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Common misspelling: Lionle Richie, Lionnel Richie; Also known as: Nicole Richie's father

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Date of Birth

Birth Place

Lionel Brockman Richie Jr.

June 20, 1949

Tuskegee, Alabama

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LIONEL RICHIE BIOGRAPHY

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Lionel Brockman Richie, Jr. (born June 20, 1949) is an American R&B singer, songwriter, composer, producer and occasional actor.

 

His fame began when he was the frontman for the Commodores, a nationally popular Motown band during the 1970s. They had several hits such as "Easy", "Three Times A Lady", and "Brick House". Richie left the Commodores in 1981 for a solo career, becoming one of the most successful artists of the Eighties with five number 1 hits and thirteen consecutive Top 10 hits in the U.S.

 

He released his self-titled debut in 1982. The album hit #3 on the music charts and sold over 4 million copies. His 1983 follow up album, Can't Slow Down, sold over twice as many copies and won the Grammy Award for the Album of the Year in 1984. His third album, Dancing on the Ceiling, which was released in 1986, spawned such hits as "Say You, Say Me," "Dancing on the Ceiling," and "Se La", but it also signified the end of his large commercial success.

 

His albums in the '90s such as Louder Than Words and Time all failed to achieve the previous decade's commercial success. Some of his recent work such as the album Renaissance has returned to his older style, achieving success in Europe, but little in the United States.

 

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Birth name Lionel Brockman Richie, Jr.

Born June 20, 1949

Origin Tuskegee, Alabama, United States

Genre(s) soul, pop, Motown

Occupation(s) Singer-songwriter, instrumentalist, record producer, actor

Instrument(s) Singing, piano/keyboards

Years active 1968–present

Label(s) Motown

Website LionelRichie.com

 

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Biography

Born in Tuskegee, Alabama, Lionel Richie grew up on the campus of the Tuskegee Institute. His grandmother's house was across the street from the home of the president of the Institute. His family moved to Illinois where he graduated from high school in Joliet. A star tennis player in Joliet, he accepted a tennis scholarship back at Tuskegee Institute.

 

Back as a student in Tuskeegee, he formed a succession of R&B groups in the mid-'60s. In 1968 he became the lead singer and saxophonist with the Commodores. They signed a recording contract with Atlantic Records in 1968 for one record before moving on to Motown Records, being schooled as support act to the Jackson Five. The Commodores became established as one of America's most popular soul groups of the '70s, and Richie was responsible for writing and singing many of their biggest hits. They specialized primarily in romantic, easy-listening ballads such as "Three Times A Lady" and "Still".

 

His pleasing vocal tones established him as the most prominent member of the group, and by the late '70s he had begun to accept songwriting commissions from other artists. He composed "Lady" for his friend Kenny Rogers which hit #1 in 1980, and he produced Rogers' Share Your Love album the following year. Also in 1981, Richie sang a duet with Diana Ross in the theme song for the film Endless Love. Issued as a single, the song topped the UK and US pop music charts, and it became one of Motown's biggest hits. The song was also featured in the movie "Happy Gilmore" in a humorous spoof featuring the janitor of the hockey rink mouthing the part of Ross. Its success encouraged Richie to branch out into a full-fledged solo career in 1982. His debut album, Lionel Richie, produced another chart-topping single, "Truly", which continued the style of his ballads with the Commodores.

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In 1983, he released Can't Slow Down, which shot him into the first rank of international superstars. The album also won two Grammy Awards including Album Of The Year. It spawned the #1 hit "All Night Long", a rock 'n' roll dance number that was promoted by a startling music video produced by former Monkee, Michael Nesmith.

 

Several more Top 10 hits followed, the most successful of which was "Hello", a sentimental love song that showed how far Richie had moved from his R&B roots. Now described by one critic as 'the black Barry Manilow', Richie wrote and performed a suitably soothing theme song, "Say You, Say Me", for the film White Nights, winning an Oscar for his efforts. He also collaborated with Michael Jackson on the charity single "We Are the World" by USA For Africa.

 

About 1984, Lionel and his wife Brenda Richie informally adopted the three-year-old daughter of people associated with Lionel's band. They raised her as their daughter, Nicole Richie. Around 1990, they went through the legal formalities of adopting her. Brenda and Lionel divorced after a 16-year marriage, and then Lionel immediately married Diane Alexander. Lionel and Diane have two children together, but they are no longer married.

