Howie Dorough

At 50 years old, Howie Dorough has this physical status:

Howard Dwaine Dorough (born August 22, 1973) is an American singer, songwriter, and actor.

He is a co-founder and member of Backstreet Boys, an American music band.

Early life

Dorough was born in Orlando, Florida, where he met his companion and bandmate A.J. McLean was introduced to the Latin carnival in 1989 by a common vocal coach. Paula Flores-Dorough, a school administrator, and his father, Hoke Dwaine Dorough (1938–2008), an Irish American and a bank guard, is a Puerto Rican. He is the youngest of five siblings to have been alive at ten years. Pollyanna's sister, Pollyanna, is also a singer. In September 1998, Caroline, another sister, died of lupus.

Personal life

Caroline Dorough-Cochran died of lupus in September 1998. Dorough founded the Dorough Lupus Foundation (DLF) in her honor to help raise funds for lupus research following her death. Howie performed many charitable activities for the charity, such as concerts, auctions, and some annual cruises. The charity helps raise money for research, provides financial assistance to those who are unable to afford treatment, and raises funds for study.

He has Scandinavian, African, Iberian, Native American, Central and South American, Scottish, Welsh, Balkan, and Middle Eastern descent, according to the band's YouTube site.

Dorough has kept private information about his intimate affairs. He dated Jennifer during his final year of high school, but they parted in 1994 due to his work, leaving him heartbroken. When touring Europe in 1995 or 1996, he briefly met Sabina and then dated Claudia Opdenkelder, a Canadian model. "I had come out of a relationship, so I wasn't looking for something serious," he said.

Dorough met Leigh Anne Boniello, a film executive producer for Warner Brothers and Dreamworks, who was working as the webmaster for the official Backstreet Boys website at the time on December 6, 2000. Howie and Leigh have been together for six years, and on New Year's Day, he proposed to her in front of her family. They married in a traditional Catholic ceremony at St. James Cathedral, where he was baptized and sang choir at in Orlando, Florida, a year later. They have two sons together. Dorough and his partner are assisting in the introduction of Eslla, a luxury firm she created and founded with her friend, Charlotte Wienckoski, more than a decade ago.

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Career

Dorough began performing "Babyface" with his little guitar when he was three years old. He started performing at the age of six or seven, thanks to his brother Polyanna's appearance at mass in the church choir and his first appearance in The Wizard of Oz's musical version as a performer and actor. His mother enrolled him in many children's community theater performances of top musicals, including "Sound Of Music," "Showboat" and "Camelot," as well as "Camelot" and "Camelot" and "Camelot") and eventually taught him in singing/voice and acting lessons at a performing arts academy where he also took dance lessons in classical ballet, tap, and jazz throughout elementary school, among others. He even performed in an all-boy ballet company. He appeared in Little League before turning to the arts. Dorough performed some singing in the choir, auditioned for All-State Chorus, talent shows, and acting school productions, as well as a school TV series titled "Macho & Camacho." He was discovered by an acting agent when he was 14 years old and appeared in films including Parenthood starring Steve Martin, Nickelodeon TV production pilot "Welcome Freshman" and star in a Disney World commercial under the stage name Tony Donetti. He didn't particularly like this, but his handler thought he was Italian and thought it would help him find out. Despite enjoying it his entire life, as well as his bandmates AJ and Nick, he was abused as a youth due to a lack of Spanish words, his falsetto vocal range, and his weight when he was 12 and 7.

Dorough's choir teacher had invited him to perform the National Anthem at his high school basketball game. He agreed but forgot the words until it was time to sing. Despite the humiliating shame, he regained control and resumed his performances at his school talent showcase when he sang 'Unchained Melody', receiving a standing ovation as he reached the high note. Girls were crying in their eyes, and boys were captivated by envy. Dorough was note-perfect, and this time, he was word perfect too. As the screams filled the auditorium and everyone jumped to their feet, his national anthem mess was forgotten. He also auditioned for Menudo, a Latin boy band, but he didn't make it. He was also involved in Friends, a peer mentoring group, where he taught other children about how to live "a healthy life, having fun, going to school, and avoiding opioids." When he isn't in the spotlight, he works as a tour guide in Universal Orlando and spent time with his sister at Zarro's Bread Basket one summer in New York when he was 14 years old.

