Last Update: May 05, 2023, 05:19 am IST
Mumbai: American boy band Backstreet Boys perform in Mumbai, Thursday, May 4, 2023. (PTI photo)
The band consists of Nick Carter, AJ McLean, Howie Dorough and cousins Brian Littrell and Kevin Richardson.
Thousands of fans turned up to listen to Backstreet Boys, one of the most popular boy bands across the globe, as they performed at Jio Garden, BKC here on Thursday evening.
The band opened the nearly two-hour gig with the hit song “I Wanna Be With You” and continued to belt out hit numbers one after another, including “The Call”, “Don’t Want You Back” as the crowd went wild . Frenzy, sing along.
Bryan came on stage and greeted his fans with “Namaste Mumbai”. He also tried conversing with the audience in Hindi and took out a paper and quipped “Kaise hain aap”, and concluded that Namaste was the best.
The band consists of Nick Carter, AJ McLean, Howie Dorough and cousins Brian Littrell and Kevin Richardson. The group was formed in Florida in 1993 and rose to fame with their debut album, “Backstreet Boys”.
It came to India on Wednesday after thirteen years for the DNA World Tour 2023 produced by BookMyShow, for which they will also perform in Delhi on May 5.
As the band performed songs including “Get Down”, “I Want You Back” and “Unfinished”, Nick said that someone should have warned him how hot it was in India. He further added, “It’s not the weather that’s heating it up, it’s because of all of you.”
“We didn’t know we had so many BSB fans, but now we see it and we love it. This is our second time in India and we’ve been waiting to come to Mumbai for a long time.
After “Drowning”, AJ McLean came out on stage and assured the crowd that they weren’t even halfway done and asked the audience to keep singing, dancing and shouting as much as they could.
Kevin joined them on stage and said that next time “it won’t be just two cities but four, five and six.” It was a night to remember as the band performed some of the most memorable songs of the 90s. People of all age groups could be seen grooving to his beats during his performance.
The band immediately struck a chord with the audience when they performed one of their all-time favorite songs. “Everybody (Backstreet’s Back)”.
The group was dressed in all black outfits.
The band members were impressed when their hotel staff performed “Everybody (Backstreet’s Back)” to welcome them here on Wednesday.
Nick Carter later posted a video of himself on Instagram applauding the act. “This is the first time I have seen something like this in my entire career where hotel staff are dancing. It’s crazy!” Carter said in the video.
To show their love for the city, the band tweaked their song “I Want It That Way”. “I want it the Mumbai way,” he muttered.
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