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Chris Kirkpatrick
Background information
Birth name	Christopher Alan Kirkpatrick
Born	(1971-10-17) October 17, 1971 (age 40)
Origin	Clarion, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Genres	Pop
Occupations	Singer, dancer, entertainer, Voice Actor
Instruments	Vocals, Guitar
Years active	1995–present
Associated acts	N Sync

Christopher Alan "Chris" Kirkpatrick (born October 17, 1971) is an American singer, dancer, entertainer, and voice actor who is best known as a founding member of the pop group 'N Sync in which he sang counter tenor. He has provided the voice for many kids shows, including the voice of Chip Skylark on The Fairly OddParents. He also guest starred on The Simpsons as himself, along with his fellow N Sync bandmates, in the episode "New Kids on the Blecch".

Early life[link]

Kirkpatrick is of Irish, Scottish, Spanish and Indian descent. He was born in Clarion, Pennsylvania and graduated from Dalton High School in Dalton, Ohio. He moved to Orlando, Florida, and attended Rollins College while he performed at Universal Studios in a Doo Wop group, The Hollywood Hi-Tones and bussed at a local Outback Steakhouse. Lou Pearlman approached Kirkpatrick with an idea to start another group, and thus formed the nucleus for *NSYNC.^[1]

[edit] Gone Country 2

In April 2008, it was announced Chris would be a part of the second season of CMT's show Gone Country. Chris participated in Gone Country 2 with other cast members: Sebastian Bach, Irene Cara (one episode), Mikalah Gordon, Jermaine Jackson, Lorenzo Lamas and Sean Young. The show was hosted by John Rich of the country duo Big & Rich.

During the show, for which each contestant had to prepare and perform an original song, Chris had one of the strongest songs of the competition with "That'll Get Ya By". He dedicated his performance to his mother who he said "held the family together". Chris surprised many country fans when he stepped on stage and proved he had the writing skills and voice to be a successful country artist.

The prize of having a record produced by John Rich and the promise of play from Kix Brooks on his radio show went to Sebastian Bach. However, John Rich congratulated Chris on his past success and his future successes by telling him he had one of the best songs and he could see it going number one as a country hit. The show's last episode of season two aired on September 26, 2008.

[edit] Music Videos

In early 2012 Chris appeared in the music video for "2nd Sucks" by American rock band A Day to Remember

References[link]

External links[link]

• Nigels 11, the official site
• Chris Kirkpatrick Foundation
• Working Class Industry
• Jim & Lynettes Fun Time Guide
• Chris Kirkpatrick at the Internet Movie Database

Joey Fatone
Fatone at the 81st Academy Awards, February 2009
Background information
Birth name	Joseph Anthony Fatone, Jr.
Born	(1977-01-28) January 28, 1977 (age 35) Brooklyn, New York, United States
Origin	Orlando, Florida, United States
Genres	Pop
Occupations	Singer, actor, television personality
Instruments	Vocals, drums
Years active	1993–present
Associated acts	'N Sync

Joseph Anthony "Joey" Fatone, Jr. (last name pronounced fuh-tone; born January 28, 1977) is a U.S. singer, dancer, actor and television personality. He is best known as a member of the boyband N'Sync, in which he sang baritone. In 2007, he came in second place on the A.B.C. reality show Dancing with the Stars. He was also the host of the U.S. and Australian versions of The Singing Bee and aired on National Broadcasting Company in the United States of America. Currently Fatone is the announcer on Family Feud and is also guest host of The Price Is Right Live! at Bally's Las Vegas.

Early life and career[link]

Fatone was born in Brooklyn to an Italian family and lived in Bensonhurst. He attended Joseph B. Cavallaro J.H.S. (I.S. 281) located at 8787 24th Avenue, Brooklyn. He's the son of Phyllis and Joseph Anthony Fatone, Sr., the latter of whom is an actor and musician.^[1] He has two older siblings, Janine and Steven. At thirteen years, Fatone and his family moved to Orlando, Florida. There, Fatone attended and graduated from Dr. Phillips High School. Reportedly, at his graduation, Fatone sang a rendition of "The Star Spangled Banner", celebrated as a precursor to his future success.

Before becoming famous, Fatone appeared as a contestant on the classic Nickelodeon game show Nick Arcade. However, Fatone and his partner on that episode did not proceed to the bonus round because of buzzing in and answering a question about Abraham Lincoln incorrectly.

