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Howard Dwaine Dorough[1] (born August 22, 1973), also known as Howie D, is an American musician and member of the boy band Backstreet Boys. is the 234th day of the year (235th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
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Biography
Early life Dorough was born in Orlando, Florida [1] to a Puerto Rican mother,[2] Paula Flores, and an Irish American father, Hoke Dorough. Dorough had a passion for the entertainment business since he was three years old, when he would jump on his grandparents bed, singing "Baby Face" while strumming his tiny guitar. At the age of six, Dorough participated in an Orlando production of The Wizard of Oz to get his start in entertainment business. // Orlando may refer to: The Italian form of the name Roland Orlando (character), the subject of several works: The Song of Roland, the oldest major work of French literature Orlando furioso, an epic poem written by Ludovico Ariosto Orlando innamorato, an epic poem written by Matteo Maria Boiardo Orlando: A...
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Personal life 16/8/07.http://www.eonline.com/news/article/index.jsp?uuid=ea505796-bfee-4851-b54a-cc8c4950b5e5
For one Backstreet Boy, love wasn't all he had to give. He also had a ring.
Howie Dorough has popped the question to his girlfriend of nearly six years, Leigh Boniello, with the duo planning on tying the knot later this year.
While the boy-bander has until now kept mum on the impending vow swap, the 33-year-old actually proposed to Boniello, also 33, in front of her family on New Year's Eve.
"She wasn't expecting it, and I was quite nervous—more nervous about proposing to her in front of 40 family and friends than about performing in front of 400,000 people onstage," he told People.
Dorough said he'd been "very careful" to keep quiet about the betrothal until now, but as the wedding date—which he will not divulge—is fast approaching, the time was right to share the happy news.
"We're very, very excited," he said.
Dorough, who says he went the traditional route in the run-up to the proposal, asking the permission of Boniello's mother, father and grandmother before getting down on bended knee, popped the question in a not-so-traditional way.
"He decided to pull a practical joke on me in front of my whole family," Boniello told People. "He acted like he forgot to give me one present for Christmas—it was in a large box."
Inside the box were three carrots, referring to an inside joke between the duo in which Dorough was always dangling the carrot of marriage in front of Boniello throughout their lengthy relationship.
"She was laughing and trying to tell everyone the joke and by the time she turned around I was down on one knee with the real carat," Dorough said.
The "I Want It That Way" crooner even had a hand in designing the engagement ring, a round brilliant-cut diamond surrounded by two smaller stones and set in platinum.
Boniello and Dorough first met in 2000, when the film exec turned real estate broker was hired to be the Webmaster for the Backstreet Boys' official site.
The couple plan on hosting 250 guests on their big day, which is being held at an undisclosed location. Among those 250, at least four will be very familiar faces.
"We've invited all the Backstreet Boys, including Kevin," Dorough told People, referring to former band mate Kevin Richardson, who opted out of the group's sixth studio album, Inconsolable, out Oct. 30. "Actually, Kevin was one of the first people I told about our engagement."
Dorough also said that once he and Boniello tie the knot—and the Backstreet promotional tour winds down—he can't wait to be a Backstreet boy or girl of his own.
"Hopefully I will be the next one to add to the family," he said.
Career Dorough later auditioned for the Backstreet Boys, where he reached worldwide fame along with group mates AJ McLean, Brian Littrell, Kevin Richardson and Nick Carter. After the group reached stardom, Dorough and the rest of the band became staples on the covers of such magazines as Tiger Beat and 16. In 1998, Howie's sister, Caroline Dorough-Cochran, died of Lupus. After her passing, Howie established the Dorough Lupus Foundation. The foundation helps raise awareness about the disease, financial support for those who cannot afford treatment, and money for research. To date over half a million dollars have been raised for finding a cure. Alexander James McLean (born January 9, 1978[1]) is an American musician and member of the boy band Backstreet Boys. ...
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Kevin Scott Richardson (born October 3, 1971[1]) is an American singer and former member of the Backstreet Boys. ...
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As one of the four contributing voices to the Backstreet Boys, Howie is notable for his high falsetto. Being the countertenor, he has usually sung the highest harmony in the choruses, and is notable for being a normal choice for ballads, where he has taken over some slow-tempoed lines ('I Want It That Way', 'Drowning', 'The Answer To Our Life', 'The Perfect Fan'). Falsetto (IPA: Italian , General American , RP ) is a singing technique that produces sounds that are pitched higher than the singers normal range. ...
A countertenor is an adult male who sings in an alto, mezzo or soprano range, often through use of falsetto, or sometimes natural head voice. ...
Harmony is the use and study of pitch simultaneity, and therefore chords, actual or implied, in music. ...
Howie has sung lead on several Backstreet Boys tracks, the most notable being "Spanish Eyes" from the Millennium album and two tracks that he penned himself: "What Makes You Different (Makes You Beautiful)" and "How Did I Fall In Love With You" sung with Brian Littrell (Black and Blue). An album (from Latin albus white, blank, relating to a blank book in which something can be inserted) is a packaged collection of related things. ...
Still he's mostly the official two-part harmoniser of the group, often supporting either Brian, Nick or AJ while they're singing solo (e.g. 'Incomplete' chorus, 'Larger Than Life' pre-chorus, some parts of 'I Still', 'Shape Of My Heart' pre-choruses).
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Notes - Guest starred on an episode of Sabrina, the Teenage Witch where he plays Strum, a-self centered musician whom Sabrina teaches a lesson.
- Announced on August 16, 2007 that he and his long-time girlfriend Leigh Boniello are engaged.[1]
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Footnotes - ^ a b Netter, Matt (1999). Backstreet Boys * Aaron Carter. New York: Pocket Books, 55. ISBN 0-671-03539-8.
- ^ Netter, Matt (1999). Backstreet Boys * Aaron Carter. New York: Pocket Books, 79. ISBN 0-671-03539-8.
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