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Backstreet Boys member and solo artist Nick Carter is making appearances throughout the continent on his ongoing “Who I Am” tour, with this month seeing him traveling from New York and New England states to major cities such as Montreal and Las Vegas – and ultimately a finale in San Ramon.
Carter’s upcoming performance at the Dougherty Valley Performing Arts Center on Nov. 23 marks the final concert in his current tour, marking a return to his solo career after several years during which he joined his fellow Backstreet Boys for a world tour that kicked off in 2019 and ultimately concluded last year following delays brought on by the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020.
The pop star’s solo tour kicked off in May in Taiwan before proceeding through numerous dates in Europe, Scandinavia and the United Kingdom before a series of North American performances that he is currently in the midst of as part of the final leg of the tour.
Now 44, Carter launched his career more than three decades ago at age 12, when he turned down a $50,000 contract to join the Mickey Mouse Club in favor of becoming the youngest member of a newly formed musical group that would go on to be known as the Backstreet Boys.Â
The rest is pop music history, with the group going on to be top-selling boy band of all time, and among the most successful recording artists of all time, with more than 130 million records sold to date and memorable hits like “I Want It That Way”, “Everybody” and “Show Me the Meaning of Being Lonely”.
Following their debut in 1996 and rapid rise to worldwide fame in the years that followed, Carter launched his solo career during the band’s hiatus in the early 2000s with his first album “Now or Never”. He went on to release two more solo albums following the band’s reunion in 2004 – “I’m Taking Off” in 2011 and “All American” in 2015.
The tour for “All American” that kicked off in 2015 was the last time that Carter performed solo prior to the ongoing tour for his upcoming fourth solo album “Who I Am”.Â
Carter is set to take to the stage at the Dougherty Valley Performing Arts Center at 10550 Albion Road in San Ramon on Nov. 23 at 8 p.m. Tickets and more information are available at tickets.sanramon.ca.gov.
