Aaron Carter

Biography

Aaron Charles Carter, 7 December 1987, Tampa, Florida, USA. The younger brother of Nick Carter of the Backstreet Boys, Aaron first burst onto the charts as a precocious 10-year-old in 1997. The next three years saw his shrill bubblegum pop winning an increasingly large slice of the lucrative pre-teen market. Carter attended music school in Tampa where, at the age of seven, he joined other students in the band Dead End. He went solo in 1996, and the following March was spotted by an Edel Records’ executive singing at the Backstreet Boys’ Berlin concert. Carter’s first two singles, ‘Crush On You’ and ‘Crazy Little Party Girl’, were big hits in the teen-pop orientated European and Japanese markets. Both songs entered the UK Top 10, and when the two follow-up singles (one of which was a truly awful cover version of the Beach Boys’ ‘Surfin’ USA’) also broke into the Top 30 Carter became the youngest artist ever to...

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