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Personal Bests:
55 (Indoor): 7.56
60 (Indoor): 7.87 (aa)
200 (Indoor): 25.71 (aa)
300 (Indoor): 41.72
400 (Indoor): 57.66
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Hunter Dyke/Utah Athletics
Chloe Shewell
Height 5-4
Class Junior
Hometown Park City, Utah
High School Park City HS
Major Finance & Biology
Bio
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TFRRS Bio
Personal Bests:
55 (Indoor): 7.56
60 (Indoor): 7.87 (aa)
200 (Indoor): 25.71 (aa)
300 (Indoor): 41.72
400 (Indoor): 57.66
200 (Outdoor): 25.57 (aa)
400 (Outdoor): 56.20 (aa)
Academic Honors:
2024 Pac-12 Spring Academic Honor Roll
2024 Pac-12 Winter Academic Honor Roll
2023 Pac-12 Spring Academic Honor Roll
2023 Pac-12 Winter Academic Honor Roll
Athletic Honors:
2024 USTFCCCA Track All-American Honorable Mention (4x400m Relay)
School Records:
1st all-time with 4x200m relay team outdoors (1:39.84)
7th all-time with SMR team outdoors (4:02.71)
2024 Outdoor Track:
• Kicked opened the outdoor season running in the 200m and 400m races at the Aztec Invitational
• Came in fourth at the UVU Collegiate Invitational with a mark of 58.06 (aa) in the 400m
• Placed ninth in the 400m at the Weber State Spring Classic
• Ran a leg on the 4x400m relay team that took eighth at the Mt. SAC Relays (3:56.07)
• Helped 4x200m relay team take fifth and SMR squad take 11th at the 114th Drake Relays
• Set new PRs at the final Pac-12 Championships in the 200m (25. 57 aa) and 400m (56.20 aa) races
• Was an alternate on the 4x400m relay team at NCAA West Regionals
• Served as an alternate on the 4x400m relay team that earned USTFCCCA All-America Honorable Mention at its first-ever NCAA Championships appearance
2023-24 Indoor Track:
• Opened the season taking running a PR in the 60m dash with a finishing time of 7.87 (aa)
• Ran in her first 200m dash indoors at the MLK Invitational, setting a season-best mark of 25.71 (aa)
• Placed eighth in the 400m race with a personal best time of 57.66 at the UW Invitational
2023 Outdoor Track:
• Opened the season with a fifth-place finish in the 400m (58.70) and 10th in the 200m (25.87) – both PRs
• Ran in the 200m and was a member of the 4x100m relay team at the Utah Open
• Ran the 200m and 400m races at the Robison Invitational and Bengal Invitational
2022-23 Indoor Track:
• Made her collegiate debut in the 300m at the BYU December Invite with a time of 41.72
• Took second in the 400m at the Speed & Power meet with a mark of 1:02.22
• Set a PR in the 55m (7.56) at the Wildcat Invitational
2022 Outdoor Track:
• Ran unattached at the Utah Spring Classic and posted a PR time of 26.36 (+1.6) in the 200m
2021-22 Indoor Track:
• Ran unattached at the Weber State Indoor meet in the 200m (27.35) and 400m (1:01.05)
High School:
• Two-sport athlete at Park City High School in soccer and track & field
• Was a four-year high honor roll recipient at PCHS
• Competed in all three years at the state track meet (junior season cancelled due to COVID-19)
• Took second as part of the 4x400m team as a freshman and third her sophomore year
• Placed 5th the 400m her senior season while also running a leg in the state championship relay team in the 4x400m and 4x800m (state record)
• Took fourth as part of the 4x100m relay team that year
• Tallied six goals in her career playing soccer for the Miners
Personal:
• Daughter of David and Tiffany Shewell
• Has two younger brothers, Noah and Ethan, and a younger sister, Ava
• Plays the piano
• Volunteers at the Swaner Nature Preserve and the Utah Food Bank on her free time
• Was inaugurated into her role as Vice President of University Relations in the May of 2023
• Double majoring in finance and biology
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Eryn Shewell (born June 26, 1984) is an American selftaught jazz and blues guitarist and vocalist from Jackson, New Jersey, whose influences range from Etta James, Susan Tedeschi, Eva Cassidy, Aretha Franklin, Donny Hathaway, Al Green through Bobby Blue Bland. A BELK southern musician showcase winn
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Eryn Shewell was born on June 26, 1984 in Washington D.C. to a family of Dutch, German, and English ancestry. She is the daughter of Larry Shewell of Takoma Park, MD and Dawn Jennings of Freehold, NJ. Granddaughter to William and Martha Shewell on her fathers side and William and Jane Jennings on her mothers side. Her paternal grandfather, William Shewell, was an artist for the US Navy as well as a police officer in Maryland. Her Maternal grandfather, William Jennings was a multi-instrumentalist and introduced Eryn to the guitar at a young age. Eryn has two siblings, a brother, William Shewell and a sister, Jordan VanArsdale.
In 1989 Shewell's parents divorced and she moved with her mother to New Jersey. She traveled back and forth from New Jersey to Maryland till her father finally moved to New Jersey in 1992. The family settled in Jackson, NJ. Where Shewell went to high school and graduated in 2002.
Personal life
Shewell was married May 27, 2003 to William Schneider shortly after she graduated high school. They have one child named Emily Schneider. Feeling pressure to return to the music business after Emily was born. Shewell separated from the marriage in early 2004.
Shewell is now currently Engaged to guitarist Matt O'Ree who played rhythm guitar for Bon Jovi's Bon Jovi Live tour.
Early career
Shewell grew up around music and learned how to sing from her grandfather, mother, and her aunts Lori Jennings and Deana Jennings. Eryn received her first guitar as a gift at age 13 from her father. Who was so influenced by Eryn musically that he became a local singer as well. As a young child Eryn would watch her aunt Lori's country band Sundance and eventually became a permanent member at age 14.
Eryn studied music theory and voice at Jackson Memorial High School in Jackson, New Jersey. She was a member of the Ensemble Choir and the All-State Chorus. During her high school years Eryn started honing her song-writing skills with the guidance of Jody Joseph, She then joined Jody's band as her back up vocalist for a few years. Meanwhile, continuing to sing with Sundance.
After high school Eryn joined the New Orleans funk band The Soul Project and began traveling to New Orleans on a regular basis. Here she met well known New Orleans artist Walter "Wolfman" Washington. He took a liking to Shewell and asked her frequently to perform with him as well as record backing vocals on one of his latest album releases.
Recent years
Shewell started the Eryn Shewell Band in 2006. Performances often featured nine pieces, including a horn section. Shewell has been nominated for numerous Asbury Park Music Awards. In 2009, Shewell was the recipient of the Asbury Park Music Award for Top Female Vocalist . In 2011, she was again named Top Female Vocalist, and her band (The Eryn Shewell Band) was named the Top Blues Band. Shewell has also received many songwriting accolades including BillBoard world song competition.
During 2011, Shewell and her guitarist Patty "Slidell" Ruh co-wrote and produced an album for their student Lily Ann Riche at Trax East in South River, NJ.
Throughout 2011 and 2012 Shewell began a collaboration with singer/songwriter Alice Leon. Shewell co-wrote and recorded lead and backing vocals on Alice Leon's release "It's All Making Sense".
On June 24, 2012, Shewell and her guitarist Patty "Slidell" Ruh released an acoustic EP called "Children At Play" with all cover songs in an effort to help raise money for their next full length original album. It includes songs like Al Green's "Let's Stay Together" and The Beatles "Oh Darling.
In 2013, Shewell announced her new trimmed down band Eryn Shewell & The Whiskey Devils featuring guitar, bass, drums, and keyboards. At the same time released her self titled 4th album.
In 2015, Shewell won the Belk Southern Musician Showcase award in the blues category helping launch her career to another level. Winning this award gave Shewell opportunities to perform at Belk sponsored events and national music festivals throughout the South.
In December 2015 Shewell signed her first record contract to Therewolf Records.
On September 11th, 2016 Eryn and her husabnd Matt O'Ree were inducted into the NY/NJ Blues Hall of Fame.
Awards
2009 Semi-Finalist - Songwars Songwriting Competition,
2009 Top Ten Finalist - 100% Music Songwriting Competition.
2009 Honorable Mention - Gary Allen Music City Song Competition,
2009 Honorable Mention - BillBoard World Song Competition,
2009 Asbury Music Award Top Female Vocalist,
2009 International Blues Competition – Regional Finalist,
2010 International Blues Competition - Regional Finalist,
2011 Asbury Music Award Top Female Vocalist,
2011 Asbury Music Award Top Blues Band
2015 BELK Southern Musician Showcase
2016 NY/NJ Blues Hall of Fame
Discography
Window Pane (2008, September 9). Rewbie Music LLC
4th And Broadway (2009, December 19). Rewbie Music LLC
Children at Play (2012, June 24). Rewbie Music LLC
Eryn Shewell (2013, June 2). Rewbie Music LLC
"You Angel You" Single on "DYLAN:Philadelphia pays tribute to a legend" 2012
It's All Making Sense (2013, Feb) Alice Leon's 2013 release.
A Day Like This (2012, June) Lily Ann Riche's debut release
"Santa Baby" (2015, November) Belk Commercial
Brotherhood (2016, November) Matt O'Ree Band, Therewolf Records
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Published in The Coaster (Asbury Park, NJ) and The Link (Long Branch, NJ), May 30, 2019 As Christine Martucci maintains, “the gay community sees beauty in everything...because we have to! You want your world to be filled with love, and I like to be the cup that’s half full at all times.” A member in…
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As Christine Martucci maintains, “the gay community sees beauty in everything…because we have to! You want your world to be filled with love, and I like to be the cup that’s half full at all times.”
A member in excellent standing of that unofficial society of Honorary Shore Rockers — those performers whose fervent local fanbases and frequent-flyer forays to coastal NJ have secured their place in the area’s pantheon — the Tacoma, WA-born singer/ songwriter/ guitarist has staked her claim as a bandleader whose classic-rock swagger and whiskey-belt vocals lend punch to original compositions that often speak of complex and conflicted emotions; of that sense of isolation that sometimes aches its way into even our most raucous tribal rituals.
It’s a “velvet glove inside an iron fist” approach that’s in evidence on signatures like the lonely plaint ”Is Anybody Out There?,” or the returning veteran’s lament “Home Don’t Feel Like Home” — and while the singer allows that “not a lot of cerebral energy goes into too many standard rock songs,” she herself hails from “that school where you write what you know.”
What she’s known, in a life that took her from the Pacific Northwest to New Jersey’s Hunterdon County (and from a bleak moment in which she contemplated closing the book on her own story, to the realization that, as she previously stated, “the repressed, angry, scared Christine died that day”) is that the power of community goes a long way toward illuminating those dark corners of the soul — and that when it comes to stoking that sense of community, few if any things can beat a supercharged rock show inside a packed nightclub.
There was a time when Christine Martucci spent the better part of a decade as an enlistee in the U.S. Army, a significant life experience (during an era that pre-dated “don’t ask, don’t tell”) that saw her rise to the rank of Sergeant, while acquiring an affinity for her fellow folks in uniform that’s manifested itself in her song lyrics, interviews, and regular charitable endeavors. There would also come a time when “Tucci” would find that community within the big, messy, extended family of musicians who worked the stages of New York, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey (she cites a fellow Honorary Shorecat, John Eddie, as the peer who “got me my start in Asbury Park”) — particularly in the famous seaside city where music has danced cheek-to-cheek with its social history, and where the LGBTQ community can rightly be credited with a lead role in its remarkable resurrection.
About a month ago, Christine Martucci took the stage of Asbury Park’s Wonder Bar in an intimate, solo “Pride in Performance” piece as part of the 2019 Music and Film Fest. This Saturday, she and her full-tilt combo The Band of Love return once more to that Circuit-side landmark, for a set that serves as a kick-ass keynote to this coming weekend’s Jersey Pride Festival. Here in the fiftieth anniversary year of the pivotal Stonewall uprising, it’s an occasion that marks a Martucci milestone in its own right — a tenth annual Pride Show for which the headliner has taken an active stance; securing the opening acts (cover-tune specialists The Eclipse Band, R&B singer-songwriter Stephanie Chin, and Asbury returnees Chix Appeal), and choosing the designated charity for this edition’s fundraising component (the NJ chapter of Happy Trails Animal Rescue).
That take-charge attitude is well in keeping with the “Real Christine” who emerged from those days and nights of self-doubt, to face the challenges of life as an out gay person with a fine-tuned confidence and positivity. It’s a quality that’s in evidence on exuberant originals like the “Parkway Southbound” paean “Jersey Style,” as well as on crowd-pleasing covers like the Stones standard “Honky Tonk Women” (or “Head Held High,” a contribution to a Velvet Underground tribute album that we’d love to hear her perform live; hint hint).
As a solid songsmith in her own right, Martucci (who announces that the June 1 gig will mark her first public performance of “Remedy” by the Black Crowes) has a feel for covers upon which she can put her own sonic stamp, be it the unjustly neglected Faces tune “Stay With Me,” or anything from the canonical catalog of Janis Joplin.
In fact, the Wonder Bar show represents a last (for now) and best chance to catch Tucci and company in full-fledged glory, before the singer hits the road with Glen Burtnik to perform as Janis in the 2019 Summer of Love Tour, the revue that makes its only NJ whistlestop at the Hard Rock Atlantic City on August 24.
“Glen really helped catapult me onto the scene,” she says of the Summer impresario. “People here don’t hold you back, or see you as a competitor.”
Noting that “I love the Summer of Love show, because all I have to worry about is to show up and sing,” Martucci is using that not-at-all-”down” time as an opportunity to continue writing, and to fine-tune a couple of ambitious projects — one of which is a fifth album of original songs, a set that finds the singer reunited with producer Anthony Krizan, himself a co-writer (with Cheryl Da Veiga) of “Home Don’t Feel Like Home.”
“I’ve got some songs that I’ve written but never released; ballads that would work well with a pretty voice like Eryn Shewell’s,” she says in reference to the torchy vocalist who performs these days under her married name of Eryn O’Ree, or simply Eryn. “But I’m going back to my rock and roll roots with the new album…with songs that are more suited to my smokin’, drinkin’, partyin’ voice.”
Then there’s her planned one woman show; an autobiographical mix of story and song tentatively titled My Life as a New Soul. Described as “part comedy, part real life” (with the acknowledgment that the two conceptsare hardly mutually exclusive), it’s a work in progress that’s “gonna be colorful, and awesome…we’re going on a trip, me and the audience.”
“When you’re a new soul, like me, everything is NEW to you again,” she explains. “One way to put it is, you go into a new soul’s house, right? And you know those tags that you see on furniture and mattresses…’Do Not Remove Under Penalty of Law?’…well, in a new soul’s house they are all there; still attached!”
As Martucci tells it, the two concurrent projects are vying neck-and-neck for her attentions these days, with the latter part of 2019 and early 2020 shaping up to be a launch point for that New Soul performance piece, or an itinerary for promoting that new album. In either case, expect Christine Martucci to return once more to the Shore music scene that has been “such a part of my life…it’s so cool that I can count on Asbury Park to support all that I’m doing.”
“I tell the bar owners, we’re a team…I’m gonna get ‘em rowdy, you get ‘em drunk, and at the end of the night you get paid more,” she says with a laugh. “But the payoff for me is that people come to my shows and leave feeling better about themselves, and about the world.”
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The Saturday night Wonder Bar event — and its now-traditional Sunday night bookend show featuring the band Kathouse — are part ‘n parcel of an Asbury Park weekend that’s centered around the 28th annual Jersey Pride Festival in Bradley Park and the accompanying AP Pride march. The hi-energy procession makes its way to the park, where between the hours of noon to 7 pm, the statue of Founder Bradley stands watch over a serious celebration that boasts a full slate of live music, a food court, craft and merch vendors, kids’ activities, and informational displays from an array of nonprofit community organizations. The festival stage — always a great showcase for both locally based and internationally renowned acts — is headlined this year by (pictured above) original disco-era diva France Joli (“Come to Me,” “Gonna Get Over You”) and the band BETTY, with comedian/ activist and emcee Sandra Valls introducing soul singer Dezi 5, electro-pop artist JLine, the Green Planet Band, and Virago, with that always-amazing world-music duo (who also appear at the Asbury Hotel on Friday night) augmented for the occasion by the horn section from the Motor City Revue (check the social media postings of the Jersey Gay Pride Festival for updated schedule info).
A new and novel addition to the weekend’s festivities — and a slate of activities that spans the whole three-day interlude — is Paranormal Pride, a multi-faceted event hosted by Paranormal Books and Curiosities proprietor Kathy Kelly (fresh off her recent success with the annual Jersey Devil Festival) with Adam Berry of the Travel Channel’s Kindred Spirits. With the venerable Berkeley Oceanfront Hotel as home base, the program boasts what promises to be the first-ever ghost investigation of that landmark building, along with lectures, gallery readings (with famed psychic medium Chip Coffey), and a Drag Brunch featuring special guest Pissi Myles. Participation is limited, so visit paranormalpride.com for updated info on available tickets.
There’s plenty more of interest to attendees going on around town throughout the weekend, from tea dances and poolside parties at the city’s waterfront hotels, a Friday night Pride Prom event at Asbury Festhalle presided over by the beyond-busy DJ Tyler Valentine (who also works a same-day Super Tea at the Asbury, and a Saturday night WERK dance party at House of Independents), an ABBA/ 70s dancefest at House of Indies, and a Drag Queen Storytime session at the Asbury with Miss Savannah Georgia. Check the music listings in this week’s print editions of The Coaster and The Link for the full rundown.
And in Long Branch, where city officials recently designated June as Pride Month, New Jersey Repertory Company’s West End Arts Center is the nexus for a slate of events that kicks off with Our Way: The Art of Life, Love, and Inclusion, a visual art group show that opens with a 12-4 pm reception inside the gallery space of the reborn primary school building at 132 West End Avenue (corner of Sairs Ave.).
The exhibition curated by Mare Akana remains on display Saturday and Sunday afternoons through June 9, while the Arts Center plays host on Friday, June 7 to a 5 pm screening of the Robin Kampf documentary Love Wins, with a post-film panel featuring the film’s subjects and director.
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Gary Wien:
"It's A City Of Dreams..."
Gary Wien is an author, journalist, historian, and entrepreneur with deep ties to Asbury Park. His book Beyond The Palace tells the story of the city and its music scene; he was a founder of The UpStage alternative newspaper, and still runs www.ThePenguinRocks.com, an online radio station.
Q: Where did you grow up, and how did you wind up living/ working in Asbury Park?
I grew up in Lincroft just outside of Red Bank. I was probably one of the last generations to go to Asbury Park on a regular basis as a kid. From the age of 6 or 7, my family would go to the boardwalks of Asbury Park or Long Branch every weekend. The Palace Amusements building was something of a Utopian paradise for me. I played skeeball, video games, and rode the rides as much as I could. As a kid I also loved miniature golf and growing up Asbury Park had about four courses at its peak (and a great batting cage across from the Stone Pony).
My first time actually working in Asbury Park was once with the old WNEW shows on the beach. I was fortunate enough to work at the Lincroft Inn (a restaurant owned by Debbie Harry's family) where a waitress once heard me playing John Eddie on my boombox. She said John played at her wedding and I should meet her husband who was really into music. Turned out her husband was one of the biggest sound guys in the northeast and his crew worked the WNEW shows. When I met him, he offered me a job working the show. My friend and I wound up working about four WNEW shows and earned union wages for the final two.
