Nick Carter (musician)
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Born | Nickolas Gene Carter January 28, 1980 Jamestown, New York, U.S. |
Residence | Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S. |
Nationality | American |
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Years active | 1992–present |
Home town | Ruskin, Florida, U.S. |
Height | 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m) |
Spouse(s) | Lauren Kitt (m. 2014) |
Children | 1 |
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Website | nickcarter |
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Nickolas Gene Carter (born January 28, 1980)[1] is an American musician and actor. He is best known as a member of the pop group the Backstreet Boys. As of 2015, Carter has released three solo albums, Now or Never, I'm Taking Off and All American during breaks between Backstreet Boys schedules, and a collaboration with Jordan Knight titled Nick & Knight. He has made occasional television appearances and starred in his own reality shows, House of Carters and I (Heart) Nick Carter. He gained fame in the mid 1990s and early 2000s as a teen idol. He is also the older brother of singer Aaron Carter and the late Leslie Carter.
Early life[edit]
Nickolas Gene Carter was born in Jamestown, New York,[2] where his parents, Jane Elizabeth Schneck (née Spaulding, previously Carter) and Robert Gene Carter (1952-2017),[3][4] owned a bar called the Yankee Rebel.[5] His mother is a Welsh, Irish, German, English, and a quarter American descent. Several years later, the family moved to Ruskin, Florida and managed the Garden Villa Retirement Home, where they added to the family.[6] Carter's siblings are Bobbie Jean, (born January 12, 1982),[7] Leslie (June 6, 1986 – January 31, 2012), and twins Aaron and Angel (born December 7, 1987).[4][8]
Carter's father has a daughter, Ginger Carter (born 1972), from a previous marriage. His parents divorced in 2003. His father married Ginger R. Elrod (born December 5, 1974)[9] in 2004, and had a son, Kaden Brent, in June 2005.[4]
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