American singer-songwriter and actor Ashley Parker Angel rose to fame in the
early aughts as one-fifth of the boy band O-Town, assembled via the 2000 ABC/MTV
survival reality show Making the Band. Created by record producer Lou Pearlman
(the mastermind behind the boy band craze of the late ‘90s), the show tracked
the creation of a pop music group through a rigorous selection process. After
being selected as one of O-Town’s five members, Ashley Parker Angel made his
official debut on the band’s 2001 platinum-selling eponymous debut, which
climbed to Number 5 on the Billboard 200. ...