Q: Big question: What do you like about Asbury Park? What's good about being a performer or fan or promoter there? Venues, audience, promoters, the beer... the proximity to NYC and Philly... whatever.
On a local Jersey Shore level, the best thing about Asbury Park is that it is one of the few (if not the only) Jersey shore towns immune from the cover band phenomenon. It's always been a haven for original music. While cover bands have worked from time to time (most notably at the Stone Pony in the 80s), I've seen places spend and lose a fortune (Harry's Roadhouse for example) booking the biggest cover bands in the area. People in Asbury Park just love original music and I love the fact that they do.
On a tri-state level, the equal proximity to New York City and Philadelphia has definitely helped bring many of the biggest acts in the world to Asbury Park. Things were obviously better in the 60s and 70s before the mega-promoters came in and took things over, but Asbury Park still gets some of the best acts. In fact, there are dozens of national acts that have started their tours in Asbury Park over the last decade. The Saint is pretty respected in the NYC area and the Stone Pony is very well known. Even Asbury Lanes is getting some people to kick off their tours there because people dig the vibe of the bowling alley and music.
On a national level, the Stone Pony not only still holds respect with folks but the venue is on a rather short list of places that most music fans around the country - if not the entire world - know by name. I'd say nationally, Asbury Park is best known for three things:
1) music
2) the beach/boardwalk
3) its days as looking like a cross between a ghost town and Beirut
Q: Bigger question: What is wrong with Asbury Park? What's the first thing about the city you'd change if you could?
Well, considering I'd work for the city tourism department in a heartbeat if they could afford me, the first thing I'd do would be to create a music tourism department. The city has ALWAYS downplayed the role music plays with its tourism. I know Bruce Springsteen does an awful lot for Asbury Park through donations that nobody ever hears about, but my first move would be to rename a major street as Springsteen Ave. Do a big publicity event to kick off a series of moves meant to promote music as the city's biggest tourism draw.
While most people know about Bruce, Asbury Park's musical history goes FAR BEYOND Bruce Springsteen. For example, the band shell that stood above the old Howard Johnson's building was named after Arthur Pryor, a trombonist who played with John Philip Sousa's band early on and ultimately led his own band in Asbury Park. In the 1904 season alone, Pryor directed his band in 269 concerts before a total audience estimated at no less than 300,000 people in Asbury Park. The town also had venues like the Orchid Lounge on the west side which had special "drop in" shows by many of the biggest jazz performers in the world - names that would floor you! And, for rock and roll fans, it doesn't get much better than the original Upstage Club, which helped young artists named Springsteen, Southside Johnny, Vini Lopez, Billy Chinnock, Little Steven, and David Sancious (among many others) hone their craft until 5am.
So, I'd push music and entertainment big-time. Set up a yearly calendar with special events throughout the year like the Wave Gathering Festival, E Street Weekend, Count Basie Weekend (yeah, he lived there as well), Danny Devito Film Festival, Abbott & Costello festival (yeah, Bud Abbot was from town as well), Stephen Crane festival (yup, him too)... Well, you get the point. Asbury Park has no shortage of writers, musicians, actors, and artists to promote. They just need to start promoting the history. Promote the history and they will come.
Q: Clearly Asbury is a city with a storied past that's been mired in a sort of murky present for a long time, with (supposedly) a bright future. I am reminded of Hoboken. Musicians and artists flocked there in the Eighties because the town was a dump, but a cheap place to live and a great place to be a musician. Developers moved in and then it became not-a-dump but a modern commuter city, but the rents were no longer cheap and it wasn't such a great place for musicians and artists. So: Can urban development and gentrification come to Asbury Park and NOT wipe out everything that people in the music scene like about the place? Is there room for a "new" Asbury that leaves room for the Wonder Bar and Asbury Lanes and the Stone Pony?
Not really, no. I had high hopes that Asbury Park would/could be different from the normal story we hear all of the time. Unfortunately, the Town Council didn't want to listen to us when they had the chance and voted to go the route of condos. Many on the Council didn't want the town to be known for tourism, they wanted a nice safe place to raise their kids. Personally, I think you can do both but it was said many years ago and it's been seen to be true - "residential and entertainment do not mix next to each other." The idea was floated many years ago to set up an entertainment district in advance. It didn't happen and we're already seeing the problems along Cookman Avenue where several venues have had to reduce the amount of live performances, reduce the sound volume, or simply stop booking entertainment.
The Stone Pony should survive along with the Convention Hall/Paramount Theatre. Other than that, I could easily see the Wonder Bar, Asbury Lanes, and even The Saint (once they start fixing up Main Street) hitting the history books.
Sad, but true. Unless a town council has visionaries who truly believe in the arts or in historical value, these things will happen everywhere.
Q: Name some acts from the 'scene' (they don't have to live in Asbury Park, just play there regularly) who could be on the verge of breaking out nationally, or at least making a musical impact locally?
Well, a lot of places can claim him for their own but I think Val Emmich deserves a nod in Asbury Park's history books as well. I'd say Val Emmich will ultimately break; Nicole Atkins, The Parlor Mob, and April Smith & the Great Picture Show have all somewhat broke in recent years, but I think both have just started scratching the surface as to how far they can go. Arlan Feiles and Rick Barry are two of the most talented performers I've ever heard or met and I'd love to see them break. Cara Salimando was recently signed and her performance last year at the Wave Gathering Festival blew me away. My favorite local bands right now include Status Green, Maybe Pete, and The Amboys; my favorite local record of recent times was Keith Monacchio's (formerly of The Commons). I think Jerzy Jung could break nationally as an adult contemporary artist as well. Names not quite as known that I'd keep an eye on include Matt Wade and Eryn Shewell
One band that sorta broke that could become mega big is deSol. With the changing demographics in the country, I still feel those guys could go off the charts someday due to their music luring in all ethnicities to their shows.
Q: Pretend I am a 15 year old kid in Nebraska reading this and all I know about Asbury Park comes from the lyrics of a Bruce Springsteen song. What is the most important thing you want to tell me about your city?
It's a city of dreams.
Even while it was buried in abandoned buildings, there was a sort of gritty, urban beauty to it. Just a few blocks from destruction always stood the beach and the boardwalk - surrounded on one side by the Casino building and the other by Convention Hall and the Paramount Theatre like two giant bookends. It's hard for artists not to feel inspired walking down that boardwalk. I always get a sense of the history and the artists who walked those same steps years or decades before. It's like one giant haunted beach town full of dreams - some that made it and many who didn't. But as Bruce Springsteen sang, "Struck me kinda funny seem kinda funny sir to me/ Still at the end of every hard earned day people find some reason to believe"
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Sherman, also a former Radio City Rockette, veteran of several Broadway shows, and star of her own TV show in New Zealand, is supported by some of the East Coast’s most dynamic and “unsung” singers – Layonne Holmes, Eryn Shewell, and Reagan Richards – and backed by musicians who’ve played with Bruce Springsteen, Jon Bon Jovi, Mariah Carey, Lou Reed, Art Garfunkel, Les Paul, Dave Mason, Gloria Gaynor, and the Nelson Riddle Orchestra.
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Welcome to my musical world! This is one man’s attempt to alert you to the best in area entertainment!Eryn Shewell was born in Washington D.C and moved to New Jersey when she was very young; what a gain for the Garden State that has turned out to be!I can describe this East Windsor resident in […]
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Welcome to my musical world! This is one man’s attempt to alert you to the best in area entertainment!
Eryn Shewell was born in Washington D.C and moved to New Jersey when she was very young; what a gain for the Garden State that has turned out to be!
I can describe this East Windsor resident in many ways, but I always seem to sum it up best when I say, ‘The lady can just flat out sing!’
When you first meet this young artist with the soft speaking voice, one would never expect the power that lurks within.
The first time that I ever saw Shewell perform was several years ago at a festival. I remember being under a large tent that doubled as the musicians green room on this hot, sticky day when I saw a pair of high heels come cautiously down the small slope that led to where we were at the bottom. Little did I know that this young lady, dressed more appropriately for a vintage Bogart movie than an outdoor festival, was about to bring the ‘WOW’ factor into play.
Upon taking the stage, her presence dominated the cast of top-notch performers that make up her fine band, which, I can assure you is no easy task. Shewell’s stunning vocal ability, vivacious and (at times) back in time looks command attention.
When this woman belts out a tune, people can’t help but take notice. Eryn’s vocals can seemingly transport her audience to another era, a simpler time perhaps, where she can go as soft as a song bird, or as powerful as a freight train as she delivers her brand of original music mixed with apropos blues and jazz standards that leave the crowd craving more.
I found it hard to believe after recent conversations with her that she only took vocal lessons for a few months.
‘I started singing, well, I was kind’a born into it (laughing),’ she said. ‘My family are all musicians, very musical. I took vocal lessons briefly from (Asbury Park area’s) Jody Joseph, but no other (formal) vocal lessons.’
Even though her voice may be considered her primary instrument, Eryn also writes her material on her guitar. I was surprised to discover that she’d only been playing for a short time.
‘I started playing about five years ago,’ she said. ‘I’ve never taken a lesson. If there’s something that I’m having trouble with I just ask (her guitarist) Pat (Ruh).’
After two modestly successful CDs and the recent completion of ‘Children At Play,’ a live acoustic CD, which captures Shewell in pure, raw talent form, Eryn is far from done making music. Currently, she is in the recording studio laying down ten new tracks that will make up her fourth disc. This still yet untitled effort will be ‘Scaled back’ in an attempt to ‘Keep it simple,’ says Shewell.
‘I’m in the process of recording and trying to raise the money to pay for this,’ she said. ‘I released a single and a live video of a new song, ‘Boy Like You’ that I co-wrote with Alice Leon that’s probably going to be on the disc.’
I asked her how the relationship with a very accomplished musician such as Leon came about.
‘I was a fan of hers when I was younger,’ she said. ‘My dad used to take me to see her when I was a kid. We connected on facebook and now we’ve written a couple of songs together.’
On writing her music she says, ‘Every song is different. Sometimes I write lyrics first, sometimes it’s the music first. Sometimes they both come together at the same time. It’s always different. I think it gives me my diverse style…..(laughing) I don’t know if that’s good or bad!’
What does the future hold for this talented songstress?
With a hearty laugh Shewell said, ‘I wish I knew! I’m looking to promote the new CD and my music overseas. I’m looking into finding a booking agent to do a European tour. I’m also hoping that people buy the CD and like it!’
The immediate future is very busy for Eryn and the band. The day after I interviewed her for this column, she left for a week long tour that will take her to various stops in one of her favorite cities — New Orleans.
‘I love going down there,’ she said. ‘I try to make it at least once, if not twice a year. We’ll be playing across from where the jazz fest is being held again this year at several places, then we’ll be making stops in Nashville and North Carolina on our way back.’
A very hard working musician both on stage and off, Shewell sets up these tours and gigs all on her own without the aide of a manager.
I’ve been fortunate enough to see Shewell numerous times as well as interview her on several occasions. I can sit here and write about how amazingly powerful her voice is, how talented she is, how great she looks on stage and how she can take over any setting, but none of the words will do her justice. My suggestion is to listen to her music which is available on CD Baby, iTunes, Amazon.com and from her directly at www.erynshewell.com, go see her live, then let me know if I am wrong. I’m betting that I’m not. Eryn Shewell plays shows all over our area from Princeton, to the Jersey shore, in New York City and beyond. Believe me when I say, check her and her band out, it’s well worth the trip!
Some shows worth checking out this weekend are Friday, Beannacht with Lo Kloza and Jeff Rupert at the Grover’s Mill Coffee House located at 335 Princeton-Hightstown Rd. in West Windsor. Stop on by and have a cup of java along with some fantastic sweet treats as you listen to these superb singer/ songwriters in an intimate setting. The show is an early start time of 7:30 p.m., is family/kid friendly and admission is free.
Another all ages show on Friday is Billy Hector at The Record Collector in Bordentown. Join this great artist as he plays his versions of the blues in The Record collector’s ‘Living Room’ setting. The Record Collector is located at 358 Farnsworth Ave. and tickets are $15 in advance and $20 at the door.
Coming up next week, May 11, the third installment of the now monthly ‘Singer/Songwriter Night’ at Cedar Gardens Pub will be taking place. This month’s lineup is as diverse as it is talented. Stay tuned and check back here next week as there will be more information forthcoming.
That’s it for now. So until next week, please continue to support live and original music, your local musicians and as always…ROCK ON!
THIS WEEKS CALENDAR LISTINGS
Alchemist & Barrister 28 Witherspoon St. Princeton
(609) 924-5555 www.alchemistandbarrister.com
Thurs 10 p.m. Chris Nickey Sun. 9 p.m. Princeton Bluegrass Jam
Wed. 10 p.m. Open mic. night All shows 21+
Amarones Windsor Inn 29 Church St. Windsor
(609) 448-7144 www.amaronesrestaurant.com
Thurs. 6:30 p.m. Walter Brooks Fri. 8 p.m. Lonnie Youngblood
Sat. 8 p.m. Heartbreak Hotel Tues. 6:30 p.m. ‘Country’ Scotty
Wed. 6:30 p.m. DJ Chris Barlow
Candlelight Lounge 24 Passaic St. Trenton
(609) 695-9612 http://jazztrenton.com/
Sat. 3 p.m.-7:30 p.m. Jullian Pressley (No cover-$10 minimum)
Cedar Gardens Pub 661 Hwy. 33 Hamilton
(609) 587-0930 Fri. 9 p.m. Dan Galvino
Sat. 9 p.m. Alright Allright All shows 21+
Chambers Walk Cafe 2667 Main St. Lawrenceville
(609) 896-5995 www.chamberswalk.com
Fri. 6 p.m. Dick Gratton The Backstage at Championship Bar
931 Chambers St. Trenton www.facebook.com/championships
Fri. 7 p.m. The Tea & Whiskey (Farewell Show), Sparkle S%#*t, Mattress, Curious Buddies, (TBA). All ages, $10
Sat. 5 p.m. The Artwork Of (EP Release Show), How High The Moon, A Life Thereafter, These Branches, Touchdown Boy, (TBA). All ages, $10
Sun. 4 p.m. Straight Line Stitch, A Darkened Reflection, Ashes Of Your Enemy, Forerunner, True Rumors, (TBA). All ages, $12/$14
Mon. 6 p.m. Murder Death Kill, Sicker Than Most, Psycho Enhancer, Swing First, Wake Up You’re Dreaming. All ages, $10/$12
City Streets 510 US Highway 130 East Windsor
(609) 426-9400 www.citystreetscafe.com
Wed. 7 p.m. – 10 p.m. Acoustic Wed.
Thurs. 6:30 p.m. Acoustic Thursday
Fri. 9 p.m. Never Enough Sat. 9 p.m. Starstruk
Sun. 6 p.m. Acoustic Sunday Dubh Linn Square
167 Rte. 130 North Bordentown (609) 298-7100
www.dublinsquarepubs.com
Thurs. 10 p.m. Open mic. hosted by Paul Schober
Sun. 4 p.m. – 8 p.m. Irish Sessions w/ Billy O’Neal
Grover’s Mill Coffee House 335 Princeton-Hightstown Road West Windsor
(609) 716-8771 www.groversmillcoffee.com
Fri. 7:30 p.m. Beannacht w/ Lo Kloza and Jeff Rupert
Tues. 7 p.m. Open Mic. Night Havana New Hope
105 S. Main St. New Hope, Pa. (215) 862-9897
www.havananewhope.com
Thurs. 8 p.m. Steve Forbert. Doors at 6.pm., $25 (reserved seating)
Fri. 8:30 p.m. Bigg Romeo Sat. 8:30 p.m. ‘Cinco de Maida’ feat. The Mighty Seven Band
Mon. 10 p.m. Karoake w/ Rockin’ Ron
All shows 21+ Ivy Tavern 3108 S. Broad Street, Hamilton
(609) 888-1435 www.ivytavern.com
Fri. 10 p.m. Ernie White Sat. 10 p.m. The John Love Band
All shows 21+ John & Peter’s 96 S. Main St. New Hope, Pa.
(215) 862-5981 www.johnandpeters.com
Sat. 9:30 p.m. Honey Spot Blvd.
Mondays. Open Mic. Night Wed. The Invitational (Featuring John & Peter’s House Band)
All shows 21+ RHO Waterfront (Katmandu)
50 Riverview Plaza/Riverview Executive Park Trenton
(609) 393-7300 www.katmanduwaterfront.com
Weds. Singer/Songwriter Acoustic Showcase
Check www.serioussongwriter.com for dates and performer information.
All shows 21+ Palermo’s Of Hamilton
310 Klockner Rd. Hamilton (609) 838-7979
www.palermoshamilton.com
Thurs. 8.p.m. Karoake night Fri.(5 p.m.) Ambiance The Duo (9 p.m.) Alright Allright
Sat. 9 p.m. Never Enough All shows 21+
Pete’s Steak House 523 Whitehorse Ave. Hamilton
(609) 585-8008 www.petessteakhouse.com
Fri. 9:30 p.m. Jimmy and Jimmy Sat. 9:30 p.m. Clayton / Anderson
All shows 21+ Tavern On The Lake
101 Main St. Hightstown (609) 426-9345
www.tavernonthelake.net
Fri. 9 p.m. Steve (The Band) Sat. 9 p.m. Cinco de Mayo Party w/ NFN (Not For Nothing)
Wed. Karoake Night The Cool Cricket
216 4th St. Fieldsboro (609) 291-9110
www.thecoolcricket.com
Fri. 8:30 p.m. Karoake w/ Jason Taylor
Sat. 9 p.m. El Ka Bong All shows 21+
The Record Collector 358 Farnsworth Ave. Bordentown
(609) 324-0880 www.the-record-collector.com
Fri. 8 p.m. Billy Hector. All ages, doors 7:30 p.m., $15 (advance)
Sat. 8 p.m. The Voodoo Fix / Mitigue. All ages, doors 7:30 p.m., $12 (advance)
The Sticky Wicket 2465 South Broad St. Hamilton
(609) 439-0007 www.stickywicketgrill.com
Fri. 9 p.m. The Dawgs Sat. 9:30 p.m. Deep Release
All shows 21+ The Sun National Bank Center
81 Hamilton Ave. Trenton (609) 656-3200
www.sunnationalbankcenter.com
Check web site for upcoming events.
Tir Na Nog 1324 Hamilton Ave. Trenton
(609) 392-2554 Wed. 9 p.m. Irish Night
All shows 21+ Triumph Brewing Company (New Hope, Pa. Location)
400 Union Square New Hope, Pa. (215) 862-8300
www.triumphbrewing.com
Thurs. 10 p.m. Life Size Fri. 10 p.m. Hot Day At The Zoo. $5 (cover charge)
Sat. 10 p.m. Funkharp. $5 (cover charge)
Sun. 7 p.m.-10 p.m. Open Mic. Night
Mon. 10 p.m. Saint Anyway All shows 21+
Triumph Brewing Company (Princeton location)
138 Nassau St. Princeton (609) 924-7855
www.triumphbrewing.com
Thurs. 9 p.m. Singer/Songwriter Showcase
All shows 21+ Wildflowers Inn 2572 Pennington Rd. Pennington
www.wildflowersinnrestaurant.com
Sat. 9 p.m. Live Acoustic Rock Mon. 9 p.m. Karaoke
All shows 21+
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Blues and roots players turn out for Light of Day
Between the Light of Day Winterfest marathon of shows going on in Asbury Park this weekend and a few other choice events, blues, jazz and roots-rock fans will find something to satisfy their own particular tastes. Take a look:
Tonight at 8 p.m. at Open Arts Stage Theater, 146 Route 130 South in Bordentown, two of New Jersey's most seasoned bands take the stage in a show orchestrated by Randy Now, who helped to put City Gardens nightclub, the Record Collector store and the New Hope Winery on the map. The 1910 Fruitgum Company will perform tonight on a bill with the Doughboys.
