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*Chris Watrin*


Chris was born on August 7th, 1988 in Cologne. As member of the „Kölner Jugendchor St. Stephan“ he was able to collect his first experiences on stage and in the music industry. After Chris saw a tv-spot for the reality show „BIG IN AMERICA“, he attended the audition and the rest is history. With US5, Chris biggest dream came true.
Another huge passion of Chris is photography. Nobody is safe from him and his camera.In his free time Chris likes playing volleyball, making music and writing songs. If the time permits he also likes to go surfing.

*Richie Stringini*


Richie was born on November 28th, 1988 in Illinois. He grew up in Wheaton, a little city near Chicago.
By the age of four, he already had collected a lot of stage expertise. He played in various musicals and advertising spots.
Before Richie joined US5, he was on his way to become a successful actor and played for example in the American Hollywood-Movie „Rule Number One“.Richie is the comedian and “clown” of US5. He likes kidding his band mates and imitating their voices in all feasible and unfeasible situations.
He is always in close contact with his family which is very important for him. His parents support and motivate him all the time – and exactly that gives him the power he needs for US5.

*Vincent Tomas*


Vince was born on August 27th, 1992. Such as Richie he collected his first experiences in the show business at various castings for tv-broadcasts and advertising spots.
Vince attended an audition in America for solo artists. He had to compete with about 2.000 other artists, but with the song „What goes around…comes around" of his idol Justin Timberlake he sang himself in the hearts of the jury.
Triple-M Music invited Vince for some test recordings to Berlin. Because Mikel decided to leave the band, the solution was clear: Vince, the 15 year old curly hair surfer-boy from Los Angeles/California became instead of a solo-artist the new member of US5 and completed the band, again.
Vince was welcomed by the boys with open arms and celebrated his entrance to US5 within the IN CONTROL TOUR 2007.

*Izzy Gallegos*


Izzy was born September on 19th, 1983 in California/USA. With the age of 15 he began playing music with his first band „EXACT“. Izzy and his band was for example on tour back in the days with Aaron Carter and Jessica Simpson.
Izzy is a talented dancer. Among other stuff somersaults and back flips belong to his dance style. The amazing thing is, that he teaches himself all moves.
Currently Izzy has 4 piercings and 14 tattoos. The first tattoo he punctures himself with the string of a guitar.
Izzy is an impassioned Poem-Writer and big Wrestling Fan. Sometimes Izzy is practising new moves with his band mates. Thank god, there weren't any “big” accidents, yet.

*Jay Khan*


Jay was born on March 31th, 1982 in London/UK. Up to his 7th Birthday he lived with his family in London, before they moved to Berlin.
In 1998 his family decided to go back to London again, but Jay stayed in Berlin together with his father. In the year 2000 he made his A-Level at a french „grammar school“ with a grade point average of 1,7! After finishing school, Jay went back to London to study journalism.
About 7 years ago Jay attended an audition in Berlin, which was held by one of the most successful production companies in Europe - Triple-M Music.
Every day Jay was in the studio, wrote songs, sang and composed along with Triple-M Music. His greatest success as co-composer he had with „Schick mir nen Engel“ from the Popstars winning band “Overground”, which has sold over 250.000 copies and was ranked for several weeks on number 1 in various countries.
When the project „BIG IN AMERICA“ started, it was absolutely clear for Triple-M, that Jay has to become a member of the band. In US5, Jay is like the „big brother“ for his band-mates. The most important thing for Jay is being on stage with his guys and to fascinate the US5 fans. „As long as our fans what to see us on stage and listen to our music, US5 will exist.“