He was named 'Most Talented' and graduated from Edgewater High School in 1991, placing him in the top ten of his class. After high school, Dorough tried to Backstreet Boys under his stage name but they lost his headshot and contact information; however, they were able to track him down after six months because AJ was already a member of the group. He received a scholarship and attended both University of Central Florida and Valencia College as an Associate of Arts Degree with Chris Kirkpatrick, a member of *NSYNC.

In 1993, Lou Pearlman founded the Backstreet Boys, selecting Howie Dorough, Brian Littrell, Nick Carter, and Kevin Richardson. They were later booked to appear at numerous venues, such as high schools and shopping malls, before eventually signing a Jive Records deal in 1994. They gradually became famous in European countries, beginning with Germany, and embarked on a tour to promote their debut album. In many countries, the album gradually climbed to the top ten positions and was on its way to sell more than 8 million copies.

Backstreet's Back was their first album in Europe, and it was a mash-up of both their international debut and Backstreet's Back, which was a compilation of both their international debut and Backstreet's Back. The album debuted at No. 1 on the charts. On the Billboard 200, there were four on the Billboard 200 and over 14 million copies sold. Backstreet's Backstreet's Backstreet proved much more popular than their debut album, debuting at number one in several nations.

Dorough is best known for his infamous fart, which was recorded and used as part of the Backstreet Boys' fourth album, Black And Blue's "The Call."

Millennium began in 1998 and was released in May 1999. It became one of the best-selling albums of all time, winning the number one position in several countries. Shape Of My Heart, the Millennium's follow-up album, was released on October 3. Black and Blue became the first artists to earn more than $1.5 million in the United States during the first week.

The band went on hiatus and reformed in 2003 after releasing their best hits album. In 2005, they unveiled their next album, Never Gone. Though critics had sluggishly characterized the product, it had a lot of commercial success. In 2007, they released Unbreakable, their new album, and the sequel This Is Us in 2009. In a World Like This was released on July 30, 2013. On January 25, 2019, their ninth album DNA was announced, with a new headlining tour following in May of the same year. All in all, they have made a name for themselves as one of the world's biggest selling artists, with record revenues approaching 135 million worldwide.

Dorough formed HC Entertainment in 2004 as a producer for singer/songwriter George Nozuka and Katelyn Tarver as part of his company's management team, former 3deep member CJ Huyer. Since 2010, he's been running Neverest, a Canadian band that was part of Dorough's company, 3 Street Management.

He began working on his first solo album in 2006. The album will feature Spanish/Latin songs as well as American. However, he eventually changed his mind on the album's style. He said that his Spanish was not the best and did not want to be someone he was not. He began to work on an album that was more pop/r&b style around 2010. Back to Me, Dorough's first solo album, was eventually released on November 15, 2011. Many songs on the album were co-wrote by Dorough. The album's first single, "100," was released in the summer of 2011 and received modest airplay mainly in Canada. Dorough appeared on Britney Spears in South America in November 2011.

Although Howie had not revealed that he was recording on a second solo album, several producers talked with Howie on a new album that is expected to be out the same year. On May 9, 2019, he revealed on Twitter and Instagram that his latest solo album, "Which One Am I," would be out on July 12, 2019.

Dorough has done some acting since being in the Backstreet Boys. In the holiday episode "A Present for Santa," Strum, ABC's teenage witch, and did a skit on Saturday Night Live on May 15, 1999, Appearing in Roswell, Australia's television show "The Big Head" as an egotistic rock star named Strum, and voiced Santa Claus on the Nickelodeon preschool animated series "Dora the Explorer." Dorough and the rest of the Backstreet Boys made special guest appearances on Arthur's cartoon in September 2002. Dorough made his motion picture debut in 2013 by appearing in The Backstreet Boys' comedy This Is the End. Dorough appeared on Long Island Medium on February 5, 2021. Theresa Caputo's Psychic Reading of his father and sister was a pleasure. Dorough competed in a dance competition for Dirty Dancing on Fox on February 1, 2022.

Along with his older brother John, Dorough formed Sweet D, Inc. The firm has specialties in real estate investment and consultancy, and has built numerous condominiums, hotels, and waterfront properties. He has worked as CEO, chairman, and director in a number of other companies, most notable Dorough Lupus Foundation and Howiedoit Productions, Inc.

Dorough appeared in a musical loosely based on his life entitled Howie D: Back in the Day at The Rose Theater in Omaha, Nebraska, in 2020. Pollyanna, Dorough's sister, was played by Natalie Hanson, and Christina Maria was the show's Mother.

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