The Doughboys, led by a dynamic frontman, Myke Scavone of Long Branch, includes original bassist Mike Caruso and drummer Richard X. Heyman. Gar Francis, guitar and vocals, and a veteran nightclub musician, is the relative newcomer in the group, having been with them for a decade now. The band reunited in 2000 after taking a break in the '90s. The highly influential guitarist and revered guitar teacher Bernie Brausewetter, of B.B. and the Stingers, often cited Doughboys' original guitarist Willy Kirchofer as an influence. Kirchofer passed unexpectedly in 2005 and Brausewetter passed prematurely in 2007.
The Doughboys will open for the 1910 Fruitgum Company, a New Jersey-based band that had hits in the '60s with "Indian Giver," "Simon Says," and "1-2-3 Red Light."
Tickets are $20 at the door. The Open Arts Stage Theater is located next to Mastori's Diner on Route 130 southbound, and the show is all-ages, no alcohol.
Wonder Bar Blues 'n' Boogie
A cavalcade of blues and roots music musicians take over the Wonder Bar, Fifth and Ocean Avenues, Asbury Park, from noon to 6 p.m. tomorrow and again at 7 p.m. with two separate revues, both part of the Light of Day marathon to raise funds for Parkinson's disease research.
Asbury Blues begins at noon tomorrow with performers to include the Upstage Jam Band, Gary Wright, the Tangiers Blues Band, James Dalton, Pam McCoy, Kenny "Stringbean" Sorensen, the Billy Walton Band, Pat Guadagno and Richard Blackwell, RB3, Stormin' Norman Seldin, Mary McCrink, Ronnie Brandt and the Cigar Box Stompers.
From 7 p.m. to closing at Wonder Bar, on a bill called Full Tilt Boogie, performers will include the Bob Polding Band, Eryn Shewell, the Billy Hector Band, Danny White, Virago, the Christine Martucci Band, HP and the Hot Takeout Band and Sharon Lasher and the Matt O'Ree Band.
Tickets to Asbury Blues or Full Tilt Boogie are $12 in advance or $15 at the door. For more information, visit www.lightofday.org.
Jazz among the stacks
Connecticut-based jazz vocalist, songwriter and bandleader Giacomo Gates returns to the Monmouth County Library Sunday from 2 to 4 p.m. Gates and his trio always serve up an artful blend of blues, ballads and traditional jazz tunes during their two hour show. Sunday afternoon's show is free.
Jazz writer Will Friedwald of the New York Sun sums up Gates' live shows rather well: "Mr. Gates is a solid example of a performer who is doing something that no one else does. He evokes an age (that I would hope is not so terribly bygone) when musicians were entertainers and entertainers were musicians, and a sense of humor was as important as a sense of rhythm."
The Manalapan branch of the Monmouth County Library is just off Route 9 at 125 Symmes Drive. For more information, call 732-431-7220 ext. 7222 or visit www.giacomogates.com.
'Don't Call No Ambulance'
Florida-based guitarist and singer-songwriter Selwyn Birchwood is riding high and racking up the frequent flyer miles and miles on his tour bus after the success of his debut for Chicago-based Alligator Records, "Don't Call No Ambulance."
The 29-year-old Birchwood took top honors in the Blues Foundation's International Blues Challenge in 2013, and his debut record for Alligator is filled with memorable original songs that break new thematic ground in the blues idiom. Birchwood got his start and earliest encouragement from a master musician who was no stranger to audiences at the Jersey Shore in the 1990s, "The Urban Turban," Clarence Edward Smith, a.k.a. Sonny Rhodes. Rhodes, who spent nearly a decade in Pine Hill and other parts of southern New Jersey before moving to Sanford, Florida, insisted young Birchwood get his college education. Birchwood holds an MBA from the University of Tampa.
If you want to see contemporary blues at its best, consider getting down to the Lizzie Rose Music Room next Thursday night, Jan. 22, in Tuckerton. There, Birchwood and his band will play two or three sets beginning around 8 p.m.
The Lizzie Rose Music Room is located at 217 E. Main Street, Tuckerton, just off Exit 58 of the Garden State Parkway. Tickets are $15 in advance or $20 at the door. Patrons are free to BYOB. 609-296-4100, www.selwynbirchwood.com.
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Published in The Coaster (Asbury Park, NJ) and The Link (Long Branch, NJ), May 30, 2019
As Christine Martucci maintains, “the gay community sees beauty in everything…because we have to! You want your world to be filled with love, and I like to be the cup that’s half full at all times.”
A member in excellent standing of that unofficial society of Honorary Shore Rockers — those performers whose fervent local fanbases and frequent-flyer forays to coastal NJ have secured their place in the area’s pantheon — the Tacoma, WA-born singer/ songwriter/ guitarist has staked her claim as a bandleader whose classic-rock swagger and whiskey-belt vocals lend punch to original compositions that often speak of complex and conflicted emotions; of that sense of isolation that sometimes aches its way into even our most raucous tribal rituals.
It’s a “velvet glove inside an iron fist” approach that’s in evidence on signatures like the lonely plaint ”Is Anybody Out There?,” or the returning veteran’s lament “Home Don’t Feel Like Home” — and while the singer allows that “not a lot of cerebral energy goes into too many standard rock songs,” she herself hails from “that school where you write what you know.”
What she’s known, in a life that took her from the Pacific Northwest to New Jersey’s Hunterdon County (and from a bleak moment in which she contemplated closing the book on her own story, to the realization that, as she previously stated, “the repressed, angry, scared Christine died that day”) is that the power of community goes a long way toward illuminating those dark corners of the soul — and that when it comes to stoking that sense of community, few if any things can beat a supercharged rock show inside a packed nightclub.
There was a time when Christine Martucci spent the better part of a decade as an enlistee in the U.S. Army, a significant life experience (during an era that pre-dated “don’t ask, don’t tell”) that saw her rise to the rank of Sergeant, while acquiring an affinity for her fellow folks in uniform that’s manifested itself in her song lyrics, interviews, and regular charitable endeavors. There would also come a time when “Tucci” would find that community within the big, messy, extended family of musicians who worked the stages of New York, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey (she cites a fellow Honorary Shorecat, John Eddie, as the peer who “got me my start in Asbury Park”) — particularly in the famous seaside city where music has danced cheek-to-cheek with its social history, and where the LGBTQ community can rightly be credited with a lead role in its remarkable resurrection.
About a month ago, Christine Martucci took the stage of Asbury Park’s Wonder Bar in an intimate, solo “Pride in Performance” piece as part of the 2019 Music and Film Fest. This Saturday, she and her full-tilt combo The Band of Love return once more to that Circuit-side landmark, for a set that serves as a kick-ass keynote to this coming weekend’s Jersey Pride Festival. Here in the fiftieth anniversary year of the pivotal Stonewall uprising, it’s an occasion that marks a Martucci milestone in its own right — a tenth annual Pride Show for which the headliner has taken an active stance; securing the opening acts (cover-tune specialists The Eclipse Band, R&B singer-songwriter Stephanie Chin, and Asbury returnees Chix Appeal), and choosing the designated charity for this edition’s fundraising component (the NJ chapter of Happy Trails Animal Rescue).
That take-charge attitude is well in keeping with the “Real Christine” who emerged from those days and nights of self-doubt, to face the challenges of life as an out gay person with a fine-tuned confidence and positivity. It’s a quality that’s in evidence on exuberant originals like the “Parkway Southbound” paean “Jersey Style,” as well as on crowd-pleasing covers like the Stones standard “Honky Tonk Women” (or “Head Held High,” a contribution to a Velvet Underground tribute album that we’d love to hear her perform live; hint hint).
As a solid songsmith in her own right, Martucci (who announces that the June 1 gig will mark her first public performance of “Remedy” by the Black Crowes) has a feel for covers upon which she can put her own sonic stamp, be it the unjustly neglected Faces tune “Stay With Me,” or anything from the canonical catalog of Janis Joplin.
In fact, the Wonder Bar show represents a last (for now) and best chance to catch Tucci and company in full-fledged glory, before the singer hits the road with Glen Burtnik to perform as Janis in the 2019 Summer of Love Tour, the revue that makes its only NJ whistlestop at the Hard Rock Atlantic City on August 24.
“Glen really helped catapult me onto the scene,” she says of the Summer impresario. “People here don’t hold you back, or see you as a competitor.”
Noting that “I love the Summer of Love show, because all I have to worry about is to show up and sing,” Martucci is using that not-at-all-”down” time as an opportunity to continue writing, and to fine-tune a couple of ambitious projects — one of which is a fifth album of original songs, a set that finds the singer reunited with producer Anthony Krizan, himself a co-writer (with Cheryl Da Veiga) of “Home Don’t Feel Like Home.”
“I’ve got some songs that I’ve written but never released; ballads that would work well with a pretty voice like Eryn Shewell’s,” she says in reference to the torchy vocalist who performs these days under her married name of Eryn O’Ree, or simply Eryn. “But I’m going back to my rock and roll roots with the new album…with songs that are more suited to my smokin’, drinkin’, partyin’ voice.”
Then there’s her planned one woman show; an autobiographical mix of story and song tentatively titled My Life as a New Soul. Described as “part comedy, part real life” (with the acknowledgment that the two conceptsare hardly mutually exclusive), it’s a work in progress that’s “gonna be colorful, and awesome…we’re going on a trip, me and the audience.”
“When you’re a new soul, like me, everything is NEW to you again,” she explains. “One way to put it is, you go into a new soul’s house, right? And you know those tags that you see on furniture and mattresses…’Do Not Remove Under Penalty of Law?’…well, in a new soul’s house they are all there; still attached!”
As Martucci tells it, the two concurrent projects are vying neck-and-neck for her attentions these days, with the latter part of 2019 and early 2020 shaping up to be a launch point for that New Soul performance piece, or an itinerary for promoting that new album. In either case, expect Christine Martucci to return once more to the Shore music scene that has been “such a part of my life…it’s so cool that I can count on Asbury Park to support all that I’m doing.”
“I tell the bar owners, we’re a team…I’m gonna get ‘em rowdy, you get ‘em drunk, and at the end of the night you get paid more,” she says with a laugh. “But the payoff for me is that people come to my shows and leave feeling better about themselves, and about the world.”
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The Saturday night Wonder Bar event — and its now-traditional Sunday night bookend show featuring the band Kathouse — are part ‘n parcel of an Asbury Park weekend that’s centered around the 28th annual Jersey Pride Festival in Bradley Park and the accompanying AP Pride march. The hi-energy procession makes its way to the park, where between the hours of noon to 7 pm, the statue of Founder Bradley stands watch over a serious celebration that boasts a full slate of live music, a food court, craft and merch vendors, kids’ activities, and informational displays from an array of nonprofit community organizations. The festival stage — always a great showcase for both locally based and internationally renowned acts — is headlined this year by (pictured above) original disco-era diva France Joli (“Come to Me,” “Gonna Get Over You”) and the band BETTY, with comedian/ activist and emcee Sandra Valls introducing soul singer Dezi 5, electro-pop artist JLine, the Green Planet Band, and Virago, with that always-amazing world-music duo (who also appear at the Asbury Hotel on Friday night) augmented for the occasion by the horn section from the Motor City Revue (check the social media postings of the Jersey Gay Pride Festival for updated schedule info).
A new and novel addition to the weekend’s festivities — and a slate of activities that spans the whole three-day interlude — is Paranormal Pride, a multi-faceted event hosted by Paranormal Books and Curiosities proprietor Kathy Kelly (fresh off her recent success with the annual Jersey Devil Festival) with Adam Berry of the Travel Channel’s Kindred Spirits. With the venerable Berkeley Oceanfront Hotel as home base, the program boasts what promises to be the first-ever ghost investigation of that landmark building, along with lectures, gallery readings (with famed psychic medium Chip Coffey), and a Drag Brunch featuring special guest Pissi Myles. Participation is limited, so visit paranormalpride.com for updated info on available tickets.
There’s plenty more of interest to attendees going on around town throughout the weekend, from tea dances and poolside parties at the city’s waterfront hotels, a Friday night Pride Prom event at Asbury Festhalle presided over by the beyond-busy DJ Tyler Valentine (who also works a same-day Super Tea at the Asbury, and a Saturday night WERK dance party at House of Independents), an ABBA/ 70s dancefest at House of Indies, and a Drag Queen Storytime session at the Asbury with Miss Savannah Georgia. Check the music listings in this week’s print editions of The Coaster and The Link for the full rundown.
And in Long Branch, where city officials recently designated June as Pride Month, New Jersey Repertory Company’s West End Arts Center is the nexus for a slate of events that kicks off with Our Way: The Art of Life, Love, and Inclusion, a visual art group show that opens with a 12-4 pm reception inside the gallery space of the reborn primary school building at 132 West End Avenue (corner of Sairs Ave.).
The exhibition curated by Mare Akana remains on display Saturday and Sunday afternoons through June 9, while the Arts Center plays host on Friday, June 7 to a 5 pm screening of the Robin Kampf documentary Love Wins, with a post-film panel featuring the film’s subjects and director.
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Favorite athlete: Michael Phelps
Favorite team: Besides Abington girls’ lacrosse, the Phillies
Favorite memory competing in sports: Being undefeated conference champs this year.
Most embarrassing/funniest thing that has happened while competing in sports: It was in eighth grade, and we were warming up for our last game of our season. If we won the game, we would be undefeated, so everyone was really hyped for the game. While doing shuttles, I wasn’t paying attention, and my friend threw the ball right at my nose. None of the coaches were out yet, and I had to use a bar mitzvah sweatshirt to soak up the blood. For the rest of the game, I sat on the sideline crying, holding up a sweatshirt to my nose. Oh, and we lost the game. Looking back, my friend and I laugh about it because we thought it was the biggest deal in the work, but it was only middle school lacrosse.
Music on iPod: Chance the Rapper, Coldplay, Kanye West, The Killers, Lorde
Future plans: Attending Temple University in the fall of 2017 and hope to play club lacrosse.
Words to live by: “It always seems impossible until it’s done.”
One goal before turning 30: Go backpacking in Europe
One thing people don’t know about me: I was born in Sweden.
By GORDON GLANTZ
Although she's as competitive as the next person, outgoing Abington senior Maddie Sjoholm (pronounced Sher-holm) admits that she was a little envious of injured lacrosse teammates who got to sit out at practice.
Until it happened to her, that is.
That came in her sophomore year, when the Swedish-born Sjoholm bruised a muscle in her shoulder and was out of action for an extended period of time.
“It took me out for something like four weeks,” said the incoming freshman at Temple, who plans to play at the club level there. “It definitely didn’t feel good to sit on the sidelines.
“I had friends who had gotten injured, and I thought, ‘that must be nice.’ But, when I got injured, I just wanted to play lacrosse. It definitely added fuel to my fire.”
And it was this fire that current coach Amanda Kammes, who came to the Galloping Ghosts from the collegiate level, got to witness as the team’s coach during Sjoholm’s final two seasons.
“Over the last two years, we really felt we could never take her off the field,” said Kammes. “I think she probably was capable of playing college lacrosse if she had set her mind to it, but that wasn’t what she wanted. I think she had different goals for her future.
“She’s a well-spoken kid. She comes from a good family. She’s well-liked by her teammates. She’s a great kid.”
It was right after Kammes arrived on the scene -- taking over for Mary Kate Lomady, who saw enough in Sjoholm to put her on the varsity squad as freshman -- Sjoholm noticed a difference that equated to a raising of the bar.
Instead of trying to be a contender in their league, the Ghosts were in it to win it. Instead of making the district playoffs, they were gunning for states.
For a diehard lacrosse-centric athlete like Sjoholm, it was all worth it.
“It was a big transition,” said Sjoholm. “Amanda came from the college level, so it was more intense. In non-league games, we started playing teams from the Main Line – like Radnor, Garnet Valley and Conestoga – and we talked about making states. She really opened up our minds.”
The raised bar also meant that players like Sjoholm, affectionately known as “The Swede” by her teammates, were not above scrutiny.
While her services were needed on the field, her coach was not above pulling her out of the fray for a pep talk.
“It rarely happened,” said Sjoholm. “But she would try to get me mad, to get me to prove myself a few times. It was not a lot of fun.”
But winning was fun.
Undefeated and rarely challenged in league play, Abington claimed the SOL American conference title in 2017. The Ghosts saw their season end when they dropped a 9-8 heartbreaker in a district playoff game for the seventh and final state berth.
“We were really happy to get so much further this season,” said Sjoholm. “There were a lot of mixed emotions. While we were upset that we didn’t make it to states, we go away knowing that we all tried hard up until the end.
“There were people on the team who I had played with since I was in third grade, so it was bittersweet. Some of them are going to be playing on the college level, so I’ll still get to watch them.”
Decision Time
Sjoholm went through the recruiting process trying her best to find an ideal scenario, one where she could pursue her goal of becoming a doctor and major in pre-med while also being able to play lacrosse.
Her research told her it was not realistic.
“As I got into the recruiting process, I talked to other athletes who said it was impossible if I wanted to be a pre-med major,” she said. “There was a lot of discussion, weighing the pros and cons. If I was going to go into medicine, I needed to just go for it.”
This meant a difficult decision, but she put long-term goals above those of the short-term.
“As much as I love the sport, I have a deeper passion for (being a doctor),” she explained, adding that that the current plan is to follow in the footsteps of her father, Dr. Ola Sjoholm, a trauma surgeon at Temple University Hospital.
She added: “It’s something I always wanted to be. I shadowed (my dad) at work, and I thought it was amazing, seeing what he did. So, for right now, trauma is something I also want to get into. I’m open to anything else, though.”
Sjoholm was frank about why she chose Temple, where her sister, Hannah, is now studying physical therapy. Although she looked at schools as far away as California, she felt Temple offered just as good of an education at a fraction of the cost.
“Distance didn’t really matter,” said Sjoholm. “It was more financially, more what made sense. It was a better deal at Temple.”
Temple also offers a solid lacrosse option, with a club team in place.
“In terms of commitment, it is the equivalent to high school,” she said, adding the club team does not have a heavy travel schedule. “It will be a great way to stay involved with sports.”
Part of the Foundation
Sjoholm, as a two-year captain and four-year starter, was promptly identified as part of a senior class that laid the foundation for the program’s resurgence under Kammes.
Sjoholm was a low defender, who responded when asked to come out of her comfort zone.
“I was definitely out of my comfort zone, going to midfield, but I knew it would make me a better athlete – more well-rounded,” said Sjoholm. “During practice, I would switch from playing midfield to defense. I did a lot of practice on the draw circle and learned the plays on attack. As the season went on, I became less and less nervous about playing midfield. I won a decent amount of draws and scored a few goals this season.”
