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NEWS
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Z103
Brings you Nick Carter
back up
Source: Z103
Z103 is bringing Nick Carter to Toronto and we want you to meet him.
Nick will be in the Z103 studios Thursday Sept. 5th and you and 5
friends can be in the studio with him. To do this, listen to Z 103
starting this Monday. When you hear Nick Carter's new song HELP ME
be the 5th caller through on the Z lines 416-798-1035. You and 5
friends could be sitting up close and personal with Nick Carter
Thursday Sept. 5th in the Z 103 studio. The grand prize will be
announced Wednesday night with Chris Biggs. From the radio station
bringing Nick Carter to Toronto & letting you meet him Z 103.5
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A
Whole New Backstreet
back up
Source: Backstreetuk.com
Word from your Webmaster: I got
this news from a Worldpop Message Board - a fan posted, and there
was some controversy about it being a 'fake' or not. However I still
have put it on my site, as I think it could be true. If it is not,
then I will delete it - however I believe all BSB fans, should have
the right to make up their own minds about it:
Stepping back into the spotlight after almost two years since their
last original album, the boys are here with a fresh new sound,
putting their troubles behind them.
Their last album, "Black & Blue" was a failure in the
eyes of many. Kevin Richardson says "We put a lot of effort
into this new album. We took our time with it. 'Black & Blue'
was hurried along by our
managers, which didn't give us enough time to give it our
best." Due out December 17, 2002, the boys are back with their
full-length album, "Incredible".
We wanted this album to really say to the fans you know, 'hey we
love you guys' because since Black and Blue was released, we've been
through a lot.
Our fans are absolutely incredible, and they've stuck by us through
so much." Says the engaged AJ McLean.
Along with the album, fans can expect another tour, which will start
in Europe and make its way to North and South America, and hopefully
to Asia again. "We keep telling people we'll have a worldwide
tour. We actually haven't, it's kind of funny. This time we hope
that we'll make it to most places we haven't visited in a long
time," stated Brian Littrell, soon to be a father. "We
haven't visited in three or four years. We started out there and
we're going back."
Not only will a tour, but an entirely new line of merchandise, such
as school supplies, clothing posters, and plenty of other goodies
accompany the album.
"We're really looking forward to this album. We mixed all of
our
tastes of music, so you'll find dance and hip-hop, along with a
rock-edge, and some mature, Elton John-type music. It's going to be
fun," says Howie Dorough.
"We have a song called 'Calling Me,' which will get you up to
dance. We're also using the song AJ wrote, 'Happy,' which we know
has a lot of meaning to him."
"Hopefully we can put these rumors of us splitting behind
us," says Nick Carter, who is promoting his solo album,
"Now of Never" due out October 29. The first single due
out is named "Can't Believe," which combines up-beat dance
tempos with strong guitar chords and a heavy drum beat. "It's
like
nothing we've done before," says AJ. "We're changing.
It's a whole new "Backstreet."
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Nick
Carter: Sexiest Guy in the World
back up
Source: CosmoGirl
With nearly 10 million votes, Nick beat out Ben Affleck, Freedie
Prinze Jr., and Shane West in our most heated Cosmogirl.com poll
ever.
By: Carissa Rosenberg
When we met Nick Carter, he looked like he'd just rolled out of bed.
His hair was messy and sticking up in all directions. His shirt was
untucked. His jeans were rumpled, fresh-from-the-floor-ish. You
might think this angel of the Backstreet Boys would be surrounded by
bodyguards, slick with hair goo, and armed with an everringing cell
phone. (really, the guy is a zillionaire!). But actually, Nick is a
very tall, very broad, very cute boy next door. "I'm
Nick," he said, introducing himself to everyone from the
photographer to the caterer. Yeah...we know.
It was fun breaking the news to him that CosmoGIRL!s voted him the
Sexiest Guy in the World. "Really"? he asked, smiling and
even blushing a little. He seemed genuinely surprised. "Is this
recent?" he wanted to know (yes!). "Wow."
