As Belgian singer Plastic Bertrand faces accusations of not singing on his biggest hit record, a look at music lip-synching scandals..BBC News - Paying lip service to musics mimed moments British Broadcasting CorporationHome Accessibility links Mobile Skip to content Skip to local navigation Skip to bbc.co.uk navigation Skip to bbc.co.uk search Help Accessibility Help Entertainment Home UK Africa Asia-Pac Europe Latin America Mid-East South Asia US Canada Business Health Sci/Environment Tech Entertainment Video 28 July 2010 Last updated at 12:08 GMT Share this page Delicious Digg Facebook reddit StumbleUpon Twitter Email Print Paying lip service to musics mimed moments By Michael Osborn Entertainment reporter, BBC News Milli Vanilli were disgraced after being revealed as fakes Belgian punk singer Plastic Bertrand has been accused of not providing the vocals for his 1977 song Ca Plane Pour Moi. According to evidence heard in a Brussels court, his producer sang on the track and the frontman mimed. Bertrand has since told a French newspaper that it was not his voice on the 1977 hit record. But the history of pop music in recent years has been littered with cases of performers caught out lip-synching - with varying consequences. The most notorious case of an act proving to be a musical charade was pop duo Milli Vanilli, who scored a clutch of hits in the late 1980s and picked up a Grammy Award for their work. The act - Fabrice Morvan and Robert Pilatus - were presumed to be the singers behind tracks including Girl Im Gonna Miss You. But doubts began to grow that the pair were the true talent behind Milli Vanilli, not helped by a performance where their backing track jammed and it was obvious they were miming. Continue reading the main story Start Quote To move the lips in synchronisation with recorded speech or song End Quote Definition of lip-synching Frank Farian, a German producer who decided the real vocalists were not attractive enough to front the band, eventually confirmed the scam. Faced with legal action and...