It was Sjoholm’s speed and lacrosse IQ that made up the coach’s mind about the change.
“We actually transitioned her into the midfield this year, and that says a little bit about her,” said Kammes “She’s got wheels, she can run for days. She always made good choices about when to slide and when not to slide.
“I felt like Maddie and Jordan Campbell were the heart of our defense back there for the last two years. The defenders always seem to get overlooked because they never fill up a stat column even though I would argue that defenders are what make your team successful. She’s a knockout ballsy defender. I really can’t say enough good things about her in that department.”
Added Sjoholm: “I would say I’m an aggressive player, but not to the point where I get yellow cards or anything like that. I don’t ever let the score determine how I play in a game. I just try to be consistent.”
As for leadership, she was just doing what came naturally for a four-year starter who naturally fell into a captaincy role.
“I’m not the kind of person who yelled at people,” she said. “I gave pointers when I needed to do it, and I was open to listening. And our team was so close that it wasn’t just left up to the captains. Everyone had a voice.”
The Homeland
Being born in Sweden is not just an interesting tidbit for Sjoholm. It is a big part of who she is and how she approaches life. While mom, Erin, is from New Jersey, her dad was born in Sweden and went to medical school there. He had to redo his residency in the United States when the family moved here when his youngest of three was a year old.
Sjoholm and her two older siblings, Hannah and Adam – visited every summer when they were younger and every other summer as they got involved in activities, taking two-week stints in the coastal village of Mellbystrand.
“Most of my family is from Sweden,” she said. “It’s definitely more laidback there. In the US, it’s a lot more ‘go-go-go’ all the time. Over there, everyone is more to themselves.
“You get the best of both worlds.”
And Sjoholm’s balancing of sports with academics and activities is an example of putting a broader perspective into practice.
With four AP classes this year and two last year, Sjoholm is also involved in Athletes Helping Athletes and Mini-Thon, as well as the Varsity A Club.
“I am really good at time management,” she said, while also explaining that she played club lacrosse in the fall and indoor in the winter up until 2016. “I always kept a good balance. When it is during the season, I had a good routine going on.”
Crowded Corner
Sjoholm cites her coaches and teammates as sources of inspiration.
“Our coaches were great about being there for us,” she said. “The coaches made our team into a family.”
Still, she mostly points toward her immediate family for being in her corner.
Her first sport was swimming, but her sister introduced her to lacrosse.
And that was that.
“In third grade, I started playing club lacrosse,” she said. “It quickly became my main sport. I grew up doing individual sports, where it is all on you. I liked how lacrosse is always a team effort.”
Getting into lacrosse early certainly helped her catch the eye of Lomady when she landed a spot as a varsity starter.
“I thought I could do it, but I didn’t take anything for granted,” she reflected. “I was so glad I made it.
“Because my sister also played lacrosse, she always knew what I was going through.”
While neither parent had lacrosse experience, they always lent a supportive ear and were always very supportive.
And then there is her brother, Adam.
“My brother has been a big inspiration,” she said. “He went through West Point, the whole military thing with combat training and Ranger school, and never once complained about it.
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The Driving Test
A Musical Car Ride
Whilst we would love to give every album/EP/single a full indepth review,we are only human and don't have a time turner so we aren't able to give every release the time and attention it deserves.
In the past that would have ment that we either reviewed a release or we didn't, but now we have a third option, a middle way.
The solution here has been a simple one. Rather than review individual artists' CD's at length, we play them one after the other on a long car journey. The simple listening test is: "are they bearable in the car - interesting, enjoyable, not distracting". This may not be how the artists want us to hear their work, but it's how a lot gets listened to for the first time and at least raises awarenes! The rating system is simple and provides a shorthan for reference.:
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**** Great album - the perfect soundtrack to a long car journey
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** You have to be a fan of this music/artist. I've spared you a review
* You are either the artist or a close relative. (As I'm not, sorry no review)
Kelly and Woolley - Miner's Eyes ***
www.kellyandwoolley.co.uk
Exactly the sort of music you'd hear up and down the folk clubs of the UK week in, week out. This time out, the duo's classic guitar/fiddle/mandolin combination presents a first release of original compositions, drawing from folk music from both sides of the Atlantic. 'Miner's Eyes' gathers some dandy and catchy songs heavily weighted in Gary Woolley's songwriting favour, from a transatlantic hybrid fashion, the mandolin fuelled 'Cairo To Vincennes' a neat little swinging early highlight as they trawl some familiar paths. Easy on the ear with a few concessions to the melancholy, passing of time, fading of memories direction, they do a grand job at grass roots level. MA
Brendan Monaghan - Unbroken ***
www.brendanmonaghan.com
Brendan's back with a cast of not quite thousands, but a set of back room boys and girls to contribute production skills, photographs and one or several musicians. Ultimately, it's his name on the cover and him, his guitar and his easy tones which grace the core of a dozen self penned songs that ebb and flow like the Lagan. From the shimmering "I'm coming home, I've been away too long" sentiment of 'Unbroken' to the country roll of 'Farewell' via encounters with Gospel Jim, dark hours, the Devil and blue skies an half hour or so spent with Brendan Monaghan is good for the soul. MA
Powersolo - Bo Peep **
www.powersolo.dk
One man, one guitar, one kick drum, one microphone and two bottles of absinthe. Sums things up pretty succinctly really. Kim Kix is the brains of the outfit, banging out thirteen songs that last just over half an hour. What more do you need to know? Weirdness and lo fidelity are the main ingredients for a series of bizarre fairground flavoured vignettes and curios. All delivered by the frantic and charged rock and roll outlaw who breezes in and out like a tornado, as in one of the song titles. You don't have to be mad but it helps. MA
Eryn - Lady E ****
erynofficial.com A Maryland-born blues and soul singer now based in New Jersey, Eryn (Shewell) has been spoken about in the same breath as Amy Winehouse. She's not there yet, but this six-track mini-album undoubtedly points the way, kicking off with the belting country-tinted soul of 'Hallelujah, You're Gone' leaving you in doubt as to the power of her voice. Piano ballad 'The Me Missing From You' and the slinky fingersnapping bluesy, Grapelli-styled violin-backed groove of 'Stranger in My House' show a slower burn side, while 'Our Love Won't Die' has a sassier swing and both 'Jump' and 'Running Red Lights' suggest she might have some Tina Turner in her collection. Most definitely one to watch. MD
PARK88 - The Fearlessness ***
www.park88music.com
Named for their hometown of Park City, Utah and the number of piano keys, this EP is the first proper musical pairing of pianist and erstwhile Eddie Van Halen protégé Rich Wyman and his songwriter/actress wife Lisa Needham, he being big in the Netherlands, apparently. Basically, it's the sort of 80s influenced rock and bluesy soul you can imagine Van Halen being into, Wyman's piano driving things along on the back of steady drum rhythms and beefy guitar, 'Soul Like A Flower' showing off his jazzier inclinations and her blues swing and sass style, while 'What We Got' opens with a big brass flourish before hitting the ivories for a driving blues-rocker. Fleshed out with a 'shit' deleted version of the title track and an extended version of 'Slow Down', it's solid stuff that you can imagine blowing up a storm live and, while you might not actively seek it out, if you stumble across it you're unlikely to leave before the end. MD
BRAD COLERICK - Nine Ten Thirty ****
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The arts in New Jersey do not make for such strange bedfellows after all.
Creative types in the state do connect sometimes, and sometimes the union is an entity unto itself. To celebrate Valentine’s Day, we met with three power couples of the Jersey arts scene to learn how romance, creative minds, kids and the business of arts mix.
The lessons are as varied as the people and arts of Jersey.
Eryn Shewell and
Matt O’Ree, musicians
Eryn Shewell and Matt O’Ree make beautiful music together.
Literally.
Shewell is one of the most dynamic blues vocalists in the region and O’Ree is nationally recognized for his fiery blues-rock vocals and guitar playing. He’s played in Bon Jovi and a guy named Bruce Springsteen from Freehold plays and sings on his latest album, “Brotherhood.”
Like Springsteen and the late E Street Band saxophonist, Clarence Clemons, Shewell and O’Ree met at the Wonder Bar in Asbury Bar. O’Ree was there checking out the scene and Shewell caught his eye on stage.
Shewell noticed him, too. “I mustered up the moxie to say hello,” Shewell said. “We started chatting and then we became friends. That was over 10 years ago — he wasn’t ready for anything serious yet. The timing wasn’t working.”
Musicians have a great sense of timing.
“It only took me 10 years to figure out that Eryn was the one,” O’Ree said. “Eventually, I smartened up. I always wondered, being a musician, is being with another musician, would that make sense? Would there be a conflict of interest? Would we argue about our careers?”
The answer is no for Shewell and O’Ree.
“It works so well,” O’Ree said. “We support each other’s careers as well. It’s a pretty amazing connection we have.”
They both perform at each other’s shows.
“I’m proud to stand next to her on stage when she belts it out,” O’Ree said. “Some of our happiest moments are standing on stage next to each other.”
MORE: A rocker's Christmas proposal on the Wonder Bar stage
O’Ree proposed to Shewell on stage at the Wonder Bar in December. She said yes.
Shewell’s daughter Emily, 13, signed on.
“She kept it a secret from mom,” O’Ree said.
Larry “Kapital” Gaines, performer and manager, and Janine Robertson-Gaines, manager
The family is all about business.
Larry “Kapital” Gaines and Janine Robertson-Gaines of Newark were high school sweethearts at Piscataway High School in the 1990s. Gaines made a name for himself when as Left Gunzz he scored himself a few high profile gigs as a hip-hop musician, including appearances on New York City radio’s Funkmaster Flex and Wendy Williams shows.
Now, the Gaineses are using lessons they learned back in the day in service of their two children, Leah Jenea, 16, who’s been racking up Amateur Night Apollo Theater wins, and son Troi Allan,13, who was part of the “Kinky Boots” national tour.
MORE: Valentine's Day cards for that not-so-special someone
“(Larry’s) the numbers and creative one, but I’m the one who was more vocal and more hustling to get them out there,” Janine said. “When it started to get deeper and he saw that she (Leah Jenea) was writing her own music, that’s when he jumped in.”
Getting a name for yourself in the entertainment world is similar but not exactly the same as it was 15 years ago. The Gaineses, together for 18 years and married for nine, are applying the lessons they learned during Larry’s hip-hop days to their kids’ careers.
“One thing you have to watch out for and be careful of is that your social media image could destroy you real quick with cameras, phones and pictures,” Larry said. “All it takes now is one bad meme and you’re done for a couple of weeks until everybody forgets about it.”
Dad recently got into the act with Leah Jenea and Perth Amboy hip-hop star Miilkbone for a song called “Ain’t Right.” They shot a video, too.
“I’d say, ‘This is my dad,’ and the look would be: ‘Left Gunzz!’ ” Leah Jenea said.
Larry’s “Reel Street Viewz” show on Facebook is gaining momentum. He’s interviewed the Wu Tang Clan, Mobb Deep, Pete Rock and Jaheim.
It’s all hands on deck as Larry’s parents, James and Grace Gaines, and Marcia Smith, Janine’s mom, all contribute to the family brand.
“It’s deep, all the way down to how my parents supported us,” Larry said. “The whole family is in. It’s the family hustle. Hashtag family hustle!”
Brittany James and
Patrick Schiavino, artists
There is a burgeoning visual arts scene in Asbury Park.
Patrick Schiavino and Brittany James are in the middle of it. Both are painters and Schiavino is the owner of the city’s Art 629 gallery on Cookman Avenue. He’s also the founder of the hit Asbury Underground art gallery crawl.
“It’s nice when the person you’re with supports what you do and supports the amount of time you spend on your art and artistic side,” said Schiavino, also a long-time developer and real estate agent in the city.
James teaches art at the gallery and also at Inspired Minds Fine Art School in Lincroft. You’ll see her on stage sometimes painting stage-wide murals with Mallory Massara at Glen Burtnik concerts.
MORE: Brits and bikinis a social media hit
Schiavino and James started dating about two and half years ago.
“Being a painter or a writer or a profession where you work alone could be a very lonely experience because you’re spending 10, 12 hours in a studio by yourself, you go a little stir crazy,” Schiavino said. “So I think that having somebody around is good, and someone around who understands the process you’re going through, who shares an ethos and a lifestyle, because it is a lifestyle.”
The couple that paints together stays together.
“We do (paint together) and we don’t talk to each for three hours,” James said. “We put on really loud music.”
Their styles are different. Schiavino is an abstract painter and James is representational. Yet, both have an eye for bright, striking colors and both work in oils.
“My friend says he’s in outer space and I’m in Neverland,” said James of their styles.
Chris Jordan: cjordan@app.com
MORE JERSEY ARTS
POWER COUPLES
Dorothea Bongiovi, philanthropist, and Jon Bon Jovi, musician and philanthropist — This couple, who live in Middletown, use their influence to empower the less fortunate with their Soul Kitchen restaurants in Red Bank and Toms River.
Beth McLoone, restaurateur, and Tim McLoone, restaurateur, musician — This Little Silver couple operates the McLoone restaurants of the Jersey Shore and Central Jersey, and Tim McLoone is a prominent figure on the Shore music scene. The Tim McLoone’s Supper Club in Asbury Park brings some of the biggest names in show business to the boardwalk.
Patti Scialfa and Bruce Springsteen, musicians — This Colts Neck couple is known around the world and are involved in many area charities. Scialfa is a member of the Count Basie Theatre of Red Bank’s board of advisers.
Lisa Sherman and Franke Previte, musicians — This Oceanport pair has been lighting up stages in Jersey in recent months when they sing the Previte-penned "(I've Had) The Time of My Life" from "Dirty Dancing." Previte is involved in production now.
Maureen Van Zandt, actress, producer, and Steven Van Zandt, musician, actor and producer — This couple lives in New York City but they have deep Jersey roots. The Van Zandts, who both appeared on TV’s “The Sopranos,” are on the Count Basie Theatre’s board of trustees and directors.
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"It wasn’t until I needed a job where I asked myself, 'What do I want to do with my life?' And I just fell in love with [baking] at Provisions," she shares.
Born in Orange County, California, and raised in Eugene, Oregon, Erin had an interest in the arts at a young age. She first pursued music, which subsequently led to a modeling career. "I went to a music competition in LA and part of the package was modeling, so I had to do runway shows," Erin says. Unexpectedly, she felt a sense of empowerment and shifted her singing aspirations toward a future in modeling. Erin regularly landed assignments in Portland, Oregon, a two-hour drive away, which included photoshoots for major sportswear brands like Nike and Adidas. "I have never been into sports, but it was fun to pose as an athlete for a day," she says.
After high school, she continued to pursue her professional modeling career, which included magazine shoots with Vogue Italia and Vogue Japan and traveling abroad. Unfortunately, it was on one of these voyages that she was exposed to a dark side of the industry.
"I went out of my way to lose weight and went to Milan, but when I was there, they told me I needed to lose even more weight," she says. Then and there Erin decided, "I’m not going to put up with this and instead, I’m going to eat all the food [in Milan] that I can!" She remembers that pivotal decision as a "fun rebellion" and her time in Milan led to an epiphany. "I had already taken an interest in baking at Provisions, but this was solidifying the world I want to be in, not a world that would take me away from food," she says.
Erin had previously considered formal culinary education, but teachers at a catering class dissuaded her, advising she learn on the job instead. Erin decided to research culinary schools. "I figured that if I went to a four-year college and didn’t find anything I liked as much as food, then I would be wasting a lot more money than if I went to culinary school and had an amazing time," she said.
When she toured ICE’s LA campus, her hunch was confirmed. "Chef Herve Guillard was making buckwheat crepes and it was really exciting," she remembers. "I had been on other four-year college tours and it was exhausting. The feeling I had after leaving that school tour was definitely telling in that it grabbed my attention."
In school, Erin found her classes stimulating, and she bonded with classmates who shared a similar passion. Unfortunately, in the middle of her Pastry & Baking Arts program, classes were suspended due to COVID-19. She returned to Oregon for a time and then went back to work at Provisions when things opened up. Determined to finish her program, however, she returned to the classroom to complete her studies in February 2021.
"After being comfortable at home, it was hard to leave and go back to the unknown," Erin says. "But once I was back it was like, okay, I’m inspired again. I’m in my element." A fan of all things baking, Erin has a keen interest in wedding cakes, which she had the opportunity to design for the final project of the program. "When we first started with Chef Missy Smith-Chapman and cake decorating, that was the most exciting part for me. I was finally able to get creative and show off my aesthetic," she says. Erin’s final tiered cake featured stargazer lilies and a take on a stylized sweet pea.
After completing her in-class hours, Erin headed for Beverly Hills to Wolfgang Puck’s illustrious Spago, under the tutelage of Executive Pastry Chef Della Gossett. Given the restaurant’s expanding outdoor footprint and the return of dining indoors at the time, Erin experienced a very fast work pace. "Knowing the specifics of pastry and techniques was super comforting because I was in a rush, rush, rush environment," she says. "Having those tools in my pocket was really helpful because there were so many other stressful things going on. It made it one less thing to worry about." Erin worked on some of Spago’s signature desserts, including Kaiserschmarrn (a sweet pancake) and soufflés, and she had a love-hate relationship with the restaurant’s deconstructed vacherin (a meringue-based French dessert). "It was a favorite because it is so artsy and abstract, but my least favorite because when someone needs it on the fly, I couldn’t quickly pick up seven meringue leaves!"
While Erin’s modeling days are behind her, she draws comparisons from the two worlds. "Going to Milan and Spago, separately, were the hardest things I’ve ever done," she says. Traveling alone in Milan without her family and being told to lose an unhealthy amount of weight was not a rewarding experience, she shares. "Whereas at Spago, it was super difficult, but I had the support of Chef Della and my coworkers, and it was satisfying to overcome something like that."
Erin has since returned to Oregon where she recently accepted a new position as a cake decorator at custom cake shop Sweet Life. Before returning to her home state, she got a taste of the sweet life as a dinner guest at her externship site, Spago. "It was my last night in LA and I got the VIP experience," she says. "It was nothing I had remotely imagined dining could be."
While Erin was unsure of what the outcome would be, she’s satisfied with her decision to attend pastry school. "School gave me the motivation to strive for what I want," she says. "A lot of people get their experience from working, and I’m not shaming that at all, but I feel like there is an enthusiasm that school gives you. Being in the environment with chefs who are passionate about what they are doing and students who are excited to be in this industry put me in the right mindset and allowed me to feed off everyone else’s enthusiasm." Erin dreams of becoming a wedding cake decorator, and she's well on her way.
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Limited vinyl LP repressing. Lionel Richie is the eponymous debut solo studio album by pop/soul singer/songwriter Lionel Richie, released on October 6, 1982 on Motown Records. It was recorded and released while Richie was still a member of the Commodores; he would leave the group shortly after the album's release. The first single from the album, "Truly", topped the Billboard Hot 100. Follow-up single "You Are" reached #4, and "My Love" reached #5. The album was also a hit, reaching #1 on the Cashbox albums chart on December 11, 1982. As well as featuring English musician Thomas Dolby on synthesizers, Joe Walsh provided the guitar solo for the song "Wandering Stranger".
