Chris Kirkpatrick is an American singer, dancer, entertainer and voice actor who has a net worth of $10 million {dollars}. Chris Kirkpatrick is most well known as one of many members of the profitable boy-band, ‘NSync.
Early Life
Christopher Alan Kirkpatrick was born in Clarion, Pennsylvania, on October 17, 1971. He’s of Native American, Irish, Scottish, and Spanish descent. He attended Dalton Excessive College in Dalton, Ohio, earlier than transferring to Orlando, Florida, to attend Rollins School. Whereas in Florida, he carried out with the Doo Wop group The Hollywood Hello-Tones at Common Studios, and in addition labored as a busboy at a department of the favored chain restaurant Outback Steakhouse
NSYNC
In 1995, Kirkpatrick met American music producer and boyband creator Lou Pearlman by way of a mutual buddy. Pearlman was the drive behind the mega widespread boyband, the Backstreet Boys. Kirkpatrick had the concept to start out a brand new boyband, and Pearlman was . Pearlman supplied to finance the group, if Kirkpatrick might discover different younger, proficient male singers to hitch him. Thus, the beginnings of what would develop into the band NSYNC had been established. Whereas trying by way of tapes he already had, Pearlman seen Justin Timberlake, who had appeared on the present “The Mickey Mouse Membership”. Kirkpatrick reached out to Timberlake, who advisable his buddy JC Chasez as effectively. Ultimately, they finalized the NSYNC lineup with 5 members: Kirkpatrick, Timberlake, and Chasez, together with Lance Bass and Joey Fatone. Fatone had really been one in every of Kirkpatrick’s outdated Common Studios Florida co-workers.
NSYNC had been lively from 1995 to 2002. With the group, Kirkpatrick bought over 50 million information around the globe. Specifically, the teams’ second album, “No Strings Hooked up”, was an enormous hit, and bought 2.4 million information in simply its first week of being launched. They held the report for highest variety of information bought within the first week of an album’s launch for 15 years, till Adele’s album “25” surpassed them in 2015. Specifically, Kirkpatrick was recognized for his distinctive countertenor voice.
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After NSYNC
After NSYNC broke up in 2002, Kirkpatrick stayed out of the highlight for 5 years till 2007, when he starred within the present “Mission Man Band”. The fact present, which aired on VH1 for one season in 2007, adopted former boyband members that had loved widespread success within the Nineties, and their makes an attempt to realize a second shot at success. Different former boyband members featured on the present embody Bryan Abrams of Shade Me Badd, Jeff Timmons of 98 Levels (98 °), and Wealthy Cronin of LFO. The 4 guys got here collectively on the present to type the supergroup title Sureshot, recording an unique tune collectively and acting at varied public occasions.
Following “Mission Man Band”, Kirkpatrick returned to actuality tv in 2008 as a member of the solid of the second season of the CMT present “Gone Nation”. The present is a celeb actuality present that follows contestants competing to develop into a rustic music singer. The present’s prize is a rustic single produced by John Wealthy of the nation group Massive & Wealthy. Different contestants on Kirkpatrick’s season included Jermaine Jackson, former member of The Jackson 5; actor Sean Younger; and “American Idol” season 4 finalist Mikalah Gordon, amongst others. Regardless of not successful (the winner was Sebastian Bach, the previous lead singer of glam metallic band Skid Row), Kirkpatrick acquired very constructive critiques from the choose John Wealthy, and he impressed everybody along with his unique tune that he carried out, titled “That’ll Get Ya By”.
Different Initiatives
In the course of the peak of his NSYNC fame, Kirkpatrick had his personal clothes line named Fu-Man Skeeto, which he established in 1998. The fashion of the clothes line was impressed by city skater vogue. He ended the road in early 2001. Outdoors of music, Kirkpatrick has loved a gentle profession as a voice-over actor. He’s finest recognized for voicing the character Chip Skylark within the Nickelodeon animated collection “The Pretty OddParents”. He has additionally appeared in various minor appearing roles, in movies corresponding to “On the Line” (2001), “Sharknado 3: Oh Hell No!” (2015), and “Lifeless 7” (2016). Moreover, he has appeared in lots of music movies, together with for Good Charlott’s “Life of the Wealthy and Well-known”, A Day to Bear in mind’s “2nd Sucks”, Fall Out Boy’s “Irresistible” (additionally that includes Demi Lovato), and David Archuleta’s “Merry Christmas, Pleased Holidays” (reunited along with his former NSYNC bandmate Lance Bass).
Private Life
Kirkpatrick wed his long-time girlfriend, Karly Skladany, in Orlando, Florida, on November 2, 2013. They’ve one baby collectively, a son named Nash (born 2017).
