About Kevin Richardson (musician)
Kevin Scott Richardson (born October 3, 1971) is an American pop singer, best known as a member of the vocal group the Backstreet Boys. Richardson was inducted into the Kentucky Music Hall of Fame with his cousin and bandmate Brian Littrell in 2015. == Early life == Kevin Scott Richardson was born on October 3, 1971, in Lexington, Kentucky, the son of Ann Clyde (née Littrell) (June 11, 1943 – January 22, 2022), homemaker, and Jerald Wayne Richardson Sr. (December 27, 1941 – August 26, 1991), an outdoorsman, military veteran, construction worker, fireman, camp manager and handyman. Growing up, Richardson lived on a 10-acre farm with his parents and two older brothers (Jerald Wayne Jr. and Tim), one of whom is a model, for 9 years, and later lived in a log cabin at Cathedral Domain Camp, an Episcopal church-owned youth camp which his father ran, where he worked as a camp counselor, met his best friend Keith, singer and now bodyguard, and was a regular at the camp talent shows until he was 18. In school he played little league baseball and football, which led him to play football in high school and being captain of his team called the Estill Engineers. Along with the other Backstreet Boys, Richardson took a DNA test which revealed that he is 44.1% English, 36.2% North and West European, and 19.7% Irish, Scottish, and Welsh. At a young age, Richardson loved music and started learning to play the piano by ear when he was nine. He sang in his church's choir since he was a child and was a part of his community and high school theater.
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