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Serves You Right 5:08 , Wandering Stranger 5:36 , Tell Me 5:28 , My Love 4:05 , Round and Round 4:48 , Truly 3:19 , You Are 5:03 , You Mean More to Me 3:01 , Just Put Some Love in Your Heart 1:21
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If you're under the age of 30, you might know Lionel Richie best as the father of Simple Life reality television star and tabloid favorite Nicole Richie.
But if you're just a bit older, you might remember that Lionel Richie is an award-winning singer, songwriter and producer. As the lead singer of the popular 1970s soul/R&B group The Commodores, he topped the charts with songs such as "Lady" and "Zoom."
Richie left The Commodores in 1981 and went on to become a huge success as a solo artist, with ballads and love songs that became the soundtrack to a lot of romantic moments in the 1980s.
Richie is still recording and performing, and his new CD, Coming Home, continues a tradition of pure pop craftsmanship that shows he's still at the top of his game.
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Don't let the easy-listening ballads and pastel sweaters fool you: Lionel Richie, starting his fifth season on 'American Idol,' is a true Black music pioneer.
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Late-COVID, late-winter Las Vegas. The Strip, near tidy as Tomorrowland, is running on muscle memory, marjoram-laced birria, the AFC/NFC championships and musical residencies — not the least of which is Lionel Richie’s at the Encore Theater at Wynn Las Vegas.
At the age of 72, Richie takes to the stage with the swag of 100 million albums sold, four Grammys and an Oscar, the Library of Congress’ Gershwin Prize for Popular Song and a minty-fresh nomination to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. The former Commodores frontman returns Feb. 27 as sensei judge of “American Idol,” now in its fifth ABC season (and 20th overall).
The Lionel Richie show is intimate — just short of 1,500 people. The audience is multiracial, skewing white. With ease, and dad jokes, Richie takes us back to when we were all — as Richie sang in 1983 — running with the night, and playing in the shadows. We know all of Richie’s lyrics, like, verbatim. Talk show host James Corden and I are in the same row, and his passion for the show is palpable. Richie’s singing voice is both raspy and clear. His ballads tremble with blues specific to the American South. We sway.
When he sings out “just thinking about you baby / just blows my mind” from his early solo hit “My Love,” a collective surge back to the Reagan era overwhelms. He’s been with us through our loves and breakups. We’ve been with him through his marriage to high school sweetheart Brenda Harvey Richie (1975-93), with whom he has a daughter, the designer and reality show pioneer Nicole Richie. After a tabloid breakup that included Harvey Richie being arrested for battery, Lionel married dancer Diane Alexander in 1995. They have two children, model-musician Miles Richie and media personality Sofia Richie. The world is fascinated by Lionel Richie’s kids (they are Kardashian- and Paris Jackson- and Good Charlotte-adjacent): His two daughters and son have a collective 13 million Instagram followers.
To a whole generation Lionel is just his famous kids’ dad, or that emotional judge on “Idol” alongside Katy Perry and Luke Bryan who advises without being judgmental. But for fans of Lionel’s own music, the sight and the sound of him on piano is enough to bring tears. He’s always been both awkward and sophisticated, and his ability — via voice, composition, mood, a spiritual reverence for his own talent — still personifies a seductive mix of vulnerability and courage.
“There was a … moment,” he said to me a few weeks earlier, “when you realize this is not a fluke. I can actually see into the next dimension. There’s a moment in time when you are just possessed … it’s only 12 notes. I just realized I knew which two or three to put together. Half of the battle is knowing what you’re looking for … it will come, but you have to have patience. I can’t tell you how many times I’ll sit there and sit there and sit there and then I’ll go buy another black shirt from a store. I don’t need another black shirt.”
That he has so often been labeled corny and schmaltzy or “not Black enough” would be laughable if it weren’t so painful to him, condescending to his fans and perfectly in line with the way the Black pop of the 1980s was concurrently uplifted by the masses and stomped on by those writing the first draft of music history. This was the era in which Richie and fellow Motown valedictorians Stevie Wonder, Diana Ross and Michael Jackson changed the personality of American pop. “I Just Called to Say I Love You” does not hold a candle to, say, “Ordinary Pain,” and “Upside Down” will never be “Touch Me in the Morning,” but the criticisms of ‘80s Black pop are so alike and steady, it begins to feel like a systemic call to stand down. They were ubiquitous and resented for that ubiquity. The music of Lionel Richie and his cohort was looked upon with disdain for having the audacity to over-perform at stadiums, on radio stations, in record stores and in the hearts of music lovers, in a way no Black artists had done — or been allowed to do — before.
And the fruits of that creativity? The Commodores’ indelible “Easy,” “Three Times a Lady,” “Sail On,” “Jesus Is Love” and “Zoom.” Richie’s “Endless Love” (with Miss Ross), “Truly,” “Hello,” “Stuck on You,” “All Night Long,” “Say You Say Me” and “Dancing on the Ceiling.” Not to mention U.S.A. For Africa’s “We Are the World,” the single that is mocked as cringe but raised the equivalent of $149 million for famine relief. Many forget that Richie wrote the song with Michael Jackson, and that it is the eighth best-selling single of all time. Lionel’s vocal leads the song. Then Stevie Wonder, Paul Simon, Kenny Rogers, James Ingram, Tina Turner, Billy Joel and on and on. In 2022, it all seems very Auld Lang Syne. We were the world, indeed.
“WE DIDN’T KNOW,” SAYS RICHIE, “that life was as rough as it was.”
In a suite at the Beverly Hills’ Peninsula hotel, a photographer rearranges furniture. Richie’s manager is scrolling, and Richie, in black from neck to toe, is fresh from “Idol” auditions. “What do I tell all the kids? Don’t get psyched out. Make sure you stay you.”
Richie was a kid in segregated post-World War II Alabama on the campus of what was then known as the Tuskegee Institute. “We called it the bubble,” he says. His parents’ home was “right at the gate of the university.” The name on the deed is educator Margaret Washington, Booker T. Washington’s third wife. “I still own it,” says Richie, “and I’ve been putting [in] money and fixing it up since I left in 1968. I probably put more money in that piece of property than any I have in the whole world.” And even if hyperbole, that’s saying something.
The property that most reflects Richie’s global lifestyle is his 17,000 square-foot, 28-room home overlooking the Los Angeles Country Club. Built in 1929 for Carrie Guggenheim, for Richie it is forever a work in progress. Filled with the arts (Basquiats, Banksys, abstracts by Miles Davis) and letters (from Booker T. Washington and George Washington Carver to Richie’s grandmother) of a long, indefatigable and deeply creative American life. His home is both a haven and a palace regularly included on celebrity bus tours. “I feel about my home the way I feel about my music: you have to take chances,” Richie told Architectural Digest in 2007. “When I wrote ‘All Night Long’ [and] ‘Three Times a Lady,’ it was dangerous, because at the time black guys were singing neither calypso … nor waltzes. But since you only get one shot at life, let’s make it a challenge. That’s how I feel about this house.”
The kid who would eventually be inspired to paint his Beverly Hills mansion the palomino hue of a cardinal’s Lake Como home used to play with his pals near the planes flown by Tuskegee’s famed Airmen. Richie didn’t know the Airmen were famous until he got to high school, but their work ethic and glamorous energy had an effect on him.
“They were just nobodies to America,” he says of the segregated 332nd Fighter Group and 477th Bombardment Group of the U.S. Army Air Forces. “Imagine coming home and you … didn’t lose a plane that you were protecting. And you watch Walter Cronkite’s ‘The Twentieth Century.’ And there’s not one mention of you in that whole program. Hey we’re [flying missions over] Normandy and … then nothing.”
It could feel safe on the Tuskegee campus — insulated in some ways from Alabama’s culture of lynching. Legal and customary American apartheid was not so long ago, and Lionel Brockman Richie Jr. was raised in it. “We had no idea that the Klan was marching through town,” he says, “because they put us to bed early.”
But he was not shielded altogether. No one was. “I went to Montgomery with my father,” says Richie. “I’m … 6 years old. I went over to the water fountain … didn’t see the sign above it, and just drank the water.” The razor-wire tangle of ordinances known as “Jim Crow” laws were in full effect. At the Peninsula hotel suite Richie’s bright eyes are focused on a moment from nearly seven decades ago.
“These guys were saying something to my dad. I kept thinking, ‘These guys better be cool because my dad’s gonna kick their ass.’ My dad kept walking and got in the car. No! Why didn’t my dad turn around and just smack them?” Years later, when Richie confronted his father, the response was pragmatic. “I had a choice that day of either being a man, or your father,” said Lionel Richie Sr., a U.S. Army analyst. “If I turned around acting like a man, they’d have probably shot and killed me.” As for the son? The one whose music would one day be adored by Nelson Mandela? “It was at that point,” says Richie, “I realized there was something happening outside of the bubble.”
Whether he was in Alabama, or in Illinois for high school, Richie was a nerdy kid. His mother was an educator. His maternal grandmother, Adelaide Brown, was a pianist and music teacher, and one of Richie’s uncles, a sometime arranger for Duke Ellington, gave young Lionel his first saxophone. Next came practice. Then ambition, plus a decision to not become an Episcopal priest. Finally, Richie formed a trio called the Mystics (they performed at proms), which transmogrified into the Commodores.
He wasn’t quite a natural. Richie recalls once walking off the stage of a Tuskegee talent show — with the curtains. “Just having an audience looking at me,” he says, “was terrifying.” It’s why he has empathy for and keeps it real with “Idol” contestants. “When these kids walk out, some of them have this confidence of ‘I got this.’ And … no, you don’t. ‘Cause in your head, who told you you had this? Well, your mama told you that, your uncle told you that. [The kids say,] ‘Well I sing in church with my mother and father.’ Let me tell you something, how to navigate a song is not how loud you sing. How you navigate a song is the story you tell.”
On a summer break, the Commodores hoofed it to New York City, ended up with an agent, and by the next summer, they were opening for the Jackson 5 on the group’s 40-city 1971 tour. At the time, the Motown singles machine was morphing into album mode with the success of the Jackson 5’s “ABC” in 1970 and Marvin Gaye’s “What’s Going On” in ‘71, and the United States spun into a Jackson mania that included television specials, a book and a cartoon series. So the Commodores were swept into the massive ambitions of Motown — the sound, as team Berry Gordy manifested, of young America. The tour cemented Lionel Richie’s friendship with Michael Jackson. It was the start of something big.
The next decade, Jackson and then Lionel Richie won the prestigious album of the year Grammys for “Thriller” and “Can’t Slow Down,” respectively (1984 and 1985). Back-to-back big Black pop. I remember the night Richie won that Grammy — the odds against him had to have been super long. Richie beat Bruce Springsteen’s “Born in the U.S.A.,” Tina Turner’s “Private Dancer,” Cyndi Lauper’s “She’s So Unusual” and Prince’s “Purple Rain.” That Grammy is one of just four he has, on 32 nominations. I tell Richie that as he gave his ecstatic acceptance speech (“It’s gonna be all right now, it’s gonna be all right!”), it looked as if he and Michael Jackson had been shopping at the same place for sunglasses. “We were,” he says with a laugh. “We were trying to be the same people.”
With the exception of his first album, 1982’s shimmering and still-resonant “Lionel Richie,” and his most recent, the exclamation point that is his 2012 country duets album, “Tuskegee,” Richie’s other eight solo studio albums can seem postscript to “Can’t Slow Down.” The album went on to sell more than 20 million copies and featured five Top 10 singles: “Penny Lover,” “All Night Long (All Night),” “Stuck on You,” “Running With the Night” and “Hello,” as well as the mesmerizing midtempo “Love Will Find a Way,” co-created with Greg Phillinganes. “Love Will” — sinewy, necessary — tethered Richie’s most buoyantly spectacular songs to the streets.
Aside from that Alabama twang and the infamous Motown polish, Lionel’s other solo songs have their roots not only in hits like the Commodores’ “Three Times a Lady” (recorded in waltz time) but in the masterful escapist pop of the oft-maligned Fifth Dimension (“Up, Up And Away) and the most soaring early hits from Earth, Wind & Fire, like “Fantasy” and “Devotion.”
What is the exquisite Commodores’ ballad “Zoom” (co-written by Richie and bassist Ronald LaPread) but a mourning and a yearning for flight toward a place of less pain? That “mighty glad you stayed” lifts “Stuck on You” from merely plaintive to trembling with humility. It’s the line everyone was waiting for at the Wynn’s Encore. People crave permission to say stuff like that, let alone sing it. And that’s what Richie, even now, still gives. If that’s not soul or blues, I’m not sure what is. Country music royalty Kenny Rogers knew: “Lady,” which Richie wrote for the Commodores, went to Rogers in 1980, and then straight to No. 1 on the pop charts.
That some of Richie’s songs are still mocked as devoid of soul reeks of a nudge to stay in the “R&B” (or even country) lane — when all of these lanes were invented to segregate sales charts, radio stations and record stores. To those who say (or used to say) that Richie “sold out” or that he’s “gushy” or, like folks said about him when I was in my teens, that he is “soft” — I say Lionel’s a rebel. He did and continues to do what the hell he wants to do.
Because “Can’t Slow Down” was a vibe shift. A precursor to the relentless and record-breaking popularity of Whitney Houston, Janet Jackson and Mariah Carey. Of MC Hammer and Boyz II Men. Lionel is not only well-aware of the pressures that come with changing a culture, he’s brokenhearted about how brutal the road is toward winning the game.
“I always,” he says, with the stiff guilt of survivors, “used to tease Michael and Prince and Whitney. Said, ‘OK, you guys are the hares, I’m the tortoise.’” Richie is almost back at the water fountain, eyes a-glisten with memory. “Father, help your children,” Richie sings on his “Jesus Is Love.” “Don’t let them fall by the side of the road.”
“And all of a sudden, I get a note from the frontline — ‘One of the hares fell before the finish line. The next hare tripped and fell before the finish line. Third hare — tripped and fell before the finish line.’”
HE WANTED HIS DAUGHTER NICOLE’S CHILDREN — Sparrow, 12, and Harlow, 14 — to call him G-Dad. But as Richie has said, the kids get to pick what they call you. So at the Wynn, Pop-Pop Lionel gives us old heads a proper thrill. Or perhaps just proof that we were once wild and young and deeply into the idea that music can solve hard things.
“All Night Long” is Richie’s encore, but “We Are The World” is the penultimate song of the night. And unlike some of his other hits, which he jogged through, Richie slows the tempo of “World.” Each line rings like a recitation. “There comes a time / When we heed a certain call / When the world must come together as one / There are people dying / Oh, and it’s time to lend a hand / To life / The greatest gift of all.”
Most people are singing along with Richie. But the lyrics feel more like a challenge than a call to love your neighbor. There’s a crackly undercurrent in the concert hall. Folks who have been grooving all night to Lionel’s every hit and every joke seem to wonder just where he is going with all this we-are-the-world business. Lionel, though, sings it out long and true. Such are our times that a huge hit calling for camaraderie and giving can ring like a revolutionary anthem.
Back at the Peninsula, I tell Lionel Richie that even with all of his awards and accolades, and even as beloved as he is as an “Idol” judge, things are not as they should be. I don’t like the tone many have taken about his work. But Richie is not entertaining my notions. He starts talking again about the Tuskegee Airmen.
“The United States didn’t send them a plane to practice in,” Richie says without rancor. “They had to build planes to practice in. People say, ‘Lionel, how does it feel being the first Black person to write a song for Kenny Rogers?’ No, no, no, no. There’s a guy named [Otis] Blackwell who wrote the records for Elvis Presley.” Otis Blackwell, a Black man from Brooklyn, wrote “All Shook Up,” “Don’t Be Cruel” and “Return to Sender.”
Lionel continues: “Elvis said, ‘Thank you very much.’ And Kenny Rogers said, ‘I couldn’t have done it without my friend Lionel Richie.’ What I’m saying to you is, I got the credit. How I look at this is, I stepped on the shoulders of those people who basically were invisible in American history. I came out of Tuskegee and made it. That’s my job,” says Richie. “That’s my job.”
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Sofia Richie and Nicole Richie showed support for their dad, Lionel Richie, at his final Sing A Song All Night Long tour stop, which included special guests Earth, Wind and Fire.
The sisters took to Instagram to post about the event. Sofia, 25, and Nicole, 41, stood to the right of the stage at the Kia Forum in Los Angeles on Friday, September 15, screaming their dad’s name as he sang to the crowd and periodically leaned over the side of the stage to wave at his two girls.
Lionel, 74, posted the adorable video of his daughters to his Instagram account, captioning it: “Take your Kids to Work Day turned out well… 😂”
During the concert, Lionel performed several of his greatest hits for fans, including “Endless Love,” “Hello” and “Stuck On You.”
Sofia wore a vintage Lionel T-shirt for the event, while Nicole opted for a simple black tank top which she accessorized with gold jewelry.
Jimmy Kimmel, Magic Johnson and former Major League Baseball player Dave Winfield were also in attendance. Lionel posted an Instagram photo of them backstage at the concert with the caption: “Starting a band…😂”.
It’s no surprise that Nicole and Sofia were on hand to celebrate their dad as the two sisters have maintained a close relationship over the years. Nicole, who was adopted by Lionel and then-wife Brenda Harvey when she was 9 years old, served as the Maid of Honor at Sofia’s lavish April wedding to music executive Elliot Grainge in the South of France.
To commemorate the occasion, Nicole posted a photo of herself kneeling at Sofia’s feet in her wedding dress with the caption: “I love you more than anything,” followed by a white heart and bride emoji.
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Here’s everything you need to know about Richie’s girlfriend of a decade.
What nationality is Lisa Parigi?
According to People, Parigi was born and raised in Switzerland. She has Caribbean, Swiss and Chinese roots. In her Instagram bio, her name includes the Chinese word 陳, which could be her Chinese last name, though this hasn’t been confirmed.
She also reportedly speaks four languages: German, Swiss German, French and English.
She is a model-turned-entrepreneur
Per Harper’s Bazaar Arabia, Parigi began her career in the corporate world before switching to modelling, and now works as an entrepreneur.
Per People, she is the founder and CEO of a lifestyle brand called The Estate Collection, as well as Glow Up Beauty. “Within Glow Up Beauty, I’ve created a lifestyle brand called The Estate Collection, and it’s driven obviously by beauty products,” she told Harper’s Bazaar Arabia. “One of my favourites is the under-eye collagen mask, which is inspired by all my travels.”
She has plenty of designer gear
From Chanel and Moon Boot to Chloé and Loewe, Valentino, Isabel Marant, Gucci and more, Richie’s girlfriend isn’t afraid to flaunt luxury fashion on her outings.
How did Lisa Parigi meet Lionel Richie?
Parigi offered a glimpse into her love story with Richie while speaking to Harper’s Bazaar Arabia. She said that she was travelling in Los Angeles when she got invited to a dinner “on very short notice, completely unplanned”.
“So here I am at this dinner, he was at the same dinner, we get introduced to each other, and it was … very organic and very random,” she said. “We had great conversations, we spoke all night long about everything. It was … the universe, I don’t know. Here we are. And it’s been beautiful so far.”
How many marriages has Lionel Richie had?
Richie has been married twice in his lifetime. He tied the knot with Brenda Harvey in 1975 and they were together for 18 years until 1993. Richie then got married to Diane Alexander in 1995 before they split up in 2004.
