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Riker Anthony Lynch (born November 8, 1991) is an American singer-songwriter, musician, actor, and dancer. He was previously cast as Jeff, one of the members of the Dalton Academy Warblers singing group, on Fox's television series Glee. He was awarded second place on season 20 of Dancing with the Stars with Allison Holker as his dance partner.

He is one of the lead singers and the bassist in R5 with his brothers Ross and Rocky, sister Rydel, and family friend Ellington Ratliff.

Riker was born in Littleton, Colorado. He is the eldest of five children, one sister, Rydel, and three brothers, Rocky, Ross, and Ryland, born to Mark and Stormie Lynch. In the summer he would act in children's versions of plays such as Peter Pan, Aladdin, Annie Get Your Gun, A Chorus Line, and Grease. Riker and his sister Rydel took piano lessons and competed as partners in dance competitions.

While living in Colorado, the Lynch children made up and put on shows for their family when some of them were as young as four or five. They formed their own family band, R5.  In 2008, Riker, at 16, decided that he wanted to move to L.A. to pursue an acting career. So their parents, Stormie and Mark Lynch, moved the whole family to Los Angeles, California, so that they could stay together. In October 2009, the family met Ellington Ratliff at a dance studio in California called 'The Rage', where he lived. Learning that Ellington could play drums, they added the final member, and formed the current R5. Riker is also the second cousin of Derek Hough and Julianne Hough and his brother Ross Lynch stars in the Disney Channel television series Austin & Ally.