For the most part, the members of N’Sync and the Backstreet Boys weren’t from Orlando, but that’s where pop impresario Lou Pearlman put the groups together after national talent searches. Pearlman subsequently got into some legal problems and the bands cut ties with him, but both went on to massive success and created about a million copycat acts.
Orlando was also home to another pop hit-making machine in the late ‘80s and early ‘90s.
“The All-New Mickey Mouse Club,” which filmed at Disney’s Hollywood Studios, launched the careers of Christina Aguilera, Britney Spears and JC Chasez and Justin Timberlake, who later joined N’Sync.
