In Real Life (IRL) was an American boy band composed of Brady Tutton, Chance Perez, Drew Ramos, Sergio Calderon, and Conor Smith, the final five vocalists from the American reality television music competition series Boy Band.

[2] After a 24-hour voting period the week before, it was announced at the final live show on August 24, 2017, that Tutton, Perez, Ramos, Calderon and Smith were the winning members, thus forming the boy band In Real Life and performing their debut single, "Eyes Closed".

In 2018, the band released several singles, starting with "Tattoo (How 'Bout You)", which peaked at number 29 on Billboard's Mainstream Top 40 chart for radio play.

In May 2018, it was announced that In Real Life would open in a supporting slot in July and August on the 2018 American Idol summer tour.

[14] Individual members of the group also cite influences including Charlie Puth, Bruno Mars, Frank Ocean, Logic, Machine Gun Kelly, Future, Shawn Mendes, Ed Sheeran, Justin Timberlake, Sam Smith, Jon Bellion, Jay-Z, Kendrick Lamar, Rita Ora, Eminem, NF and Nas.

For his Boy Band audition, Tutton sang "On Bended Knee" by Boyz II Men.

He was a student at Woodside Priory School before auditioning for Boy Band, where he performed an English-Spanish bilingual rendition of Prince Royce's "Stand by Me".

On August 10, 2017, Calderon was placed in the bottom two, along with former contestant Devin Hayes, but he was saved by the fans and viewers who voted for him to stay.

He is from Shaker Heights, Ohio, and auditioned for Boy Band as a rapping violinist with "A Little More" by Machine Gun Kelly.

After the success of this initial remix, Smith released "Do or Die" in March of 2019; the track contains a sample of "Morph" by Twenty One Pilots.