Alexander James McLean is an American singer, songwriter, actor, dancer, and model. He is a member of the vocal group the Backstreet Boys. McLean was raised solely by his mother and grandparents as his parents divorced when he was two years old.
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Alexander James McLean is an American singer, songwriter, actor, dancer, and model. He is a member of the vocal group the Backstreet Boys. McLean was raised solely by his mother and grandparents as his parents divorced when he was two years old. He finally met his father in 1997, who had been following him through his career, and since then, the father-son duo has maintained to keep contact after 17-year estrangement. In March 1992, there was an ad in the newspaper seeking young men between the ages of 16-19-years-old to audition for a new music group. Alongside Nick Carter and Howie Dorough, he was to become part of the group that would later become Backstreet Boy. He has also appeared on the Nickelodeon comedy series Hi Honey, I’m Home! as Skunk in the pilot, but he was cut from the show due to being too tall. In junior high, McLean won a part in the series Welcome Freshmen, which began his ongoing work relationship with the Disney Channel. It was during one of his auditions for a Muppets commercial that he met the former member of Muppet’s, Nick Carter, and the former backstreet boy, Howie. He revealed that it was very upsetting for him to be called a ‘queer’ and a ‘gay’ due to the fact that he was always different from other kids and was called names like ‘fag’ and ‘queers’ McLean has a speech impediment, which gave him a lisp and a tendency to stutter.
As a child, he discovered his love for performing and started to pursue a career in acting, dancing, and singing. He also took ballet for four years, jazz, tap, hip hop, rhythm tap, rhythm hip-hop, contemporary, ballroom, salsa, merengue, and gymnastics. In January 1986 at 8 years old, Mclean acted in his first role as Little Mike in the 1986 film Truth or Dare? In 1990, Mc Lean, his mother, and grandparents moved to Kissimmee, Florida, to pursue his acting and singing career. He attended a private acting school, the Florida Academy of Dramatic Arts, for 4 years, acted in the drama club and small plays, and modeled periodically. He was part of a school play, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, in which he played Dopey, at Unity of Delray Beach church and school. He also appeared in more traditional musicals such as The Nutcracker, The King and I and Fiddler on the Roof before the age of 11. His grandmother taught him piano and has taken him to every audition growing up. He stated in interviews that i wanted to be a dancer way above an actor or a singer. When he was 12, he actually started his first dance troupe and would go to dance competitions, which was a valuable experience even though they didn’t win.
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