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BACKSTREET BOYS´s Story

 

      The story of  BACKSTREET BOYS started with Lou Pearlman. He´s a business man who was always in contact of the show business because his cousin is a famous singer. When he was young He tried to be a famous singer but after a lot of tries He decided to form a group, but instead of being a member of it he wanted to be the manager.

   Lou was willing to become his new dream true: have a group of five members with charisma and talent who sing pop music, just like New Kids Of The Block.

  While Lou was looking for the people that helped him with his dream, AJ, Howie D and Nick went to infinite castings with the aim of become big stars of show business. In that auditions they met each other and AJ and Howie become friends.

   Lou Pearlman found help in a friend that had been in the show business for a long time. She was the person in charge to do the casting and found the guys. The first one to be in the casting was AJ who had to sing a song and dance another one. He impress her so much with his powerful voice and his way to dance that he was already the first member of the group.

    That same day Howie D was called for the casting. By that time he used another name: Tony Donettti.

    The third one was Nick who astonish her with his professionalism. Although he was too young (he was only 12 years old), Lou thought that he was perfect for the group.

    Altough the trio had an incredible harmony, Lou keeped on with the idea of a quintet.

   Kevin worked in Disney and he also do some jobs as a model. He get in the casting because a photographer told Lou that he met a guy who was model, sang very well and also knew to play the piano.

    Kevin told Lou about his cousin Brian who lived in Lexington. He insisted so much that Kev conviced Lou to called Brian and so He did. Brian was in a History class and arranged with Kevin to talk later.

When Brian got home, He told his parents what Kevin had told him. Brian´s parents accepted but He had to finish high school. The next day Brian was in Orlando for his audition. Despite of his nervous He showed Lou that He was the Voice they were looking for.

   But How do they get the name Backstreet Boys?

They were in a restaurant deciding which will be their name. One of them look through the window and saw the Backstreet Market. As it was an important place for young people and tourist they thought: "why not?". They add Boys, for obvious reasons and the name of the group was from that moment:

BACKSTREET BOYS

Their first performance as the Backstreet Boys was on May 8th, 1993 in Sea World Orlando.

 

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