Justin Timberlake is a worldwide known artist in music and acting and has inspired many with his soulful music alone. He is one of the leading producers of pop music today. Justin Timberlake was born on January 31, 1981 in Memphis, Tennessee. What really kicked his entertainment career off was his role in The Mickey Mouse Club, which was a television series in which was in seasons six and seven from 1993 through 1995. With his rise in the entertainment industry, a boy band was formed. A boy band that everyone knows worldwide as NSYNC. This band was formed in 1995 and began touring in Europe in 1996. Justin Timberlake was one of the lead singers of the group. They became the third bestselling boy band with having sold over fifty million copies of…show more content… Timberlake took heed and created his first album called Justified (I believe the pun was intended). Within the first week of being released he sold almost a half a million copies, many top singles came from this album. One that is known by many worldwide is “Cry Me a River”. This song and album won him two Grammies, Best Pop Vocal Album and Best Male Pop Vocal Performance. With the release of this album, which showed his talents, many artists wanted to collaborate with him. Justin collaborated with the Black Eyed Peas for a song that was nominated for Best Rap/Sung Collaboration, “Where Is the Love?”. Where Justin’s career skyrocketed, was with his second album release FutureSex/LoveSounds. With this album he was accredited for bringing “SexyBack” to the music industry: this song reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100. The album sold over 650,000 copies within the first week and influenced many artists in the industry today. After the debut and tour of this album, Justin focused his time on his acting career. He starred in the movie In Time, and had many roles in others such as Bad Teacher and Friends with