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Brian Thomas Littrell (born February 20, 1975) is a member of the Backstreet Boys.
Career
Littrell was born in in Lexington, Kentucky, and began singing as a child in church. His cousin, Kevin Richardson, moved to Orlando, Florida, during Littrell's teenage years. Richardson had gone to Orlando to find a job in the entertainment industry; after being chosen as one of the Backstreet Boys, he recommended his cousin to the band members and management. Littrell was convinced by Richardson to go to Florida and audition. Soon, he was chosen as the fifth member of the band.
The Backstreet Boys began to gain fame in 1995; by 1998, the group had teenaged female fans around the world. However, Littrell was soon faced with a serious problem because of his congenital heart problem, which nearly took his life at age five, had caused his heart to grow dangerously large. Doctors decided in September of that year to correct his problem by performing open heart surgery. Littrell had to cancel some concert tour dates, but the surgery was successful, and his heart problem was corrected.
After their success of the late 1990s, the Backstreet Boys went on a hiatus. Littrell, meanwhile, became committed to a number of other show business activities, most of them for charity. He joined other celebrities, such as Bow Wow, Frankie Muniz, Beyoncé Knowles, Usher, Jake Thomas and others, in a yearly NBA tour where he plays basketball in every NBA city before a game. Aside from that, he has also played charity baseball games and remains highly active in the charity he founded, the Brian Littrell Healthy Heart Club for Kids. In 2000, he won the Teen People's 25 Hottest People Under 25, tying with Justin Timberlake.
The Backstreet Boys reunited in 2004 to start recording their newest album, Never Gone. It was released in 2005, with their first single "Incomplete." Littrell's first solo album, Welcome Home was released on May 2, 2006, which like the Backstreet Boys projects, is a Sony BMG release.
Littrell was the winner of the 2006 GMA Music Award for Inspirational Recorded Song of the Year, "In Christ Alone," which ironically won both the 1993 award in this category (when recorded by Michael English) and the 1994 Song of the Year at the GMA Music Awards.
Personal life
In 1997, Littrell met model and actress, Leighanne Wallace, at the video shoot for their single "As Long As You Love Me." He proposed in 1999 and they married on September 2, 2000. Their first child, son Baylee Thomas Wylee Littrell, was born on November 26, 2002.
Awards (solo)
GMA Music Awards
- 2006 Inspirational Recorded Song of the Year, "In Christ Alone". (Writers: Shawn Craig, Don Koch)
Discography
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