After high school, Fatone worked as a performer at Universal Studios in Orlando, where he played "Wolfie" in Beetlejuice's GraveYard Revue. Soon after that in the summer of 1995, after befriending fellow Universal Studios stage performer, Chris Kirkpatrick, who was singing in a doo-wop group, they became the first two members along with Justin Timberlake, of what would become 'N Sync. In 2001, Fatone co-starred with *NSYNC bandmate Lance Bass in the Miramax film On the Line, He guest starred with N Sync on a 2001 episode of The Simpsons episode New Kids on the Block and also did voice work with Bass on the same episodes of Disney's Kim Possible and Adult Swim's Robot Chicken. He also performed in the 2002 dramatic comedy motion picture My Big Fat Greek Wedding as Toula's cousin Angelo and also appears in My Big Fat Greek Life The TV Sitcom., and acted in the critically acclaimed movie The Cooler. He has had minor roles in the experimental film, Red Riding Hood, and in Homie Spumoni, alongside Jamie-Lynn Sigler. Fatone has also been on Broadway performing leads in Rent and in a revival of Little Shop Of Horrors.

Fatone hosted NBC's The Singing Bee as well as the Australian version of the show on Nine Network. On August 21, 2007, it was announced that Fatone, along with Lisa Rinna, will be replacing Joan Rivers and Melissa Rivers as hosts of TV Guide's red carpet pre-shows for the 2007-2008 season. His hosting duties with TV Guide continued for the 2008-2009 season.

Fatone was also in an episode of Hannah Montana as a restaurant owner who used to be a baseball player and forces Hannah to sing in order to get a replacement signed ball for her brother. He is also the "ringmaster" for the new NBC celebrity reality series Celebrity Circus (which is based on the Australian version).

On November 30, 2007, he participated in the taping of the 2007 Walt Disney World Christmas Day Parade inside the Magic Kingdom at Disney World in Orlando, Florida.

On May 22, 2010, Fatone starred as a baseball player in an episode of Imagination Movers on the Disney Channel.

From July 6–18, 2010, Fatone played Franz Liebkind, the comedic German soldier, in the musical "The Producers" at the Pittsburgh Benedum Center.

He has appeared as a voice actor in several episodes of Robot Chicken, starring as himself in a kung fu skit called "Enter The Fat One" and then in the show's Star Wars episode.

In 2011, he strarted hosting the Live Well Network series My Family Recipe Rocks.

In January 2012, he will be one of eight celebrities participating in the Food Network reality series Rachael vs. Guy: Celebrity Cook-Off.^[2] In 6 weeks he was eliminated, but he won $5000 for his charity, the Fat One Family Foundation (TFOFF). He's also hosting the Las Vegas show "The Price is right" at Bally's Las Vegas, as a celebrity guest host.

[edit] Dancing with the Stars

On February 1, 2007, the ABC television network announced that Fatone would participate in season 4 of the American version of Dancing with the Stars, which debuted March 19, 2007. He ended up placing second, losing the mirror ball to Apolo Anton Ohno and Julianne Hough.^[3] He competed with professional partner Kym Johnson.

[edit] Total Nonstop Action Wrestling

On October 18, 2009, Fatone showed up at TNA Wrestling's biggest annual pay-per-view event TNA Bound for Glory and co-hosted the live pre-show alongside Jeremy Borash. This was not the first time Fatone has been linked to TNA as he has been spotted at Universal Orlando where TNA tapes their weekly television program.^[4]

Personal life[link]

On September 9, 2004, Fatone married his on-and-off girlfriend of 10 years, Kelly Baldwin.^[5] The ceremony took place in Oheka Castle in Long Island, New York and was attended by all of Fatone's bandmates.^[6] Fatone and his wife have two daughters together, Brianna Joely, born on March 21, 2001, and Kloey Alexandra, born on January 11, 2010.^[7] Fatone's best friend, Lance Bass is Brianna's godfather.^[8]

According to a recent appearance on MTV Cribs, Fatone owns one of the actual KITT cars used on the series Knight Rider, although it may be a replica, created by George Barris.

Stage Work[link]

• Rent - Mark Cohen (2002)
• Little Shop of Horrors - Seymour Krelborn (2004)
• The Producers - Franz Liebkind (2010)

References[link]

External links[link]

Official

• Joey Fatone on Myspace

Biographical

• Joey Fatone at the Internet Movie Database
• Joey Fatone at the Internet Broadway Database
• Joey Fatone at TVGuide.com

The Cab
The Cab performing at Utah's E Center on 10/16/08.
Background information
Origin	Las Vegas, Nevada
Genres	Pop rock, power pop, alternative rock, pop punk
Years active	2004–present
Labels	Z-entertainment
Associated acts	Fall Out Boy, Panic! at the Disco, Hey Monday, The Academy Is
Website	www.thecabrock.com
Members
Alexander DeLeon Alex Marshall Joey Thunder
Past members
Frank Sidoris Bryan Dawson Charles Henry Cash Colligan Ian Crawford Paul Garcia Andy Pugh Alex Johnson

