The pair and manager Carsten Heyn charged that Arista Records President Clive Davis knew they were faking. Arista has repeatedly denied the claim. Heyn also said recording industry officials worldwide knew of the deception.
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”We all knew right then,” says a former Arista A&R employee, ”that there was no way in hell these guys we were listening to were the ones singing on the record.” Indeed, Pilatus, Morvan, and their former U.S. manager, Todd Headlee, claim that Arista had known, in Headlee’s words, ”from the get-go.” Pilatus and Morvan claim they told Arista president Clive Davis the truth six months before the Grammys. Plenty of others certainly knew it. ”It was just understood,” say engineers at the Manhattan studio where Girl You Know It’s True was mixed, that Pilatus and Morvan weren’t singing on the album. Such engineers usually consult an artist before tampering with vocal levels; in this case, they were emphatically told that wasn’t necessary.
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