Background
Knight was born in Worcester, Massachusetts to parents Marlene Putnam and Allan Knight.
Knight was born in Worcester, Massachusetts to parents Marlene Putnam and Allan Knight.
He is part of the boy band He is the fifth of six children: Allison, Sharon, David, Christopher, and Jordan. They went on to sell over 80 million albums worldwide before splitting in 1994 after he left during the tour for their 1994 album Face the Music. They originally tried to continue the tour claiming he had been badly hurt by a horse, but in a press conference a few weeks later, they revealed that they were actually splitting.
His early departure led to reports that some members were frustrated with the way he did so and that those feelings prevented an earlier reformation of them.
They released their seventh album (and first in 14 years), The Block, on September 2, 2008. To confirm their reunion and announce the new album, they performed live together on May 16, 2008 for the first time in fifteen years on the Today show.
A world tour was scheduled to follow the new release and began in Toronto on September 18, 2008. The first single from it, "Summertime", performed well worldwide peaking as #9 in Canada and breaking the top 30 in the United States. charts (#24 as a digital download).
They released "Single", their second single from The Block in August 2008.
He is the oldest member of the band and the first to leave it in 1994 prior to their official split. From 1984 until 1994, Knight was a member of an award-winning American boy band In the spring of 2008, Knight returned to show business, reuniting with the other four members of.