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🗓️ 18 August 2019
⏱️ 56 minutes
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0:00.0 | Here are two former world-class break dancers nominated for Grammys who have become huge international stars with record sales in the millions. Well girl |
0:09.4 | You know it's true. It can only mean Millie Vanilli |
0:14.5 | The year was 1990 |
0:16.7 | George Herbert Walker Bush was president |
0:19.4 | Nelson Mandela was a really stepped to 27 years of imprisonment in South Africa and |
0:24.4 | and Millie Vanilli a flashy good-looking R&B duo from Germany when the Grammy Awards for Best New Artist. |
0:31.3 | The group's breakout album Girl You Know It's True which featured a combination of 80s synth pop and hip-hop |
0:37.3 | had produced three number one hits and sold over seven million copies worldwide. |
0:42.2 | It was a true rags to reach a story for the two men that fronted the group. |
0:46.2 | Fab Morvin and Rob Pelatus both in their early 20s met in Los Angeles in 1984 |
0:52.0 | and bonded over their love of dancing. Morvin a former gymnast had taken up dances of former therapy |
0:58.9 | after entering a vertebrain and trampoline accident a year prior. |
1:02.6 | Pelatus who had dabbled in modeling and DJing was traveling the world to compete in break-dancing |
1:07.3 | competitions. The two men continued their friendship when they returned home to Munich |
1:12.8 | but found it difficult to pay their bills using only their dance skills. |
1:16.6 | Luckily fate intervened. In the late 80s a successful German record producer named Frank |
1:23.0 | Ferri and was scouting talent for new project. Ferri was on the lookout for young fashionable men |
1:28.8 | with model good looks and top tier dancing abilities. As soon as he saw Fab Morvin and Rob Pelatus's |
1:34.6 | moves the producer knew that the two men fit the bill. Ferri and wrote the songs and pushed Morvin |
1:41.4 | and Pelatus out onto the stage dressed in long sweaters leggings boots and shoulder padded |
1:46.4 | power suits and the American audience aided up. The entire country swooned over the exotic dark |
1:52.6 | scanned European men with the fancy dance moves and catchy songs. Millie Vanillia tapped into the |
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