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James Lance Bass (born May 4, 1979)〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title= Lance Bass )〕 is an American pop singer, dancer, actor, film and television producer, and author. He grew up in Mississippi and rose to fame as the bass singer for the American pop boy band NSYNC. NSYNC's success led Bass to work in film and television. He starred in the 2001 film ''On the Line'', which his company, Bacon & Eggs, also produced. Bass later formed a second production company, Lance Bass Productions,〔(【引用サイトリンク】 url=http://www.spaceweek.org/lance_s_bio.html )〕 as well as a now-defunct music management company, Free Lance Entertainment, a joint venture with Mercury Records. After completion of NSYNC's Pop Odyssey Tour, Bass moved to Star City, Russia, in much publicized pursuit of a seat on a Soyuz space capsule.〔 Bass was certified by both NASA and the Russian Space Program after several months of cosmonaut training,〔 and planned to join the TMA-1 mission to the International Space Station. However, after his financial sponsors backed out, Bass was denied a seat on the mission. In July 2006, Bass revealed that he is gay in a cover story for ''People'' magazine. He was awarded the Human Rights Campaign Visibility Award in October 2006, and released an autobiography, ''Out of Sync'', in October 2007, which debuted on the ''New York Times'' Best Seller list. ==Early life and education== James Lance Bass was born in Laurel, Mississippi, to James Irvin Bass, Jr., a medical technologist, and Diane (née Pulliam), a middle school mathematics, English, and career discovery teacher.〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Lance Bass (former 'N Sync member) )〕 Along with his older sister, Stacy, Bass grew up in nearby Ellisville, Mississippi, and was raised as a Southern Baptist.〔 〕 Bass has described his family as devoutly Christian and conservative and has said that his childhood was "extremely happy".〔 As a young boy, Bass developed an interest in space, and at age 9 traveled to Cape Canaveral, Florida, with his father to watch his first live space shuttle launch. Of this experience Bass said, "I was certain from then on that my future was to be involved with space." Shortly after, Bass attended space camp in Titusville, Florida, and aspired to attend college and study engineering, with the hope that he would one day work for NASA. When Bass was 10 years old, his father was transferred to a different hospital, and the family moved to Clinton, Mississippi.〔 Bass began singing in his Baptist church choir, and was encouraged to audition for local performance groups by his childhood best friend, Darren Dale, the youngest child of former longtime Mississippi Insurance Commissioner George Dale. Bass joined the Mississippi Show Stoppers, a state-wide music group sponsored by the Mississippi Agriculture and Forestry Museum, and the Attaché Show Choir, a national-award-winning competitive show choir group at Clinton High School. He was also a member of a seven-man vocal group named Seven Card Stud, which competed at state fairs and performed at several social and political events for Senator Trent Lott.〔 At Clinton High School, Bass was elected vice president of his junior class〔 and has said that he performed well in math and science.〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Lance Bass on Britney, those skeevy Lou Pearlman allegations, and why he said Bye, Bye, Bye to the closet )〕 However, Bass later stated that his primary focus during high school was singing, and when looking back, he remembers "hardly anything" about academia.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Lance Bass」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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