Christopher Alan Kirkpatrick born October 17, is an American singer, songwriter, dancer, music producer, podcaster, and actor. The band has sold over 70 million records, becoming one of the best-selling boy bands of all time.
Kirkpatrick was born on October 17, , in Clarion , Pennsylvania to single mother, Beverly Eustice, when she was 16 years old. She raised him on her own along with his four younger half-sisters Molly, Kate, Emily, and Taylor. Kirkpatrick and his family grew up in poverty and on welfare , sometimes homeless and living out of a car, and had to move around a lot.
As a result, he attended many different schools and lived in several states, including Pennsylvania , Ohio , South Carolina , and California. Since his family could not afford to wash their clothes, he rarely had clean clothes to wear and had to sleep in the piles of dirty laundry at night to keep warm.
To help his mom cover the bills he began working on a farm while still in grade school. Despite their financial struggles, Kirkpatrick's family had a musical background: his mother was a vocal coach, his grandmother trained in opera, his grandfather was a country-western singer, and his aunts and uncles were all in bands. Kirkpatrick also showed a keen talent for music from a young age.
In sixth grade, while living in Oil City, Pennsylvania , Kirkpatrick won the lead role as Oliver Twist in the city's high school musical production of Oliver! From then on, he began to study music more seriously, enrolling in gifted classes for music and learning to play a number of different instruments. Besides music, Kirkpatrick also participated heavily in sports, including football, basketball, baseball, and track. After graduating from high school in , he moved to Orlando, Florida , to get to know his biological father, who offered to help him pay for college.
