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Brian Thomas Littrell is an American singer-songwriter, best known as the lead vocalist of the Backstreet Boys. He is also a contemporary Christian recording artist and released a solo album, Welcome Home, in 2006. Brian has 4 Top 20 solo singles in the US Christian chart.

Born on February 20, 1975 in Lexington, Kentucky, United States, he has one older brother and he is the cousin of a fellow Backstreet Boys member Kevin Richardson. He first started to sing in the choir of his Lexington Baptist church. Music was always important to him, and originally planned on entering school to become a music minister and has received a scholarship from Cincinnati Bible College. Littrell, while a senior in high school, changed plans and accepted the offer to join what would become the very successful new boy band, the Backstreet Boys.

Littrell was also a judge for the 8th annual Independent Music Awards to support independent artists' careers.

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Kevin Scott Richardson is an American singer, model, actor, composer, and member of the Backstreet Boys.

Richardson was born in Lexington, Kentucky on October 3, 1971. He is the youngest of three brothers. As a youth, he was a chess club member and acted in school plays such as "Bye, Bye Birdie" at Estill County High School in Kentucky. He was also a football quarterback. After finishing high school, he went to Florida to pursue a music career. In Florida, he first worked as a cast member in Walt Disney World. He was a backstage tour guide and costume characters, most notably as "Aladdin" and one of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. There he also met his future wife Kristin Willits, who was playing the character of "Belle" from "Beauty and the Beast." He worked at Walt Disney World until he joined the Backstreet Boys in 1993.

In 2006 he left the group to focus on his family and at the same time pursuing a career in acting. His first Broadway gig was in 2002, when he played the role of "Billy Flynn" in the Broadway production of Chicago. In 2006 he reprised the role, with many Chicago alumni for the 10th anniversary of the show. He also acted in several TV and independent movies and won an Independent Vision Award for Best Actor for his performance in "The Casserole Club" at Vision Fest in New York City in 2011. In 2012 he rejoined the Backstreet Boys.

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Nickolas Gene "Nick" Carter is an American singer-songwriter, dancer, musician, entertainer and actor. He is best known as a member of the vocal group Backstreet Boys. He gained fame in the late 1990s and early 2000s as a teen idol. In 2002, during the group's hiatus, he released a solo album called Now Or Never. He has made occasional television appearances and starred in his own reality show, House of Carters in 2006. He is also the older brother of singer Aaron Carter.

Carter was born on January 28, 1980 in Jamestown, New York to Robert Gene Carter and Jane Elizabeth (née Spaulding). His parents owned a bar called the Yankee Rebel there. Several years later, the family moved to Ruskin, Florida and managed a retirement home, Garden Villa Retirement Home, where they added his younger siblings to their family.

He joined a vocal group that would be the Backstreet Boys in 1992 when he was only 12. He was arguably the most popular member when the group reached its world stardom in 1999-2000. In 2011 he released his second solo album, titled I'm Taking Off.

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Alexander James "A.J." McLean is an American musician, singer, dancer, actor, and entertainer. He is a member of the Backstreet Boys. He was born on January 9, 1978 in West Palm Beach, Florida to Bob and Denise (née Fernandez) McLean. He is of Latino and German ancestry on his mother's side, and Scottish, Irish and English on his father's side. His parents divorced when he was four years old and he never saw his father again until the Backstreet Boys reached its fame in 1997.

In January 1986 at 8 years old, he acted in his first role as Little Mike in the 1986 film Truth or Dare. In 1990, he moved to Orlando, Florida with his mother and grandparents to concentrate on his acting and singing career. As a child, he was involved in various Nickelodeon and Disney projects, including the Nickelodeon show GUTS, Welcome Freshmen, and a comedy series called Hi Honey, I'm Home! on which he played a character named "Skunk". He later quit high school to pursue his show business career.

Together with Howie Dorough and Nick Carter, he formed a trio that would later be the Backstreet Boys in 1992. In 2000 he created a character named "Johnny No Name", to use as his alter ego. He established a foundation called the JNN Foundation to raise funds for diabetes research and other causes like keeping music programs in schools. McLean also did a nine-city tour to support VH1 Save the Music as Johnny No Name.

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Howard Dwaine "Howie D." Dorough is an American singer-songwriter, dancer, musician, entertainer, and actor. He came to fame in the mid 1990s as a member of the Backstreet Boys.

Dorough was born on August 22, 1973 in Orlando, Florida, where he met future friend and bandmate A.J. McLean. His mother, Paula Flores, is Puerto Rican, and his late father, Hoke Dorough, was Irish American. He is the youngest of five siblings.

Besides being a member of the Backstreet Boys, he also worked as a producer for singer/song-writer George Nozuka and Katelyn Tarver as part of his management partnership with former 3deep member CJ Huyer, called HC Entertainment formed in 2004. He's also managing a Canadian band called Neverest. Dorough also have made several appearances in various TV programs. He first guest-starred in the television series Sabrina, the Teenage Witch in the episode "The Big Head" as an egotistic rock star named Strum. He also guest-starred on an episode of Roswell, and voiced Santa Claus on the Nickelodeon preschool animated series Dora the Explorer in the Christmas episode "A Gift for Santa". Dorough's first solo album "Back to Me" was released on November 9, 2011. The first single "100" received moderate success and airplay primarily in Canada.

Outside of entertainment business, Dorough also invested in hotels, condominiums, and real estates with his older brother John.

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