Timberlake told The Hollywood Reporter that he learned to sing in the Baptist church of Shelby Forest, Tennessee, where his father was the choir director. After his parents divorced when Timberlake was in kindergarten, he moved to Memphis with his mom, whom he often calls his "best friend" in interviews.
Eleven-year-old Timberlake — then going by his first and middle names, Justin Randall — had his first brush with fame on the storied talent search show. He was beat by a young singer named Anna Nardona. At 12 years old, Timberlake was introduced as a cast member of the famed Mickey Mouse Clubhouse alongside fellow future superstars like Christina Aguilera , Ryan Gosling — and even his future girlfriend Britney Spears. We were learning how coverage and editing and cinematography work.
And being put in front of a live audience, learning how to engage the crowd to get a laugh. Honestly, it was like ' SNL' for children. After the show was canceled, Timberlake went back to school for a year, but admits he acted like a "delinquent" and said he's glad he never made it to "regular high school. Former Mouseketeers Timberlake and J. Chasez were already writing songs and recording demos together when Chris Kirkpatrick came knocking to form a pop group.
As the legend goes , the three of them moved to Orlando; coincidentally ran into an old acquaintance, Joey Fatone, on Seventies night at the club Pleasure Island ; brought in Jason Galasso before deciding he wasn't the right fit; and finally replaced Galasso with Lance Bass, who they recruited from a high school in Mississippi, thanks to a connection with Timberlake's vocal coach. The boy band released their debut self-titled album in the US on March 24, Following a disappointing debut, it peaked at No.
Timberlake, 14 years old when the group formed and 17 when their debut album was released, was the youngest member by far.
He took on lead vocals alongside Chasez and went on to shoulder much of the songwriting responsibilities. In a feature in Rolling Stone , Chasez noted that each guy brought something different to the group, and Timberlake was "the all-American guy. Although Timberlake had been romantically linked to Britney Spears as early as , he played it coy when asked about their relationship in Timberlake later said they were together for four years.
Everything gets blown out of proportion. I've been in the tabloids, and I don't enjoy it. What can I say? The thing is, so many girls you meet in this business are so into themselves, and Britney is not.
She's as down-home as she was before she got into this. That's the best thing about her. I got the cream of the crop, man! After leaving RCA and counter-suing their management company, the group produced and released "No Strings Attached" largely without the help of a major record label.
The record company didn't send anyone to us," Chasez told Rolling Stone at the time. A lot of creative people we approached didn't want to work with us. We didn't have a contract saying that any of these songs would make it on the album when we did get a new deal. So the people who worked with us were straight up about the music. And that was amazing. It held the record for the largest sales week for any album until Adele's "25" was released in Timberlake played a male model named Jason Sharp , who was saving up for grad school so he could become an astronomer.
Memphis was also home of the blues and he got turned on to the likes of B. King and others. In , Timberlake's parents divorced.
Both have remarried and the extended family remains close. The boy band would go on to become one of the hottest pop groups of the s, first as an overnight sensation in Europe and then later in the United States. After dealing with a very public legal battle with their former manager Lou Pearlman, the band released their sophomore follow-up, No Strings Attached , which became the top-selling album of the year and the bestselling album of the decade.
The follow-up and final album, Celebrity, was released in and produced three hit singles: "Pop," "Gone" and "Girlfriend. The wins came on the heels of a controversial Super Bowl performance with Janet Jackson in which Timberlake accidentally tore off a portion of Jackson's costume, revealing her bare breast. The album's lead single, "SexyBack," spent several consecutive weeks at No.
In , Timberlake helped make Madonna's single "4 Minutes" a Top 10 hit. Not only did he provide complementary vocals, but he was also a co-writer of the song. Timberlake also contributed to several other tracks on Madonna's Hard Candy album. Also in pursuit of an acting career, Timberlake has experienced success on the silver screen. While parts in Alpha Dog and Black Snake Moan garnered little notice, he did hit it big as the voice for a young King Arthur in 's smash-hit animated film Shrek the Third , which featured Mike Myers as the title character.
Other work soon followed as Timberlake teamed up with Myers once again when he appeared in the comedy The Love Guru. But the SZA duet never caught fire, despite being one of JT's catchiest and poppiest releases in years. The subject matter felt a little "been there, done that" after his earlier hit "Cry Me a River," and with a whopping running time, it was a very long single.
But there are a lot of great pieces to this too-big puzzle. Jay Z. After a nearly seven-year gap between JT albums, this song was a blessing from above back in But with some distance from its release, we can say it might not have been the perfect single we thought it was then. Timberlake happily splashed back on the scene in with an upbeat and eventually Oscar-nominated song-of-summer-worthy track about wanting to just keep dancing -- a message we can all get behind.
In this reflective midtempo track, Timberlake appears to sing directly to his wife, Jessica Biel. For someone who is so private about his non-music life, it was an intimate glimpse into their marital world. This song is a total tribute to Prince ballads, complete with Linn drums. Chris Stapleton. The whole song is a laid-back vibe, feeling like these two Southern stars just let fans listen in on a soulful jam session.
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