Real voice of Milli Vanilli, an Anderson, SC native, died last week at 66 Associated Press John Davis, one of the real singers behind the lip-synching pop duo Milli Vanilli, died of the coronavirus last week, according to his family. He was 66. Davis died May 24 in Nuremberg, Germany, where he had lived and performed for a long time, his daughter Jasmin Davis said in a Facebook post. “We are so incredibly sad and heartbroken,” Davis told The Associated Press in a Facebook message. Davis was a graduate of Westside High in Anderson, S.C., according to a brief 1990 LA Times story about a visit back home for the singer.