Background and career
Aaron Charles Carter (December 7, 1987 – November 5, 2022) was an American singer and rapper. He rose to fame as a teen pop singer in the late 1990s and established himself as a star among preteen and teenage audiences during the early 2000s. Carter began performing at age seven following the formation of his brother Nick's singing group, the Backstreet Boys. He released his self-titled debut album in 1997 at age nine, selling one million copies worldwide. His second album, Aaron's Party (Come Get It) (2000), sold three million copies in the United States. Carter soon began making guest appearances on both Disney Channel and Nickelodeon and touring with the Backstreet Boys. Carter's next album, Oh Aaron, went platinum. Carter performed on Dancing with the Stars, in the Broadway musical Seussical, and in the off-Broadway musical The Fantasticks. He also appeared in several one-off performances. In 2014, he released the single "Ooh Wee", featuring rapper Pat SoLo. Carter released the single "Fool's Gold" in 2016 and the EP Love in 2017.
His final album, Blacklisted, was released two days after his drug-related accidental death in 2022.
Early life and family Aaron Charles Carter was born on December 7, 1987 in Tampa, Florida. His parents, Jane Schneck and Robert Gene Carter (1952–2017), owned a bar and later ran a retirement home. Carter's older brother, Nick, is a member of the Backstreet Boys. He also had two older sisters, Bobbie Jean (1982–2023) and Leslie (1986–2012), and a twin sister, Angel. In addition to his full siblings, Carter had an older half-sister, Ginger Lee Carter (1972–2023), and a younger half-brother, Kaden Carter. Carter attended Frank D. Miles Elementary School and Ruskin Elementary School in Florida. Carter's parents divorced in 2004. He was told about the divorce one hour before filming his MTV Cribs episode. Carter and his siblings starred in a reality show, House of Carters, which ran from October to November 2006 on E!. The series featured all five Carter siblings reuniting to live in the same house. Carter had a tumultuous relationship with his siblings, with many of their feuds playing out on social media in his later years.
In September 2019, Carter leveled allegations of sexual abuse against his sister Leslie, who died of a drug overdose in 2012. Carter reported that the abuse began when he was ten years old, ended when he was 13, and occurred when Leslie would fail to take prescribed medication for her bipolar disorder. He also accused his brother Nick of life-long abuse and implied that Nick also abused a female family member. Nick's legal team denied the allegations. Aaron Carter made the abuse allegations against Nick after Nick and their sister Angel had sought restraining orders against Aaron; Aaron had reportedly confessed to thoughts of killing Nick's then-pregnant wife, Lauren. In 2019, Carter and his mother, Jane, appeared in the We TV reality series Marriage Bootcamp: Family Edition. The series focuses on attempting to repair strained relationships through unconventional therapy.
