Ritchie Neville
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Richard Neville Dobson also known as Ritchie Neville was born on 23 August 1979, in Solihull, Birmingham, UK to musical parents. Neville attended the private Bromsgrove School in Worcs.
Neville is one of the former members of the UK boy band Five. At age of four, after engaging in activities that often involved singing and acting with his friends, Neville joined the church choir. Whilst growing up, Richard's musical tastes began to centre around grunge - identifying with many rock bands including Smashing Pumpkins and Soundgarden. He started his own group bizarrely named 'Anal Beard', whose style included the then typical baggy clothes and long hair. Finally, the lure of the stage brought him to London, where, in 1997 at the age of 17, he saw an advertisement in the national newspaper The Stage, asking for young male singers to audition for a new boy band with "attitude and edge". He and four others, who had during the audition arranged themselves into a group, were subsequently picked and later became Five.
Since Five's break-up in late 2001, Neville has made occasional appearances as a TV presenter, guest, actor and reality show celebrity contestant. He made a brief foray back into music with his own rock band in early 2003.
