In Real Life (band) Informations

In Real Life (also known as IRL) is an American boy band composed of Brady Tutton, Chance Perez, Drew Ramos, Sergio Calderon, and Conor Michael Smith, the final five vocalists from the American reality television music competition series Boy Band. The show premiered June 22, 2017, on ABC.

The ten-episode season of the American television music competition series Boy Band began with thirty young male vocalists competing to become a member of the new five-piece boy band. Each week, the boys would rotate into different groups and perform, at the end, the "architects" would put either two or three boys up for elimination and through live voting, a boy would be saved by America. At the end of the season, the final five remaining boys would form the boy band and receive a recording contract with Hollywood Records. After a 24-hour voting period the week before, it was announced at the final live show on August 24, 2017 that Tutton, Perez, Ramos, Calderon, and Conor were the winning members, this forming the boy band In Real Life. There, they premiered their debut single, "Eyes Closed." Following their formation, In Real Life performed live on various television programs including Total Request Live in November 2017,Good Morning America in December 2017, on Live with Kelly and Ryan. That same year, they released an acoustic version "Eyes Closed", along with two Christmas songs- "Feel This Christmas", and "I'll Be Home Christmas." In February 2018, they appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live, and performed on Despierta América that April. In 2018, the band released several singles, starting with "Tattoo (How 'Bout You)", which peaked at number 29 on Billboard's Mainstream Top 40 chart for radio play. Other released singles included "How Badly," "Tonight Belongs to You," and "Got Me Good."

In May 2018, it was announced that In Real Life would open in a supporting slot in July and August on the 2018 American Idol summer tour. In September 2018, they headlined the Tonight Belongs To You tour, performing in small venues across the U.S. and Asia. The tour concluded in November. In 2019, they released singles "Crazy AF", "Somebody Like You," and "Hurt For Long". Their debut album She Do, which features all of their singles from the past two years along with three new songs, was released on August 23, 2019.

In Real Life are a pop boy band that experiment with other sounds such as pop-rap, dance-pop, teen pop and Latin pop.

They cite One Direction as their main influence and are compared to them for both starting off on reality television. They also cite The BackStreet Boys, Boyz II Men and Jackson 5. Individual members of the group also cite influences including Charlie Puth, Bruno Mars, Frank Ocean, Logic, Machine Gun Kelly, Future, Shawn Mendes, Ed Sheeran, Justin Timberlake, Sam Smith, Jon Bellion, Jay-Z, Kendrick Lamar, Rita Ora, Eminem, NF and Nas.

Brady Tutton was born on (2001-12-07) December 7, 2001 (age 17) and is from Shorewood, Wisconsin. For his Boy Band audition, Tutton sang "On Bended Knee" by Boyz II Men. He went through the ten-week competition without being placed in the bottom two or three. He is a trained opera singer, as well as an actor. He played "Brock" on the ABC sitcom Fresh Off the Boat in 2015. Tutton is also the lead actor in the 2018 movie The Rocket.

Chance Nickolas Perez was born on (1997-11-10) November 10, 1997 (age 21) and originates from Seal Beach, California. In 2016, Perez auditioned for America's Got Talent along with bandmates Jordan Perez and Tyler Reardon as "The WVKE". The group was buzzed by Howie Mandel and Heidi Klum and criticized by Simon Cowell, leading to their elimination during the audition phase, however, Chance's vocals were individually praised by Cowell. In 2017, Perez auditioned for Boy Band singing "Somebody to Love" by Queen, immediately becoming a frontrunner in the competition. Like Tutton, he was never put up for elimination. He also has a daughter named Brooklyn, who is 4 years old as of 2019.

Andrew Ramos (known professionally as Drew) was born on (1997-10-23) October 23, 1997 (age 21) and originates from The Bronx, New York. In 2017, Ramos auditioned for the first season of ABC's Boy Band, with Sam Smith's "Stay with Me". Along with Tutton and Perez, Ramos went through the competition without being placed in a bottom two or three. His breakout performance during the competition was MAXED's performance of Lauryn Hill's rendition of "Can't Take My Eyes Off You".

Sergio Calderon Jr. was born on (2000-10-06) October 6, 2000 (age 18). He is from Redwood City, California. Calderon auditioned for Boy Band, with an English-Spanish-hybrid rendition of Prince Royce's "Stand by Me." On August 10, 2017, Calderon was placed in the bottom two along with former contestant Devin Hayes, but he was saved by America.

Conor Michael Smith, formerly known as Michael Conor until 2019, was born on (1999-06-07) June 7, 1999 (age 20). He is from Shaker Heights, Ohio. He auditioned for Boy Band as a rapping violinist with "A Little More" by Machine Gun Kelly. Like Tutton, Perez, and Ramos, he was never in danger of elimination.

In January of 2019, Smith made a remix to “Lucky You” by Eminem featuring Joyner Lucas. After the success with the first remix, Smith released “Do or Die” which used the music from “Morph” by Twenty One Pilots. “Do or Die” and was released in March of 2019. Thomas Crane filmed and directed both videos, which are uploaded to YouTube. The audio version of both songs are available on Smith’s SoundCloud.

The discography of the American pop boy band In Real Life consists of 1 studio album, 10 singles, and 6 music videos.

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