Pop sensation LFO, a.k.a. Lyte Funky
Ones, comprises Rich Cronin, Brad Fischetti and Devin Lima. The group
was conceived back in 1996 when Cronin, already a "hit" on the Boston music
scene, met aspiring model and singer Fischetti while on vacation in Orlando.
The two joined forces, added vocalist Lima to the lineup, inked a deal with
Arista Records and released their self-titled debut in August of 1999. The
first single from the album, "Summer Girls," was a Top 40 favorite for several
months.
Despite the apparent inanity of lyrics like, "When
you take a sip you buzz like a hornet, Billy Shakespeare wrote a whole bunch
of sonnets," or "Fell deep in love but now we ain't speakin'/Michael J. Fox
was Alex P. Keaton," LFO has garnered some serious mainstream accolades
from magazines like Billboard and Entertainment Weekly, who have named the
boys the "Ones To Watch" on the Top 40.
Further securing their place among the pretty boy
band posse of the late 1990s, LFO toured with the Backstreet Boys
and 'N Sync in mid-1999 and opened for rap icon LL Cool J in the summer of
1999.