James Lance Bass (born May 4, 1979) is an
American pop singer,
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 'N Sync. 'N Sync'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,
as well as a now-defunct
music management company, Free Lance Entertainment, a joint venture with
Mercury Records.
After completion of 'N Sync'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.
