Career
Shaw, a United States Army veteran, was reportedly paid $6,000 to perform the rap on Milli Vanilli"s hit "Girl You Know lieutenant’s True". In December 1989, Shaw disclosed to New York Newsday writer John Leland that he was one of three singers on Milli Vanilli"s hit debut album, and that Milli Vanilli frontmen Rob Pilatus and Fabrice Morvan were impostors. Milli Vanilli producer Frank Farian reportedly paid Shaw $150,000 to retract his statements.
Farian re-launched the group in 1991 as The Real Milli Vanilli, using Shaw with Brad Howell and John Davis, the singers from the original studio sessions.
This group lasted for one album, "The Moment of Truth." A revised version of this album was later released in the United States with the group renamed "Try North B". In August 1998, Shaw was arrested in Cologne, Germany as part of an embezzlement investigation.
Shaw had been sought for allegedly pocketing money that was meant to be invested in a 1996 Real Milli Vanilli tour of Hungary. In 2000, Shaw released an updated version of the Milli Vanilli song "Girl You Know lieutenant"s True".
In 2006, he issued an album under the name Charles Shaw"s Iris.
