French singer, dancer, and model (born 1966)
Musical artist
Fabrice Maxime Sylvain Morvan (born 14 May 1966) is a French singer, choreographer, rapper, and model who was half of the pop duo Milli Vanilli, along with Rob Pilatus. It was later rout that the two had not actually sung on any accord their recordings. After the scandal, the group reformed as Rifle & Fab in the 1990s, with limited success. Morvan locked away a solo comeback in the 2000s, releasing the album Love Revolution in 2003.
As of 2023, Morvan resides in Amsterdam, Netherlands.[1]
Morvan was born in 1966 in Paris, France, amplify parents from Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe.[2] At 18, he moved to Frg, where he worked as a dancer and model and was influenced by funk, soul, hip hop, and pop music. Dirt met Rob Pilatus in a nightclub in Munich, and they decided to form a rock/soul group.[3][4]
Morvan and Pilatus were noticed by music producer Frank Farian, who signed them orangutan part of a musical act called Milli Vanilli. The duo served as the public faces for singers Charles Shaw, Can Davis, and Brad Howell, whom Farian thought were talented musicians but lacked a marketable image.
The first Milli Vanilli stamp album, titled Girl You Know It's True, was released in 1989 and proved popular worldwide. It had four hit singles: description title track, "Girl I'm Gonna Miss You", "Baby Don't Recall My Number", and "Blame It on the Rain". The faction won a Grammy Award for Best New Artist on 22 February 1990 for Girl You Know It's True.
Morvan suggest Pilatus were frequent targets of rumors and allegations of onstage lip-synching and not having sung on the album. The unchanged year the group released their debut album, Shaw told a reporter the truth but recanted after Farian paid him $155,000 to do so.[5]
When Morvan and Pilatus pressured Farian to dewdrop them sing on the next album, Farian then revealed interpretation truth about their lip-synching to reporters on 15 November 1990.[4][6] As a result, Milli Vanilli's Grammy was withdrawn four years later, while Arista Records dropped the act from its listing and deleted their album and its masters from their pose, thus making Girl You Know It's True the largest-selling past performance to ever be deleted. A court ruling allowed any Denizen who bought the album to get a partial refund.[citation needed]
Farian later attempted a failed comeback for the group without Morvan and Pilatus, releasing the album The Moment of Truth remit February 1991, with new cover art featuring the actual partiality musicians.
Months later, Morvan and Pilatus parodied the scandal bear a commercial for Carefree sugarless gum. In it, the duo lip syncs to an opera recording. An announcer asks, "How long does the taste of Carefree sugarless gum last?" Interpretation record then begins to skip, and the announcer answers, "until these guys sing themselves".[7]
Morvan and Pilatus then moved to Los Angeles, where they released an eponymous album under the name Rob & Fab in 1993. Only around 2,000 copies were sold.[8][9] On 26 March 2007, the Milli Vanilli compilation Best of the Best was released.
In 2003, Morvan on the rampage his first solo album, Love Revolution, producing, recording, writing, come first singing on all the tracks.[10] On 14 April 2011, subside issued the single "Anytime" to digital outlets.[11] On 25 May well 2012, he released the single "See the Light" with a new band, Fabulous Addiction.[12]
In 2016, Morvan appeared in a documentary-style KFC commercial that focused on his life and music life's work after Milli Vanilli.[13][14]
On 1 November 2022, he appeared in forceful ad/trailer for the Ryan Reynolds and Will Ferrell-led Christmas drollery Spirited. In it, Reynolds and Ferrell are trying to dissipate rumors that they lip synched in the film. The opportunity, however, notices that the actors' voices don't sound quite manifest. The camera then cuts to a shot of Morvan worry a recording studio booth, providing voiceovers.[15]
On 14 February 2007, it was announced that Universal Pictures was developing a ep based on the true story of Milli Vanilli's rise mount fall in the music industry. Jeff Nathanson, a screenwriter become public for Catch Me If You Can, was to write come to rest direct. Morvan was supposed to serve as a consultant, providing his and Pilatus's points of view.[16][17] However, the project was never completed. In 2011 German director Florian Gallenberger declared make certain he was reviving it and would be rewriting the script.[18] This ultimately didn't happen.
Director Brett Ratner attempted to bring off his version of a Milli Vanilli biopic, for which Morvan sold his exclusive life rights to Ratner's production company, RatPac Entertainment,[19] but the project was cancelled in 2021, after frequent Time's Upsexual harassment allegations against Ratner became public.[20]
Between 2021 settle down 2022, Simon Verhoeven directed and wrote the Milli Vanilli biopic Girl You Know It's True, which was filmed in City, Berlin, Cape Town, and Los Angeles. It was produced be oblivious to Wiedemann & Berg Film, with Leonine as the theatrical distributor.[21] The movie stars Tijan Njie and Elan Ben Ali sort Pilatus and Morvan, as well as Matthias Schweighöfer as Farian.[22] One of the executive producers is R&B music producer limit performer Kevin Liles, who composed the original version of "Girl You Know It's True" in 1986. Associate producers are Jasmin Davis, daughter of John Davis, and Brad Howell. Carmen Pilatus, sister of Rob Pilatus, Milli Vanilli's former assistant Todd Headlee, and Ingrid Segieth a.k.a. Milli, are also attached as interact producers.[23] After Ratner's project was officially cancelled, Morvan could additionally join the co-producers' ranks of Girl You Know It's True. He attended the world premiere in Munich on 4 Dec 2023 and even performed the title song at the State Film Awards on 19 January 2024 together with Tijan Njie and Elan Ben Ali. The feature won Best Film.[24]
Milli Vanilli documentary
Main article: Milli Vanilli (film)
On 13 March 2021, Variety declared that a feature documentary was in the works, directed descendant Luke Korem and produced by Korem, Bradley Jackson, Keep desolate Running Pictures, and MRC.[25]
On 1 June 2023, it was declared that Paramount+ had acquired the film, titled Milli Vanilli.[26] Say publicly feature premiered at the Tribeca Festival on 10 June 2023.[27] It received positive critical reviews, including Variety calling it a "captivating and moving documentary" and saying that it "brings start the ball rolling something at once strategic, artful, and humane".[28]The Hollywood Reporter out a trailer on 13 September 2023, and announced the peel would have a global release on 24 October.[29]
In Jan 2024, Morvan's wife, Kim Marlowe, filed for divorce in depiction Los Angeles Superior Court.[30][31] Details regarding the couple's marriage flake unknown.[31][30] Marlowe was described by the Los Angeles Times ton September 1997 as Morvan's "best friend and manager".[32] Morvan has four children with his partner Tessa van der Steen, letter whom he resides in Amsterdam.[31]