Aaron Carter

His elder brother Nick Carter is also a successful singer. One of his sisters Leslie Carter passed away because of suspected drug overdose in 2012.

Aaron Carter was born on 7 December 1987 in Tampa, Florida. His father’s name is Robert Gene Carter, and his mother’s name is Jane Elizabeth. He had four siblings, three sisters and one brother.

He attended the Frank D. Miles Elementary School, as well as the Ruskin school in Florida. He had a great enthusiasm for music from an early age, and started his career at the tender age of seven.

Aaron Carter began his career as the lead singer of ‘Dead End’ which was a local band formed by members of a rock school in Tampa. However, their interests conflicted as Carter was more interested in pop while the others preferred alternative rock. Therefore, Carter had to leave the band two years later.

His first solo appearance was made when he was only nine years of age. It was an opening for the ‘Backstreet Boys’ in Berlin, which took place in March 1997. His first single ‘Crush on You’ was released the same year.

On 1 December 1997, his self-titled debut album was released. It became quite popular in several European countries such as Norway, Spain, Denmark, as well as Germany. It was released in the US on June 16, 1998, where it was a great success as well.

On September 26, 2000, his second album ‘Aaron’s Party (Come Get it)’ was released. It included several singles such as ‘I Want Candy’ ‘Aaron’s Party (Come Get it)’, and ‘That’s How I Beat Shaq.’ The songs were often aired on Disney and Nickelodeon.

At the age of thirteen he released his third album ‘Oh Aaron’ in 2001. It found success, though not as much as his second album. It contained singles such as ‘Oh Aaron’ and ‘I am all about you.’

The album ’Aaron’s Party (Come Get it)’ is one of the most significant as well as successful works of his career. It was released in the year 2000 under Jive Records. It was a big hit, selling three million copies in the United States alone. The songs ‘Girl You Shine’, ‘I want Candy’, ‘Aaron’s Party (Come Get It)’, and ‘Bounce’ became quite popular and were played frequently on Radio Disney.

In 2002, he worked as a voice actor for ‘Liberty’s Kids’, which was an animated historical television series meant for children. It was aired from September 2002 on PTV Kids. Aaron provided the voice for the character of a soldier who fought in the American Revolutionary War. The solider, Joseph Plumb Martin, whose narratives of his experiences, which were published much later, proved to be an invaluable resource in understanding those times, especially about the lives of common soldiers and the battles that they took part in.

Aaron Carter has also worked in films, one of them being ‘Fat Albert’ a fantasy romantic comedy about the gang of Fat Albert, who comes into the human world from the cartoon world in order to help a lonely teenage girl. Aaron did a cameo appearance, playing the role of a character named Darren.

The film ’Popstar’ is significant to his career as it is the only film where he played a lead role. The film is about a high school teenage girl who has an obsession with JD McQueen, played by Aaron. JD, a musical sensation, needs her help to improve his grades and thus he builds a relationship with her. The film was released in October 2005.