“I am proud to be joining all the other previous artists, who I also admire and am a fan of their music.”
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Lionel Richie
Lionel Brockman Richie Jr. is an American singer, songwriter, musician, record producer, and television personality. He rose to fame in the 1970s as a songwriter and the co-lead singer of the Motown group Commodores; writing and recording the hit singles "Easy", "Sail On", "Three Times a Lady", and "Still" with the group before his departure. In 1980, he wrote and produced the US Billboard Hot 100…
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entertainment · American singer (born 1949) · singer · singer-songwriter · pianist · record producer · film actor · saxophonist · pop musician · composer · songwriter · also Lionel Richie, Lionel Brockman Richie, Jr., Lionel Brockman Richie Jr., Lionel Richie, Jr., Lionel Brockman Richie, Richie
Born 20 June 1949 · Q26695
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2026· 33 entries
“overwhelmed performing at Glastonbury in front of all those people”
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Libertad Digital: El vodevil de Lionel Richie: atrapado en la cama con su amante y a palos con su mujer
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STLtoday.com: Fans share why they love Lionel Richie ahead of Muny concert
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Yahoo: Lionel Richie Mentions Chris Brown During Concert: 'We Didn't Go to Jail'
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Ticketmaster Blog: Lionel Richie Setlist: What to Expect at Sing a Song All Night Long Tour
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That Eric Alper: Rod Stewart, Lionel Richie, And The Uncharted Territory Of Touring Past 80
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Vermilion County First: Lionel Richie Jokes About Chris Brown and Usher During Phoenix Concert
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WGLR: Lionel Richie Jokes About Chris Brown’s Legal Past During Concert
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The Times of India: Lionel Richie takes a dig at Usher and Chris Brown, following their tour announcement: ‘Between then and
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The News International: Lionel Richie takes dig at Chris Brown during concert
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El Diario NY: Lionel Richie se burla de la gira de Chris Brown y Usher: "Nosotros no fuimos a la cárcel"
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parade.com: 1978 Soft Rock Ballad, Originally Written by Lionel Richie, Was a No. 1 Hit 48 Years Ago Today
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Streetz 94.5: Lionel Richie Jokes About Usher and Chris Brown While Comparing Generations of R&B
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NME: Lionel Richie hits out at Usher and Chris Brown’s joint tour: “We didn’t go to jail”
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Public attention spiked: 16,973 Wikipedia readers in one day, 5.5× the usual 3,073, with 4 article edits. Editors noted: Personal life removed
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Was cut short when Richie began to feel dizzy during his performance
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Published video “Stuck On You”.
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Published video “All Night Long (All Night) (Single Version)”.
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Published video “My Destiny”.
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Published video “All Night Long”.
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Published video “All Night Long (All Night)”.
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2025· 12 entries
Published video “🌟 A heartfelt thank you to all the readers who have embraced Truly 📚”.
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Published video “Join me Nov. 24 for a one-night-only virtual TRULY book talk moderated by my friend Blair Underwood.”.
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Published video “What a whirlwind these past few weeks have been! 🫨”.
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Published video “It’s been amazing to see Truly out in the world this past week.”.
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Published video “It’s been an incredible week! Thanks to everyone who came out to the book tour and picked up Truly!”.
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Published video “Lionel Richie - Truly (Official Book Trailer)”.
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Published video “This is it, friends. Holding the first copy of my memoir fresh off the press.”.
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Published video “Bringing TRULY into the world has been a labor of love!”.
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Published video “The Only One”.
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Published video “Ballerina Girl”.
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Published video “You Are”.
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Published video “Endless Love (From "The Endless Love" Soundtrack)”.
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2022· 4 entries
Published video “lionelrichie Live Stream”.
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Awarded Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (2022).
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Published video “Lionel Richie - Running With The Night”.
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Received the Gershwin Prize for Popular Song by the Library of Congress; as well as the American Music Awards Icon Award
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2021· 1 entry
Snopes.com rated the claim “Tyra Banks and Lionel Richie collaborated on an ice cream flavor called "All Night Love."” True.
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2019· 2 entries
Released album “Hello From Las Vegas”.
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Richie announced a 33-date tour across North America for the summer
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2017· 1 entry
Richie received the Kennedy Center Honors
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2016· 3 entries
Released album “The Ultimate Collection”.
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Awarded Johnny Mercer Award (2016).
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Richie received the Songwriters Hall of Fame's highest honor, the Johnny Mercer Award
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2015· 1 entry
Richie played to an audience of between 100,000 and 120,000 people at the Glastonbury Festival, England
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2012· 3 entries
Released album “Icon”.
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Richie released his tenth studio album, Tuskegee, which featured 13 of his hit songs performed as duets with country stars
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Released album “Tuskegee”.
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2011· 3 entries
Awarded Humanitarian of the Year (2011).
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Appeared on NBC's Who Do You Think You Are
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Where he and guest artist Guy Sebastian toured the country and New Zealand with concert dates throughout March and April
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2009· 5 entries
Released album “The Best Collection”.
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Richie performed "Jesus is Love" at Michael Jackson's memorial service
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Released album “Just Go”.
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Richie's second grandchild was born to the couple in 2009.
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“Forget about surviving 30 some odd years in the music business, Lionel Richie survived 27 years of Nicole Richie.”
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2008· 5 entries
Released album “The Collection”.
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Released album “Symphonica in Rosso”.
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Richie was the 21st recipient of the George and Ira Gershwin Lifetime Achievement Award at UCLA's annual Spring Sing
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Released album “Lionel Richie”.
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When Nicole Richie gave birth to a baby girl with Joel Madden, lead singer of the rock band Good Charlotte
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2007· 1 entry
Released album “Live in Paris”.
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2006· 5 entries
Released ep “Sounds of the Season: The Lionel Richie Collection”.
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Released album “Coming Home”.
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Richie performed on the main stage (Acura Stage) at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, replacing Antoine "Fats" Domino, who had fallen ill
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Released album “Gold”.
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That "Grown Iraqi men get misty-eyed by the mere mention of his name
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2004· 1 entry
Released album “3am Hits”.
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2003· 3 entries
Released album “20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection: The Best of Lionel Richie”.
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Released album “The Definitive Collection”.
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Released album “Just for You”.
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2002· 1 entry
Released album “Encore”.
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2000· 1 entry
Released album “Renaissance”.
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1998· 1 entry
Released album “Time”.
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1997· 1 entry
Released album “Truly: The Love Songs”.
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1996· 2 entries
Released album “Louder Than Words”.
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With Louder Than Words, on which he resisted any change of style or the musical fashion-hopping of the past decade, sticking instead with his chosen path of well-crafted soul music, which in the intervening years has bec
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1995· 1 entry
Released album “Live & Alive”.
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1993· 1 entry
Released album “All Night Live”.
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1992· 1 entry
Released album “Back to Front”.
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1986· 3 entries
Awarded Academy Award for Best Original Song for Say You, Say Me (1986).
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Richie released Dancing on the Ceiling, his last widely popular album, which produced a run of five US and UK hits, "Say You, Say Me" (U
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Was nominated and won the award for Best Original Song for the song "Say You, Say Me", featured in the film White Nights
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1985· 4 entries
Released album “Lionel Richie the Composer: Great Love Songs With the Commodores and Diana Ross”.
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Wrote and performed "Say You, Say Me" for the film White Nights
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Released album “Dancing on the Ceiling”.
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For "We Are the World" which he co-wrote with Michael Jackson, Album of the Year in 1984 for Can't Slow Down, Producer of the Year (Non-Classical) in 1984, and Best Male Pop Vocal Performance for Truly in 1982
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1984· 2 entries
Awarded Grammy Award for Album of the Year for Can't Slow Down (1984).
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Performed "All Night Long" at the ending ceremony of the XXIII Olympic Games in Los Angeles
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1983· 2 entries
Released album “Can’t Slow Down”.
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The couple informally adopted Nicole Camille Escovedo (now Nicole Richie), the two-year-old daughter of a member of Richie's band, who is also the niece of drummer Sheila E
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1982· 2 entries
Officially launched his solo career with the album Lionel Richie, which sold over four million copies and spawned the singles "You Are", "My Love", and the number one single "Truly"
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Was nominated for Best Original Song for the film Endless Love
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1981· 2 entries
Richie sang the title theme song for the film Endless Love, a duet with Diana Ross
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Richie wrote and produced the single "Endless Love", which he recorded as a duet with Diana Ross; it remains among the top 20 bestselling singles of all time, and the biggest career hit for both artists
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1980· 2 entries
And produced Rogers' album Share Your Love the following year
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Wrote and produced the US Billboard Hot 100 number one single "Lady" for Kenny Rogers
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1975· 1 entry
Richie married his college sweetheart, Brenda Harvey
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1974· 1 entry
Richie achieved his first commercial success as a songwriter with "Happy People", which he co-wrote with Jeffrey Bowen and Donald Baldwin
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1968· 2 entries
Became a singer and saxophonist with the Commodores
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For one record before moving on to Motown Records initially as a support act to The Jackson 5
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1949· 2 entries
In Tuskegee, Alabama, the son of Lionel Brockman Richie, a U
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Born 1949-06-20.
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1879· 1 entry
It was a fraternal insurance and burial benefit society, as were so many others during the period
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