Freddy Cricien

Who is Freddy Cricien?

Freddy Cricien, also known as Freddy Madball, is the vocalist of the New York hardcore band Madball as well as one of the vocalists of Hazen Street.

He is the younger half-brother of Roger Miret of Agnostic Front. The two have the same mother, who is of Cuban descent, and different fathers, hence the different last names. Freddy's father is from Colombia.

Freddy originally lived in Florida when his older half-brother Roger was living in New York and performing with Agnostic Front. Roger would write to Freddy telling him of touring and being in a band, and when Freddy was about 7 years old he began to ride along with AF on tour and ended up living in New York permanently. Roger and AF guitarist Vinnie Stigma took him under their wings and even let Freddy sing along with their cover of The Animals' "It's My Life". Around 1989, the idea came up to form a band with Freddy on vocals. Madball was originally formed with Freddy singing wand the rest of Agnostic Front backing him up. Madball's first album, Ball Of Destruction, was a mishmash of older and unused AF songs as well as other covers.