Boyz II Men To Receive Star On Hollywood Walk Of Fame

HOLLYWOOD (CBS) — Boyz II Men, the top-selling rhythm & blues group of all time with more than 60 million albums sold, will receive the 2,456th star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame Thursday.

Kenny "Babyface" Edmonds, Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis will join group members Nathan Morris, Shawn Stockman and Wayna Morris in speaking in the 11:30 a.m. ceremony in front of Live Nation on Hollywood Boulevard.

The ceremony comes eight days before the group begins a 17-city European tour with a concert in Berlin.

Formed at the Philadelphia High School for Creative and Performing Arts in 1988 where it would rehearse in its bathrooms because of their excellent acoustics, Boyz II Men was a quartet that also included bass singer Michael McCary when its first album "Cooleyhighharmony" was released in 1991.

It sold more than nine million copies and won a Grammy in 1992 as best R&B performance by a duo or group with vocals.

Boyz II Men repeated as the Grammy winners in the category in 1993 for "End of The Road." The group won a third Grammy for best R&B performance by a duo or group with vocals in 1995 for "I'll Make Love To You," the year it also won for best R&B album for "II."

Boyz II Men has also won nine American Music Awards, nine Soul Train Awards and three Billboard Awards.

McCary left the group in 2003 due to chronic back problems resulting from scoliosis.

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