Kevin Scott Richardson (born October 3, 1971) is an American 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 (née Littrell) (1943-2022), homemaker, and Jerald Richardson Sr., an outdoorsman, military veteran, a construction worker, a fireman, a camp manager and handyman. Growing up, Kevin 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, 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. 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. He also got the nickname Train because he ran through guys on the team like a train. 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 how to play the piano by ear when he was nine years old. He sang in his church's choir since he was a child and was a part of his community and high school theater. He got his first keyboard when he was a high school freshman. 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 also adored performing, participating in the school theater, was a member of the school's drama club, and sang in the chorus. The latter ultimately won out of his two loves, acting and music. He was also a member of the chess club, Spanish club and participated in various school plays such as Bye Bye Birdie and Barefoot in the Park at Estill County High School in Kentucky, where he was voted "Most Popular", "Best Dressed", "Best Dancer", "Best Look" and "Best