Howie Dorough

Howie Dwaine Dorough (born August 22, 1973) and better known in the show business plainly as Howie Dorough is a native of Orlando, Florida and a Puerto Rican thru his mother. He is a member of world famous boy band The Backstreet Boys. He declared that his mother is from Puerto Rico at an interview with a teen magazine.

Dorough participated in the Orlando production of The Wizard Of Oz[?] to get his start in show business.

He later auditioned for The Backstreet Boys, where he reached worldwide fame along with group mates AJ McLean[?], Brian Litrell[?], 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, 16 (magazine)[?], Teen Beat[?], etc etc.

Howie had a sister, Caroline Dorough[?], who sadly passed away of the Lupus kind of Cancer. After her passing, Howie helped create The Dorough Lupus Foundation, where he still collaborates.