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A los 19 años, Kevin ya estaba cansado de cantar en una banda de covers y de golpear de puerta en puerta para que alguien lo escuchase y, contando con el apoyo de su madre, decidió hacer las valijas para viajar a Orlando a probar suerte.
Una vez allí consiguió trabajo como guía turístico en DisneyWorld, donde también participaba en obras de entretenimiento bajo el disfraz de Alladino y de Tortuga Ninja. En una ocasión mientras, terminaba el baile de la última obra mencionada, tenía que lanzar una patada al aire, mientras lo hacía súbitamente la parte inferior del traje salió disparado hacia el público, teniendo que finalizar el espectáculo vistiendo solamente las medias cancanes verdes que llevaba debajo del mismo. Esto es algo que odia recordar porque durante esa época pasó mucha verguenza.
Mientras trabajaban por conseguir un sello discográfico que los representase, partieron en un pequeño tour por la zona. En unas de sus espectaculares actuaciones en vivo, Donna Wright llamó a Dave McPherson. Con el telefono celular en alto le hizo escuchar la fuerza que los boys tenían y la euforia que causaban, sin duda aquello era realmente prometedor. De esta forma consiguieron su tan ansiado y merecido contrato discográfico. Ahora lo único que había que hacer era encerrarse durante un tiempo en el estudio de grabación y hacer escuchar al mundo sus increíbles voces y electrificantes canciones y prepararse para lo que les deparaba el futuro...
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On October the 3rd of 1971 was born Kevin Scott Richardson in the city of Lexington, Kentucky. His parents, Gerald and Ann, and his older brothers, Gerald and Tim, gave him a childhood full of happyness. Kevin spent the first nine years of his live on a ten-acre farm and the next eight living in a modern-day log cabin. When he was a kid he was in charge of the animals and all kind of tasks, at the same time that he helped his father with his job, Gerald was a students-camp leader.
From an early age, Kevin was already interested in everything relationed with the showbusiness world: he used to stand in front of the mirror with his hairbrush in his mouth pretending to be singing. He also participated in every school acts, and he already loved dancing, this must have come down from his parents, who were a professional dance couple.
At the age of six, as a christmas gift he received what he'd been asking for to his parents, they bought him his first toy drums, which he played a lot.
At high school he received the other thing he'd been desired and wanted, his first keyboards set. Inmediatly he started to take piano classes, but at the same time he had a wonderful talent to play it by ear,so, he never really learned solfeggio.
During his adolescence he also sang in the choir of the church, together with his cousin Brian.
When he was 13 years old he wrote his first song and at 16 he got his first job playing keyboards in a restaurant.
Kev remembers with affection his first kiss, it was in the fifth course at the institute, the lucky girl was one of his friends, her name was Gina Davison. This kiss seemed to like to both of them, 'cause that day they repeated it many times.
Another memory he kept in his mind and heart are those nice chistmas he spent with his whole family, where both cousins sang the traditional Christmas carols, at the same time they showed their brilliant talents.
While he was a teenager he highlighted in everything referring to sports, he was specially good at american football.
The first time he fell in love was when he was working in the restaurant above mentioned, there he met a girl named Christy. About one year later he made love for the first time, Kevin confesses that after that he felt guilty 'cause his religion didn't allow him to have sex before marriege.
Since he's a little boy he loves flying, he wanted to be a pilot of the army. His grandfather had a Cessna single-motor aircraft, for him it was really fascinating... just to get on it and play in the cabin, to see everything from up there was terrific!
When he was 19 years old, and being tired of singing in a cover group without any success, counting on his mother's support he made up his mind and travel to Orlando to see what could happen.
When he was already living in Orlando, he got a job as a touristic guide in Disneyworld, at the same time he participated in different shows, playing the Alladino and Turtle Ninja characters.
One day, in a beach of Florida he met the girl who has been until the moment his most serious and lasting sentimental relationship. The girl was named Beth and she was 6 years older than him, she had 25 years old. According to Kevin's words it was a truly love at first sight. Their relationship was going really great, they got on well to each other, they were about to engaged. But three years later, inexplicably, she fell in love with someone else and she broke up with him. Now Kevin is looking for the big love of his life, the one who get married with, to have many kids and live in a big ranch, but before all this he's aware he has a career ahead and many wishes to achieve.
But, something hit him badly, still being in Florida, a terrible new was given to him, it was diagnosed cancer to his father, something that Kev definitly denied to believe. So, he travelled back to Kentucky. Finally after 10 months of quarreling to live, Gerald died at the young age of 49 years. It was something totally difficult to overcome for him, since they were very close to each other and Kevin loved and still love him very deeply. Now he remembers him always and he knows he would be very proud of his success, and he really believes that he's looking and guiding him from up there.
After overcoming a big depression cause for his father death, he came back to Orlando
One day while he was in a bar, he heard about a vocal trio, which was characterized for being all the time training their spectacular voices a capella everywhere at any time. This trio were formed by Howie Dorough, Alexander McLean and the almost child Nickolas Carter. They knew each other a long time ago, they had become friends because they coincided at the same castings. That's how Kev met them and they got together, inmediatly they realized that their voices homogenized perfectly. But they also decided that it was necessary to add another member in order to form a powerfull quintet. So, Kevin thought about his cousin Brian Littell, who at the time were living in Kentucky and who owned a privileged voice. A phone call was made, and the next day Brian was already in Orlando. Just one detail was missing, a name for the group; hangin' out in a very famous and known market for the local and tourist young people, called Backstreet Market, they decided to name themselves "Backstreet Boys".
After a while, Lou Pearlman, a friend in common, who was a producer (he had produced groups like the New Kids on the block), introduced the band to the managers Jhonny and Donna Wright, who inmediatly became enthusiastic with the proposition.
While they were working hard to get a discographic deal, they started a local tour. In one of their shows Donna phoned Dave McPherson, holding up her celular phone let him feel the energy that the boys had and he could heard the euphoria they caused on the audience. After this episode they got their yearned and deserved music deal. Now the only thing they had to do was to enter the studio and let the world know their incredible voices and great songs and to prepare themselves for what was still to come...
Since that moment, they've been growing a lot, their harmonies have been enhanced and they could find their own and distinguished sound. Furthermore they've become inseparables, they've got have a real friendship relationship, they say they are like a big family of five brothers of different ages.
They've been reaping a huge number of succesful songs in many different places, millions of copies sold worlwide and many tours sold out over all the world. And this is no doubt the beggining...
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