 

In 1986, he released Dancing On The Ceiling, another widely popular album that produced a run of US and UK hits. The title track, which revived the lively dance sound of "All Night Long", was accompanied by another striking video, a feature that played an increasingly important role in Richie's solo career. The critical consensus was that this album represented nothing more than a consolidation of his previous work, though Richie's collaboration with the country group Alabama on "Deep River Woman" did break new ground.

 

Since then, his ever-more relaxed schedule has kept his recording and live work to a minimum. He broke the silence in 1996 with Louder Than Words, on which he resisted any change of style or the musical fashion-hopping of the past decade. Instead, he stayed with his chosen path of well-crafted soul music, which in the intervening years has become known as Urban R&B.

 

The albums Time" (1998), "Renaissance" (2000), and "Just For You" (2004) failed to generate any hit singles in the US and were considered sales disappointments compared to Richie's previous efforts. However, "Renaissance" and "Just For You" reached both the Top 10 in the UK, producing a total of six Top 40 singles in that country.

 

In 2002 Richie's song "Running With the Night" was featured on the Rockstar North video game "Grand Theft Auto: Vice City".

 

In November 2005, Lionel Richie performed with Kenny Rogers on a CMT Crossroads special. The show gave an informative insight into their friendship both in and out of the music world. Richie was also the headliner at a 2006 Fourth of July tribute concert with Fantasia Barrino at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Richie released his eighth studio album untitled "Coming Home" on September 12, 2006. The first single of the album was "I Call It Love" and was premiered in July 2006, becaming his US biggest hit in ten years. The album was an incredible success for Richie in the United States, peaking at #6. His adopted daughter Nicole Richie stars in the video for this track.

 

Discography

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Studio albums

1982 - Lionel Richie

1983 - Can't Slow Down

1986 - Dancing on the Ceiling

1992 - Back to Front (Compilation album)

1996 - Louder Than Words

1997 - Truly: The Love Songs (Compilation album)

1998 - Time

2000 - Renaissance

2002 - Encore (Live album)

2004 - Just for You

2006 - Coming Home

 

U.S. #1 Singles

1981 "Endless Love" (with Diana Ross) (9 weeks)

1982 "Truly" (2 weeks)

1983 "All Night Long (All Night)" (4 weeks)

1984 "Hello" (2 weeks)

1985 "Say You, Say Me" (4 weeks)

 

Filmography

Scott Joplin (1977) (w/ The Commodores)

Thank God It's Friday (1978) (w/ The Commodores)

Truth or Dare (1991) (documentary)

The Preacher's Wife (1996)

Pariah (1998)

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Trivia

Richie appeared as a guest on the BBC Two motoring show Top Gear, in the "Star in a Reasonably-Priced Car" segment, in which celebrities compete for the fastest lap time around the Dunsfold Park circuit in a Suzuki Liana. While on a practice lap, Richie lost a wheel in the middle of a fast corner. The incident was screened as part of the UK edition of the show.

While at Tuskeegee University, Richie pledged Kappa Kappa Psi National Honorary Band Fraternity, Inc.

Richie is a honorary member of Alpha Phi Alpha, the first intercollegiate Greek-letter fraternity established for African Americans.

He performed a live concert at the Tennis Stadium/Aviation Club in Dubai on December 15, 2005.

Richie's song "All Night Long (All Night)" was featured in a 2006 television commercial for the energy drink, Mountain Dew MDX. The commercial features nocturnal animals singing the song at night.

Richie is surprisingly wildly popular in developing countries such as Iraq, Burundi etc.

Richie is mentioned in a HomestarRunner.com character-toon. Homestar Runner is told by Strong Bad that one word to describe him would be "Lionel Richie." This is only one of three words that Strong Bad could say.

Lionel's song "Running With The Night" was featured on Rockstar Games' Grand Theft Auto: Vice City soundtrack on the radio station Flash FM.

In the 2001 film Rush Hour 2, Chris Tucker's character quips that Richie "ain't been black since the Commodores!"

Richie is referenced in the comic strip Bloom County. The fictional metal band Deathtöngue writes a song called "Let's Run Over Lionel Ritchie With A Tank".

