Singer talks about his first-born son Camden and how he\u2019s preparing for summer tour<\/p>\n\n\n\n
By Lie Shia Ong<\/em> We first met him as the lead singer of 98 Degrees, one of\nseveral boy bands who topped the charts in the late ’90s and attracted\nthousands of screaming fans to their shows. But now more than 15 years later,\nNick Lachey is singing a different kind of tune. Married to his wife, Vanessa,\nand now a first-time dad to baby Camden, born last September, Lachey just\nreleased what he calls a very personal album called “Nick Lachey: A\nFather’s Lullaby,” which he dedicates to his son.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The 12-song CD includes songs like “You Are My\nSunshine,” “When You Wish Upon a Star” and “Baby Mine”<\/p>\n\n\n\n MSN Music spoke with the singer about the album,\nfatherhood and the upcoming 98 Degrees reunion tour with New Kids on the Block\nand Boyz II Men this summer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n MSN Music: How did\nthe idea of this lullaby album come about?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Well, the idea kind of really originated when you find\nout you’re pregnant and all those emotions that go along with that start coming\ninto play. For me music was a place where I was able to express myself and\ncommunicate those emotions, so I had a unique opportunity to do something cool\nand dedicate it to Camden, and have it be something we can kind of share as a\nmoment in our lives together for a long, long time. I hadn’t really heard of\nany guy doing a lullaby CD so I thought it was kind of unique and I decided to\ngo for it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Was there a\nparticular process you took when selecting the songs on the album? Did you\nchoose some songs that were special to you when you were a child?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Yeah. It was a combination of songs that I wrote that\nwere from the heart and very meaningful for me and to me, and also songs that\nrepresented something for me in my life. Like “You Are my Sunshine”\nwas a song my grandfather used to sing to me as a child. That was very special.\n“Godspeed” was a song the Dixie Chicks did that just really spoke to\nme, and I thought was a great record about having a little guy. I tried to pick\nsongs that were meaningful; songs that mean something or spoke to me when I\nheard them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Does baby Camden\nhave a favorite song?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Well it’s interesting: One song in particular; the melody I used to hum to him before he was even born. We had read some research that they said that babies can recognize and realize melodies they’ve heard in the womb. So the song “Sleepy Eyes” is one that I used to hum to him before he was born, so that’s the one I sing to him every night before he goes to sleep. I like to think it’s his favorite. He hasn’t told me any differently, so we’ll just assume that I’m right on that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n How has parenthood\nbeen for you and Vanessa? Is he keeping you up at night?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n No. He’s a great sleeper. He’s been sleeping through the\nnight now for about three months now, if not longer. He’s a great kid. We love\nbeing parents. Every day is something new and exciting, and we just feel really\nblessed. We have a great kid. He’s very well behaved. It’s been nothing but\nfun. Nothing but great stuff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n You’re also\ngearing up to go on tour with New Kids on the Block and Boyz II Men for The\nPackage Tour. Are you planning on bringing Vanessa and baby Camden with you?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Oh yeah. He’s changing so much so fast, I can’t imagine\nnot being with him for two and a half months. They’re definitely going to come\nout on the road — maybe not the whole time, but for a chunk of it. It’ll be\ncool to spend that time and share those memories with them. It’s just a fun\nthing being on tour. It’s a big chapter of my life with those guys so it’ll be\ncool to be able to share that with Vanessa and Camden. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Your 98 Degrees\nfans have grown up since the last time you’ve toured together, and you all have\nobviously matured too. What are you looking forward to the most?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n I think more than anything it’s getting back in front of\nthe fans. We’ve got some great fans who have stood by us and been with us for a\nlong, long time. This is for them. This is something that they’ve been\nclamoring for and campaigned for, for a while. It’s the right time for all of\nour lives and careers to make it happen on our end. It’ll just be fun to get\nback out in front of the fans and give them a great show and see their energy\nand their love again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 98 Degrees was\nactually discovered as a group at a Boyz II Men concert, right?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n That’s right. We were huge fans and still are of Boyz II\nMen. We sang a capella at one of their concerts and got backstage and tried to\nsing for them, but they were really busy back then. We got discovered by\nsomeone there who hooked us up with Montell Jordan, and then from there we did\nour demo and got signed and all that good stuff. But it all started with the\nconcert that night and singing backstage at their show.<\/p>\n\n\n\n And this is the\nfirst time you’ll be touring with them?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n It is. We’ve gotten to know them through the years. We were both on Motown Records for a while so\nwe know them. I was on “The Sing-Off” with Shawn [Stockman] from Boyz\nII Men for the last couple years. We know each other, but this is definitely\nthe first time we’re performing on the same bill, on the same tour together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Do you all have a\npersonal connection with New Kids on the Block as well?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n We do. Some of us do. Drew toured with Joey Mcintyre on\nthe “Dancing With the Stars” tours. Way back in the day we toured\nwith Jordan [Knight] in southeast Asia. So over the course of doing different\nthings you get to know some of the guys personally. I actually ran into Donnie\n[Wahlberg] at a thing last year and we started talking about getting the group\nback together, and I think that the idea of touring together maybe originated\nfrom speaking to him at that party. All the groups of this particular tour have\ngreat guys. Really down to earth. A lot of fun. Both onstage and offstage it\nshould be a lot of fun this summer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Without giving too\nmuch away, can fans expect a big grand finale with all three groups onstage?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n [Laughs] I wish I knew the answer to that. We haven’t\nreally gotten to the point where we’re starting to put the whole show together.\nI think each group is starting to think about what they want to do, but as far\nas putting the big show together, we haven’t gotten there yet. But it’d be a\nlot of fun to do that. I certainly hope we can. <\/p>\n\n\n\n What do you want\nparents to know about the lullaby album?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Lullabies are designed to calm down babies and put them\nto sleep. Aside from being a very personal record and one I’m very proud of, I\nthink it’s an effective record. It definitely calms Camden down. … A lot of\nmy fans from over the years are now starting families of their own and having\ntheir own kids. It’s a great opportunity to continue to share my music with\nthem but in a completely different way. So I’m very excited for everyone to\nhear it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Does Camden get\nthe album version or the live version of these songs each night?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n He gets the live version!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Singer talks about his first-born son Camden and how he\u2019s preparing for summer tour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":556,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-msn-entertainment","category-portfolio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lieshiaong-sintzel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lieshiaong-sintzel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lieshiaong-sintzel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lieshiaong-sintzel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lieshiaong-sintzel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=555"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/lieshiaong-sintzel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":883,"href":"https:\/\/lieshiaong-sintzel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555\/revisions\/883"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lieshiaong-sintzel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lieshiaong-sintzel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lieshiaong-sintzel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lieshiaong-sintzel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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