The Cab is an American Alternative band from Las Vegas, Nevada. Their debut album, Whisper War, was released on April 29, 2008. They have been called "The Band You Need to Know 2008" by Alternative Press magazine. They were also featured in the '100 Bands You Need To Know in 2010' by the magazine and were one of the three bands featured on the cover page, along with Never Shout Never and Hey Monday. Their second album Symphony Soldier was released on August 23, 2011,^[1] with its first single "Bad" released to iTunes July 11, 2011^[2] and announced by the band on July 18. The Cab funded the entire album by themselves and left their Fueled by Ramen/Decaydance label, self-releasing Symphony Soldier. AbsolutePunk gave an extremely positive review with a rating of 95%, calling the album a "masterpiece."^[3] The pre-orders featured eleven packages, ranging from $10 to $9,999 and are now available as packages on the band's webstore.^[4][5] Symphony Soldier is digitally available on iTunes,^[6] and only available as physical CDs from the band's webstore.

Biography[link]

Band members Alexander DeLeon and Cash Colligan first began playing music together at Liberty High School (Henderson, Nevada) and recorded demos as a duo which they put up on their MySpace page.^[7] At this time, future guitarist Ian Crawford went to school in Auburn, WA and started out playing his guitar in talent shows and getting them put on YouTube. DeLeon asked drummer Alex Johnson, who was playing in a local hardcore band, to join The Cab. In late 2005, it became a full band with guitarist Paul Garcia, guitar/pianist Alex Marshall, and drummer Alex Johnson, playing its first show at The Alley in Las Vegas. The band signed to local label Olympus Records in January 2006^[8] but released no material. After giving a demo to Spencer Smith and Jon Walker of Panic! at the Disco at a Cobra Starship/Boys Like Girls/Cartel show,^{[citation needed]} Smith helped them sign to Decaydance Records in May 2007.^[9] Shortly after this, the band's members graduated from high school.^[10] During this time they decided to replace Garcia with Ian Crawford, who moved from Washington to join the band.^[11] In August 2011, The Cab gained a new guitarist, Frank Sidoris, and drummer, Dave Briggs.

Blender named them #420 on their Top 100 Hot Report in September 2007, before they released any official material.^[12] The group has toured with Panic! at the Disco, We the Kings, Metro Station, Cobra Starship, There For Tomorrow, Charlotte Sometimes, Forever the Sickest Kids, Dashboard Confessional, Plain White Tees, The Hush Sound, and others. In February 2008, their touring van turned over in Wisconsin, but none of the members were seriously injured, and they only missed one tour date.^[13] In March 2008, the band played SXSW.^[14]

Their Matt Squire-produced first album, Whisper War, was released on April 29, 2008, featuring Brendon Urie of Panic! at the Disco and Patrick Stump of Fall Out Boy on "One of Those Nights," co-written by Stump and the first single from the CD.^[15][16][17] The video for "One of Those Nights" features members of both Panic! at the Disco and Pete Wentz and Patrick Stump of Fall Out Boy. By February 15, 2008, the featured song from the album, "I'll Run", received over 300,000 hits on the band's MySpace page.^[18] On October 30, their third single, "Bounce", was revealed in a new music video on the Fueled by Ramen page on YouTube. This song peaked at #69 on the defunct US Billboard Pop 100 chart.^[19]

On May 7, 2008, Whisper War debuted on the US Billboard 200 at #108,^[20] placing it at #1 on the Billboard Heatseekers Albums chart for new and developing artists.^[21]

The Cab began the Dance Across the Country Tour with The Hush Sound, Steel Train and The Morning Light on July 7 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The "Why So Serious? Tour" began in September with support from This Providence, Hey Monday and A Rocket to the Moon. In October, they also joined Panic! at the Disco, Dashboard Confessional, and the Plain White T's on the Rock Band Live tour.

Their songs "Bounce" and "One of Those Nights" are featured as downloadable tracks in Rock Band 2, although "One of Those Nights" is an alternate version than that of the one on "Whisper War".

The Cab has appeared on Punk Goes Pop 2, covering Rihanna's "Disturbia". In February and March 2009 the band toured with We the Kings, There for Tomorrow and Versaemerge on the "Secret Valentine Tour". On May 1, 2009, the band performed an entire set dedicated to Queen.^[22]

After a short break, they toured with We the Kings, Forever the Sickest Kids, Nevershoutnever! and Mercy Mercedes on the "Bamboozle Road Show Tour". Shortly after, the band announced their first national headlining tour, called the "What Happens In Vegas..." tour, with the support of The Secret Handshake, A Rocket to the Moon, Eye Alaska, Anarbor, The Summer Set, and My Favorite Highway. The tour began on June 18 and ended on August 9.

