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.
Lance Bass: Why ‘NSync Was ‘Scared’ Over ‘No Strings Attached’ Album
usmagazine.comBye, bye, bye to that doubt! ‘NSync might be one of the biggest boy bands of the ‘90s, but there was a time when they didn’t even think they’d make it past their debut album.Biggest Boy Bands of All TimeThe group — Lance Bass, Justin Timberlake, JC Chasez, Joey Fatone and Chris Kirkpatrick — formed in 1995 and went on to be nominated for eight Grammys and sell over 2.4 million copies of their 2001 smash, No Strings Attached, within the first week.“It was a crazy time in our lives because that’s when we were having the fight with [record producer] Lou Pearlman and he was trying to destroy our careers.
It was just a really weird time for us,” Bass, 41, exclusively told Us Weekly on Thursday, April 15, while promoting his new Fruit Smash
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