Must Haves. Music Edition. 98 Degrees.

BACKGROUND HISTORY

Active1990s - 2010s

Formed1997 in Los Angeles, CA

Genre

Pop/Rock

Holiday

Styles

Pop

Adult Contemporary

Teen Pop

Also Known As

98 Degrees

Group Members

Drew Lachey

Jeff Timmons

Justin Jeffre

Nick Lachey

ALBUMS

98 degrees, 98 degrees and rising, heat it up, this christmasrevelation,2.0, let it snow

HITS

iI do cherish you, the hardest thing, this gift, give me just one night, season of love, my everything

CULTURAL IMPACT

A healthy R&B-stimulated pop organization who scored six Top 20 hits at some stage in their 1997-2000 industrial peak, 98° had been shaped with the aid of using brothers Nick and Drew Lachey, Jeff Timmons, and Justin Jeffre. All 4 singers are firstly from Ohio. Timmons changed into seeking to make it at the West Coast withinside the song industry, so he known as Jeffre and Nick Lachey, each former classmates on the Cincinnati School for Creative and Performing Artists, and shaped 98°. Drew Lachey quickly joined as well. The quartet labored unusual jobs to finance expertise display appearances. After they attracted interest with the aid of using seeking to crash the behind the curtain region of a display headlined with the aid of using Boyz II Men -- one of the organization`s number one inspirations -- they had been provided a risk to sing on a nearby radio station. From that appearance, the organization met Montell Jordan co-supervisor Paris d'Jon, who organized demos and helped them signal to Motown. The quartet's debut single, the ballad "Invisible Man," changed into launched in June 1997, subsequently hit variety 12 at the Billboard Hot 100, and changed into licensed gold.