No stage was too big for Aaron Carter when he first started his singing career. Which is a good thing because Carter’s first live performance as a solo artist was opening for the Backstreet Boys concert.
Thanks to his older brother, Nick Carter, Aaron Carter followed along as the group performed their “Backstreet’s Back” tour in 1997 and 1998. During the tour, the group went across the United States and held multiple shows throughout Europe. For different legs of the tour, the group had different opening acts. One of those opening acts was a young Aaron Carter, per Billboard.
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For five months — from July until November 1998 — Carter opened each Backstreet Boys concert by performing his own songs. One of the songs Carter played, “Crush on You,” ended up being such a hit on the road, it became Carter’s first single as a solo artist. While performing on such a large stage at only 11-years-old isn’t an easy task, during the tour, Carter revealed that luckily the Backstreet Boys and his brother Nick were there to help him every step of the way, per MTV.
