Born in Ardsley, New York, on April 9, 1987, Jesse McCartney had already
launched an acting career on the soap opera All My Children by the time he
joined the boy band Dream Street in 1999. The group's self-titled debut was
released in 2001 and peaked at Number 37 on the Billboard 200. Following Dream
Street's breakup in 2002, he launched a successful solo career as a pop artist,
cracking the Top 20 in eleven countries with his debut single, "Beautiful Soul,"
in 2004. An album of the same name was also released that year, going platinum
in the US and gold in Canada. He co-wrote t...