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Nickolas Gene "Nick" Carter is an American singer-songwriter, dancer, musician, entertainer and actor. He is best known as a member of the vocal group Backstreet Boys. He gained fame in the late 1990s and early 2000s as a teen idol. In 2002, during the group's hiatus, he released a solo album called Now Or Never. He has made occasional television appearances and starred in his own reality show, House of Carters in 2006. He is also the older brother of singer Aaron Carter.

Carter was born on January 28, 1980 in Jamestown, New York to Robert Gene Carter and Jane Elizabeth (née Spaulding). His parents owned a bar called the Yankee Rebel there. Several years later, the family moved to Ruskin, Florida and managed a retirement home, Garden Villa Retirement Home, where they added his younger siblings to their family.

He joined a vocal group that would be the Backstreet Boys in 1992 when he was only 12. He was arguably the most popular member when the group reached its world stardom in 1999-2000. In 2011 he released his second solo album, titled I'm Taking Off.

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