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Howie Dorough

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Howard Dwaine "Howie D" Dorough was born in Orlando, Florida, as the fifth and youngest child of Paula Flores and Hoke Dwaine Dorough. His older siblings include Pollyanna, who is herself an aspiring singer, and Caroline Dorough-Cochran, who unfortunately passed away from Lupus at the age of 38 in 1998. His mother is Puerto Rican and his father had Irish and English ancestry. Although known for his humanitarian efforts with the Dorough Lupus Foundation, created in honor of his late sister, and for his work in producing up incoming stars such as George Nozuka, Howie is best known as being one-fifth of the Backstreet Boys. In 1992, at the age of 19, as Howie was struggling to find work as an actor, he kept running into two younger men on the audition circuit. These young men were Alexander James "A.J." Mclean, and Nickolas Gene "Nick" Carter. The three young men came up with the idea to join together and form a singing group, but decided that they needed at least one more member. It was through auditions that the boys found Kevin Scott Richardson, who was working in Orlando at the time, who would become the oldest member of the Backstreet Boys. Kevin made the suggestion of adding his cousin Brian Thomas Littrell to the group, as Brian himself was a phenomenal singer. In 1993, the group known as the Backstreet Boys was born.
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He had a musical coming up in 2020 and has already got a second solo album, "Which One Am I?", coming in July and just released a single, "No Hablo Español.".
Born on the same date as actress Kristen Wiig.
His older sister, Caroline Dorough-Cochran, died from Lupus in September 1998. His charity, "The Lupus Foundation", is named after her.

Every year celebrity companions join the Dorough family to raise money. They have raised millions of dollars since they begun their fight against Lupus. They also try to educate others about what Lupus is and encourage those at risk to get tested for it.
He is the most clean and orderly of the group, and for this reason he's called "Mr. Clean".
Son, James Dorough was born at 2:30 pm on May 6, 2009. He is the first child of Howie and his wife Leigh and is named after Howie's late father, Hoke, who died of brain and lung cancer in June 2008.

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