Leena Tailor For Jeff Timmons, it barely took a second to recognize his bandmate Nick Lachey’s voice behind the piglet costume on “The Masked Singer.”“I knew as soon as I heard it – then went right down to The Strip and bet!” laughs the Vegas resident.
It’s no wonder since Lachey’s was the same powerful, masked voice that first wowed Timmons as he searched for potential vocal group members while forming 98 Degrees 26 years ago.Sent a tape of a track by Lachey’s band with Justin Jeffre, The Avenues, Timmons knew he’d found a special vocalist. “I heard Nick’s voice and without seeing what he looked like, I went, ‘I gotta get that guy.”“That’s the only reason I made the cut — there was no picture with the tape,” cracks Nick Lachey. “I was on.
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