Milli Vanilli’s Fab Morvan Drops Out of Great American State Fair: ‘It Turned Into a Circus’
Categoria: Musica
The group's vocalists previously slammed him for agreeing to the event under the Milli Vanilli name.
Por Billboard | 02/06/2026
After the original singers of Milli Vanilli asserted that they had no intentions of performing at the polarizing Great American State Fair this summer — writing that anyone on the lineup using the band’s name had “no association” with them — Fab Morvan has announced that he’s pulling out of the festival. Related Trump Takes Over as Freedom 250’s Great American State Fair Headliner After Several Artists Drop Out Girl, You Know It’s <em>Not</em> True: Milli Vanilli Say They Won’t Be Performing at Freedom 250 Concert Young MC Confirms He Will Not Perform at ‘Politically Charged’ Freedom 250 Event Speaking to CNN on Monday (June 1) — a few days after Milli Vanilli vocalists Jodie Rocco, Linda Rocco, Brad Howell, John Davis and Charles Shaw posted their statement — Morvan shared that he’d decided to remove himself from the lineup. He joins an exodus of artists previously announced as part of the Freedom 250 event’s billing who have since dropped out, including Young MC, Martina McBride and The Commodores. “This is not what I signed up for,” the performer told the outlet. Morvan explained that he’d originally agreed to the opportunity to represent Milli Vanilli at the United States 250th anniversary event in Washington, D.C., because it had been pitched to him as a “special moment” for the country. “When I saw Young MC pull out, I was like, ‘Oh, that’s weird. Why is he pulling out? Does he know anything that I don’t know?'” the German performer recalled. “Then, one after the next, people started to leave, but I was told by my team, who was told by another team, ‘There’s nothing, no political entanglement … it’s just a free show for the people,'” he continued. Ultimately, regardless of the intentions behind the festival, Morvan decided to withdraw because “throughout the week, it turned into a circus.” “I’m here to bring people together,” he added. “I’m stepping out in peace.” Milli Vanilli was originally just a duo comprised of Morvan and the late Rob Pilatus — at least as far as the public knew until 1990, when it came out that the two men had been lip-synching to vocals actually recorded by the Rocco sisters, Howell, Davis and Shaw. The following year, those five vocalists released an album titled The Real Milli Vanilli . Morvan, on the other hand, has since obtained the rights to perform under the Milli Vanilli name. “For a long while I wasn’t allowed to use it,” he told The Guardian in February. “Now I’m playing concerts to thousands of people with a band and me singing, no backing tapes.” But there appears to be tensions between the surviving face of Milli Vanilli and its “real” singers, as Jodie Rocco wrote May 28 on her Facebook page after Freedom 250 unveiled