Brian was born on February 20, 1975, in Lexington, Kentucky. He is a huge sports lover, in particular Basketball. Things weren’t always as good as they are now for Brian he was born with a heart defect, as he explains in this MTV interview "I was born with it, they found a heart murmur when I was six-weeks-old, they monitored it my whole life, I took really bad ill when I was five with a staff infection I wasn't supposed to live. Thank God I did and made it through that. Here I am, I became a Backstreet Boy, they monitored it, when I turned 18, Kevin called me, "Hey, why don't you come to Florida and sing with these guys that I know." Poof and here we are." After the surgery... "the doctors said if I survived my infection when I was five that I probably wouldn't walk or do anything. Picked up a basketball at the age of six and that was kind of my sport but it's...God's been really good to me. I've had a lot of gracious years and the past two and a half years of traveling, of a lot of stress and a lot of different things, has taken a toll--it kind of just snuck up on me and I wasn't really having any symptoms or anything but I went to...I was full speed ahead like everybody else and then next thing you know, I was supposed to be in surgery for 45-minutes and I was under for two and a half hours because they found another hole that nobody knew about so, here I am." That’s how Brian became a BSB!


Some other facts about Brian are:
He is scared of heights!
His favorite food is mac & cheese.
Brian loves his kingsize waterbed bed that he bought for $50.
He likes to sleep as much as possible.
Brian has been known to be a fingernail biter.
He loves fast food.