Nick, who joined the group when he was just 12, is at 22 getting his
own groove. With his new album Now or Never, due out this fall, Nick
is happy-and single! WE caught up with him in a Los Angeles photo
studio to talk about true love, getting into trouble, and going
solo.
Heartbreak City
"If you find somebody, and they bring you down, you're
going flat on your face." Nick says. "There are a couple
of times that I've really let myself get hurt." Before the
Backstreet Boys' Black & Blue tour, Nick fell for an up-and
coming-singer. "I was like, this girl's really cool," Nick
says. Then he starts talking more intensely. "I even flew her
out to hang out with me beofre the tour started."
Nick pauses for a second. "But I found out the only reason she
was with me was, she wanted to come on tour with us-with her group
as the opening act!" And the worst part of all was how Nick
found this out: The girl's boyfriend called. That's right. She was
using Nick and cheating on him. "I don't know what I was
thinking," he adds. "It was messed up. I cared about her a
lot.I hope she reads this someday-she knows who she is!" Nick
wouldn't reveal the girl's identity (we tried!):"Her name
starts with a D-that's all I'll say." But we could tell Nick's
still a little hurt by what this girl did to him, so we let him rant
for a bit beofre changing the subject. "If you want to be with
a person," Nick says, "You should like the way they are,
not just who they are." He sighs:'That's such a waste of
time!"
It wasn't the first time Nick fell hard and got hurt, of course.
You've probably heard about his very-public break-up with long-time
girlfriend Willa Ford in October 2000. They were living together;
they even had dogs together. During that time, she was trying to get
her own recording career off the ground, while he was tring to get
their relationship under wraps. "I'm pretty private," Nick
says. "I don't like to expose too much about what's going on in
my life when it comes to relationships becuase people start asking
questions, and then everything about your life becomes open. But she
always wanted me to tell everybody about us." When Willa got
her own record deal, their relationship eventually fell apart.
Nick's fans, thinking Willa was just using him, were outraged. They
put up dozens of "I hate Willa Ford" Web sites with names
like saynotowillaford.com and willafordsucks.com .But Nick never
talked meanly about his ex. "When you talk about your
relationship in the media, that's the reason a lot of bad stuff
happens.," he says. "I just don't talk about that stuff
very much. People start to make assumptions. It's bad." Okay,
Nick. We can take a hint. Moving right along...
Under Arrest
Back in January of this year, hust after the Black & Blue
tour ended, and the Backstreet Boys were on hiatus, Nick was feeling
restless, deciding what to do next in his life. "I was out
having fun at a club [in Tampa], and there was a fight going on
outside," he says. "The copswere trying to clear the area,
and this guy came up to me-he wasn't even in uniform-and said, 'Get
into the car.' And I asked 'Why?' To this day, I swear on my soul, I
didn't do anything wrong." Really? "I didn't do
anything," Nick insists. "I was just in the wrong place at
the wrong time, and basically, it turned out bad." Very bad.
When police handcuffed Nick and put him in the back of their patrol
car, he started crying.
"It's okay to cry", he says. "I'm no Tommy Lee, you
know." Nick was charged with resisting a law officer, and as
part of his punishment, he had to do community service in a local
hospital. Looking back, Nick says he's actually glad it all happend.
"I got to visit some sick kids and it was awesome; I mean,
these kids were so happy," he says. "Seriously, I want to
thank the Tampa Police Department for arresting me."
The arrest forced Nick to stop doing so much partying and start
doing a lot of soul-searching. "I used to believe I had
different personalitles-a really serious one and one that's really
crazy," he says. "I got in this band and went through a
stage where I wanted to party. There were points where I didn't care
about myself. I was like, the hell with it, you know?" During
that time, he says, " I was starting to be some guy that I
didn't like." But after the arrest, Nick cleaned up his act.
"I believe things happen for a reason," he says.
Flying Solo
"In the Backstreet Boys, all the stuff we were writing was
like 'I'll Never Break Your Heart.' But I wanted to write the
opposite!" Nick smiles. " Iwanted my songs to have that
fun-type vibe."
