As boy bands like Backstreet Boys and *NSYNC redefined pop music for the masses at the close of the 1990s, 98° were also making a splash on the charts and MTV. Fronting the vocal group was Nick Lachey. The onetime sports medicine major was born Nicholas Scott Lachey on the border of Kentucky and Tennessee in fall 1973. He and his younger brother Drew excelled in sports and academics while attending Cincinnati's School for the Creative and Performing Arts. There, the Lachey brothers honed their vocal abilities, but it wasn't until Nick was a student at Miami University in Ohio ...