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Date Posted: 20:35:32 01/18/02 Fri
Author: Alison
Subject: Meet the teen behind the stars
In reply to: Alison 's message, "Drat! Plans for his own album are on hiatus?" on 20:33:21 01/18/02 Fri

Friday, January 18, 2002

Meet the teen behind the stars
By STEPHANIE McGRATH -- AllPop

At 19, Wade Robson has already gone skydiving with Justin Timberlake, danced in Michael Jackson videos and chatted with Britney Spears about fame, love and family, and all because he's got an ear for a catchy hook and an eye for the dance moves that propel popstars to greatness.

Wade is a choreographer, producer, and writer (to name just a few of his occupations). He's also the man who planned Britney's latest tour (called "Dream Within Dream") and penned *Nsync's hit single "Gone" with Justin.

Wade started dancing "as soon as I figured out how to use my legs" and was already working on a professional dance career by age five. When he was nine, he moved from his native Australia to the U.S.

After working in music videos for awhile (including work on three Jackson videos by the time he was seven), he decided a career as a professional dancer just wasn't for him. He then became part of a rap act and began choreographing their videos, which paved the way to his current success.

"Things really kicked off when I first started working with Britney," says Wade, who was just 16 when he first crossed paths with the pop princess.

A dancer friend landed Wade a job doing choreography for Britney's very first tour. When the singer was ready to hit the stage in 2001 to tour her "Britney" album, Wade was the one who planned and directed the spectacle.

"By this point I'd already been working with her for about two years and seen her grow and change," Wade says from his home in L.A. "I knew that was something I really wanted to bring forth in the show. [I] spent some time with her, just talked about life, fame and how she deals with it, family, friends, boyfriends. Britney and I are kind of the same in that we built our lives on a dream. We had a dream from a very young age and we made it happen, and [we] just used sleeping dreams [in the live show] as a metaphor for that."

Wade's recent work with *Nsync also evolved naturally. He and Justin decided they wanted to write together when Wade was working with *Nsync on their "No Strings Attached" tour. The result of their collaboration, "Gone", is one of the musical achievements Wade is proudest of. The fact that both "Gone" and "Pop" -- which he wrote with Justin while skydiving and driving scooters around his neighbourhood -- became huge hits, was a pleasant surprise.

"We just really clicked musically right away," Wade says. "I'd be sitting at the keyboard playing something and he'd start to say 'Go and do this', and I'd be doing it. [We were] finishing each other's sentences."

Wade was considering releasing his own album but now says those plans are on "hiatus". He's concerned that a potential hit record would bring too much fame and too little control over his own affairs. So for now, he's working on music for a new artist named Christina Vidal and talking with studio heads at Warner Bros., Dreamworks, and Universal about directing a movie.

Wade says he's got a few of his own film projects he'd eventually like to work on, including a musical he says will "bring back musicals for good". First, though, he'd like to direct films by different writers to "get experience and get the juice, 'cause my films are huge and I wanna make sure I can do 'em the way I want to do 'em.

"Just look out for a lot of good songs and for me as a director".

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ohh cool wade is workin with the girl who plays taina (NT) -- laura, 02:36:57 01/25/02 Fri
- I don't get out much..lol. Who is taina? (NT) -- Alison, 17:45:09 01/25/02 Fri