Justin Timberlake
Since Winning the EMMA Award (International Music Act)
Justin Timberlake is a American Singer, Songwriter, Actor and Record Producer who in 2004 won a Grammy Awards after receiving the EMMA recognition for Best Pop Vocal Album for Justified and Best Male Pop Vocal Performance for “Cry Me a River”, and was also nominated for Album of the Year for Justified, and Record of the Year along with Best Rap/Sung Collaboration for “Where Is the Love?” with The Black Eyed Peas.
Justin’s subsequent albums, 2006’s FutureSex/LoveSounds, 2013’s The 20/20 Experience, and its follow-up, The 20/20 Experience—2 of 2, 2018’s Man of The Woods, and 2024’s Everything I Thought it Was, all achieved commercial success.
Justin also focused on his acting career, appearing in films such as Alpha Dog, Shrek the Third, The Social Network, In Time, Black Snake Moan and Inside Llewyn Davis, amongst many others.
On 4th February 2018, Justin headlined the Super Bowl LII’s halftime show and performed a medley of his songs as well as a duet of “I Would Die 4 U” with a video projection of the late singer Prince on screen.
In May 2019, Justin received an honorary doctorate from the Berklee College of Music alongside Missy Elliott and Alex Lacamoire.
Justin performed during Joe Biden’s inauguration in January 2021. He also has several business ventures, including the clothing line William Rast and the record label Tennman Records.
Justin set up the Justin Timberlake Foundation, which helps to fund and support high-caliber music programs in public schools.
Justin has been nicknamed the “Prince of Pop,” similar to Michael Jackson, who is named the “King of Pop.” Justin is among the best-selling recording artists of all time, with over 117 million records sold worldwide.
Background (Before 2003)
Justin Timberlake was born in Memphis, Tennessee, to a Baptist church choir director father and an actress and film producer mother. Justin appeared on the television show Star Search at the age of 11, performing country songs as “Justin Randall”.
From 1993 to 1995, Justin was a Mouseketeer on The All-New Mickey Mouse Club, where his castmates included Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera, JC Chasez, Ryan Gosling and Keri Russell, who all went on to find further fame in the entertainment industry.
In 1995, Justin recruited Chasez to join an all-male singing group that eventually became the iconic boyband *NSYNC. The group released its self-titled debut in 1998 and quickly followed that up the same year with the festive album Home for Christmas.
In 2000, they released No Strings Attached, which became one of the fastest-selling albums in history, selling more than 14 million copies and featured a string of hits, including the chart-topping singles “Bye Bye Bye” and “It’s Gonna Be Me.” *NSYNC also performed at the Oscars in 2000, the Super Bowl XXXV halftime show in 2001 and the 2002 Winter Olympics. After the release of the group’s last album, Celebrity, and the completion of the Celebrity Tour, the group went into hiatus in 2002.
Justin then went on to have a successful solo career, and his debut album Justified debuted at No.2 on the Billboard 200 with first-week sales of 439,000 copies. It sold over three million copies in the US and more than ten million copies worldwide, thanks to the album’s multiple hit songs including ‘Cry Me a River’, ‘Like I Love You’, ‘Rock Your Body’, and ‘Señorita’.
In 2003, Justin was a guest performer on the Black-Eyed Peas’ smash hit single “Where Is the Love?” This smash-hit song went on to win an EMMA Award for the Black Eyed Peas in 2004.
