Nick Carter is nonetheless reeling from the death of his brother Aaron Carter.
For the duration of the Backstreet Boys’ Nov. 6 concert at the O2 Arena in London, the singer was visually psychological as he and his bandmates paid out tribute to the late musician onstage.
As witnessed in videos shared to social media, a major display screen showed in memoriam images of Carter through a general performance of the boy band’s hottest single “No Place,” which member Kevin Richardson explained “is quite special to us because that tune is about loved ones.”
“All people in listed here, we all grew up together,” the singer told the group, as Nick stood beside him in tears. “We’ve been as a result of highs and lows and ups and downs—we thank you for becoming with the Backstreet spouse and children for 29 several years, for all the like.”
He ongoing, “Tonight we have got a small little bit of heavy hearts. Simply because we misplaced just one of our loved ones users yesterday. We just required to locate a minute in our exhibit to identify him.”
Just about every of the four other band associates took turns hugging Nick Carter as fans cheered on in aid. Howie Dorough then dedicated their next song to Aaron Carter, who he referred to as the group’s “minimal brother.”
One particular enthusiast, Jon D Barker, shared his account of the concert with E! Information, contacting the celebration “very emotional.”
“All through their previous single from DNA, the songs video was playing on the top rated display screen,” Jon told E! Information soon after the demonstrate. “The ending illustrations or photos of the movie had been the pics Nick had shared on Twitter just lately to crowd applause, prior to the band took some time to communicate about Aaron’s passing and console Nick. Everyone was crying as you visualize.”
In advance of his general performance, Nick Carter, 42, shared a message on Twitter and Instagram in memory of Aaron, declaring his “coronary heart has been damaged.”
“Even nevertheless my brother and I have had a complicated relationship, my like for him has in no way ever light,” he wrote alongside a series of throwback photos of the siblings. “I will miss my brother more than any person will ever know. I love you Chizz., now you get a probability to ultimately have some peace you could under no circumstances discover listed here on earth.”
In a single of Aaron Carter’s last interviews, the previous little one star disclosed he at first acquired into exhibit business with the desire of adhering to in Nick Carter’s famous footsteps.
“I just wanted to be like my brother,” he reported on an August episode of the Brett Allan Clearly show. “I wanted to do what he was performing because he would appear dwelling with all these stuffed animals. I remember incredibly vividly all of these toys. He would deliver back again this things and have ‘Nick’ on it. So I preferred to grow to be a singer at the age that I did for stuffed animals. Not dollars. I wanted my very own toys.”
He extra, “Now I’m contemplating about it, that is really why I needed to do this.”
Nick Carter took to Instagram on Sunday to split his silence on the loss of life of his youthful brother Aaron Carter.
