There are certain perks that come with doing what we do here at CONFRONT Magazine: going to see tons of great concerts, meeting high profile people, working in our chosen fields – be it journalism, administration or photography. And once in a while, we are lucky enough to have some of our dreams come true. For me, this has happened twice, the first being on the day of my 29th birthday when I got to interview 30 Seconds to Mars front man, Jared Leto, but that’s a story for another time.

I’m sure you’ll agree with me that incidents of dreams coming true don’t occur on a regular basis. So you can imagine my surprise when our friends at Evenko sent me an e-mail confirming that our interview request with the ultimate boyband, The Backstreet boys, had been approved.

I knew at a really young age that I wanted to be a writer. At first I wanted to be a novelist, an art form I still dabble in in my spare time, but it was when I signed up for the school newspaper as part of my extra-curricular activities, that I quickly fell in love with Journalism and focused on becoming a reporter.
During an exercise in my journalism class in college, we were asked to put together a Q&A package for a celebrity we would like to interview and without having to think too hard, I picked The Backstreet Boys. I don’t remember exactly what it is I had put together, however I do remember thinking that if I ever got to ask them those questions, it would mean that I had made it as an entertainment reporter.
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