 

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Year

1982

1983

1986

1992

1996

           

Album Title

Lionel Richie

Can't Slow Down

Dancing On The Ceiling

Back to Front

Louder Than Words

Tracks

Serves You Right (John McClain, Greg Phillinganes, Richie) : 5:14
Wandering Stranger (Richie) : 5:38
Tell Me (David Cochrane, Richie) : 5:32
My Love (Richie) : 4:08
Round And Round (Cochrane, Richie) : 4:57
Truly (Cochrane, Richie) : 3:26
You Are (Brenda Harvey Ritchie, Richie) : 5:05
You Mean More To Me (Richie) : 3:08
Just Put Some Love In Your Heart (Richie) : 1:27

Can't Slow Down (David Cochrane, Richie) : 4:43
All Night Long (All Night) (Richie) : 6:25
Penny Lover (Brenda Harvey Ritchie, Richie) : 5:35
Stuck On You (Richie) : 3:15
Love Will Find A Way (Greg Phillinganes, Richie) : 6:16
The Only One (David Foster, Richie) : 4:24
Running With the Night (Richie, Cynthia Weil) : 6:02
Hello (Richie) : 4:11

Dancing on the Ceiling (Mike Frenchik, Richie, Carlos Rios) : 4:35
Se La (Greg Phillinganes, Richie) : 5:51
Ballerina Girl (Richie) : 3:38
Don't Stop (John Barnes, Richie) : 8:07
Deep River Woman (Richie) : 4:39
Love Will Conquer All (Phillinganges, Richie, Cynthia Weil) : 5:43
Tonight Will Be Alright (Richie) : 5:10
Say You Say Me (Richie) : 4:03
Night Train (Smooth Alligator) (Walter Afanasieff, Jeffrey Cohen, Preston Glass, Narada Michael Walden) : 4:58
Bonus Tracks on 2003 re-release:
Dancing on the Ceiling : 7:10
Se La : 8:12
Don't Stop : 9:40
Love Will Conquer All : 7:10

Do It To Me
My Destiny
Love, Oh Love
All Night Long (All Night)
Easy
Still
Endless Love
Running With The Night
Sail On
Hello
Truly
Penny Lover
Say You, Say Me
Three Times A Lady

Piece Of Love - 4:04
Still In Love - 4:33
I Wanna Take You Down - 5:01
Can't Get Over You - 4:33
Change - 5:01
Nothing Else Matters - 4:34
Ordinary Girl - 5:01
Say I Do - 5:01
Paradise - 5:02
Don't Wanna Lose You - 5:01
Now You're Gone - 5:43
Lovers At First Sight - 6:59
Climbing - 6:26

Year

1997

1998

2000

2002

2004

           

Album Title

Truly: The Love Songs

Time

Renaissance

Encore

Just For You

Tracks

Hello
Penny Lover
Three Times A Lady
Just To Be Close To You
Still
Sail On
Easy
Endless Love
Truly
Love Will Conquer All
Say You Say Me
Do It To Me
Sweet Love
Stuck On You

Zoomin' - 4:23
I Hear Your Voice - 4:00
Touch - 5:08
Forever - 6:13
Everytime - 4:15
Time - 6:11
To The Rythm - 5:14
Stay - 4:09
The Way I Feel - 3:07
Closest Thing to Heaven - 4:00
Someday - 4:23
Lady - 4:26
 

Angel' - 4:15
Cinderella - 3:42
Tender Heart - 4:28
Dance the Night Away - 5:08
Tonight - 4:31
How Long - 3:55
Don't You Ever Go Away - 4:13
Wasted Time - 4:07
Piece of my Heart - 4:15
It May be the Water - 4:56
Here is my Heart - 4:03
Don't Stop the Music - 4:13

Hello
Running With The Night
Penny Lover
Easy
Dancing On The Ceiling
Stuck On You
Brick House
Three Times A Lady
All Night Long (All Night)
Say You, Say Me
Angel
Still
 

Just for You - 4:33
I Still Believe - 4:55
Just to be With You Again - 3:32
She's Amazing - 4:36
Ball and Chain - 3:16
The World is a Party - 3:25
Time of our Life (featuring Lenny Kravitz) - 5:07
Outrageous - 4:30
Road to Heaven - 4:20
Dance for the World - 4:08
Do Ya (featuring Daniel Bedingfield) - 2:39
In my Dreams - 4:56
One World - 3:52

Year

2006

       
           

Album Title

Coming Home

       

Tracks

I Call It Love - 3:18
Sweet Vacation - 3:54
Why - 4:00
What You Are - 4:12
Up All Night - 3:34
I'm Coming Home - 4:18
All Around The World - 3:33
Outta My Head - 3:13
Reason To Believe - 4:46
Stand Down - 4:02
I Love You - 4:11
I Apologize - 3:37
I'm Missing Her - 3:57

       

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