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Full Name: Brian Thomas Littrell
Description: Singer-songwriter, actor, USA
Known For: Known as a member of the Backstreet Boys.
Instruments: Vocals, guitar
Location: Lexington, United States of America
Date Born: 20th February 1975
Location Born: Lexington, United States of America
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BIOGRAPHICAL PROFILE
Brian Littrell
An American singer-songwriter and occasional actor, best known as a member of the Backstreet Boys. He is also a contemporary Christian recording artist and released a solo album, Welcome Home, in 2006. Brian has 4 Top 20 solo singles in the US Christian chart.
Littrell was also a judge for the 8th annual Independent Music Awards to support independent artists’ careers.
Brian Littrell was born in Lexington, Kentucky, United States. He has an older brother, and is the cousin of fellow Backstreet Boys member Kevin Richardson. He first started to sing in the choir of his Lexington Baptist church.
Music was always important to him, and he originally planned on entering school to become a music minister. While a senior in high school, Littrell changed plans and accepted the offer to join what became the very successful vocal harmony group, the Backstreet Boys.
Brian’s cousin Kevin Richardson called on him to join the Backstreet Boys. After the joining of Brian Littrell, the quintet officially took shape. In the beginning, there was no success in the United States, even though the first single had been a hit on Orlando radio stations. The band manager Lou Pearlman marketed the Backstreet Boys in Europe, where they became commercially successful in 1995.
They became hugely popular in Europe, Latin America and the United States in the late 1990s and the early 2000s. During this time they released four albums, Backstreet Boys, Backstreet’s Back, Millennium and Black & Blue followed by a greatest hits album, The Hits: Chapter One. After a three-year gap, they released their comeback album, Never Gone followed by Unbreakable and This is Us. As of July 2012, they are recording a new album in London which is expected to be released by the end of 2012.
In 1997 Littrell was instrumental in bringing a lawsuit against the group’s managers Lou Pearlman and Trans Continental claiming that Pearlman has not been truthful about the earnings made by the group. In the following year, McLean, Richardson and Dorough joined the lawsuit which eventually resulted in a number of settlements, details of which were not disclosed,
Personal life
Brian Littrell was born with a heart defect that brought him several times into hospital with life-threatening conditions – for two months alone when he was 5 years of age because of a bacterial infection. An open heart surgery in 1998 closed the hole he had in his heart, as he said on his “Hour of Power” interview in 2007.
After that he founded the Brian Littrell’s “Healthy Heart Club” for kids, a non-profit organization that assists children with heart conditions through medical, financial and practical help.
Two months after joining the Backstreet Boys, Brian started dating Samantha Stonebraker, a relationship that continued for four years (1993–1997). Brian even lived with Samantha’s family for two years. In 1998, after their separation, she released the book What You Wanna Know: Backstreet Boys Secrets Only a Girlfriend Can Tell, about their relationship and the Backstreet Boys.
In 1997, Littrell met model and actress Leighanne Wallace at the video shoot for their single “As Long as You Love Me”. He proposed on Christmas Eve night of 1999 and they were married on September 2, 2000 at Peachtree Christian Church in Atlanta, Georgia.
Both are committed evangelical Christians. Their first child, son Baylee Thomas Wylee Littrell, was born on November 26, 2002.
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