Rich Burton Cronin is featured as one of the members of the cast in the VH1 reality television series Mission: Man Band. He was born on August 30, 1975 in Kingston, Massachusetts, and stands at 6’ 3”. He continues to work as a singer and a songwriter, and presently lives in Orlando, Florida. He is a former member of the pop trio Lyte Funkie Ones, or LFO. He helped form the group back in 1997 during a visit to Orlando and meeting New Yorker Brad Fischetti, while Cronin was already making a name for himself in the local Boston music scene.
Fischetti, himself an aspiring singer and model from New York who also stood at 6’ 3” tall, teamed up with Cronin and honed their performing skills as partners. They danced, sang and wrote songs together, and were later joined by Boston soloist Devin Lima to form LFO. Cronin wrote and produced songs for the group, with one of the most notable ones being “Summer Girls” in 1999, which became known as the Abercrombie and Fitch song. In 2005 he was hospitalized with leukemia, though he has since been receiving treatment and has participated in the Light the Night Walk to help commemorate and raise awareness for survivors of the illness.
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