Justin Randall Timberlake (born January 31, 1981), occasionally known by his initials JT, is an American singer, songwriter, actor, dancer, and record producer.
Raised in Tennessee, he appeared on the television shows Star Search and The All-New Mickey Mouse Club as a child. In the late 1990s, Timberlake rose to prominence as one of the two lead vocalists and youngest member of NSYNC, which eventually became one of the best-selling boy bands of all time.
Timberlake began to adopt a more mature image as an artist with the release of his debut solo album, the R&B-focused Justified (2002), which yielded the successful singles "Cry Me a River" and "Rock Your Body", and earned his first two Grammy Awards.
As *NSYNC’s ‘No Strings Attached’ Turns 20, Execs and Collaborators Look Back
variety.comJustin Timberlake was barely 16 when he walked into Cheiron Studios in Stockholm, Sweden in 1996. The aspiring star was recording *NSYNC’s breakout single, “Tearin’ Up My Heart,” in the same room where songwriting legend Max Martin and the late Denniz Pop created some of pop music’s biggest hits.
At the time, Andreas Carlsson — who would later help pen chart-toppers like *NSYNC’s “Bye Bye Bye” and the Backstreet Boys’ “I Want It That Way” — was pursuing his own singing dreams, recording a solo record in the room next door. “Justin Timberlake would pop in and I remember the first time we met, he said, ‘I want to do stuff that sounds like your music,’ which I thought was very sweet,” Carlsson recalls. “I said, ‘I think you’re doing fine
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