Milli Vanilli

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Milli Vanilli was a German R&B duo from Munich.

The group was founded by Frank Farian in 1988 and consisted of Fab Morvan and Rob Pilatus. The group's debut album Girl You Know It's True achieved international success and earned them a Grammy Award for Best New Artist on 21 February 1990.  Milli Vanilli became one of the most popular pop acts in the late 1980s and early 1990s, with millions of records sold.

Their success quickly turned to infamy when Morvan, Pilatus and their agent Sergio Vendero confessed that Morvan and Pilatus did not sing any of the vocals heard on the record. This resulted in the group being stripped of their Grammy Award for Best New Artist.

The group recorded a comeback album in 1998, but Rob Pilatus died before it was released.

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"Girl I'm Gonna Miss You" is a song by German dance-pop group Milli Vanilli. It was released in July 1989 as a single from their debut album Girl You Know It's True. The single was a success, hitting the number one spot on the Billboard Hot 100 charts, while also being certified Gold by the RIAA.

The song also reached number one in Canada, Austria, Switzerland and the Netherlands, and reached number two in the United Kingdom, Germany and Ireland, and number three in Australia.

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"Girl You Know It's True" is a song that became the first big hit for Milli Vanilli. Released as the lead single from Milli Vanilli's European debut album, All or Nothing, and the duo's American debut album, Girl You Know It's True, the song peaked at number one on the German Singles Chart, number two in the United States and number three in the United Kingdom, becoming one of Milli Vanilli's most successful singles. This song is best known for exposing the lip-syncing of Rob Pilatus and Fab Morvan who were recruited after Frank Farian had completed production of the song.

The song was written by Bill Pettaway Jr., Sean "DJ Spen" Spencer, Kevin Lyles, Rodney "Kool Rod" Holloman (often misspelled "Hollaman" on single/album credits), and Ky Adeyemo, most of whom were members of the Baltimore, Maryland-based group, Numarx, who first recorded the tune.

Started by DJ Spen and featuring Kool Rod as MC,  Numarx was a collective of local DJs who formed a "crew" in the early 1980s, originally consisting of four members. With the addition of Lyles in the mid-1980s, the group expanded to five. In 1987, with several singles under their belt, Numarx released the single, "Rhymes So Def," which received national airplay at the time. The follow-up single to this minor hit was "Girl You Know It's True."

The idea for the song began when Marvin Ennis suggested that the group (Numarx) rap about something romantic in Bill Pettaway's basement in Annapolis, Maryland. Bill Pettaway, an Annapolis resident working as a gas station attendant at the time  also wrote songs and played guitar on the side.  Pettaway, along with Numarx members Spencer, Lyles, and Holloman continued to craft the tune. In addition, then-current Starpoint member Kayode "Ky" Adeyemo joined in, co-writing and co-producing the song with Pettaway.

However, the vocalist most prominent on this song is Charles "Ooh Oh Ooh" Christopher. Charles was friends with Pettaway, Adeyemo, Marvin Ennis, and George Philips (the latter three all associated with the former Elektra Records group Starpoint) and became the voice that everyone was singing along with. Although the song did not match the success of "Rhymes So Def" in America, "Girl You Know It's True" did connect with audiences on the other side of the Atlantic, becoming a popular hit in the German clubs.  It was here that Milli Vanilli producer Frank Farian likely first heard the tune.

Meanwhile, Numarx would later include their version of "Girl You Know It's True" on their lone album, Our Time Has Come, whose title track was penned by former Starpoint and MARZ band member Marvin Ennis, released in 1988  before fading from public view. Marvin Ennis was also solely responsible for changing a bad contract which was in the form of a "work for hire," between Bill Pettaway and Steve Franco, into a contract where Bill Pettaway could earn royalties from his efforts related to the song.

Bill Pettaway and Marvin Ennis (aka Marvenis) were both members of the Capitol/EMI/Liberty Records group MARZ (Make it Right). Marvin Ennis went on to discover R&B crooner Kenny Lattimore, when he auditioned for the Epic Records group Mainquin at Omega Studios in Rockville, Maryland,co-write and produce the #2 R&R/#4 Billboard hit "Taste of Your Love" for E.U. (Experience Unlimited) of #1 R&B/Hip Hop hit "Da Butt" fame.

Marvin Ennis made television appearances on Soul Train, MTV, and BET as well as toured with the group as its newest band member. DJ Spen and Lyles have gone on to become world-renowned DJs and record executives, respectively, while Pettaway, by way of MARZ members Keith Rowel and leader Marvin Ennis, was later credited with discovering multi-platinum-selling singer Toni Braxton and has gone on to prominence as a session guitarist for Timbaland and other artists.