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Lionel Richie [1]1949—Pop singer, songwriterThe ballads written and sung by Lionel Richie [2], both as part of the group the Commodores and during an impressive solo career, formed a soundtrack for countless American romances in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
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Lionel Richie
Pop singer, songwriter
For the Record…
Selected discography
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Lionel Richie “now stands at the pinnacle of pop music, recognized around the world as the most successful singer/songwriter working today,” Charles Whitaker announced in a 1987 Ebony article. “His string of nine No. 1 hits,” Whitaker continued, “in nine consecutive years, is a music business record.” Richie began as a lead singer with the Commodores, a funk/pop group that came to the attention of music fans in the early 1970s, and started forging his distinguished solo career in 1982. Since that time he has garnered many awards, including three Grammys, several American Music Awards, and a 1986 Oscar for Best Original Song with his hit theme to the film White Knights, “Say You, Say Me.”
Richie was born in Tuskegee, Alabama. His mother and father, a school principal and a systems analyst for the U.S. Army, respectively, lived on the campus of Tuskegee Institute (now Tuskegee University), where his grandfather had worked with the college’s founder, black leader Booker T. Washington. As a child, Richie was exposed to many different kinds of music, particularly by his maternal grandmother, Adlaide Foster, who taught him piano and preferred classical composers such as Johann Sebastian Bach and Ludwig van Beethoven. Even then, Richie showed signs of the talent he would later become, though his grandmother did not then appreciate this fact: “During my lessons,” Richie recalled for Todd Gold in People, “I kept trying to make up my own songs, and it annoyed her.” The fledgling artist was also influenced by the ballets and symphonies he attended at Tuskegee, but he preferred listening to gospel, rhythm and blues, and country.
Richie eventually enrolled in Tuskegee Institute; his initial goal was to become an Episcopal priest. He brought with him a saxophone that an uncle had given him as a child, though he did not know how to play it—according to Gold, “he thought it would help him meet girls.” Regardless, it helped Richie to meet five other Tuskegee freshmen who were forming a musical group and sought him out because they heard he had a saxophone. Apparently, Richie’s lack of prowess on the instrument proved no obstacle—he told Robert E. Johnson in Ebony that the men who would later become the Commodores “took … two years to find out that I’d had no training on the sax.” While Richie and the group practiced, aspiring to, as he put it for interviewer Lynn Van Matre of the Chicago Tribune, “revolutionize the music business,” or “come out with a new sound, you know, and kill them,” he also gave up his clerical ambitions in favor of an economics major and an accounting minor, which helped both the Commodores and himself in later business dealings.
For the Record…
Full name, Lionel B. Richie, Jr.; born c. 1949, in Tuskegee, Ala.; son of Lionel, Sr. (a systems analyst) and Alberta (a school principal) Richie; married Brenda Harvey (a musical production assistant), 1975. Education: Graduated from Tuskegee Institute (now Tuskegee University), 1974.
Joined musical group the Commodores while in college; left group to become solo recording artist and concert performer, 1982. Has written songs and produced records for other performers, including Kenny Rogers.
Awards: Winner of three Grammy Awards; six American Music Awards; two American Black Achievement Awards from Ebony magazine and one People’s Choice Award; Academy Award for best original song in a motion picture (White Knights), 1986, for “Say You, Say Me.”
Addresses: Residence —Beverly Hills, Calif. ; and Tuskegee, Ala. Office-— 1112 N. Sherbourne Dr., Los Angeles, CA 90069.
The Commodores first began to gather a following when they won the opportunity to open for the Jackson Five’s concerts in the early 1970s. Around the same time, they signed a contract with Motown Records, and after a two-year period of searching for the right producer and arranger, began to put out albums. At first the Commodores gained a reputation for party and dance music with disco-oriented hits like the instrumental “Machine Gun,” and the song responsible for the dance craze of the same name, “Bump.” Another of their most popular singles was “Brickhouse.”
But by the mid-1970s, most of the Commodores, including Richie, started to feel that funky dance tunes were too ephemeral. They wanted to move towards writing and recording ballads, which they thought more likely to become timeless standards. In the same period, Richie worked more intensely on his songwriting skills than previously. The Commodores’ 1975 album Caught in the Act contained their first ballad hits, “Sweet Love,” and “Just to Be Close to You.” They followed these up with more slow songs, which gained popularity in large measure due to Richie’s romantic lyrics and smooth singing voice. “Easy,” “Three Times a Lady,” “Sail On,” and “Still” confirmed Richie and the Commodores’ change of style.
Richie was already working on other projects in 1980, including producing an album and writing the song “Lady” for country artist Kenny Rogers. In 1982 Richie decided to leave the Commodores to pursue a solo career, though his decision was not due to conflicts within the group. His first album on his own, Lionel Richie, gained him a hit with “Truly,” which also won him his first Grammy, as Best Male Vocalist, in 1983. His string of hits, some of which helped Richie earn his music business record, includes 1983’s “All Night Long,” “Penny Lover,” and “Hello” ; and 1987’s “Dancing on the Ceiling.” Richie has also had great success with film themes such as “Endless Love” and the Oscar-winning “Say You, Say Me.” Perhaps his most far-reaching and influential musical project, however, was the song “We Are the World,” which Richie co-wrote with pop superstar Michael Jackson. The disc was recorded by U.S.A. for Africa, and its profits were donated to the cause of famine relief in Ethiopia.
Richie believes his success as a songwriter comes from God, whom he told Johnson was his “co-composer.” He explained further: “I give credit to my co-writer because all I did was write down what He told me to write down.” Richie also revealed to Johnson that he prefers to collaborate during the night. “In other words,” he said, “from about eleven to about seven in the morning is a very wonderful time because… God ain’t worried with too many other folks… I know He is very busy during the day, so I wait for late night, and it works for me.”
Regardless of the authorship of Richie’s songs, along with the phenomenal mainstream popularity that he enjoys come accusations from some critics that he has abandoned his black musical roots, especially after the hit he recorded with the country group Alabama, “Deep River Woman.” Richie responded to this issue for Whitaker in Ebony: “I’m trying through my music to break the stereotype that says to satisfy Black people you have to play something funky. I’m broadening the base, trying to show that Black artists are capable of playing all kinds of music.”
Selected discography
With the Commodores; on Motown
Machine Gun (includes “Machine Gun” and “Bump”), 1974.
Caught in the Act (includes “Zoom,” “Sweet Love,” and “Just to Be Close to You”), 1975.
Commodores (includes “Easy” and “Three Times a Lady”), 1977 .
Midnight Magic (includes “Sail On” and “Still”), 1979.
Heroes (includes “Jesus is Love,” “Got to Be Together,” and “An Old-Fashioned Love”), 1980.
Also recorded the song “Brickhouse.”
Solo LPs; on Motown
Lionel Richie (includes “Truly,” “You Are,” and “My Love”), 1982.
Can’t Slow Down (includes “All Night Long” and “Penny Lover”), 1983.
Say You, Say Me (includes “Say You, Say Me”), 1986. Dancing on the Ceiling (includes “Dancing on the Ceiling”), 1987.
Also recorded the song “Deep River Woman” with Alabama; also co-wrote “We Are the World.”
Sources
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Chicago Tribune, December 12, 1982.
Ebony, January, 1985; February 1987.
Jet, April 21, 1986; August 15, 1988.
People, April 14, 1986.
—Elizabeth Thomas
Lionel Richie 1949–
Pop recording artist and songwriter
Joined Group at Tuskegee
Grouped Moved Toward Ballads
Composed “We Are The World”
Selected discography
Sources
The ballads written and sung by Lionel Richie, both as part of the group the Commodores and during an impressive solo career, formed a soundtrack for countless American romances in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Richie achieved a string of successes matched by few other popular songwriters, with his compositions rising to the Number One position on the U.S. pop singles chart at least once in every year between 1977 and 1985. The most successful interpreter of Richie’s songs was Richie himself, and for a quarter century the quintessential romantic balladeer has touched Americans of all races and all walks of life.
Richie’s musical personality was formed at one of African America’s crucial intellectual sites: Alabama’s Tuskegee Institute (now Tuskegee University). He was born on June 20, 1949, and his childhood home was actually on the school’s campus, where his father, a U.S. Army systems analyst, lived with his mother, an educator who later became a school principal. Richie’s musical education drew on the diverse sonic streams that passed through Tuskegee. His maternal grandmother favored classical music and reacted coolly to her grandson’s first forays into pop songwriting. Northern black pop and southern soul found their ways to Tuskegee. Hoping at one point to become an Episcopal minister, Richie gravitated toward gospel music. He was also influenced by another tradition whose reach among African Americans is sometimes underestimated: “Because it was the South, it was hard not to hear country music,” he was quoted as saying in the Encyclopedia of Pop, Rock & Soul.
Joined Group at Tuskegee
Enrolling at Tuskegee himself, Richie joined forces with a group of other students he met at a talent show; the attraction for the others was that Richie owned a saxophone. Richie, for his own part, was successful in concealing the fact that he barely knew how to play it. A gifted musician who had taught himself to play the piano by ear, Richie made rapid strides as a performer and composer at Tuskegee. The group, first called the Mystics, became the Commodores after the word was picked at random out of a dictionary. Richie discarded his religious ambitions in favor of courses in economics and accounting that proved ideal training for a career in the financially cutthroat music business.
The Commodores struggled for a time, gaining fans across Alabama but losing all their equipment to van
At a Glance…
Born Lionel B. Richie Jr., on June 20, 1949, in Tuskegee, Alabama; son of Lionel Richie Sr., a systems analyst, and Alberta Richie, an educator; married Brenda Harvey, a musical production assistant, 1975 (divorced); one daughter, Nicole; married, Diane Alexander, a clothing designer, 1996; one son, Miles, and one daughter, Sofia. Education: Graduated from Tuskegee Institute, Tuskegee, AL, 1974.
Career: Vocalist and songwriter. Joined group the Commodores while in college; group signed to Motown Records, early 1970s; released debut recording Machine Gun, 1974; recorded platinum-selling ballad “Three Times a Lady,” 1978; numerous other hits with Commodores, 1970s; began solo production work and composition for other artists, late 1970s; released solo debut album on Motown, Lionel Richie, 1982; four top-selling solo albums for Motown; co-composed and recorded “We Are the World” African famine relief recording, 1985; released Louder than Words album on Mercury label, 1996; released Time album, 1998.
Selected awards Three platinum albums; four gold albums; 18 Grammy nominations and four awards; 12 American Music Awards; five People’s Choice Awards for Best Song; numerous other industry awards; Academy Award, “Say You, Say Me”, 1986; honorary doctorate, Tuskegee University, 1986.
Addresses: Publicist —Rogers & Cowan, 475 Park Ave., 32nd floor, New York, NY 10016.
thieves on a 1969 trip to New York. But they bounced back, landing a series of club appearances and signing on with a manager, Benny Ashburn, who would stay with them until his death during Richie’s years of solo stardom. Signing briefly to the Atlantic record label they went nowhere, but when they attracted the attention of Motown Records executive Suzanne de Passe in 1971, they gained wide exposure when she slated them as the opening act for many of the tours of that label’s family-act dynamo, the Jackson Five.
Grouped Moved Toward Ballads
The heavy funk sound of the Commodores did not fit the polished, smoothed Motown mold, however, and the group’s first record for the label, Machine Gun, was not released until 1974. That album and successors performed solidly, and the group broke through to the pop Top Ten with the ballad “Sweet Love” in 1976. That song, a Richie composition, also marked a new direction musically for the group. Although earlier singles such as 1975’s “Slippery When Wet” had been primarily dance-oriented, the group came to believe that the secret to long-lasting success lay in the cultivation of romantic balladry. “Sweet Love” proved only the first of a series of romantic numbers from Richie’s pen: “Just to Be Close to You” and “Easy” rose into the pop Top Ten.
Most successful of all was 1978’s “Three Times a Lady,” whose waltz tempo perhaps showed the influence of the country music Richie had heard as a young man. That song, a feature of weddings for years to come, achieved platinum status for sales of one million copies, as did the album, Natural High, from which it was taken. The song propelled the Commodores and the increasingly dominant Richie to national stardom. The Commodores enjoyed a string of hits between 1978 and 1981, and no ill will arose between the group members. But Richie found himself in demand for his own creative talents alone. He wrote and produced “Lady” for pop superstar Kenny Rogers in 1980, and followed it up with “Endless Love,” a duet he recorded with Diana Ross. These songs remained atop the U.S. pop charts for six and nine weeks respectively.
Whether recorded with the Commodores, by other artists, or on his own, Richie’s ballads were instantly identifiable. Simple and seemingly inevitable in their gentle progressions, they noted Richie’s considerable craft as a songwriter. Richie played to his strengths on his debut solo album, Lionel Richie, which was released in 1982. Its hit singles “Truly” and “You Are” closely followed the style of the Commodores’ chart successes.
Composed “We Are The World”
Richie’s second and third solo albums, 1983’s Can’t Slow Down and 1986’s Dancing on the Ceiling, broadened his reach. “All Night Long,” the lead single from Can’t Slow Down, was an upbeat, tropical-flavored dance piece that resembled none of the leading R&B, disco, and funk dance styles of the time. These albums were among the biggest successes of the 1980s, and Can’t Slow Down was claimed to be the best-selling release in the history of the Motown label. Gaining Richie even more acclaim and publicity than any of his solo efforts, though, was the all-star recording “We Are the World,” which he co-composed with fellow pop superstar Michael Jackson and recorded with an all-star lineup of artists. Profits from sales and performances of the song went toward African famine relief.
By the late 1980s, Richie had few worlds left to conquer. He continued to enter into collaborative efforts, winning an Academy Award for Best Song and notching yet another Number One single for the song “Say You, Say Me” from the film White Nights. He tapped the country vein yet again in a recording he composed for and performed with the country group Alabama, “Deep River Woman.” In 1992 Richie released the Back to Front greatest-hits package; it included “Do It to Me,” a new song that once again topped the charts. Richie moved to the Mercury label in the 1990s, releasing the modestly successful Louder Than Words (1996) and Time (1998); these discs largely avoided any updating of Richie’s sound with contemporary hip-hop influences. In the year 2000 Richie raised his profile somewhat when he appeared as the opening act on the farewell tour of soul superstar Tina Turner, and planned a new release, Renaissance, that featured the teen-oriented Backstreet Boys.
Selected discography
Lionel Richie, Motown, 1982.
Can’t Slow Down, Motown, 1983.
Dancing on the Ceiling, Motown, 1986.
Back to Front, Motown, 1992.
Louder than Words, Mercury, 1996.
Time, Mercury, 1998.
Renaissance, 2000.
Sources
Books
Contemporary Musicians, volume 2, Gale, 1990.
Larkin, Colin, ed., The Encyclopedia of Popular Music, Muze UK, 1998.
Romanowski, Patricia, and Holly George-Warren, The New Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock and Roll, Fireside, 1995.
Stambler, Irwin, The Encyclopedia of Pop, Rock & Soul, St. Martin’s, 1989.
Periodicals
Entertainment Weekly, April 21, 2000, p. 75.
Jet, August 30, 1999, p. 32.
—James M. Manheim
Lionel Richie
1949—
Pop singer, songwriter
The ballads written and sung by Lionel Richie, both as part of the group the Commodores and during an impressive solo career, formed a soundtrack for countless American romances in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Richie achieved a string of successes matched by few other popular songwriters, with his compositions rising to the number-one position on the U.S. pop singles chart at least once in every year between 1977 and 1985. The most successful interpreter of Richie's songs continues to be Richie himself, and for more than a quarter-century the quintessential romantic balladeer has touched Americans of all races and walks of life.
Richie's musical personality was formed at one of the crucial intellectual sites for African Americans: the Tuskegee Institute (now Tuskegee University) in Alabama. He was born on June 20, 1949, and his childhood home was actually on the school's campus, where his father, a U.S. Army systems analyst, lived with his mother, an educator who later became a school principal. Richie's musical education drew on the diverse sonic streams that passed through Tuskegee. His maternal grandmother favored classical music and reacted coolly to her grandson's first forays into pop songwriting. Northern African-American pop and southern soul found their ways to Tuskegee. Hoping at one point to become an Episcopal minister, Richie gravitated toward gospel music. He was also influenced by another tradition whose reach among African Americans is sometimes underestimated: "Because it was the South, it was hard not to hear country music," he was quoted as saying by Irwin Stambler in the Encyclopedia of Pop, Rock, and Soul.
Joined Group at Tuskegee
Enrolling at Tuskegee himself, Richie joined forces with a group of other students he met at a talent show; the attraction for the others was that Richie owned a saxophone. Richie, for his own part, was successful in concealing the fact that he barely knew how to play it. A gifted musician who had taught himself to play the piano by ear, Richie made rapid strides as a performer and composer at Tuskegee. The group, first called the Mystics, became the Commodores after the word was picked at random out of a dictionary. Richie discarded his religious ambitions in favor of courses in economics and accounting that proved ideal training for a career in the financially cutthroat music business.
The Commodores struggled for a time, gaining fans across Alabama but losing all their equipment to van thieves on a 1969 trip to New York. Regardless, they bounced back, landing a series of club appearances and signing on with a manager, Benny Ashburn, who would stay with them until his death during Richie's years of solo stardom. Signing briefly to the Atlantic record label, they went nowhere, but when they attracted the attention of Motown Records executive Suzanne de Passe in 1971, they gained wide exposure when she slated them as the opening act for many of the tours of that label's brother-act dynamo: the Jackson Five.
The heavy funk sound of the Commodores did not fit the polished, smoothed Motown mold, however, and the group's first record for the label, Machine Gun, was not released until 1974. That album and successors performed solidly, and the group broke through to the pop Top Ten with the ballad "Sweet Love" in 1976. This song, a Richie composition, also marked a new direction musically for the group. Even though earlier singles such as 1975's "Slippery When Wet" had been primarily dance-oriented, the group came to believe that the secret to long-lasting success lay in the cultivation of romantic balladry. "Sweet Love" proved only the first of a series of romantic numbers from Richie's pen: "Just to Be Close to You" and "Easy" rose into the pop Top Ten.
Most successful of all was 1978's "Three Times a Lady," whose waltz tempo perhaps showed the influence of the country music Richie had heard as a young man. This song, a feature of weddings for years to come, achieved platinum status for sales of one million copies, as did the album Natural High, from which it was taken. The song propelled the Commodores and the increasingly dominant Richie to national stardom. The Commodores enjoyed a string of hits between 1978 and 1981, and no ill will arose between the group members. But Richie found himself in demand for his own creative talents alone. He wrote and produced "Lady" for pop superstar Kenny Rogers in 1980, and followed it up with "Endless Love," a duet he recorded with Diana Ross. These songs remained atop the U.S. pop charts for six and nine weeks, respectively.
Whether recorded with the Commodores, by other artists, or on his own, Richie's ballads were instantly identifiable. Simple and seemingly inevitable in their gentle progressions, they hide Richie's considerable craft as a songwriter. For his own part, Richie credited God as his "co-composer" in an interview with Ebony writer Robert E. Johnson quoted in Contemporary Musicians. Richie played to his strengths on his debut solo album, Lionel Richie, which was released in 1982. Its hit singles "Truly" and "You Are" closely followed the style of the Commodores' chart successes.
