Rich Cronin
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Rich Cronin (born Richard Burton Cronin, on August 30, 1975) is a singer and songwriter best known as the lead singer and primary songwriter for the American pop group LFO.
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[edit] Biography
[edit] Early life
Cronin was raised in Kingston, Massachusetts and is of Swedish and Irish descent.
[edit] LFO
Cronin was part of the pop trio LFO. He wrote the song Summer Girls in 1999, which hit No.3 on Billboard's Hot 100, and No.1 on the Billboard Hot 100 Single Sales chart for six weeks. The single also went Platinum in the US for sales of over 1,000,000 units.
[edit] Later life
He is a leukemia (AML) survivor after a bone marrow transplant in 2005. He runs a charitable foundation, the Rich Cronin Hope Foundation, which promotes global awareness about Leukemia and fundraising for research and patient care. He participated in VH1's "Mission: Man Band" where he with Chris Kirkpatrick from 'N Sync, Jeff Timmons from 98 Degrees, and Bryan Abrams from Color Me Badd, created the group Sureshot. They created their first music video to be shown only on YouTube. An album is in the works.
