Biography

	At the beginning there were three young man, or better said boys since that is what they where at this time in 1992. Back than it was 19 year old Howie Dorough, 14 year old Alexander McLean and 12 year old Nicholas Carter. The three of them often met during the waiting time of castings, quickly became friends and discovered their common interest for music. So Alex had the idea to for a group and so they formed a musical trio and attempted a talent show at a mall that was hold buy THE Louis J. Pearlman. They did "It's so hard to say goodbye" from their fave group Boyz II Men and Pearlman was taken by them and engaged them immediately. But there was one catch he wanted them to form a quintet. and he already had an idea and this idea had the name Kevin Richardson and was 21 years of age by this time. When he got the call he was working for Disney and gladly took the offer. Not only that but he also had an idea for the fifth person of the group, called was Brian Littrell and was his 17 years old cousin from Kentucky where they both grew up.
	Two years later in 1994 they got signed to Jive-records and recorded their first CD. Early in 1995 they released their first single called "We've got it goin' on". But it wasn't very successful and dropped out of the charts after only two weeks.
	But this was different when they released the same single in Germany in August of 1995. in Germany and many other countries of Europe it became a huge hit and sold more than 400.000 times during the first six weeks alone in Germany, which brought the Guys their first gold record and it didn't take them long to receive their first platinum award. And this success really over helmed all five of them.
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