There wasn’t a dry eye in sight because the Backstreet Boys paused their live performance at London’s O2 Arena on Sunday to pay tribute to member Nick Carter‘s youthful brother Aaron Carter, who died in his California house on Saturday.
A slideshow containing photographs of the youthful Carter brother was performed on the world’s video screens, set to the 2019 Backstreet Boys music, No Place. Aaron was 34 years previous.
Nick wiped away tears as he was hugged by the opposite band members on stage.
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“That song is very special to us because that song is about family,” Kevin Richardson defined to the cheering crowd. “Tonight, we’ve got a little bit of heavy hearts because we lost one of our family members yesterday. We just wanted to find a moment in our show to recognize him.”
“Nick’s little brother, Aaron Carter, passed away yesterday,” Richardson continued. “He’s a part of our family and we thank you guys for all the love, all your well-wishes, and all your support.”
Nick, 42, didn’t discuss his late brother onstage.
He did, nevertheless, share a collection of photographs of him and Aaron on Instagram earlier than Sunday’s live performance.
“My heart is broken,” he wrote. “Even though my brother and I have had a complicated relationship, my love for him has never ever faded.”
The Backstreet Boys member wrote that he all the time “held on to the hope” that his brother — who had spoken publicly about his struggles with drug dependancy and psychological sickness — would “find the help that he so desperately needed.”
“I will miss my brother more than anyone will ever know,” he concluded. “Now you can finally have the peace you could never find here on earth.”
Aaron was discovered useless in a tub in his Southern California house. The official reason for loss of life has but to be launched.
Over the weekend, his twin sister, Angel Conrad, additionally shared an Instagram tribute to her brother.
“I know you’re at peace now,” Conrad wrote. “I will carry you with me until the day I die and get to see you again.”
Aaron’s on-again-off-again fiancée, Melanie Martin, has additionally shared her grief publicly since his loss of life. On TikTok, she posted a two-second clip of herself crying behind the wheel of her automobile, and an previous recording of Aaron dancing throughout a livestream.
The couple share an 11-month-old son, Prince.
Carter’s 2000 album, Aaron’s Party (Come Get It), offered three million copies and produced hit singles together with the title music and I Want Candy. His movies acquired common airplay on Disney and Nickelodeon.
In 2009, Carter appeared on the ABC competitors present Dancing with the Stars, ending in fifth place with accomplice Karina Smirnoff.
Carter’s fifth and remaining studio album, LOVE, was launched in 2018.
— With information from The Associated Press
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