Richard Shannon Hoon (1967-1995)
Richard Shannon Hoon (1967-1995) Richard Shannon Hoon was born on September 26th, 1967 in Lafayette, Indiana, but was raised in Dayton, Indiana with his half-siblings. In high school, Richard, was involved in many sports which included football, wrestling, and pole vaulting. Fe graduated from Mccutcheon High School in 1985 and afterwards he joined Styff Kitten, a local glam metal band, which he was the frontman and lead singer of. He was also a member of Mank Range. At age 18, Hoon, left Indiana and moved to California where he was performing his song, “Change” acoustically and was invited to play music with others. In 1990 five guys including Hoon decided to form the band Blind Melon and later that same year they were signed to a $500,000 contract with Capitol Records. Blind Melon had much success and even went multi-platinum and played many big concerts /venues with many well-known bands such as Ozzy Osbourne, Guns N’ Roses and Soundgarden. Hoon and his girlfriend, Lisa Cro...