Nick Lachey

Nicholas Scott Lachey (born November 9, 1973) is an American singer, dancer, actor, television personality, and host.

He rose to fame as the lead singer of the multi-platinum-selling boyband 98 Degrees and later starred in the reality series Newlyweds: Nick and Jessica with his then-wife, Jessica Simpson.

He has released four solo albums: SoulO, What's Left of Me, A Father's Lullaby, and Soundtrack of My Life.

He also had a recurring role on the television series Charmed.

Lachey started his professional singing career at Kings Island with close & best friend Justin Jeffre in the mid-1990s singing in a do-wop singing group quartet throughout the park and water park.

Lachey was a member of the boyband 98 Degrees along with his brother, Drew, Justin Jeffre, and Jeff Timmons.

Their debut album was the self-titled 98 Degrees; however, the band's first real success came with their follow-up album 98 Degrees and Rising.

98 Degrees has sold over 10 million records.

During the summer of 2003, the reality show Newlyweds: Nick and Jessica, starring Lachey and then-wife Jessica Simpson, began airing on MTV.

On November 11, 2003, his solo debut album, SoulO, was released.

Despite being released during the success of Newlyweds, the album was a commercial failure.

The couple starred in the television special The Nick and Jessica Variety Hour, which aired in 2004 and was compared to The Sonny & Cher Show.

Lachey took a recurring role in the series Charmed between 2004 and 2005.

In 2005, Newlyweds won a People's Choice Award for Favorite Reality Show before wrapping shortly after.

What's Left of Me was released on May 9, 2006, and debuted at number two on the Billboard 200.

The album was certified Gold, after selling more than 500,000 copies domestically.

The first single from the album was the title track, "What's Left of Me", released on February 21, 2006.

The song became a hit, reaching a peak position of number six on the Billboard Hot 100.

The video for "What's Left Of Me" featured former MTV VJ, Vanessa Minnillo.

Lachey recorded "Ordinary Day" for the Oprah Winfrey-produced film, For One More Day.

Lachey began working on his third solo album in 2007.

Lachey also starred in a well-known TV series, One Tree Hill, as a singer at Red Bedroom Productions.

Taking the Stage, a musical reality show documenting the personal lives of high school students at the School for Creative and Performing Arts, premiered on MTV in March 2009.

It was produced by Lachey.

In December 2009, he hosted The Sing-Off, a long form four-part American singing competition featuring a cappella groups, a role he reprised in December 2010 for the show's second and third seasons on NBC.

Lachey was a contestant in the NBC celebrity reality competition series called Stars Earn Stripes.

It was announced in January 2010 that Jive Records had put his new album on hold indefinitely.

In June 2010, Lachey confirmed that he had parted ways with Jive Records.

98 Degrees performed a one-off summer reunion show in Hershey, Pennsylvania, at the Summer Mixtape Festival on August 18, 2012, their first concert in more than a decade.

In the fall of 1992, he allegedly enrolled at the University of Southern California, according to a "statement" he made during his guest appearance on The Arsenio Hall Show on December 12, 2013.

He hosted NBC's The Sing-Off, co-hosted VH1's Big Morning Buzz Live from 2014 to 2015, and Nickelodeon's America's Most Musical Family, and co-hosts the Netflix shows Love Is Blind and The Ultimatum with his wife Vanessa Lachey.

He is also the sole host of Perfect Match for Netflix.

In 2021, Lachey won the fifth season of The Masked Singer.

Lachey was born in Harlan, Kentucky, to Cathalyn (née Fopma) and John Lachey.

He is the brother of singer and actor Drew Lachey, alongside whom he has worked closely.

His maternal grandfather, Robert James Fopma, was of Dutch descent.

Nick's other ancestry is English, Scottish, German, and distant Welsh, Yiddish and French.

He attended Clovernook Elementary School in the Cincinnati suburb of North College Hill, Ohio, and the School for Creative and Performing Arts in Cincinnati.

He attended Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, where he joined Sigma Alpha Epsilon.

On January 16, 2014, VH1 announced Lachey would resume hosting Big Morning Buzz Live, upon its return on March 3, 2014.