Co-composed "We Are the World"
Richie's second and third solo albums, 1983's Can't Slow Down and 1986's Dancing on the Ceiling, broadened his reach. "All Night Long," the lead single from Can't Slow Down, was an upbeat, tropical-flavored dance piece that resembled none of the leading rhythm and blues (R&B), disco, and funk dance styles of the time. These albums were among the biggest successes of the 1980s, and Can't Slow Down was claimed to be the best-selling release in the history of the Motown label. Gaining Richie even more acclaim and publicity than any of his solo efforts, though, was the all-star recording "We Are the World," which he co-composed with fellow pop superstar Michael Jackson and recorded with an all-star lineup of artists. Profits from sales and performances of the song went toward African famine relief.
At a Glance …
Born Lionel B. Richie Jr. on June 20, 1949, in Tuskegee, AL; son of Lionel Sr. and Alberta Richie; married Brenda Harvey, 1975 (divorced); married Diane Alexander, 1996 (divorced); children: (with Harvey) Nicole; (with Alexander) Miles, Sofia. Education: Graduated from Tuskegee Institute, 1974.
Career: Joined the Commodores while in college; began solo production work and composition for other artists, late 1970s—; co-composed and recorded "We Are the World," 1985.
Awards: Selected Awards: Three platinum albums; four gold albums; eighteen Grammy Award nominations and four awards; twelve American Music Awards; five People's Choice Awards for Best Song; numerous other industry awards; Academy Award, "Say You, Say Me," 1986; honorary doctorate, Tuskegee University, 1986.
Addresses: Web—http://www6.islandrecords.com/site/artist_home.php?artist_id=342.
By the late 1980s, Richie had few worlds left to conquer. He continued to enter into collaborative efforts, winning an Academy Award for Best Song and notching yet another number-one single for the song "Say You, Say Me" from the film White Nights. He tapped the country music vein yet again in a recording he composed for and performed with the country group Alabama, "Deep River Woman."
In 1992 Richie released the Back to Front greatest-hits package; it included "Do It to Me," a new song that once again topped the charts. Richie moved to the Mercury label in the 1990s, releasing the modestly successful Louder Than Words (1996) and Time (1998); these discs largely avoided any updating of Richie's sound with contemporary hip-hop influences. In 2000 Richie raised his profile somewhat when he appeared as the opening act on the farewell tour of soul superstar Tina Turner, and planned a new release, Renaissance, that featured the teen-oriented Backstreet Boys.
Continued Being Successful, Despite Family Issues
In 2003 Richie's second wife, Diane, filed for divorce after nearly seven years of marriage. According to CNN, Diane was seeking financial support in keeping with the couple's previously extravagant lifestyle, which included spending as much as $300,000 per month. In official documents released to the court, Diane claimed that she spent as much as $15,000 per month on clothing and $20,000 per year on cosmetic surgery. Shortly after their divorce, Diane and her alleged lover, Daniel Serrano, were accused of using Diane's house to perform illegal plastic surgery procedures involving an injection that was purported to ease the signs of aging. Diane was arrested and charged with two counts of aiding and abetting.
After 2003, Richie's adopted daughter from his first marriage, Nicole Richie, began gaining fame of her own largely owing to her association with Paris Hilton and appearance on the reality television series The Simple Life. Nicole's celebrity life was tumultuous, including a widely publicized arrest for possession of heroin in 2003 and a second arrest in 2006 for driving under the influence of alcohol. In addition, after 2006, a number of tabloid journalists speculated that she had developed an eating disorder. Nicole's various problems soon brought Richie's family life into question, and he appeared in numerous interviews defending his daughter's behavior and expressing his hope that she would find a solution to her problems. Richie expressed his regret at not having been a better father, owing to his busy work schedule, but affirmed his intention to help his daughter in whatever way he could.
Richie's 2006 album, Coming Home, marked a turning point in his career, as the album was his most popular in more than a decade and debuted at number six in Billboard's top two hundred album rankings. Richie conducted an extensive publicity tour that was followed by a series of concerts in small venues across the United States. With an increasing base of fans and a number-one ranked single, "I Call It Love," Richie was asked to perform at the 2007 Grammy Awards. Richie's 2007 concert series featured songs from the span of his solo career blended with new compositions and classics from his time with the Commodores.
As he neared sixty, Richie had cemented his place as one of the premier R&B artists of his generation. Though his recent life has been filled as much with family strife as with professional success, he continues to be a force in the music industry, by blending his R&B roots with the popular music of a new generation. In a 2006 interview with National Public Radio's Tony Cox, Richie reflected on his career, "It's not where you've been, it's where you're going…. We start out with nothing, then the rest of it in-between is, who did you touch, how did you affect them, and what memories do they have of you?"
Selected discography
Albums
Lionel Richie, Motown, 1982.
Can't Slow Down, Motown, 1983.
Dancing on the Ceiling, Motown, 1986.
Back to Front, Motown, 1992.
Louder than Words, Mercury, 1996.
Time, Mercury, 1998.
Renaissance, 2000.
Sources
Books
Contemporary Musicians, Volume 2, Gale, 1990.
Larkin, Colin, ed., The Encyclopedia of Popular Music, Muze UK, 1998.
Romanowski, Patricia, and Holly George-Warren, The New Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock and Roll, Fireside, 1995.
Stambler, Irwin, The Encyclopedia of Pop, Rock, and Soul, St. Martin's, 1989.
Periodicals
Entertainment Weekly, April 21, 2000, p. 75.
Jet, August 30, 1999, p. 32.
Oakland Tribune, November 28, 2006.
People, July 20, 1998, p. 39.
San Diego Union Tribune, December 4, 2004.
Online
Cox, Tony, "A Tuneful ‘Coming Home’ for Lionel Richie," National Public Radio,http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6057529 (accessed December 20, 2007).
"Lifestyle of the Richie and Famous," CNN Online,http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/03/03/offbeat.people.richie.reut/index.html (accessed December 20, 2007).
"Lionel Richie: Nicole Made Mistakes," ABC News Online,http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory?id=3445473 (accessed December 20, 2007).
—James M. Manheim and Micah L. Issit
Lionel Richie
Singer, songwriter
The ballads written and sung by Lionel Richie, both as part of the group the Commodores and during an impressive solo career, have formed a soundtrack for countless American romances from the 1970s on. Richie achieved a string of successes matched by few other popular songwriters, with his compositions rising to the number one position on the American pop singles chart at least once in every year between 1977 and 1985. After a recording hiatus of ten years, Richie returned to the national spotlight in the late 1990s with Louder than Words, and was still going strong into the 2000s. The most successful interpreter of Richie's songs is Richie himself, and for a quarter century the quintessential romantic balladeer has touched Americans of all races and all walks of life.
Richie's musical personality was formed at one of African America's crucial intellectual sites: Alabama's Tuskegee Institute (now Tuskegee University). He was born on June 20, 1949, and his childhood home was actually on the school's campus, where his father, a U.S. Army systems analyst, lived with his mother, an educator who later became a school principal. Richie's musical education drew on the diverse sonic streams that passed through Tuskegee. His maternal grandmother favored classical music and reacted coolly to her grandson's first forays into pop songwriting. Northern black pop and southern soul found their ways to Tuskegee. Hoping at one point to become an Episcopal minister, Richie gravitated toward gospel music. He was also influenced by another tradition whose reach among African Americans is sometimes underestimated: "Because it was the South, it was hard not to hear country music," he was quoted as saying in the Encyclopedia of Pop, Rock & Soul.
Joined Group at Tuskegee
Enrolling at Tuskegee himself, Richie joined forces with a group of other students he met at a talent show; the attraction for the others was that Richie owned a saxophone. Richie, for his own part, was successful in concealing the fact that he barely knew how to play it. A gifted musician who had taught himself to play the piano by ear, Richie made rapid strides as a performer and composer at Tuskegee. The group, first called the Mystics, became the Commodores after the word was picked at random out of a dictionary. Richie discarded his religious ambitions in favor of courses in economics and accounting that proved ideal training for a career in the financially cutthroat music business.
The Commodores struggled for a time, gaining fans across Alabama but losing all their equipment to van thieves on a 1969 trip to New York. But they bounced back, landing a series of club appearances and signing on with a manager, Benny Ashburn, who would stay with them until his death during Richie's years of solo stardom. Signing briefly to the Atlantic record label they went nowhere, but when they attracted the attention of Motown Records executive Suzanne de Passe in 1971, they gained wide exposure when she slated them as the opening act for many of the tours of that label's brother-act dynamo, the Jackson Five.
Group Moved Toward Ballad Releases
The heavy funk sound of the Commodores did not fit the polished, smoothed Motown mold, however, and the group's first record for the label, Machine Gun, was not released until 1974. That album and successors performed solidly, and the group broke through to the pop Top Ten with the ballad "Sweet Love" in 1976. That song, a Richie composition, also marked a new direction musically for the group. Although earlier singles such as 1975's "Slippery When Wet" had been primarily dance-oriented, the group came to believe that the secret to long-lasting success lay in the cultivation of romantic balladry. "Sweet Love" proved only the first of a series of romantic numbers from Richie's pen: "Just to Be Close to You" and "Easy" rose into the pop Top Ten.
Most successful of all was 1978's "Three Times a Lady," whose waltz tempo perhaps showed the influence of the country music Richie had heard as a young man. That song, a feature of weddings for years to come, achieved platinum status for sales of one million copies, as did the album, Natural High, from which it was taken. The song propelled the Commodores and the increasingly dominant Richie to national stardom. The Commodores enjoyed a string of hits between 1978 and 1981, and no ill will arose between the group members. But Richie found himself in demand for his own creative talents alone. He wrote and produced "Lady" for pop superstar Kenny Rogers in 1980, and followed it up with "Endless Love," a duet he recorded with Diana Ross. These songs remained atop the American pop charts for six and nine weeks respectively.
Whether recorded with the Commodores, by other artists, or on his own, Richie's ballads were instantly identifiable. Simple and seemingly inevitable in their gentle progressions, they deemphasize Richie's considerable craft as a songwriter. For his own part, Richie credited God as his "co-composer" in an interview with Ebony writer Robert E. Johnson quoted in Contemporary Musicians. Richie played to his strengths on his debut solo album, Lionel Richie, which was released in 1982. Its hit singles "Truly" and "You Are" closely followed the style of the Commodores' chart successes.
For the Record …
Born Lionel B. Richie, Jr., on June 20, 1949, in Tuskegee, AL; son of Lionel Richie Sr., a systems analyst, and Alberta Richie, an educator; married Brenda Harvey, a musical production assistant, 1975 (divorced); married Diane Alexander, a clothing designer, 1996 (divorced, 2003); children: Nicole, Miles, Sofia. Education: Graduated from Tuskegee Institute, Tuskegee, AL, 1974.
Joined group the Commodores while in college; group signed to Motown Records, early 1970s; released debut recording Machine Gun, 1974; recorded platinum-selling ballad "Three Times a Lady," 1978; numerous other hits with Commodores, 1970s; began solo production work and composition for other artists, late 1970s; released solo debut album on Motown, Lionel Richie, 1982; four top-selling solo albums for Motown; co-composed and recorded "We Are the World" African famine relief recording, 1985; released Louder than Words album on Mercury label, 1996; released Time album, 1998; released Renaissance on the Island label, 2001; released Just for You on Island, 2004.
Awards: Grammy Awards, Pop Male Vocal for "Truly," 1992; Album of the Year for Can't Slow Down, 1984; Producer of the Year, Non-Classical, 1984; Song of the Year, for "We Are the World," 1985; many American Music Awards and People's Choice Awards; Oscar Award, Best Original Song for "Say You, Say Me," 1986; honorary doctorate, Tuskegee University, 1986.
Addresses: Record company—Universal Music Group, 2220 Colorado Ave., Santa Monica, CA 90404. Website—Lionel Richie Official Website: http://www. lionelrichie.com/.
Composed "We Are the World"
Richie's second and third solo albums, 1983's Can't Slow Down and 1986's Dancing on the Ceiling, broadened his reach. "All Night Long," the lead single from "Can't Slow Down," was an upbeat, tropical-flavored dance piece that resembled none of the leading R&B, disco, and funk dance styles of the time. These albums were among the biggest successes of the 1980s, and Can't Slow Down was claimed to be the best-selling release in the history of the Motown label. Gaining Richie even more acclaim and publicity than any of his solo efforts, though, was the all-star recording "We Are the World," which he co-composed with fellow pop superstar Michael Jackson and recorded with an all-star lineup of artists. Profits from sales and performances of the song went toward African famine relief. By the late 1980s, Richie had few worlds left to conquer. He continued to enter into collaborative efforts, winning an Academy Award for Best Song and notching yet another Number One single for the song "Say You, Say Me" from the film White Nights. He tapped the country vein yet again in a recording he composed for and performed with the country group Alabama, "Deep River Woman."
In 1992, Richie released the Back to Front greatest-hits package; it included "Do It to Me," a new song that once again topped the charts. Richie moved to the Mercury label in the 1990s, and after a long break from recording, released the modestly successful Louder Than Words (1996) and Time (1998); these discs largely avoided any updating of Richie's sound with contemporary hip-hop influences.
In the year 2000 Richie raised his profile somewhat when he appeared as the opening act on the farewell tour of soul superstar Tina Turner, and penned a new release, 2001's Renaissance, that featured the teen-oriented Backstreet Boys. Richie also found himself in the spotlight in 2003 and 2004 when his daughter, Nicole, starred in the reality television show Simple Life with hotel heiress Paris Hilton. Richie followed his 2001 album Renaissance with a great hits set, The Definitive Collection, in 2003, and in 2004 with Just for You. All Music Guide deemed Just for You one of his better albums of late, calling it "assured and unassuming, relaxed and tuneful."
Selected discography
Solo albums
Lionel Richie, Motown, 1982.
Slow Down, Motown, 1983.
Dancing on the Ceiling, Motown, 1986.
Back to Front, Motown, 1992.
Louder than Words, Mercury, 1996.
Time, Mercury, 1998.
Renaissance, Island, 2001.
The Definitive Collection, Universal, 2003.
Just for You, Island, 2004.
With the Commodores
Machine Gun, Motown, 1974.
Caught in the Act, Motown, 1975.
Movin' On, Motown, 1975.
Hot on the Tracks, Motown, 1976.
Commodores, Motown, 1977.
Commodores Live!, Polygram, 1977.
Natural High, Motown, 1978.
Midnight Magic, Motown, 1979.
Sources
Books
Larkin, Colin, editor, The Encyclopedia of Popular Music, Muze UK, 1998.
Romanowski, Patricia, and Holly George-Warren, The New Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock and Roll, Fireside, 1995.
Stambler, Irwin, The Encyclopedia of Pop, Rock & Soul, St. Martin's, 1989.
Periodicals
Entertainment Weekly, April 21, 2000, p. 75.
Jet, August 30, 1999, p. 32; June 21, 2004, p. 56.
People, July 20, 1998, p. 39.
Online
"The Commodores," All Music Guide,http://www.allmusic.com (July 10, 2004).
"Lionel Richie," All Music Guide,http://www.allmusic.com (July 8, 2004).
—James M. Manheim andMichael Belfiore
LIONEL RICHIE
Born: Tuskegee, Alabama, 20 June 1949
Genre: R&B, Pop
Best-selling album since 1990: Louder Than Words (1996)
Hit songs since 1990: "Do It to Me," "Don't Wanna Lose You"
Agentle romantic crooner, Lionel Richie achieved stardom in the 1980s and early 1990s by applying his wistful vocals to a hit series of tender love songs. Best known for his ballads, Richie also excelled at up-tempo dance numbers that exuded a good-time party atmosphere. With his soft-spoken, conservative manner Richie came across as the romantic guy next door, an every-man who shunned sexual explicitness in favor of love, dedication, and unity. Due to a combination of personal problems and changing trends in popular music, Richie lost his popular foothold as the 1990s progressed, but took steps to regain it near the end of the decade.
Richie was raised on the campus of Alabama's prestigious Tuskegee Institute, where his grandmother gave classes in classical piano and his mother taught elementary school. In the early 1970s, while attending college at Tuskegee, Richie joined the soul and funk group the Commodores, which went on to become one of the most commercially successful groups of the decade. By the end of the 1970s Richie was taking a larger role within the group, writing and singing lead on several of its most popular songs, including "Three Times a Lady" (1978) and "Still" (1979). In 1982 Richie left the Commodores for a solo career and made his career breakthrough with Can't Slow Down (1983), which sold over 10 million copies. On songs like the party anthem "All Night Long (All Night)" and the love ballads "Hello," "Penny Lover," and "Stuck on You," Can't Slow Down perfectly captured the feel-good, upwardly mobile atmosphere of the early 1980s, before AIDS exerted its stranglehold on the nation's consciousness. "Hello," one of the most popular singles of 1984, is a prime example of Richie's greeting-card lyrical approach: "I long to see the sunlight in your hair / And tell you time and time again how much I care."
After a follow-up album, Dancing on the Ceiling (1986), Richie virtually dropped from sight, embroiled in a prolonged divorce from his first wife, Brenda, the muse who inspired some of his most successful songs. Brenda's allegations, which included charges of spousal abuse, flew in the face of Richie's nice-guy image. After additional troubles—throat problems, losing a best friend to AIDS, the death of his father—Richie took a self-imposed hiatus from the music industry in 1987, a break that lasted nearly a decade. He managed to score a final number one rhythm and blues hit in 1992 with "Do It to Me," an energetic midtempo song that recalled the sweet feel of his 1980s hits, but otherwise fell out of the public spotlight.
By the time Richie came back on the scene in 1996, a lot had changed within the music industry. The romantic courtliness informing his best work had fallen out of fashion, giving way to the frank sexual wordplay of artists such as D'Angelo. Seeking to keep his style fresh, Richie released a comeback album, Louder Than Words (1996), that enlisted the services of hot 1990s producers and writers Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds and Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis. Although the years had frayed Richie's smooth baritone, Louder Than Words features several self-penned ballads, including "Nothing Else Matters" and "Don't Wanna Lose You," that capture his former warmth and honesty. On the other hand, critics found the up-tempo "I Wanna Take You Down" to be an awkward attempt at contemporary raunchiness. Singing lines such as, "Let's go deep undercover . . . you choose the style," Richie sounds forced and uncomfortable.
In 1998 Richie released a follow-up album, Time, featuring one of the best ballads of his comeback years, "I Hear Your Voice." Against a lush backdrop of strings and female voices supplying breathy "oohs" and "aahs," Richie emotes over the pain of a lost love: "I thought I'd finally learned to get on with my life / Then it all comes back . . . I hear your voice." Echoing the tactic employed decades earlier on "Still," Richie even speaks the final line, "I hear your voice," in a hushed whisper, a potentially saccharine moment made memorable by Richie's sincerity. In 2001 Richie signed with a new label, Island, and released Renaissance, a collection of mostly up-tempo tracks designed to push him even further in a contemporary direction. Encore, a live album containing new performances of his biggest hits, followed in 2003.
With his heartfelt songs and simple, direct singing, Lionel Richie is a down-to-earth, likable pop star, with the talent to tap into the current of human feeling. Speaking to the Washington Post in 2001, he accurately summarized his appeal: "I write about love. It's the only topic that does not go out of style. . . . I write songs that people can relate to in their everyday lives."
SELECTIVE DISCOGRAPHY:
Lionel Richie (Motown, 1982); Can't Slow Down (Motown, 1983); Dancing on the Ceiling (Motown, 1986); Louder Than Words (Mercury, 1996); Time (Mercury, 1998); Renaissance (Island, 2001); Encore (Universal, 2003).
