Friday, November 25, 2016

Blind Items Revealed #11 - Anniversary Month

November 21, 2006

Let me preface this post, by saying that if this story ever comes out, it would blow the music world up and shake it to its core..This would put the Milli Vanilli scandal and Ashlee Simpson SNL situation so far down the ladder it would be crazy..

Towards the end of last year I had a woman come into my office and she began to explain what she had done and had been doing for several years and it was one of the very few times that I just could not believe what I was hearing..I know the music industry inside and out, and I had never heard of something so extensive and pervasive as this..

This woman (S) came into my office because the payments she had been receiving had stopped and she wanted to either get the money that was owed to her, or expose what she had been doing to the light of day..

S is a sessions/studio/backup singer and is very good..Prior to her involvement in what I am going to describe, she made a very good living singing on commercials and being a backup singer for groups and other solo acts, etc..Like I said she is very good, but she does not really have that “look” which would make her a star, so record companies did not put her out front, but just used her talents..

In late 2000, a man came to her one day and said he needed someone to record some demos because he had written a lot of songs, but wanted a demo to shop the songs to singers and record labels..This is not unusual at all and she had done this type of work before and it paid pretty well so she agreed. What was unusual about her recording of the demos was how much work was put into the actual recordings..It was extensive..Generally there is not much time put into the recordings because you never really know if the song will even sell, and the money spent on recording could be put to better uses..These demos she was recording were actually being treated as if they were going to be released on a CD or to radio..They even did some mixing which was REALLY unusual..

After a few weeks she had recorded about over a dozen songs and she went on her way and was really oblivious to anything else pertaining to it, UNTIL several months later she was in her car and heard her voice coming from the radio, only it was another singer being given credit..(We will call this other singer MV for Milli Vanilli) She could not believe what she was hearing and did not know whether to be excited to hear herself on the radio, confused about the credit given to another singer or just pissed off for the same reasons..

What she did do, was to call the man who had originally come to her and had her record the songs..The man agreed to meet her and gave her a substantial sum of money and promised to keep giving her money every month as long as she kept her mouth shut. MV was taking off..(MV has/had several Top 40 songs and CD's. They could have gone to #1 or languished in the 30's..I really cannot go into much more detail or else it would be too easy to discover) MV was everywhere..on television, radio, awards shows, commercials..EVERYWHERE..meanwhile, S continued to get money every month and kept her little secret to herself..The guy who picked S was VERY lucky..Most singers would have caused a fuss, but S has always been in the background and was resigned to the fact she always would be, and was very happy just taking the $$, and did not want that to stop..

About 9 months go by and S is called by the guy because MV is going on tour and they want S to record some extra mixes and such for the tour..She agrees and does not really do much, but money is money..

Fast forward another year or so and S stops receiving money and after a few months of missed payments, calls the guy who explains that they need S to do another CD and then the payments can continue, but there is no more money unless she does more recordings..

S agrees and records another CD worth of songs which is released several months later and does even better than the first CD. This same process is repeated (I am not going to tell you the number of CD's because again you may be able to deduce and so I will just say the process repeated itself several times)

Well everything goes well for the most part for all these years and then no more payments, and no more calls and she cannot even locate our mystery man..S has not received a payment in six months when she came into my office and related this story..She did not even know the guy's name, but when she described him, I knew who he was and was even more floored than I had been previously..This was just something I had really not heard before..

I had heard of really altering voices in the recording studios and bringing in hired hands for one song or a large portion of a song, but never CD after CD and even doing extra work so a live performance would not sound staged..I told her I needed some time to check into her story and then we could proceed..It took two calls before I got the guy on the phone and he was pissed, scared, angry, threatening, remorseful..everything..It turns out the reason he had stopped making payments was he had been playing some shell games with the money between the record company, MV's earnings and MV's investments and just did not have any additional money..In addition, MV was not sure she wanted to continue on with what had been happening and so our mystery guy might be completely out of the picture..

I actually think the record company to this day has no idea what went on as the Guy was very good at what he does/did and knew how to make sure the record company was always happy..He stayed under budget, toured, made MV available, and made the record company money..

So a meeting was arranged in my office and S and MV finally met face to face..they had never done so, even though it was S who made MV a star..MV was rude to say the least when she saw what S looked like and it really upset me although S being her normal classy self could have cared less..

What we agreed to do that day was to provide S with one lump sum rather than a monthly income which was easier for Guy to pull off and S also agreed to never disclose her role in this drama and MV was on her own for future recordings and tours..

This involved literally millions of CD's and hundreds of concerts all over the world..The one thing I did get out of this beside my fee of course is a Gold Record autographed by S and by MV..I know it is the only one in the world..

Jennifer Lopez

103 comments:

No said...

color me fucking shocked.

Boots said...

OMG squeeeeeeeeee.....for REALS!?! i wonder if this has anything at all to do with that conversation ages ago that Howard Stern and Robyn had about why JLO was doing American Idol - there was a huge payoff for something that she needed was the insinuation. i wondered at the time if it was a gambling bill of Marc Anthony's or hush money for something!!! OMG~!! JLO!!

violet said...

shook to my core said no one ever

sandybrook said...

MV!!! Meanwhile JLo does sing live and Brittney Spears never sings live, if she can at all.

MRS.K said...

I knew it was her!!!

sandybrook said...

btw I guessed wrong I had Brittney for $1,000 Alex.

Iwantchaos said...

So now what happens? Will the core begin to shake? Swept under the rug? Big news conference? No one cares but us?

MRS.K said...

Britney does many impromptu acapella songs without backup singers just her natural voice. Go to youtube and you will see. Her natural voice is really beautiful but they autotune her a lot these days as she has become lazy. Especially in her early years she would sing to the crowd acapella. I have never ever hear JLO sing without a lot of help and effort.

NC NURSE said...

I can't believe he revealed it!! I've been reading this site from the beginning. I miss the original Enty!! Love the bacon eatin', parent's basement livin', blind item revealin' big guy!!

OB said...

Did S pass away I wonder? Which is why Enty can finally reveal this?

ras said...

Well, her old flame has an Oscar for writing a screenplay that he didn't actually write. They really deserved each other.

Sunshine Daydream said...

In my alternate universe, this will always be Britney and Sia.

G said...

I knew it!!! Between the kiss she gave Marc at the Latin Grammys and this,, I am so turned off by someone I once adored.

Majik8bong said...

I'm wondering how a "lawyer" can get away with revealing something like this--while he technically maintains the confidentiality of his client, I'm positive there must have been some kind of NDA with the other party which he has just blown to shit.

Me said...

I just posted all the articles about MV.

Finally.

Farmgirl said...

Thanks, Enty!
Harkens back to Timmy Shimmy excitement!
Just because it was figured out, does not make it any less exciting.
Those of us who have been around since the beginning really appreciate you!

david said...

Me too!
One of my neighbors has a adult child who works at the theater where Brittney performs. The neighbor one day after Brittney started performing there told me that his child had told him 'Brittney never, ever sings live' -- even though the concert participants think she does.
i was way off with my guess.
But, not surprised this is JLo. Maybe she should get off her high horse and be less of a diva.

Fatima B. Khan said...

I knew it was her!!

Me said...

Now the only thing that I really wonder about is the fact that you, enty only would've done if everyone was dead and all. Weird.

June Gordon said...

And J-Ho has made millions on American Idol giving kids with real talent tips on singing.

Only in America.

shorny said...

I wonder if VIP Blonde is reading this...miss her

SnarkIsFun said...

So what is JLo doing now? No more new music? And who is 'S'? Even more, Who is 'Guy'?

david said...

Okay.
Now, who is "S?"

Inquiring minds want to know.

Bela Mac said...

JLo Spanish singing voice sounds very different from the English songs, u can even see at Latin Grammys or old records... I don't know if they made her a new voice or if that's the real one, but I guess S only sang in English.

Brux said...

You made my life with this reveal, Enty

Jacqualine said...

I wonder what is going to happen next year when JLo is supposed to perform in Bye Bye Birdie live.

BigMama3g said...

And the real singer is??????

Sd auntie said...

Glad it's not Brittney. Jlo is lovely to look at but not very talented.

Whatever said...

Didn't S ever get the teensiest bit offended whenever people said J LO had a weak/ poor singing voice? Lol. I'm not sure S has much to complain about...she's made good money out of a mediocre talent.

Parenting said...

Come Visit

http://thencomesfamily.com/community/thread/128306/black-friday-bi-reveal-thread

Apple Tarts said...

All Enty wants to do is drive traffic to the site since he lost so many fans when he went to this new shit format. I think this is his big effort to get his name in the news after the is RDJ a poster or not heat he got awhile ago.

Apple Tarts said...

Guy is Puff Daddy he produced her earlier albums until they split up.

Marc said...

This was revealed on another site, but I still think it's Brit Brit, who always lipsyncs. I've heard Jennifer sing acapella at the spur of the moment on TV shows, and she can sing, regardless of the fact that I can't stand her.

shakey said...

Is it possible the other singer was Candye Kane?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hx3X-vGOkQ0

GoTrollUrSelf said...

Who is The Guy? Who is S? I assume you're hinting that she's 'too fat' to be a star. She deserves a reveal and JHo deserves no more BS kindness blinds because she's a talentless, scheming, greedy bitch.
Never saw her appeal. Jenny From The Block needs to take her ass right back there with Skeletor.

inga said...

sia doesn't have an ugly face, she just has to do something w/ her horrible (drugs/alcohol?) teeth...

Cate Chandler said...

Is Guy Benny Medina or Puff Daddy?

Betty said...

Wow. That page is quite a testimony to the Internet of 2002. Do you have to time-travel in order to post there? Bravo, technology.

Hot Cola said...

If RDJ is a poster here, "I Love your work!!!"
:)

parissucksliterally said...

This is SUCH CRAP. Who EVER thought J Lo has a good voice?

If this was someone who could actually sing, I'd be wowed. This is bullshit.

Just Desserts said...

Brittany Used to be able to sing love
she got her 1st implants put in under pressure from her mommy at 14 and it somehow damaged her vocal chords. maybe the anesthesia tube scraped them going in or being yanked out but that is how it happened
Brittany was pissed at her mother for years over that and it was the beginning of the tipping point for her crazy

Just Desserts said...

live..

Just Desserts said...

oh and I vote puffy or Rodney Jerkins for the guy..

texasrose said...

Don't know if this is true or not but seems like quite a breach of legal ethics for attorney in one of these payoff confidentiality deals to disclose this information. May be ok if parties involved have died but clearly not now since Lopez is still alive. I'm sure this is actionable and if real enty is really a lawyer then he would be disbarred and liable for millions of dollars to Lopez if she chose to sue. She probably wouldn't since if this was true it would make her look bad. That being said it also means this could all be total bullshit.

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Mooshki said...

Times have changed. If Enty had revealed this back when it was first posted, it absolutely would've rocked the music world. Remember all the fuss over Milli Vanilli, and they were nobodies. Back then, J.Lo was the new big thing, and no one really knew yet what a crappy singer she is.

So fun to have come full circle to where it all really began!

ab said...

Holy shit

@Shakey Would be very interesting if it had been Candye, but towards the end there were fundraisers for her ultimately-fatal cancer (if she got boned by the "deal")

S.D.AUNTIE said...

Candy Kane makes sense. She just died from cancer recently. She was really popular in san diego.

Guesser said...

@ Me, isn't one of the clue blinds about MV visiting S in the hospital? If Enty can't or won't reveal S, he should at least give some info about her.

Peaches said...

I remember a few years ago sitting at my computer and hearing a song that i knew was old but really liked. I couldnt think who sang it. I remember being really surpised and impressed when I looked it up only to learn it was JLo . I remember thinking, wow, she IS good!!! Haha - it must have been S on that song!!! Too funny!

Jessica Fletcher said...

Could S be Natasha Ramos?

June Gordon said...

Don't be fooled by the songs that I got . . .

Mrs,K said...

Same as having a reality tv star as your president.

Mrs,K said...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnWb4pmOm8I

The few times JLO actually did try to sing acapella she always chooses a Spanish song never English and even with that she struggles very hard. Makes me angry knowing this fake singer is a super multimillionaire today from being a fake hypocrite.

b626 said...

JLO doesnt need music $$$. She makes a $hit ton off of her perfume line. So she's equal parts greedy and delusional to still keep hacking away in the music biz.

BeenHereBefore said...

No Duh! Christina Milian sang almost her entire album a few years ago- I knew it was her.

Jlo is like janet jackson- a better dancer than singer. They are more 'entertainers' than singers.

Cate Chandler said...

http://www.gossiprocks.com/forum/blind-items/145678-howard-stern-gives-blind-about-jennifer-lopez.html

Mz Kitty said...

It's ridiculously obvious in "Waiting for Tonight" and "If You Had My Love"' that is so not her voice. I knew it from day 1 but damn was Puffy a fantastic image revamper. She sure was hot shit during that time.

Guinin said...

Didn't Ashanti say the same thing happened with here vocals and her lawyers took care over it

De said...

Jennifer can't sing. This much is truth.

Mrs Wells said...

Wow. Long time lurker, first time poster... I just went back and listened to 'On the 6'... live versions and album... and holy cow that is NOT JLo, and you'll never convince me otherwise!!! I have a humble musical ear, I can't say for sure if it's Kandye, but damn, Jenny from the block...

Starr said...

This might be J. Lo's first live performance. She's singing "If you had my love" (I think it was her first song off her debut album), and it's cringe-worthy.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FWDt25e29GQ

Snootches said...

Miss her and her FFF

Snootches said...

That comment was supposed to be a reply to the VipBlonde comment. The good old days when we were a cdan family.... Anyways, when I first heard "If You Had My Love" it was painfully obvi that it wasn't JLo singing. I'm sure when JLo gets wind of the reveal, she'll throw a diva tantrum, then try to damage control. My money is on her doing a live performance somewhere to create some doubt that she is MV.
I actually believe that Britney sings, but they do a lot of "special effects" to make her sound decent. I think they prerecord her concerts, turn her mic up just enough so you can "hear" her over the track. Honestly, she's more of a performer than a singer, so it doesn't bother me that she lipsyncs...jmtc

glue said...

Me too! My first thought many, many years ago when I initially read this blind, my first instinct was Jennifer Lopez. She sounds like the type of bitch who would put down a woman for her looks. Please let this shit go viral.

glue said...

+1
...waited many, many years for this.....

glue said...

I miss a lot of the old regulars. Used to have some FUN conversations back on the old CDaN.

detnow359 said...

Knew all the time it was JLo. Clearly there was a different singer on the earlier tracks. I think Guy is Benny Medina. Puffy came along a bit later and obviously that first album was S and not JLO. Puffy would have played along with what Medina already started.

I'm not convinced Kandye was S but her death earlier this year would have freed Entry legally to reveal this now.

Susan said...

http://atrl.net/forums/showthread.php?t=947860

http://ohnotheydidnt.livejournal.com/101289034.html

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uAjXVSDObck

I didn't thoroughly research them all, but wow sounds similar

glue said...

I'm curious, as well. OG-Enty held onto this secret for YEARS. Someone in the scenario had to have passed away in order for this to be revealed, because now it's just a case of deny, deny, deny since there's no physical proof.

longtimereader said...

Hello! just like me. Read this site alongside D listed for years before i posted. As a music obsessive i have a little knowledge about that but enjoy all the 'No they didn't!' post's as well. Good fun with a nice drink after work for a few minutes.

AC said...

I'm confused about the timing -- On the 6 was released in 1999, so how does that work with the late 2000 timing of the blind? What I'm wondering is did JLo actually sing on the 6 or was that 'S' or possibly someone else?

Ucci said...

EVERYONE knows Jennifer Lopez was fake and couldn't sing. Mariah Carey's ex husband Tommy Motolla USED her to prove he could make ANYONE a star to irritate Mariah who can actually sing. I'll never forget the tv special he had for Jennifer Lopez. It was a farce then as now.

Long Island Girl said...

Anesthesia tube? LMAO!

Starr said...

Attorney-client privilege doesn't go away after a client's death.

Queenofloveandbeautu said...

This story is so fascinating. It was Tony Motolla, he was, like another's comment or said, trying to fuck with his ex, Mariah, and it went way further than just making someone who can't sing a star. They took the same loop Mariah had just sampled to cut the track "lover boy" and created "I'm real." They then took that a step furthur and got Ja Rule to collaborate ON THAT SAME TRACK, who had just worked with-you guessed it-Mariah. Then, iirc they released the album/and or song before Mariah's or right at the same time, which didn't make sense financially because they were on the same label.

Lurker said...

Hubby just said Candye Kane passed away this year, so if true, it could be her. Would certainly free Enty up to reveal.

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xxx said...

wow Motolla's spiteful

Proofinpudding said...

https://youtu.be/FWDt25e29GQ

I heard his way back in 1999
I knew then she couldn't sing

Groovy said...

I feel cheated.

Mar_time said...

@queenofloveandbeauty I googled lover boy and from memory I think that's right when Mariah had a breakdown...I can certainly see why she'd be under stress with all of this going on

Queenofloveandbeautu said...

Oh! And speaking of "I'm Real," Ashanti sings background vocals on it and Shen said in interviews that she had never done so much work for someone else's album. She says they produced the entire song with her lead vocals and background vocals and then added Jennifer in on lead. Basically an inside look at how they would mix her voice in with others.

Mar_time said...

