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Lionel Richie was born on 20-06-1949 in Tuskegee in the state of Alabama, United States. He is an American Singer, Songwriter, Record Producer, Film Actor & Musician.
Lionel Richie Complete Bio & Career
Lionel Richie is a popular singer, actor, songwriter and record producer from America. Although he started his singing career with the funk and soul band ‘The Commodores’, later he became hugely successful in his solo career. He is one of the highest-selling music artists of all-time with over 100 million records sold across the globe.
Considered as one of the most successful balladeers of his time, his debut solo album was titled ‘Lionel Richie’ and peaked at 3rd position on the music charts and sold over 4 million records around the world. His next album was ‘Can’t Slow Down’ was a greater hit and also fetched him two Grammy Awards, including Album of the Year. His other popular albums are ‘Dancing on the Ceiling’, ‘Back to Front’, ‘Time’, ‘Renaissance’, ‘Just for You’, ‘Coming Home’, ‘Just Go’ ‘Tuskegee’ and others. Some of his well-known singles are ‘Hello’, ‘Endless Love’, ‘Stuck On You’, ‘All Night Long’, ‘Penny Lover’, ‘Truly’, ‘You Are’, ‘I Call It Love’, ‘Easy’, ‘My Destiny’, ‘Do It to Me’, ‘Sail On’, ‘To Love a Woman’, ‘Lady’, ‘Brick House’, ‘Why’ and much more.
Richie co-wrote the Grammy Award-winning song ‘We Are The World’ with Michael Jackson. ‘Say You, Say Me’- a song written and performed by Richie won an Oscar. He was nominated for the Golden Globe Awards twice and bagged the award for Best Original Song for the song “Say You Say Me’ from the film White Nights. He has been the recipient of the Grammy Award for five times. He is estimated to have a net worth of about $200 million. He is a breast cancer activist and has helped the Breast Cancer Research Foundation to raise about $3.1 million $ funds.