Louis J. Pearlman

American business man, born June 19, 1954 in New York City, New York, USA, died August 19, 2016 in prison in Texarkana, Texas, USA. Founder of the American [l=Trans Continental Records], Inc., based in Orlando, Florida.

He has been responsible for the appearance of a multitude of artists using the "boy band" format. The first one of his projects were the [a=Backstreet Boys], shortly followed by [a=*NSYNC]. These two artists combined were already good for a worldwide sale of more than 120 million units of their releases. They were followed by other projects/artists, among which [a=O-Town], [a=Take 5], [a=Lyte Funkie Ones], [a=Natural (2)], [a=Aaron Carter], [a=C Note] & [a=US 5].

In 2008 Mr. Pearlman was sentenced to 25 years in federal prison after pleading guilty to charges of conspiracy, money laundering, and making false statements during a bankruptcy proceeding.