Personal Life
His daughter Charlotte (born 1986) is the former bassist in The Like. Charlotte's mother, Connie Jester, was his first wife.
Froom married Suzanne Vega in 1995; they separated in 1998. Soul Coughing's 1994 album, Ruby Vroom, was named after their daughter, Ruby Froom (born July 8, 1994).
He married Vonda Shepard in 2004. They had their first child, Jack Froom, (named for Froom's late father, a noted physician and educator), on April 15, 2006.
His brother is David Froom, a classical composer and Department Chair of the Music Department at St. Mary's College of Maryland.
Froom is of Romanian ancestry.
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