LMNT (pronounced "element") was a multi-cultural pop music boy band formed in 2001. The group's name was selected by the band's original line-up from contest entries solicited by Teen People magazine.
Three of LMNT's five members first met as potential candidates for ABC's 2000 reality television series Making The Band. Thousands of young men auditioned for what would eventually become the boy band O-Town. Hawaii native Ikaika Kahoano was originally selected as one of the five winners but an undisclosed dispute caused him to back out of the line-up. Matthew Morrison of TV show Glee is also credited as being part of LMNT, according to Elle Magazine.
Joined by fellow runners-up baritone Bryan Chan and Mike Miller, the bass vocalist, the three decided to form their own group. LMNT was the headline Pop act at the Linda Creed Breast Cancer Foundation Benefit Concert held in South Jersey in the spring of 2002. The group performed a live A Capella rendition of Papa Was A Rolling Stone in tribute to honored guest Motown legend Richard Street formerly of The Temptations. The same year LMNT and Richard Street were featured on the cover of the debut issue of the entertainment quarterly R&B Showcase Magazine.
I know of a place with a pretty face
Where the river's flowing through my mind
On a mountain high and I could touch the sky
When I'm thinking of you
I just can't believe that you are mine
I just wanna hold you for all time
Every time I look into your eyes
Baby, I'm in paradise
Everybody knows you're my
Special little something, yes you are
You're my shangri-la
Everybody knows that you're the
Only one I'm wanting, yes you are
You're my shangri-la, yeah
I've been all around, finally I've found
On a field of dreams an Angel
By the ocean blue with a perfect view
When I'm looking at you
I just can't believe that you are mine
And I just wanna hold you for all time
Every time I look into your eyes
Baby, I'm in paradise
Everybody knows you're my
Special little something, yes you are
You're my shangri-la
Everybody knows that you're the
Only one I'm wanting, yes you are
You're my shangri-la
S to the H to the A to the N to the G
To R to the I to the L to the A
Shangri-la
S to the H to the A to the N
To the G to R to the I to the L to the A
Shangri-la
You're my shangri-la
Everybody knows you're my
Special little something, yes you are
You're my shangri-la
Everybody knows that you're the
Only one I'm wanting, yes you are
You're my shangri-la
Everybody knows you're my
Special little something, yes you are
You're my shangri-la
Everybody knows that you're the
Only one I'm wanting, yes you are
You're my shangri-la