1. From 2006 to 2009, Carter was a member of the band she founded, The Other Half.
16 Facts About Leslie Carter
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Leslie Carter was born in Tampa, Florida, the third of five children of Jane Eleonora Schneck and the late Robert Carter.
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Leslie Carter was born at the Garden Villa Retirement Home, where the Carter family were living and working at the time.
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Leslie Carter was the older sister of singer Aaron Carter and his twin sister Angel Conrad and the younger sister of Bobbie Jean Carter and Nick Carter.
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Leslie Carter had an older half-sister named Ginger and a younger half-brother named Kaden.
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On September 12,2008, Leslie Carter married her partner Mike Ashton and moved to Toronto, Ontario, where she gave birth to a daughter in 2011.
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Leslie Carter signed a record deal with DreamWorks Records in 1999 and began recording her debut album.
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Leslie Carter started a small club tour in Canada in December 2005, and had a showcase in New York City on January 19,2006, with hopes it would lead to a new record deal.
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Leslie Carter co-wrote her material with High Holy Days guitarist Dave Thompson.
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In late 2006, Leslie Carter founded the band The Other Half, which included her backup musicians Mike Ashton, DJ Porter, Jose Batista, Casey Clowater, Paul Davidson, Daniel Resanovic and Dave Thompson.
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On January 31,2012, at age 25, Leslie Carter, who had complained of feeling ill after falling in the shower, was found unresponsive at the home of Robert and her stepmother Ginger Elrod Leslie Carter, in Mayville, New York while she was visiting them.
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Leslie Carter had fallen asleep after she fell in the shower and did not wake up.
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Leslie Carter was pronounced dead on arrival at Westfield Memorial Hospital in Westfield, New York.
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Leslie Carter's daughter was 10 months old at the time of her mother's death.
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Nick Carter did not attend the funeral; according to Nick, he stayed away because his family blamed him for Leslie's death and wanted him to be absent from the funeral.
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Leslie Carter is buried in Chautauqua Cemetery in Chautauqua, New York.