Rob Pilatus

Pop Singer

Rob Pilatus was born in New York City, New York, United States on June 8th, 1964 and is the Pop Singer. At the age of 33, Rob Pilatus biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, songs, and networth are available.

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Date of Birth
June 8, 1964
Nationality
Germany
Place of Birth
New York City, New York, United States
Death Date
Apr 2, 1998 (age 33)
Zodiac Sign
Gemini
Profession
Model, Musician, Rapper, Singer
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Rob Pilatus Life

Robert Pilatus (8 June 1965 – 3 April 1998) was a German model, dancer, and singer.

Pilatus was a member of the pop music duo Milli Vanilli, alongside Fabrice Morvan.

Early life

Pilatus was born in Munich, West Germany. His father was an African-American serviceman and his mother was a German dancer. He spent his first four years in a Bavarian orphanage before he was adopted by a Munich family. He stated he was an outsider as a child in Germany, being called "Kunta Kinte" (the African hero in the film Roots) by his classmates. After leaving his adoptive home as a teen, Pilatus worked as a model and breakdancer, and appeared as a backing singer with the group Wind at the 1987 Eurovision Song Contest in Brussels. (The band finished in second place.) He met Fab Morvan on the dance scene in Munich in 1988, and after working as models, they formed a short lived group "Empire Bizarre" which consisted of three members, Pilatus, Morvan, and Charliene, performing locally with all members dancing and Rob singing lead while playing bass guitar.

Pilatus and Morvan both continued moving into music and were subsequently noticed by German music producer Frank Farian, who signed them to be part of a musical act. They signed contracts with Farian without taking legal advice. After a trip to Turkey, where the duo reputedly took part of their name from a local advertising slogan, Milli Vanilli was born. Pilatus and Morvan were surprised to learn from Farian that they would not be singing on their records. They initially refused, but were unable to pay back the advance they had received, which they had used to change and promote their images by investing in clothes and their trademark hair extensions. They decided to continue with the agreement for a short time until they had made enough money to pay back the advance. This meant that they were to be only the public faces for songs that had been pre-recorded with singers Charles Shaw and Brad Howell, who Farian thought were vocally talented but lacked marketable images. Farian had a history of acts, such as Boney M, in which most of the actual singers (including Farian himself) were replaced by other performers on stage.

The first Milli Vanilli platinum album, Girl You Know It's True, became a worldwide hit. It produced five hit singles, including three number 1 hits: "Girl I'm Gonna Miss You", "Baby Don't Forget My Number" and "Blame It On The Rain". Milli Vanilli won the Grammy Award for Best New Artist on 21 February 1990 for Girl You Know It's True.

Milli Vanilli quickly rose to fame and fortune, making it difficult for Pilatus and Morvan to withdraw from their agreement with Farian. Their attractiveness and appealing dance performances added to their huge on-stage success. After several years, Pilatus and Morvan became the subject of rumours of onstage lip-synching. Charles Shaw, one of their recordings' actual vocalists, told the media the truth, but retracted his statement when Farian paid him $150,000.

When Pilatus and Morvan pressured Farian to let them sing on their next album, Farian confessed to reporters on 15 November 1990 that the duo had not sung on the recordings. Milli Vanilli's Grammy Award was withdrawn four days later. Pilatus and Morvan said in an interview that they did the moral thing by initiating the withdrawal of the Grammy Award themselves. Arista Records released them from its label and removed their album and songs from their catalogue, making Girl You Know It's True the largest-selling album to be taken out of print. A United States court ruling allowed anyone who had bought the album to receive a refund.

Farian later attempted a comeback for the duo, but it was unsuccessful. Pilatus and Morvan decided to spend time apart to get their lives back on track. Months after the media backlash, they appeared in a commercial for Carefree Sugarless [chewing] Gum, where they jokingly lip-synched to an opera recording.

In 1992, Pilatus and Morvan signed with a new label, Taj, and released Rob & Fab, an album featuring their own voices, but it sold only around 2,000 copies due to its limited release. The label went bankrupt shortly thereafter.

After Milli Vanilli attempted a comeback, Morvan and Pilatus spent time apart. In 1996, Pilatus served three months in prison for assault, vandalism and attempted robbery. Farian paid for Pilatus to spend six months in drug rehabilitation before returning to Germany from the United States.

On 3 April 1998, on the eve of a promotional tour for a new Milli Vanilli album, Back and in Attack, featuring Pilatus and Morvan on lead vocals, Pilatus was found dead from an alcohol and prescription drug overdose in a hotel room at Friedrichsdorf, near Frankfurt. His death was ruled accidental. The album has never been released.

Pilatus is buried in the Munich Waldfriedhof.

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Frank Farian, a filmmaker from Boney, died at the age of 82. Rasputin and Daddy Cool, the hitmaker behind Rasputin and Daddy Cool died peacefully at his Miami apartment two years after being fitted with a pig heart valve

www.dailymail.co.uk, January 23, 2024
Frank Farian, the legendary German music producer, died at the age of 82, according to his representatives. Farian is best known for his boney M in the 1970s, where he was primarily responsible for hits including Daddy Cool, Rasputin, and Brown Girl in the Ring. In his home in Miami, Farian, a native of Kirin in rural southwestern Germany, died.

Fab Morvan's wife, Milli Vanilli, has filed for divorce in Los Angeles, according to Kim Marlowe; the entertainer has four children with a separate woman

www.dailymail.co.uk, January 9, 2024
Milli Vanilli alum Fab Morvan is getting divorced from her wife Kim Marlowe. According to TMZ, Marlowe filed papers in Los Angeles Superior Court to end the relationship, which had flown under the radar.

As a new documentary about the band is announced, Milli Vanilli's Fab Morvan makes a bold statement about the infamous lip syncing saga

www.dailymail.co.uk, October 25, 2023
Fab Morvan, a Milli Vanilli company, has launched a scathing attack on the media that revealed his lip synching affair, claiming that he and his bandmate Rob Pilatus were victims. On Wednesday, the French-born model, 57, appeared on The Project to claim that he and Rob were puppets manipulated by their brand. It's a company that employs people to watch television when a crisis occurs.' Journalists are supposed to be objective and investigate, but he wasn't done.'