Oh and there's no way JLO could sing "let's get loud" live...not her singing

Queenofloveandbeautu said...

@Mar_time yeah, it explains a lot. She didn't just hate her, JLo was the embodiment of her downfall at the hands of an abusive ex. No wonder she wouldn't acknowledge that she knew who she was, I would want nothing to do with the her.

Just Desserts said...

And also the duet with 'll cool j. "all i have"
I love the that song.. also "Jenny From the block" was originally Mimi ftb but Tommy stole it and have it to jlo..
jlos while 3rd album I Ashanti I hope they payed her well but I doubt it

Just Desserts said...

sia has also written song for Jlo and said ironically that she has am amazing voice...

Hmmmmm said...

I think it's pretty well known that Christina milian wrote play and sings on it, its mostly Christina with a bit of jlo speaking on it

Cookie said...

I dont believe for a MINUTE this blind is about J-Lo, and what's more, I think she is a terrible singer. However, I am a Latina, and even I can hear her thick puerto rican accent come through in the overly polished and highly stylized auto-tuned earlier songs from On the 6. I can hear her nasal pitch which is classic J-Lo. And what's more, she has performed live on SNL and its all her (terrible) voice minus the technological enhancements.

I think this "reveal" is a cop out in order to protect the real MV (you are still out there boo!). I actually dont even trust Enty anymore, but J-Lo this is not.

Susan said...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkkFST5qrLg
^The hook Mariah found and Tommy stole
http://atrl.net/forums/showthread.php?t=947860
^Jlo Ghost Singers
http://ohnotheydidnt.livejournal.com/101289034.html
^This one adds each song and singers help
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDpjg9bhjQ4&app=desktop
^The inside story - (Mariah Carey Memorable Moments 2x01 Jennifer Lopez)

ellie said...

I think J.Los singing voice sounds just like her talking voice, so I'm actually with you there, Cookie. Even after listening to her old music and trying to hear it not being her, it sounds like her speaking voice. Idk.

Audrey said...

Thanks Enty. I always wondered how she could be a star...if you watched her on "Living Color" The show was amazing. She was just a kind of chubby latina. And no I'm not being racist...the other dancers were better. This was before she found the stylist that gave her golden locks, the docs that plumped her lips and fixed her eyebrows...and the dance team that helped her learn some moves. I would never say that if she hadn't let it all go to her head. :(

Mrs.K said...

JLO is a fraud!!! Just check her 'acapella' videos. She cant sing to save her life!

Raven said...

Snootches: Actually, Britney has performed live on SNL a few times. She's not that bad of a singer.

Unknown said...

Omg that's horrendous!! My ears are bleeding!

You know said...

I agree it’s BS... J-Lo never toured prior to late 2007 with Marc. - http://www.mtv.com/news/1570622/jennifer-lopez-and-marc-anthony-wipe-off-tears-set-sights-on-monster-show/

Unknown said...

from 2001 article saying ashanti is the real singer:

http://www.foxnews.com/story/2001/07/11/j-lo-is-no-milli-vanilli-says-backup-singer.html

Unknown said...

Also J Lo's 4th album was called 'Rebirth' and it came out after a 4 year hiatus

Isabella c said...

I knew jlo could never sing she was a dancer and and actress she wanted to sing after making Selena but there was something that didn’t sit right with me and now she was helping kids on American idol that’s hilarious

Unknown said...

I think the guy that help orchestrate the hoax is Tommy Mottola. At the time he was doing everything he could to hurt Mariah.

Unknown said...

Oh and I remembered something MC said :"The Post reported that when the Allure interviewer mentioned that Lopez claims to get eight hours of sleep every night, Carey reportedly snapped: "If I had the luxury of not actually having to sing my own songs, I'd do that, too."

FABulous hearthROB said...

Who is JLO ghost singer "S" ENty Lawyer? Is she dead or still alive??

sam said...

There’s no way this is JLo. Sorry not sorry. If “guy” was going to go to such extreme lengths to have a ghost singer, why wouldn’t he have chosen someone with a super killer voice, over someone who’s just pretty average, in comparison to other female vocalists that were coming up at the same time? It just doesn’t make sense. Plus, as a pro singer myself, I think JLo’s singing voice matches her speaking voice pretty dead on, the inflections and timbre are too close to be another person. I like JLo a lot, I will admit, but her voice is just decent, not phenomenal. So again, that just does not add up. Why spend all that money and effort on someone who’s not phenomenal?

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