What The American Juniors Look Like Today

She didn't make the top five, but that didn't put a dent in Katelyn Tarver's hopes of becoming a star. After her time on American Juniors ended, she sought out her own deal independently and in 2005 she managed to strike one, signing on with New York record label TC Music. Her debut record "Wonderful

She didn't make the top five, but that didn't put a dent in Katelyn Tarver's hopes of becoming a star. After her time on American Juniors ended, she sought out her own deal independently and in 2005 she managed to strike one, signing on with New York record label TC Music. Her debut record "Wonderful Crazy" featured tracks penned and produced by Mattias Gustafsson (who helped fire the Backstreet Boys to fame), though like many of her fellow Juniors, she also wanted to find success through acting.

Her first movie gig was as a motion capture artist for 2006 animated feature The Barbie Diaries, in which she provided the movements for the titular blonde. It wasn't long until she landed the part of new girl Jo Taylor in Nickelodeon's Big Time Rush, a role that (unfortunately for her) she is still best remembered for, despite long-running stints on ABC shows No Ordinary Family and The Secret Life of an American Teenager.

While she still has plenty of TV work in the pipeline, Tarver has been concentrating most of her efforts on finally making it big in the music industry, with her EP Tired Eyes finally made available to download in 2017 after six years in the making. Opening song "Weekend Millionaire" has actually been doing the rounds since 2015, when Tarver sat down with Teen Vogue to explain what the track meant to her. "Living here, in the thick of my mid-20s, everyone's trying to figure themselves out," she said. "The song is about my experiences of living in L.A. and that feeling of trying to keep up with the culture."

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