Of his two loves, acting and music, the latter ultimately won out. He also adored performing, participating in the school theater, was a member of the school's drama club, and sang in the chorus. He got his first keyboard when he was a high school freshman and it was just a short time before he was entertaining in restaurants and at weddings in a band called Paradise, which did covers of Bobby Brown and Journey. 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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Īt a young age, Richardson loved music and started learning how to play the piano by ear when he was 9 years old. 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. He also got the nickname Train because he ran through guys like a train on the team. When he was a kid in school, he enjoyed horseback riding, dirt bikes and was drawn to sports, such as playing little league baseball and football, which led him to play football in high school and being captain of his team called the Estill Engineers. He spent his childhood in the outdoors, and could already ride a horse at age 4. and Tim), one of whom is a model, for 9 years and later lived in a log cabin at Cathedral Domain Camp, a 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. Growing up, Kevin lived on a 10-acre farm with his parents and two older brothers (Jerald Wayne Jr. (née Littrell), homemaker, and Jerald Wayne Richardson, Sr., an outdoorsman and handyman. Kevin Scott Richardson was born on October 3, 1971, in Lexington, Kentucky, the son of Ann C.