Whereas Dream Avenue’s tenure on the boy band scene could have been fleeting, they supplied followers with a number of dance-worthy pop hits and catapulted its members to well-known solo career acclaim.
The pop group was fashioned in 1999 by Louis Baldonieri and Brian Lukow, bringing collectively the vocal stylings of Jesse McCartney, Chris Trousdale, Greg Raposo, Frankie Galasso and Matt Ballinger. Throughout the group’s heyday, they launched two albums: Dream Avenue and The Greatest Fan. Nevertheless, the group quickly disbanded after less than three years together amid a authorized battle between administration and the singers’ dad and mom.
Their dad and mom beforehand filed a 2002 lawsuit in New York towards Baldonieri and Lukow, alleging that they exposed their sons to alcohol, women and pornography regardless of being underage, in line with a Billboard report on the time. Whereas the band executives denied such claims, the boy band break up up and the teenagers began creating their very own solo careers. Whereas the previous Dream Avenue stars went their separate methods, they by no means forgot their roots.
McCartney later teamed up together with his former colleagues to have a good time the life and legacy of Trousdale, who died in June 2020 after complications from COVID-19. Forward of the group’s reunion, McCartney solely revealed he was down to get the group back together.
“By no means say by no means,” the “Higher With You” musician told Us in May 2020. “Dream Avenue was so vital for me for the constructing blocks in my life about recording music, singing and dancing, collaborating and dealing properly with others, so yeah. I’ll by no means say by no means, crazier issues have occurred!”
Scroll beneath to see what the Dream Avenue members have been as much as because the band’s heyday:
