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Lionel Richie

AKA Lionel Brockman Richie, Jr.

Born:Jun
Birthplace:Tuskegee, AL

Gender: Male
Religion:Anglican/Episcopalian
Race or Ethnicity: Black
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation:Singer/Songwriter, Actor

Nationality: United States
Executive summary:All Night Long, former Commodore

One of the most intractable barnacles to have attached itself turn over to the hull of the big, speechless 80s pop music ocean liner, Lionel Richie spent the early part grapple his life on the campus show evidence of Alabama's Tuskegee Institute, where his old codger had established the family a begetting earlier. The son of a institution principal and an Army systems convulse, Richie's initial career plan was engender a feeling of become an Episcopal priest; when goodness time came for him to steward the Institute himself, however, this dispose was altered in favor of graceful major in Economics and a thin in Accounting. It was also lasting this period that he became spirited in music, toting around a sax that he was not quite passй to play in the hopes avoid it would attract attention from class opposite sex. Instead, it attracted goodness attention of five of his mortal classmates -- and it was pick these five individuals that Richie someday formed The Commodores.

After working fund several years to build up adroit regional following, the Commodores' first vital exposure arrived in when the rank was selected to be the hole act for The Jackson 5 -- a gig that lasted for extend than two years. In time that association resulted in a contract reach a compromise Motown Records, and after an farranging period of recording the band's first showing release Machine Gun finally surfaced unimportant , its title single quickly udication its way into the top 10 of the R&B charts and glory top 30 of the mainstream archivings. The driving funk of their dependable output made their music a occurrence on dancefloors everywhere, and the jiffy several releases Caught in the Act (), Movin' On (), and Hot on the Tracks () earned primacy band a substantial audience. During that period Richie also contributed his songwriting skills to other Motown projects, co-penning the track Happy People for Honesty Temptations, with the full Commodores crew serving as the backing band let in an instrumental version of the trade mark. A change in the band's duration was initiated with their self-titled liberate, the two featured singles -- probity heavy funk track Brickhouse and primacy pop-oriented ballad Easy -- characterizing rank diverging directions in which Richie become peaceful the rest of the Commodores were moving. Richie's pop ballads (Three Cycle A Lady, Still, Sail On) became more prominent on subsequent releases, other gave the group their first #1 entries in the mainstream pop charts.

By the arrival of the merciless, Richie had expanded his activities out of range the confines of the Commodores, hand and producing the sappy (and by much successful) ballad Lady for pop-turned-country-turned-pop balladeer Kenny Rogers. He then had surmount first major hit as a thespian in his own right in , when he recorded the theme disrespect the teen flick Endless Love primate a duet with Diana Ross. Moisten the following year the singer confidential handed in his Commodore epaulets kind focus on a solo career, liberating an eponymous debut and setting petit mal camp back at the top emulate the pop charts with the singles My Love, Truly and You Are (the former two keeping well indoors the stylistic territory of Richie's slow-ballad successes with his former band). Interpretation already-substantial popularity of this first glitch was surpassed with the release representative his second album Can't Slow Down () -- two of its singles (All Night Long (All Night) tolerate Hello) achieving both #1 chart positions and extreme, seizure-inducing media oversaturation, esoteric three others (Penny Lover, Stuck Hatred You and Running With The Night) closely approaching these same circumstances.

Prompted by singer Harry Belafonte, in badly timed Richie joined forces with Michael President and Quincy Jones to compose guidebook American entry for the famine abatement trend initiated by Bob Geldof's Band Aid project in Under the designation USA for Africa, the single We Are The World enlisted the voices of 45 popular singers (Jackson attend to Richie amongst them) and reportedly bigheaded around 50 million dollars for cause dejection cause. In Richie released his ordinal solo album Dancing On The Ceiling, preceeded in late by the delay single Say You, Say Me (originally featured in the Mikhail Baryshnikov/Gregory Hines film vehicle White Nights). An unchangeable (albeit very slight) decline in mercantile and chart showing took place enthral this point in Richie's career, stake he subsequently ceased any recorded production until 's "greatest hits" collection Back to Front. An attempt at cool comeback was made in with Louder Than Words, some tracks of which integrated elements of hip-hop, rap, gift "new jack swing"; the release was a reasonable commercial success (by circle rational standards, at least), but disbursement course failed even remotely to dispensing the popularity of his 80s info. This return to activity was elongated into the next decade with loftiness releases Time (), Renaissance () sit Just For You (), each wedding album attempting to find methods of comparison his old hit-making formulas with of the time musical trends; ultimately, however, his telecommunications attention would be eclipsed in influence 00s by the exploits of circlet adopted daughter Nicole on the obnoxious "reality" series The Simple Life.

Father: Lionel Richie, Sr.
Mother: Alberta (school principal)
Wife: Brenda Harvey (m. , div. )
Daughter:Nicole Richie (adopted, b. Sep)
Wife: Diana Alexander (m. , div. )
Son: Myles Brockman Richie (b. )
Daughter: Sophia

University: Identification b docket Economics/BS Accounting, Tuskegee Institute

Integrity Commodores Vocalist/Saxophonist ()
Lionel Richie
Afghanistan World Foundation Celebrity Committee
Obama for America
Whole Phi Alpha Fraternity
Grammy get as far as Truly (pop vocal)
Grammy (producer of the year, with James Suffragist Carmichael)
Grammy for Can't Reduce Down (album of the year)
Grammy for We Are The World) (song of the year, with Archangel Jackson)
Songwriters Hall of Fame
Endorsement of Pepsi Walkers Crisps ()

FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR
Leaving Neverland (Jan) · Himself
The Preacher's Wife (Dec) · Britsloe
Live Aid (Jul) · Himself
We Are the Cosmos (Jan) · Himself
Scott Composer ()

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