After 10 years of being the "little brother" in the
multiplatinum band, Nick is finally ready to break out on his own.
"When you're in a group of older guys, they want you to look
and act a certain way," says Nick. "There were times when
we'd be performing when they'd be like, 'Calm down Nick, you've got
to be more mature.'" As a result, sometimes Nick felt like he
couldn't truly be himself. "It's hard when you're on this
roller coaster, and you don't know what the hell is going on, and
all you do know is what you're supposed to do," he says. But
now, Nick's calling all the shots, and the freedom feels great.
"I feel like I can say stuff that maybe I couldn't say
before," he says. "When you're with a group, you tend to
have to go with what everyone else is doing."
Nick says the album allowed him to try something different. "I
decided to go into the studio and start building something on my own
to see if I even have it," he says. But he's anything but cocky
about being a solo star."The reason I'm doing this is because
it's been in my heart for so long to get out some emotions that I've
held in as a little kid being in an adult world," he explains.
"I've always been very passionate. Hey, I might not be the best
singer or the best dancer, but I have a lot of heart."
Family Affairs
While working on the new album, Nick has been busy reconnecting
with his family-and he's got a fresh new tattoo to prove it: two
small black feet that look someone's standing on his chest. "My
dad has Blackfoot Indian in him, and my grandmother was half
Blackfoot Indian too, so I have Blackfoot Indian in me," he
says. And on him (he he). Nick also has a Native American-style
tattoo of a chain around his right arm, and a shark and a musical
note elsewhere on his body.(No, we didn't see all of these
personally, but we know they exist!)
Nick lives near his parents in Tampa and is close with his brother,
Aaron, and his sister, Leslie. His first writing credits were
actually on Aaron's debut CD, and he's been known to jump on the
stage with his baby brother. He's also around to stare down Leslie's
boyfriends. "Leslie is 16 and her boyfriend is 18, and I don't
even like talking about it," says Nick. "I just want to
protect her make sure everything is cool. And if anything happens,
I'm going to bust his ass!"
Looking for Love
Nick tells us he's been single for a year and a half, which we
find kind of shocking, considering that he's totally romantic. After
all, this is a guy who (like Leo in Titanic) likes to draw his
girlfriends. "The face is everything," Nick tells us.
"You can see the soul of a person in her eyes. That's what
attracts me most." We wanted to know what kind of girl Nick is
looking for (just out of curiosity!). "I'm not picky," he
says. "I've dated all different types of girls. As long as they
have a good heart, and they're cool inside, that's all that really
matters to me." You might think that Nick is super-confident
around girls, given that we know millions who are waiting for him to
ask them out, but actually, Nick's a little rejection-phobic.
"I'm a shy dude," he says. "I like it when someone
comes up to me. It's hard for me to go up to a girl and start a
conversation. I know I'll get tongue-tied and say the wrong
things." Aww! Nick also let us know that he's in no rush to get
back into a relationship right now. At this point in his life, he's
finally happy to be on his own. "I'm doing stuff that I've been
dying to do, and I'm loving it so much," he says.
"And when it comes to women, if somebody comes along and
understands what I'm doing and understands where I'm at, then that's
cool. But I'm not out there looking like I used to be." He
adds. "I used to think I needed to find somebody. You know,
everybody's right when they say, 'When you're looking you don't find
it.' So I'm just dating, and I'm so happy right now."
(big picture on page 2 of Nick. Black and white closeup pic of his
face. )
(page 4 has a color pic of Nick. He's laying on his stomach and has
a sexy smirk on his face. He has on blue jeans and a shirt with an
eagle and the American flag.)
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Rainforest
Event With Kevin back
up
Source: JWR
Join Backstreet Boy Kevin Richardson for an exclusive breakfast at
the Rainforest Café at Downtown Disney.
1515 South Disneyland Drive
Anaheim, California 92802
Saturday, September 28, 2002 8:00-10:30 am
Tickets will be sold online only here at www.JWRFundraisers.com
beginning at 12pm eastern/9am pacific on September 5, 2002. Regular
Admission price: $100 per ticket, with a limit of 4 per person.
