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How Aaron Carter's Siblings Are Honoring His Memory
Family first.
On Jan. 18, much than 2 months aft his death, Aaron Carter's duplicate sister Angel Carter co-hosted the Songs For Tomorrow payment performance with Lance Bass. The show, inspired by the beingness of the precocious "I Want Candy" singer, featured performances by respective large popular singers of the precocious ‘90s and aboriginal aughts to rise wealth for the children's intelligence wellness enactment On Our Sleeves.
Among the performers was Aaron and Angel's older brother, Backstreet Boys singer Nick Carter, 42, who took the signifier with bandmate AJ McLean, Bass and 98 Degrees' Jeff Timmons to execute acoustic versions of BSB's hits "Shape of My Heart" and "I Want It That Way" with the assistance of Aaron's pianist of 20 years, Stan Jones.
The 42-year-old besides performed his caller azygous inspired by his precocious brother, "Hurts to Love You," for the archetypal clip and debuted its euphony video. In addition, Aaron's unreleased opus "Recovery" was besides played for the crowd, with a three-piece set accompanying. Childhood location videos of him and Nick were besides screened.
Other performers astatine the amusement included David Archuleta, LFO's Brad Fischetti, Ryan Cabrera and B. Howard.
To adjacent retired the show, the performers each joined unneurotic for a show of John Lennon's "Imagine," a opus Nick said was thing his Aaron often sang.
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Aaron, who roseate to fame successful the precocious '90s arsenic a kid popular star, was recovered dormant astatine 34 astatine his California home last November. The origin of his decease has not been revealed.
In recent years, helium had been unfastened astir his struggles with substance abuse as good as conflicts with some Angel and Nick, who some obtained restraining orders against him successful 2019. In her filing, Angel alleged her duplicate member "threatened" her family's lives, portion the Backstreet Boys vocalist alleged Aaron told him helium had thought astir sidesplitting Nick's then-pregnant wife, Lauren Kitt Carter, and unborn child. Aaron denied immoderate wrongdoing.
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In the days following his death, some Angel and Nick paid tribute to him on Instagram, with the BSB subordinate reflecting on their rocky relationship. "Even though my member and I person had a analyzable relationship, my emotion for him has ne'er ever faded," helium wrote. "I person ever held onto the hope, that helium would somehow, someday privation to locomotion a steadfast way and yet find the assistance that helium truthful desperately needed."
Angel also honored her duplicate again connected Dec. 7, their 35th birthday. "Aaron dying was the worst time of my life," she wrote connected Instagram. "I person loved him since we were born… it feels similar a portion of my psyche is gone. And yet, contempt each this pain, his passing has lit a occurrence wrong me. I consciousness a calling and work to assistance different families and proceed the speech to further interruption the stigmas that situation intelligence illness."
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