On June 1, 2009 lead singer Alex DeLeon announced on his blog^[23] that guitarist Ian Crawford had decided to leave the band. Although DeLeon did say that Crawford had decided to leave due to creative differences, there seemed to be no animosity between him and the band. For their upcoming "What Happens in Vegas..." tour, The Cab announced that their friend Bryan Dawson would be replacing Ian Crawford, who is now the touring guitarist of Panic! at the Disco.

On August 19, 2009, bassist Cash Colligan announced that he would also be leaving the band.^[24] The news of Colligan's split first appeared on The Cab's official MySpace blog. Colligan's departure, like Crawford's, seemed to be amicable as the band wrote, "We wish him the best and I'm sure he'll be no stranger at a Cab show or anytime we're back in town." The same day Colligan posted his own explanation for leaving the band on his official MySpace blog. He wrote, "I'm proud as a founding member of this band to say the things I've done, the people I've met and the friends I've made. After five years it's time for me to take a mental nap. Being home I can collect my thoughts and move forward." Colligan went on to say that he would be settling down in Las Vegas and that now is just not the right time for him to be touring on the road.

In a blog Deleon posted after Cash decided to leave the band he said, "Thank you again to everyone for your unending support, you've made the tour and this summer one we'll never forget. We hope to see everybody again soon. We are happier than ever and have so many songs we are dying to show you guys! Get ready... the best is yet to come."

They announced they will be featured in the Alternative Press Tour 2010 and Warped Tour 2010. On January 16, 2010, Alex DeLeon announced via Twitter that "Bryan is going to be a father!". Bryan later confirmed, and confirmed his leave from the band, saying via his own Twitter that he "wanted to thank everyone for the support and love in this crazy time. Love you all now watch out the guys are gonna do great things, promise." A day later, Alex DeLeon announced that The Cab are looking for a new guitar player: "Anyone know any guitar players? serious submissions only. Here is your chance. We need someone who can really play. Big shoes to fill." They were recently featured on "The Real World".

The Cab was on the "Ap Tour" in March–May 2010. They played songs off Whisper War and are also performed a song, "Locked Up", from their new album.

On March 5, Alex DeLeon posted on his Twitter account "singing on the las vegas house of blues stage tonight. it's been too long. been craving the lights. can anyone guess with who?" Later that night he appeared on stage with former Cab bassist Cash Colligan's new band Play For Keeps. DeLeon sang guest vocals on the Play for Keeps song "Just Like the Movies" live, where normally Travis Clark from We the Kings sings on the recording.

On June 22, 2011, The Cab announced on their website that they were departing from their label Fueled by Ramen and Decaydance Records before finally releasing their new record, Symphony Soldier. The first single from the record is "Bad," which debuted on Sirius XM Radio.

Symphony Soldier was released on August 23, 2011.^[1] with its first single "Bad" released to iTunes early July and announced by the band on July 18. AbsolutePunk gave an extremely positive review, calling the album a "masterpiece."^[3] The Cab guitarist alumnus Ian Crawford played guitar for the album. It features several guest artists co-writing, including Pete Wentz, Bruno Mars and Adam Levine.

The band toured with Simple Plan, Forever The Sickest Kids, and Mariana's Trench in the fall of 2011.

The band co-headlined the "Everything's Fine Symphony Soldier" tour during January and February 2012 with best friends The Summer Set. Supporting acts were He Is We, Days Difference, and Paradise Fears.

Discography[link]

Albums[link]

• Whisper War (2008)
• Symphony Soldier (2011)

Singles[link]

• "One of THOSE Nights"(Feat. Brendon Urie and Patrick Stump) (2008)
• "I'll Run" (2008)
• "Bounce" (2008)
• "Take My Hand" (Remix feat. Cassadee Pope) (2009)
• "Bad" (2011)
• "Angel With A Shotgun" (2011)
• "La La" (2012)

EPs[link]

• Drunk Love (2006)
• Glitz and Glamour (2006)
• The Lady Luck EP (2009)

Members[link]

Current members[link]

• Alexander DeLeon – lead vocals (2004–present)
• Alex Marshall – piano, guitar, backing vocals (2005–present)
• Joey Thunder – bass (2009–present)

Touring members[link]

• Dave Briggs – drums (2011–present)^[25]