Regular admission includes: A Meet 'N Greet with Kevin, a breakfast
buffet, a special commemorative event ticket, and access to raffle
and auction items, including autographed merchandise.
Regular admission check-in will begin at 8:30 am. VIP tickets also
available! Only 30 VIP tickets will be sold on a first-come,
first-serve basis for $250 each.
In addition to the Meet 'N Greet, buffet breakfast, and access to
raffle and auction items, VIP ticket bearers will also receive a
special autographed commemorative ticket. They will also join Kevin
as he comes “face to face” with wild animals and learn about
wildlife conservation and our Earth in a special presentation by
Wildlife on Wheels. VIP check-in will begin at 8:00 am.
There will also be a photographer on the premises to take photos to
be made available for a donation after the event on www.jwrfundraisers.com/LA_Event_Photos
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3rd
Annual Latin GRAMMY Awards - Performers and Presenters
back up
Source: YAHOO
Jon Secada, Daisy Fuentes, and Nick Carter Named as Presenters
for Premier Latin Music Event to be Broadcast on the CBS Television
Network September 18
Marc Anthony and Carlos Vives will perform live on the 3rd Annual
Latin GRAMMY® Awards telecast set for September 18, it was
announced today by the Latin Recording Academy®. Jon Secada, Daisy
Fuentes, and Nick Carter will be among the presenters. As previously
announced, Gloria Estefan and Jimmy Smits will co-host the Latin
music industry's preeminent awards show. The awards will be
broadcast on the CBS Television Network from 9-11 p.m. (ET/PT). This
announcement marks the first official naming of performers.
Additional performers and presenters will be announced shortly.
International superstar Marc Anthony won a GRAMMY Award for Best
Tropical Latin Performance at the 41st Annual GRAMMY Awards, and his
hit song "Dimelo (I Need To Know)" won a Latin GRAMMY
Award for Song Of The Year at the 1st Annual Latin GRAMMY
celebration. His album "Libre" currently is nominated in
the Best Salsa Album category.
Carlos Vives leads the nominations with six, including Album Of The
Year, and Best Contemporary Tropical Album for "Dejame
Entrar," and Record Of The Year, Song Of The Year, Best
Tropical Song, and Best Music Video for the album's title song.
Two-time GRAMMY winner Jon Secada will be on hand to present along
with actress/model Daisy Fuentes, and Backstreet Boy recording
artist Nick Carter.
The 3rd Annual Latin GRAMMY Awards will be telecast by the CBS
Television Network; carried on radio via the Hispanic Broadcasting
Corporation and Westwood One worldwide; and featured on the Internet
at GRAMMY.com and America Online, Inc. (AOL Keyword: LatinGRAMMY).
The 3rd Annual Latin GRAMMYs will present awards in 40 key
categories covering many genres and sub-genres of Latin music.
To help promote the 3rd Annual Latin GRAMMYs, and further expose
this year's outstanding nominated music and artists, the Latin
Recording Academy and Warner Musica Latina will release the
"2002 Latin GRAMMY Nominees" CD on September 10. The
compilation disc contains 17 nominated tracks from artists including
Record Of The Year nominees Celia Cruz, Alejandro Sanz, and Carlos
Vives; Best Salsa Album nominees Marc Anthony, El Gran Combo De
Puerto Rico, and Tito Rojas; Best Music Video nominees Juanes,
Paulina Rubio, and Shakira; and Best Ranchero Album nominees Ana
Barbara, Aida Cuevas, and Alejandro Fernandez, among others.
The 3rd Annual Latin GRAMMY Awards is produced by Cossette
Productions. Pierre and John Cossette are executive producers; Ken
Ehrlich is producer/writer; Walter Miller is producer/director; and
Tisha Fein is coordinating producer.
For more information about the Latin GRAMMY Awards, the Latin
Recording Academy, as well as a complete list of nominees, please go
to www.grammy.com.
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