Rapper, singer, songwriter and actor Aaron Carter has died at the age of 34. Carter was found dead at his home in Lancaster, California on Saturday, November 5.
TMZ was the first to report that the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department told them that Carter was found dead in his bathtub and that his body was discovered and reported to police by a housesitter.
Carter, who is the younger brother of Backstreet Boys star Nick Carter, came to fame as a teen pop singer in the late 1990s, establishing himself as a star with his first four studio albums.
Carter got his start opening for the Backstreet Boys on a 1997 tour, and his debut album, Aaron Carter, was released later that year. He followed it up with Aaron's Party (Come and Get It) in 2000, which went triple platinum. His third album, Oh Aaron, also went platinum in 2001. Carter dropped his fourth studio album, Another Earthquake!, in 2002.
Carter appeared on "Dancing with the Stars," the Broadway musical "Seussical," the off-Broadway musical "The Fantasticks," and made several one-off performances. Carter released his fifth studio album, titled Love, in 2018.
Carter also acted in several shows including Lizzie McGuire, Sabrina, the Teenage Witch and 7th Heaven and in films like Fat Albert and Supercross.
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