Fab Morvan of Milli Vanilli is competing against the Dalai Lama at the 67th annual Grammy Awards.
The nominations were revealed on Friday (Nov. 7), with Morvan’s memoir You Know It’s True going up against the Dalai Lama’s Meditations: The Reflection of His Holiness the Dalai Lama in the Best Audio Book, Narration, and Storytelling Recording category.
According to a description for You Know It’s True, the book is about “one of the most dramatic and surreal rises the music world has ever witnessed.”
“At the height of fame, with chart-topping singles and screaming fans worldwide, everything imploded,” the description continues about Milli Vanilli’s rise to fame and fall.
Morvan’s nomination comes just one day after Jermaine Dupri brought up his former group when discussing the acceptance of AI artists in the music industry.
“So let me get this right, years ago the industry found out that Milli Vanilli weren’t really the voices on their Grammy-winning record and they were stripped of their Grammy, but now we're getting ready to accept people who can't even sing, creating songs for a fake person?” Dupri asked on X on Thursday (Nov. 6). "How is this any different than Milli Vanilli?"
At the 32nd Grammy Awards, Milli Vanilli won the award for Best New Artist thanks to their debut album All or Nothing. Soon after, their producer, Frank Farian, revealed that the German duo hadn’t sung any of the music on their album. Soon after, the Grammys pulled their award.
Rob Pilatus of Milli Vanilli died in 1998.
Morvan and Lama’s books are competing against Trevor Noah’s Into the Uncut Grass, Kathy Garver’s Elvis, Rocky & Me: The Carol Connors Story, and Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Lovely One: A Memoir.
