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JC Chasez was one of the teen heartthrobs of the late '90s when he joined the boy band, *NSYNC.
Now, the singer has decided to step back his role in the spotlight and work more behind the scenes.
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From a talent variety show to one of the biggest boy bands in the world, find out where JC is today.
JC was born on August 8 ,1976 in Bowie, Maryland.
He was a shy child who was adopted by his mother's foster parents at five years old.
The former boy bander developed an interest in singing and dancing to boost his confidence and won a national dancing competition at the age of 13.
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When his mother saw an ad in the Washington Post for a new Disney show she encouraged him to try out, and the rest was history.
BEFORE *NSYNC
Before JC was in *NSYNC, he appeared in The All-New Mickey Mouse Club.
He was cast as a performer in the show's fourth season and stayed until its end in 1994.
Since there was another castmate named Josh, he went by the initials JC.
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The Mickey Mouse club brought JC out of his shell and allowed him to make new friends along the way.
Along with him, other notable performers on his seasons were Christina Aguilera, Ryan Gosling, Britney Spears, Keri Russell, and future bandmate, Justin Timberlake.
IT'S GONNA BE HIM
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One year after leaving The Mickey Mouse Club, JC struck gold again when a guy named Chris Kirkpatrick reached out to him to see if he wanted to be in a boy band.
Luckily, he said yes, after finding out Justin was going to be a part of it too.
To complete the band, Lance Bass and Joey Fatone joined JC, Justin, and Chris.
After becoming popular in Europe, *NSYNC released their first self-titled album in 1998, featuring the hits I Want You Back, Tearin' Up My Heart, and Here We Go.
They became extremely popular in America, dropped their old manager, Lou Pearlman, and signed with Jive Records.
In 2000, the band released their second album, No Strings Attached, which featured the songs Bye, Bye, Bye, It's Gonne Be Me, and This I Promise You.
It became the best-selling album in a week of all time, selling over 2.4 million copies.
The band held that record until 2015 when Adele's 25 beat it.
Their third, and final album, Celebrity, was released in 2001 and spawned the songs Pop, Girlfriend, and Gone.
After the Celebrity Tour in 2002, the band decided to take an indefinite hiatus to pursue solo projects.
GOING SOLO
After the band split up, and Justin had major success with his solo album, Justified, JC decided to go solo too.
He released his first and only solo album, Schizophrenic, in 2004.
After his first album got pushed aside due to the Justin/Janet Jackson Halftime fiasco, he decided to make another record.
JC's second album, The Story of Kate, was supposed to be released in 2006.
He even released two singles called Until Yesterday and You Ruined Me, but the album was eventually scrapped when JC and Jive Records parted ways in 2007.
Although he stopped singing for a while, JC continued to work as a songwriter and producer.
JUDGING AND WRITING
In 2008, JC became a judge on the MTV show, America's Best Dance Crew.
He stayed on for all seven seasons until the show ended in 2012.
During that time, JC wrote songs for David Archuleta, Matthew Morrison, Backstreet Boys, AJ McLean, McFly, and many others.
In 2012, he held auditions because he wanted to form an all-girl group called Girl Radical.
Although the band did release a few songs, his project fell flat and Girl Radical never blew up.
When that fell through JC joined the North American tour of Jesus Christ, Superstar as Puntius Pilate.
Sadly, the tour was canceled in May 2014, due to poor ticket sales.
GETTING THE BAND BACK TOGETHER
Although *NSYNC has not released a new song since their hiatus, they have reunited over the years for special events.
Besides birthdays, weddings, and other personal events, the members of *NSYNC broke the internet when they reunited in 2013 for Justin's VMA Video Vanguard performance.
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They sang Bye, Bye, Bye, and Girlfriend, before Justin carried on with his solo songs.
JC and his bandmates were honored in 2018 with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
All five of the men attended and were honored by Ellen DeGeneres and Carson Daly.
In 2019, Ariana Grande got to live out every '90s girl's dream by bringing JC, Lance, Joey, and Chris (Justin was on tour at the time) to the Coachella stage.
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She sampled their song It Makes Me Ill in her hit Break Up With Your Girlfriend, I'm bored, so the band performed that and Tearin' Up My Heart.
"I've been waiting my whole life for this moment, *NSYNC!," she announced to Coachella and the crowd went crazy.
In 2020, JC and the other band members appeared on Lance's podcast to talk about the anniversary of No Strings Attached.
They later had a Zoom call, sans Justin, to celebrate Lance's birthday.
The band has not performed together since, but they have hung out from time to time without performing.
WHERE IS HE NOW?
After *NSYNC disbanded, he starred in a few episodes of shows here and there and had small parts in films.
After ABDC ended, JC stuck to producing and writing songs for other artists and took the spotlight off of himself.
He was seen out in LA last year looking unrecognizable while running errands with his current girlfriend, Jennifer HuYoung.
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Jennifer is an executive assistant at Broad and Cassel LLP.
They have been dating since 2018, but tend to keep out of the spotlight.
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Most recently, the couple was out together at Elton John's Academy Awards Viewing Party.
This was one of their first official public outings.
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JC continues to let his former bandmates be more in the spotlight while he lives a lowkey life.
The 45-year-old still keeps in touch with *NSYNC through a band group chat.
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