The friends that he had growing up were either dead, drug addicts, or in prison, and eventually, performing was Carter's biggest escape from his problems. He had a rough childhood, due to his parents always fighting and screaming violently at each other. He and his siblings grew up in an unconventional, dysfunctional family. It is revealed that through several auditions, Nick met AJ McLean and Howie Dorough and they became friends. These recordings ended up on an unofficial release called Before the Backstreet Boys 1989–1993 by Dynamic Discs, Inc released in October 2002. Between 19, Carter covered a various number of popular songs by other artists, including " Breaking Up Is Hard to Do" and " Uptown Girl" and a few original songs that he would perform at events. One of his dance teachers, Sandy, placed him in his first group called "Nick and the Angels". It was great fun being on the set but it was really cold and they made us do it a lot of times”. I had to slide on one in the background of a shot. They were long flat sheets with water coming out of holes and were popular with kids at the time. I was sliding on a yellow piece of plastic we used to call a Slip n' Slide. For a split second, he sees some kids playing - one of them was me. I was in the scene when Edward looks out of a window to the neighborhood.
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It would be better to say I was on the set of the film. He stated this: "It would be going too far to say I was actually in Edward Scissorhands because I was so far in the background that you can't tell it's me. He also made an appearance in the 1990 Tim Burton film Edward Scissorhands as a child playing on a Slip 'N Slide. He also did an educational video called "Reach For a Book", a show called "The Klub" and performed at the Tampa Bay Buccaneers home games for two years. His performance was so energetic that he received a standing ovation, with people crying in the audience of how wonderful the boy's voice projected. As a kid, he described himself as the weird kid, whose friends were the elderly, and was consistently picked on a lot until fourth grade, after his family moved to Apollo Beach, Florida, His first role was the lead in the fourth-grade production of Phantom of the Opera at Miles Elementary School. She later got him dance lessons in ballet and tap at Karl and DiMarco's School of Theatre and Dance when he was 10, and he did several commercials, such as the Florida State Lottery and The Money Store, talent shows, the Florida State Fair, auditioned for several acting roles in the late 1980s and early 1990s and performed around Tampa Bay, FL.
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Growing up, Carter began his acting and singing career at a young age, when his mother heard him outside and enrolled him in voice lessons with a voice teacher named Marianne Prinkey.
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This section of a biography of a living person needs additional citations for verification. His father also has a daughter from a previous marriage, named Ginger.
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Carter's siblings include Leslie Carter and Aaron Carter. Several years later, when Nick was four, the family moved to Ruskin, Florida, near Tampa, and managed the Garden Villa Retirement Home, where they added to the family. He has English, Welsh, Irish, and German ancestry according to a DNA test, Carter is predominantly (sixty - two percent) North and West European, eleven percent Scandinavian, and nine percent Italian, with his remaining genetic makeup being Middle Eastern, Iberian, and Balkan. Nickolas Gene Carter was born in Jamestown, New York, where his parents, Jane Elizabeth (née Spaulding, previously Carter) and Robert Carter (1952–2017), owned a bar called the Yankee Rebel in Westfield, New York.