Take Five

Add Consider Five towards the long set of teenage pop rings manufactured by commercial mogul Lou Pearlman. This five-piece guy band came jointly in 1997 and structured itself in Orlando, where Pearlman went his very own label, Trans Continental Information. All five associates — Stevie Sculthorpe, Tilky Jones, TJ Christofore, and brothers Clay and Ryan Goodell — had been veteran performers, the majority of whom acquired knowledge on-stage and before cameras. Christofore acquired won Superstar Search in 1995 and performed the function of Gavroche within the Broadway musical Les Miserables. Sculthorpe do some modeling, starred in a number of advertisements, and performed in musical movie theater. Ryan and Clay Goodell had been classically educated pianists who dabbled in advertisements and musical movie theater. Jones, alternatively, was the drummer for an area Vero Seaside ska-punk band known as USER-FRIENDLY. With such collective encounter under their belts, Consider Five hoped to become listed on the rates of fellow guy rings just like the Backstreet Children and *NSync. However, the group hardly ever found an market in America. Ahead of releasing debut record Against All Chances, Consider Five spent 2 yrs traveling the world, releasing many singles in European countries and Asia and honing their efficiency skills before going back. Against All Chances received its American launch in 2000, as the marketplace was still sympathetic towards the group’s mixture of R&B and shiny teen-pop, nonetheless it failed to create a dent within the graphs. Sculthorpe remaining the lineup weeks later to try a solo profession. Take Five added a music to Pearlman’s failed attempt at coming-of-age movie theater, Longshot, and split up soon after, learning to be a footnote in the annals of past due-’90s teenager pop.