
This Monday, May 5, 2025, Fab Morvan was invited on the set of Clique To evoke the crazy history of its group, Year Vanilli. Faced with Mouloud Achour, he took the opportunity to pay tribute to his friend Rob, who died in 1998.
A course worthy of a Hollywood scenario. While the eighties saw a large number of pop icons born, the decade was also marked by hours of more or less ephemeral glory. In 1990, a scandal broke out around Rob Pilatus and Fab Morvan. They have become planetary stars … without singing a single note! The first success of Mill Vanilli is obvious with Girl, you know it’s true. What to do them Even win a Grammy Award for the best new artist In 1990.
The story takes a completely different turning point when it is revealed that Fabrice and Rob are not those who sing their hits, but anonymous studio musicians paid by their record company. The end of a dream for the German duo. “We were presented as impostors While basically we were the victims of a system, and we paid for everyone, because we were not the only ones pretending to sing … “explained Fab Morvan in the columns of here.
Rob: A friend still as present
An attempted comeback with the group Rob and Fab Then ended in failure. In 1998, Rob Pilatus was found dead in a Hôtel de Frankfurt room, at only 32 years old. This Monday, May 5, 2025, Fab Morvan was invited on the set of Clique To promote the film Billion vanilli: from glory to nightmarein theaters on May 14, 2025. Faced with Mouloud Achour, the 58 -year -old singer returned to the disappearance of his friend. “I am at La I have always feared this call”he remembered.
Fab Morvan then returned to the consequences of excess his friend. “With drugs, it ends in the cemetery, the police station or in the hospital. He dropped, he couldn’t do it anymore”he explained. “His lack of love poisoned him. The hole he had in his heart could no longer be filled. Drugs no longer walked. He died of a broken heart “he concluded, all in emotion. An absence always as difficult to digest for the one who had success in duet.