Justin Randall Timberlake (born January 31, 1981), occasionally known by his initials JT, is an American singer, songwriter, actor, dancer, and record producer.
Raised in Tennessee, he appeared on the television shows Star Search and The All-New Mickey Mouse Club as a child. In the late 1990s, Timberlake rose to prominence as one of the two lead vocalists and youngest member of NSYNC, which eventually became one of the best-selling boy bands of all time.
Timberlake began to adopt a more mature image as an artist with the release of his debut solo album, the R&B-focused Justified (2002), which yielded the successful singles "Cry Me a River" and "Rock Your Body", and earned his first two Grammy Awards.
Britney Spears slams Justin Timberlake for trying ‘too hard to fit in’ with black artists
nypost.comformer boyfriend Justin Timberlake, 42, talking differently around black artists in her new memoir, “The Woman in Me,” which hit shelves Tuesday. “His band, *NSYNC, was what people back then called ‘so pimp,'” Spears writes on Page 57 of the book.“They were white boys, but they loved hip-hop.
To me, that’s what separated them from the Backstreet Boys, who seemed very consciously to position themselves as a white group.”“*NSYNC hung out with black artists.
Sometimes I thought they tried too hard to fit in,” she says. Spears, who dated the “Cry Me a River” singer from 1999 to 2002, then provided a cringeworthy example.“One day J and I were in New York, going to parts of town I’d never been to before.
Walking our way was a guy with a huge, blinged-out medallion. He was flanked by two giant security guards.”“J got all excited and said, so loud, ‘Oh yeah, fo shiz, fo shiz!
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