true. “We were 21 and 22 years old, Rob Orphan, I son of divorced, dazzled the gold records, the money and the contract were on the table, we trust,” recalls Fabrice Morvan.
“Do not even keep the contract. The stupidity of youth,” he regrets. “And then we discover celebrities, trips, the angels, drugs, we are making 107 appointments in eight months.
But the machine took place on February 21, 1990 during the Grammy Awards ceremony. That night, playback is derailing and deception appears in daylight: Robert Pilatus and Fabrice Morvan are not the true singers of the group. Released by Frank Farian, the group must even make their grammy for the best new artist.
“We could have avoided all this,” laments the French. “In the movie, we remember that we could sing. And that Frank Farian lived his dream through us. He wanted to be the first sales in the United States. He wasn’t with Boney M., was with us. But at what price?”
After one billion Vanilli, Fabrice Morvan says he was “on the blacklist for all record companies”, but “he never stopped making music”, either in duet with Robert Pilatus or alone. Today Father of four children, the singer acts on stage, either during a festival in Germany, Miami or Colombia. He “lives from (s) to music, in the difficulty of the beginning, but it is better and better.”
“I can use Bill Vanilli, when I do my shows. It’s better than anything. But I haven’t touched anything for thirty -five years, not even the right to image,” explains the artist. “Celebrity, it’s fine, but not fortune.”
Source: BFM TV
