Lionel Richie

Lionel Brockman Richie Jr. (Tuskegee (Alabama), 20 June 1949) is an American musician and singer.



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[hide] *1 Biography  ==Biography[ Edit] == ===1968-1981; Commodores[ Edit] === Richie began in the late 1960s the band with fellow students Commodores and wrote most of their hits that they scored in the 1970s . Richie specialized in ballads and commented in the VH-1 Behind the Music program "everyone in the band wanted the hardest funkende song writing, I tried to bring some balance". And it worked, becauseEasy, Three times a lady, Sail On and Still each reached the highest echelons in the charts. A result was that Richie was the central focus of the band and that there was an artistic divide slowly but surely. After Endless Love was rejected for the following Commodores album Richie took it as duet with Diana Ross; He wrote the song for Kenny Rogers Lady (covered in 1983 by the Jamaican singer Wayne Wade) and he produced the album Share Your Love. ===1982-1987; the first three solo albums[ Edit] === In 1982 brought a titelloos solo album from Richie; It became one of the best-selling albums of that year and the single Truly delivered Richie his first Grammy Award on. At first he would remain at the Commodores, but halfway through a tour with the band he chose definitively for a solo career.
 * 1.1 1968-1981; Commodores
 * 1.2 1982-1987; the first three solo albums
 * 1.3 1992-now; comeback
 * 2 Personal
 * 3 discography
 * 3.1 Albums
 * 3.2 Singles
 * 3.3 Radio 2 Top 2000
 * 3.4 Dvds
 * 4 external link

In 1983 he released his second album; Can't Slow Down, was partly thanks to the singles All Night Long and more successful than the predecessor Hello and made sure acquired the status of superstar Lionel Richie.

In 1985 he worked with to Michael Jackson We Are The World, that for charity, USA for Africa, was recorded. He has been honoured by the Harvard University on 5 december 2011 to do this, among other things, Peter j. Gomes Humanitarian Award.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-1" len="165" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [1]

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:inherit;">Also the album Dancing on the Ceiling from 1986 was a success. Lionel Richie In 1987 pulled itself back from the music world; He divorced his wife Brenda, took care of his sick father (who died in 1990) and ran itself at the ENT specialist because of a throat condition. ===1992-now; comeback<span class="mw-editsection" len="337" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:inherit;">Richie In 1992 made a successful comeback with the compilation album Back to front. In Netherlands was this album no fewer than eleven weeks at number 1; of the three new singles My Destiny was the biggest hit. Richie would surpass this success in subsequent years and also the first single Do It To Me " Sung " Motown love " was over.

<p lang="en" len="350" style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:inherit;">Richie signed a new contract with Island and brought in 1996 the fairly successful album Louder Than Words from which he originated more or less to the old familiar Commodores-sound.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:inherit;">Also with the London-listed successor Renaissance (2000) was Richie still in the spotlight. The album reached a 10th place in the Album Top 100 and appeared on single: "Don't Stop The Music" and the hit Angel that the 8th place in the Dutch Top 40.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:inherit;">Then from 2001, went downhill with Richies success. He released three albums and a compilation album, but that all disappeared soon again on sale bins.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:inherit;">His records were not hits more, his performances were that yet though. In september 2008 he gave in the framework of the Symphonica in Rosso concert series four sold-out concerts in the GelreDome in Arnhem. At the concerts there were guest appearances by, among other things, Candy Dulfer, Alain Clark, Trijntje Oosterhuis, Leona Philippo to see and Jeroen van der Boom . Following these concerts, he brought in two months earlier (July 2008) the single Face In The Crowd, a duet with Trijntje Oosterhuis. It was his first top 10 hit in eight years time.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:inherit;">The concert registration of Symphonica in Rosso in december 2008 came in on the first place of the album lists. It's Richie's first number-one success since 1992.

<p lang="en" len="294" style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:inherit;">Rumors of a reunion of the Commodores in 2009 resulted in a 45-minute concert with former members William King and Walter Orange.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:inherit;">In 2012 the album from Tuskegee ; Richie sings to his hits as duets with countrysterren as Shania Twain (Endless Love) and Kenny Rogers (Lady). Lionel Richie also took the song Angel with the Belgian singer Nataliaand made with a new version of Waylon You Are. ==Personal<span class="mw-editsection" len="331" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:inherit;">Lionel Richie is married twice. His first marriage, his second marriage held 17 years 8 years. With his first wife in 1983 he adopted Nicole Richie. He has 2 children with his second wife. ==Discography<span class="mw-editsection" len="331" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == ===Albums<span class="mw-editsection" len="326" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === ===Singles<span class="mw-editsection" len="327" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === ===Radio 2 Top 2000<span class="mw-editsection" len="336" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === ===DVDs<span class="mw-editsection" len="326" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ===