Nick Carter was born on January 28, 1980 at eight o’clock PM in Jamestown, New York. He weighed eight pounds and fourteen ounces. He was the first grandchild both sides of the family (Bob is an only child) – he was born on his grandmother’s (Jane’s mother) birthday. In Jane’s book The Heart and Soul of Nick Carter: Secrets Only a Mother Knows, Jane tells us that just that very day she was dancing around the living room listening to music. She did that frequently throughout her pregnancy with Nick and assumes that’s where his love for music started.
He was named Nickolas because the Christmas season had just past and St. Nick was still on his parent’s minds. The television show Eight is Enough was also running high at that time and a young boy on the show was named Nicholas and they like him. The k in his name came about because Jane wanted him to have a different style to his name – not so traditional. His middle name is his father’s middle name also.
At the time of Nick’s birth, Bob Carter was a truck driver. Jane had trained to be a dental assistant but didn’t want to be away from home. She wanted to raise Nick herself and couldn’t stand the thought of leaving him with a babysitter. Bob’s health started to fail and had to quit work to be on disabilities. Stomach problems are hereditary in the Carter family.
It was around this time that Bob’s parents loaned them the money to re-open a rundown club called Anthony’s. They remodeled it on their own and re-named it the Yankee Rebel. Their small family lived above the Yankee Rebel and Nick could often be found on the dance floors or in the DJ booth as a toddler, dancing and listening to the music.
Following the Yankee Rebel days, Nick and his family moved around quiet a bit. They went from New York down to Florida, and back to New York (where they opened The Pleasant View Retirement Home and Nick’s younger sister, Bobbie Jean, was born on January 12, 1982). They weren’t as happy in New York as they were in Florida, so once again they decided to move back to Florida, by the advice of one of their residents, Helen.
Nick showed to Jane at the age of eight that he had a talent for singing. She over saw/heard him singing Bridge Over Troubled Waters out in the backyard. They were tight on money had really couldn’t spare any, but she knew she had to get him singing lessons right away.
Several years, auditions, rejections, and God blessed graces later at the age of twelve, Nick met Howie and AJ through additions and similar contacts. As a trio were discovered by Lou Pearlman, Johnny Wright, and Donna Wright. Shortly afterwards Kevin and Brian were made part of the group. When Nick was fifteen years of age he and the rest of the Boys signed their first record deal, and the rest is history.
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