Meet The Real Singers Who Secretly Sang For Milli Vanilli Back In The 80s

Posted On : September 25, 2018

Problems Developed For The Real Singers Who Secretly Sang For Milli Vanilli

Unfortunately, as the songs continued to climb the charts…that’s where the problems developed with Jodie and Linda Rocco, the backup singers.

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Jodie and Linda Rocco (screen-grab)

 

They Were Paid To Remain Silent

It has also been revealed that Charles Shaw and the other vocalists were paid a substantial amount of money to remain silent. But, their payouts were nowhere near the value of the music they’d created.Unfortunately, that’s exactly what happened once the truth about Milli Vanilli was revealed. The real singers and musicians never got the recognition they deserved for creating timeless music that still holds record-breaking numbers today.

The Secret Was Too Much To Bare For Milli Vanilli

Unfortunately, as the songs continued to climb the charts, the actual Milli Vanilli front runners, Rob Pilatus and Fab Morvan, were finding it much more difficult to harbor the daunting secret that would ultimately kill their careers. The two skyrocketed to stardom and Linda Rocco revealed how difficult it was for Rob to deal with the growing pressures of harboring such a massive secret. He turned to drugs and alcohol to cope with his problems and after years of battling substance abuse, he succumbed to his addiction.

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