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.
Justin Timberlake says statues of Confederate leaders “must come down”
nme.comJustin Timberlake has called for statues of Confederate officials to be pulled down in the wake of renewed conversations about racial justice in the US.“When we protest racism in America, people think we are protesting America itself.
Why is that the reaction? Because America was built by men who believed in and benefitted from racism. Plain and simple,” Timberlake wrote on Instagram.“If we plan to move forward, these confederate monuments must come down.”Timberlake’s post was a reaction to an Independence Day tweet from the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) which noted that a statue celebrating the memory of Confederate general and KKK leader Nathaniel Bedford Forrest still stands in the Tennessee State House. …a state that happens to.
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