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.
Chris Stapleton, Brandi Carlile, Jon Batiste Among Headliners for Tennessee’s Pilgrimage Festival
variety.comChris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music CriticThe top of the bill at the forthcoming Pilgrimage Festival in Tennessee looks a little like a reprise of the recent Grammy Awards telecast, with Chris Stapleton, Brandi Carlile and Grammy king Jon Batiste all set to perform this September.From there, the festival takes a more decided skew toward Americana than it has in past years, although it also leans into other genres.
The Avett Brothers are also among the headliners, on a lineup that includes Lake Street Dive, Celisse, Elle King, Dawes, Adia Victoria, Marty Stuart, Molly Tuttle, Butch Walker and Trampled by Turtles.Pilgrimage takes place Sept.
24-25 at the Park at Harlinsdale in Franklin, about a half-hour south of Nashville. Better Than Ezra is one of the outliers on the bill, as a more straight-ahead rock band, and there’s a good reason the band is there: Frontman Kevin Griffin is one of Pilgrimage’s co-founders.
He owned up to aiming the festival in a certain direction for 2022 that befits the area where it’s held, so there are no all-out rock ‘n’ roll headliners, a la the presence of the Foo Fighters, Weezer and the Killers in the past.
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