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Richie, Lionel , composer and performer of romantic ballads; b. Tuskegee, Ala., June 20, 1949. The Commodores , popular soul band of the late 1970s. Membership : Lionel Richie, voc, kybd., sax.; Thomas McClary, gtr. (b. Oct. 6, 1950); Milan Williams, kybd. (b. March 28, 1949); William King, trpt. (b. Jan. 30, 1949); Ronald LaPread, bs. (b. Sept. 4, 1950); Walter “Clyde” Orange, drm. (b.Dec. 10, 1947). J. D. Nicholas (b. Watford, Hereford, England, April 12, 1952) replaced Lionel Richie in 1982.
Starting out as a funk dance band, The Commodores evolved into a highly popular soul band of the late 1970s, based on Lionel Richie’s ingenuous romantic ballads. As Motown Records’ first successful selfcontained band, The Commodores rivaled the popularity of Stevie Wonder as a company act and Earth, Wind and Fire as a soul band. Beginning solo work in 1981 and leaving the band in 1982, Lionel Richie sustained his reputation as a consummate craftsman of mellow yet compelling love ballads, particularly with the 1983 album Can’t Slow Down.
Formed in 1968 at Tuskegee Inst. (now Tuskegee Univ.) in Ala. by the merger of The Mystics and The Jays, the Commodores developed a regional reputation as a funk dance band before moving to N.Y. in 1969. Signed to Atlantic Records for one unsuccessful album, the band switched to Motown in 1971 and toured for the next three years as opening act to The Jackson Five. They scored their first major pop and near-smash R&B hit with Milan Williams’s instrumental “Machine Gun” in 1974.
After Thomas McClary’s funky “Slippery When Wet” hit in 1975, The Commodores began featuring ballads written and sung by Richie, achieving smash pop hits with his “Sweet Love,” “Just to Be Close to You,” and “Easy.” Although their next hits were the funky band compositions “Brick House” and “Too Hot to Handle,” they quickly returned to the ballad format and scored the top pop hit “Three Times a Lady” and the smash pop hits “Sail On” and “Still.” In the Pocket yielded “Lady (You Bring Me Up)” and “Oh No” in 1981, the year Richie began solo work. He wrote the top hit “Lady” and produced Share Your Love for Kenny Rogers; he also wrote and sang in duet with Diana Ross the top hit “Endless Love.”
Lionel Richie left The Commodores in 1982, and was replaced by J. D. Nicholas. They eventually scored a smash hit with a tribute to Marvin Gaye and Jackie Wilson, “Nightshirt,” in 1985. Ron La Pread left after the hit, as had Thomas McClary in 1984. By 1986 the Commodores had switched to Polydor Records. In the 1990s, with William King, J. D. Nicholas, and Walter Orange as mainstays, The Commodores recorded for Commodores Records.
In the meantime, Lionel Richie’s debut album yielded the three smash hits “Truly,” “You Are,” and “My Love.” His second album, Can’t Slow Down, included the two top hits “All Night Long (All Night)” and “Hello,” plus the smash hits “Running with the Night,” “Stuck on You,” and “Penny Lover.” In early 1985 Richie cowrote with Michael Jackson the “We Are the World” single, recorded by scores of popular artists, which raised more than $50 million for famine relief in Africa. His next album produced six hits: the top “Say You, Say Me” (from the movie White Nights), the smashes “Dancing on the Ceiling,” “Love Will Conquer All,” and “Ballerina Girl,” plus the major “Deep River Woman” (with the country group Alabama) and “Se La.” Beset by personal problems, Richie withdrew from recording and performing in the late 1980s, eventually reemerging with Back to Front, the hit “Do It to Me,” and a world tour in 1992. However, he failed to produce a follow-up to this album as of 1995.
Discography
THE COMMODORES : Machine Gun (1974); Caught in the Act (1975); Movin’ On (1975); Hot on the Tracks (1976); The Commodores (1977); Live! (1977); Natural High (1978); Greatest Hits (1978); Midnight Magic (1979); Natural High/Midnight Magic (1986); Heroes (1980); Heroes/The Commodores (1986); In the Pocket (1981); All the Great Hits (1982); Anthology (1983); 13 (1983); Nightshift (1985); Best (1995); United (1986); Rock Solid (1988). LIONEL RICHIE : L. R. (1982); Can’t Slow Down (1983); Dancing on the Ceiling (1986); Back to Front (1992).
Bibliography
D. Nathan, L. R.: An Illustrated Biography (London, 1985).
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Singer, songwriter and record producer, Lionel Richie, has had an iconic and legendary career spanning over 50 years. Lionel first rose to fame as a member of the 1970's group, The Commodores, before taking on a successful solo career earning him 100+ million records sold and 32 GRAMMY nominations with 4 wins. Nowadays, when Lionel isn't sitting as a judge on American Idol, you can catch him touring across the world or at his Las Vegas residency at the Wynn, performing hits like "Hello", "All Night Long" and "Dancing On The Ceiling".
My role:
Responsible for managing and developing the overall brand image and business ventures for Lionel Richie brand's. My primary goal was to maximize value and maintain Lionel's reputation while building a strong and authentic brand that resonated with his fans. My day-to-day included:
Social media- Managing Lionel's social media accounts and online presence to capture content, promote Lionel's endeavors and engage with fans across the globe. Developed strategies and sourced content while leveraging digital platforms for community building.
Public relations- Contributing to Lionel's public image and media relations management. This includes coordinating interviews, photoshoots, press releases, appearances, performances and other public events.
Brand strategy- Developing and implementing a comprehensive brand strategy for Lionel's brand, including defining our brand positioning, target audience, and key messaging.
Endorsements and partnerships- Identifying and securing endorsement deals, sponsorships, and brand partnerships that align with Lionel's brand image and values. Negotiating contracts and managing/maintaining relationships with our partners.
Business development- Identified and explored new business opportunities and revenue streams for LR brands, such as collaborations, merchandise and licensing deals. This involved product conception and design, evaluating potential partnerships and managing contracts.
Team coordination- Collaborated with a team of publicists, agents, managers, creatives and legal advisors, to ensure brand consistency and alignment across all aspects of Lionel's career and digital presence.
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Early Life[]
Richie was born in Tuskegee, Alabama, U.S. His father was a U.S. Army systems analyst, and his mother was a teacher who later became a school principal. For most of his childhood, Richie lived in the home of his maternal grandparents, virtually on the campus of the historic Tuskegee Institute (now Tuskegee University). His grandmother was a classical pianist, and through her he was introduced to the fundamentals of music as well as to the great composers of the classical tradition. His uncle, a big-band jazz musician and arranger, gave him his first saxophone. Initially, Richie gravitated toward gospel music, largely because he was interested in becoming a minister, but he readily absorbed musical influences from various African American popular styles as well as from country music, which permeated the American South.
Richie would soon move with his family to Illinois, where he attended Joliet East High School. After graduating in 1967, he returned to Alabama to study economics and accounting at the Tuskegee Institute. During his first year there, he joined a campus band, the Mystics, as a saxophonist, composer, and, occasionally, singer. With some personnel changes in 1968, the Mystics became the funk and rhythm-and-blues group the Commodores, with Richie as a lead vocalist.
Career[]
Career with The Commodores[]
Richie joined the Commodores, who went on to become the most successful act on the Motown label during the latter half of the '70s. Richie served as a saxophonist, sometime-vocalist, and songwriter, penning ballads like "Easy," "Three Times a Lady," and "Still" (the latter two became the group's only number one pop hits). Although the Commodores maintained a democratic band structure through most of their chart run, things began to change when the '70s became the '80s. In 1980, Richie wrote and produced country-pop singer Kenny Rogers' across-the-board number one smash "Lady," and the following year, Richie's duet with Diana Ross, "Endless Love" (recorded for the Brooke Shields film of the same title), became the most successful single in Motown history, topping the charts for a stunning nine weeks. With the media's attention now focused exclusively on Richie, tensions within the Commodores began to mount, and before the end of 1981, Richie decided to embark on a solo career.
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He immediately set about recording his solo debut for Motown. Titled simply Lionel Richie, the album was released in late 1982 and was an immediate smash, reaching number three on the pop charts on its way to multi-platinum status. It spun off three Top Five pop hits, including the first single, "Truly," which became Richie's first solo number one. If Lionel Richie made its creator a star, the follow-up, Can't Slow Down, made him a superstar. Boasting five Top Ten singles, including the number ones "All Night Long (All Night)" and "Hello," Can't Slow Down hit number one, eventually reached diamond status, and won the 1984 Grammy for Album of the Year. Such was Richie's stature that he was invited to perform at the closing ceremonies of the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles, a spectacular stage event that was broadcast worldwide.
In 1985, Richie put his superstar status to work for a greater good, joining Michael Jackson in co-writing the USA for Africa charity single "We Are the World"; the all-star recording helped raise millions of dollars for famine relief. By the end of the year, he was on top of the charts again with "Say You, Say Me," a ballad recorded for the film White Nights but not included on the soundtrack album. The song was slated to be the title track on Richie's upcoming album, but delays in the recording process prevented the record from being released until August 1986, by which time the title was changed to Dancing on the Ceiling (in order to promote Richie's next single release). Three more Top Tens followed "Say You, Say Me," as did "Se La," which became the first of Richie's solo singles not to reach the pop Top Ten. Overall, Dancing on the Ceiling didn't reach the commercial heights of Can't Slow Down, though it was by any means a significant success.
After the success of Can’t Slow Down and Dancing on the Ceiling, Richie’s production slowed. A decade passed before he recorded his next studio album, Louder than Words (1996), a stylistically updated blend of gentle jazz, rhythm and blues, and hip-hop. Although a success by market standards, the album was greeted with less enthusiasm than Richie’s earlier works. For the next 15 years, response to his albums was generally lukewarm.
In 2012 Richie strode back into the spotlight with Tuskegee, a collection of his greatest hits recast as country duets and performed with Shania Twain, Tim McGraw, Rascal Flatts, Willie Nelson, and other luminaries of country music. Within just a few weeks, the album reached number one on Billboard’s Top 200 and Country Music charts and eventually became one of the top-selling albums of the year. Following a 2013–15 world tour, in 2016 Richie launched a residency in Las Vegas. Two years later he became (with pop singer Katy Perry and country artist Luke Bryan) a judge on the revival of the television singing competition American Idol.
In addition to his Grammy Awards, Richie’s other honours included induction into the Songwriters Hall of Fame (1994). He also received a Kennedy Center Honor in 2017. Five years later he was selected for induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
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For his eponymous album, see Lionel Richie (album).
Lionel Brockman Richie Jr. (born June 20, 1949) is an American singer, songwriter, 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 number one single "Lady" for Kenny Rogers.
In 1981, 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.[1] In 1982, he 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".
Richie's second album, Can't Slow Down (1983), reached number one on the US Billboard 200 chart and sold over 20 million copies worldwide, becoming one of the best-selling albums of all time; and spawned the number one singles "All Night Long (All Night)" and "Hello". He then co-wrote the 1985 charity single "We Are the World" with Michael Jackson, which sold over 20 million copies.[2] His third album, Dancing on the Ceiling (1986), spawned the number one single "Say You, Say Me" (from the 1985 film White Nights) and the No. 2 hit title track. From 1986 to 1996, Richie took a break from recording; he has since then released seven studio albums. He has joined the singing competition American Idol to serve as a judge, starting from its sixteenth season (2018 to present).[3]
During his solo career, Richie became one of the most successful balladeers of the 1980s, and has sold over 100 million records worldwide, making him one of the world's best-selling artists of all time.[4] He has won four Grammy Awards, including Song of the Year for "We Are the World", and Album of the Year for Can't Slow Down.[5] "Endless Love" was nominated for an Academy Award; while "Say You, Say Me" won both the Academy Award and the Golden Globe award for Best Original Song.[6] In 2016, Richie received the Songwriters Hall of Fame's highest honor, the Johnny Mercer Award.[7] In 2022, he received the Gershwin Prize for Popular Song by the Library of Congress;[8] as well as the American Music Awards Icon Award.[9] He was also inducted into Black Music & Entertainment Walk of Fame, and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2022.[10]
Early life
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Richie was born on June 20, 1949, in Tuskegee, Alabama, the son of Lionel Brockman Richie (1915–1990),[11] a U.S. Army systems analyst, and Alberta R. Foster (1917–2001),[12] a teacher and school principal. His grandmother Adelaide Mary Brown was a pianist who played classical music.[13][14] On March 4, 2011, he appeared on NBC's Who Do You Think You Are?, which found out that his maternal great-grandfather was most likely the biological son of federal judge and slaveowner Morgan Welles Brown.[15] He was also the national leader of an early Black American fraternal organization.[16] Notably, J. Louis Brown was:
[P]rincipal organizer and Supreme Grand Archon of the Knights of Wise Men, a fraternal organization for black men in the post-Civil War period. Formed in Nashville in 1879, it was a fraternal insurance and burial benefit society, as were so many others during the period.[16]
Richie grew up on the campus of Tuskegee Institute.[17] Their family home was given to his grandparents as a gift from Booker T. Washington.[13] He graduated from Joliet Township High School, East Campus in Joliet, Illinois.[18] A star tennis player in Joliet,[19] he accepted a tennis scholarship to attend Tuskegee Institute, where he was a member of the marching band, the Marching Crimson Pipers ,[20] and graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in economics with a minor in accounting.[18][13]
Richie considered studying divinity to become a priest in the Episcopal Church, in which he had been baptised, but ultimately decided he was not "priest material" and decided to continue his musical career despite not knowing how to read or write music.[13][21] He is a member of Kappa Kappa Psi, a national honor fraternity for band members,[22] and an active life member of Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity.[23][24]
Career
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Commodores
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Main article: Commodores
As a student in Tuskegee, Richie formed a succession of R&B groups in the mid-1960s. In 1968, he became a 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 initially as a support act to The Jackson 5. The Commodores then became established as a popular soul group. Their first several albums had a danceable, funky sound, as in such tracks as "Machine Gun" and "Brick House". Over time, Richie wrote and sang more romantic, easy-listening ballads such as "Easy", "Three Times a Lady", "Still", and the breakup ballad "Sail On".
In 1974, Richie achieved his first commercial success as a songwriter with "Happy People", which he co-wrote with Jeffrey Bowen and Donald Baldwin. Originally intended as a Commodores track, it was recorded by The Temptations, who had their No. 1 R&B with the song. By the late 1970s, Richie had begun to accept songwriting commissions from other artists. He wrote "Lady" with Kenny Rogers, which hit No. 1 in 1980, and produced Rogers' album Share Your Love the following year. Richie and Rogers maintained a strong friendship in later years. Latin jazz composer and salsa romantica pioneer La Palabra enjoyed international success with his cover of "Lady", which was played at Latin dance clubs. Also in 1981, Richie sang the title theme song for the film Endless Love, a duet with Diana Ross. Issued as a single, the song topped the Canada, Brazil, Australia, Japan, New Zealand and US pop music charts, and became one of Motown's biggest hits.
Solo career
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Richie's 1982 debut solo album, Lionel Richie, contained three hit singles: the U.S. number-one song "Truly", which continued the style of his ballads with the Commodores and launched his career as one of the most successful balladeers of the 1980s, and the top five hits "You Are" and "My Love". The album hit No. 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 two Grammy Awards, including Album of the Year, propelling him into the first rank of international superstars. The album contained the number-one hit "All Night Long", a Caribbean-flavored dance number that was promoted by a colorful music video produced by former Monkee Michael Nesmith. In 1984, he performed "All Night Long" at the ending ceremony of the XXIII Olympic Games in Los Angeles.
Several more Top 10 hits followed, the most successful of which was the ballad "Hello" (1984), a sentimental love song that showed how far he had moved from his R&B roots. Richie had three more top ten hits in 1984, "Stuck on You" (No. 3), "Running with the Night" (No. 7) and "Penny Lover" (No. 8), as well as writing and producing "Missing You" for former labelmate and duet partner Diana Ross (No. 10 Pop, No. 1 R&B). In 1985, he wrote and performed "Say You, Say Me" for the film White Nights. The song won an Academy Award and reached No. 1 on the U.S. charts, staying there for four weeks, making it the number-two song of 1986 according to Billboard's Year-End Hot 100 chart, behind the charity single "That's What Friends Are For" by Dionne and Friends. He also collaborated with Michael Jackson on the charity single "We Are the World" by USA for Africa, another number-one hit.
In 1986, 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.S. No. 1), "Dancing on the Ceiling" (U.S. No. 2), "Love Will Conquer All" (U.S. No. 9), "Ballerina Girl" (U.S. No. 7), and "Se La" (U.S. No. 20). He made his return to recording and performing following the release of his first greatest-hits collection, Back to Front, in 1992.
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, sticking instead with his chosen path of well-crafted soul music, which in the intervening years has become known as contemporary R&B.
Richie's albums in the late 1990s such as Louder Than Words and Time failed to match the commercial success of his earlier work. Some of his recent albums, such as Renaissance and Just for You, have returned to his older style and achieved success in Europe but only modest notice in the United States.
Later career
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Richie was the headliner at a 2006 Fourth of July tribute concert with Fantasia Barrino at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. On May 7, 2006, Richie performed on the main stage (Acura Stage) at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, replacing Antoine "Fats" Domino, who had fallen ill. Richie released his eighth studio album titled "Coming Home" on September 12, 2006. The first single of the album was "I Call It Love" and was premiered in July 2006, becoming his biggest hit in the U.S. in ten years. The album was a success for Richie in the United States, peaking at No. 6.[citation needed]
On May 2, 2008, Richie was the 21st recipient of the George and Ira Gershwin Lifetime Achievement Award at UCLA's annual Spring Sing. In accepting the award, Richie said: "Forget about surviving 30 some odd years in the music business, Lionel Richie survived 27 years of Nicole Richie."[25]
In May 2009, Richie announced that he would like to get The Commodores back together soon.[26] An album, Just Go, was released in 2009. On July 7, 2009, Richie performed "Jesus is Love" at Michael Jackson's memorial service.[27]
Richie returned to Australia in 2011 where he and guest artist Guy Sebastian toured the country and New Zealand with concert dates throughout March and April.[28] Richie and Guy Sebastian recorded Richie's 1983 number-one single "All Night Long" together to raise money for Australian floods and New Zealand earthquake relief.[29][better source needed]
On March 26, 2012, Richie released his tenth studio album, Tuskegee, which featured 13 of his hit songs performed as duets with country stars.[30][31] The album returned him to the top of the Billboard 200 chart, his first number one album there since Dancing on the Ceiling, and achieved platinum status within six weeks of release.[citation needed]
On June 28, 2015, Richie played to an audience of between 100,000 and 120,000 people at the Glastonbury Festival, England. His show was described as "triumphant" by the BBC and was followed by his return to the top of the UK albums chart with a reissued compilation album of his work as both a solo artist and with the Commodores.[32] In September 2017, ABC announced that Richie would be a judge for the revival of American Idol.[33] Richie has been a judge on the reboot for seven seasons, including 2024.[34][needs update]
In May 2017, Richie was honored at Berklee College of Music during its 2017 commencement concert when graduating students performed a medley of his discography. Richie was also awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Music.[35] On December 3, 2017, Richie received the Kennedy Center Honors.[36] In October 2017, it was reported that Richie had secured the rights to produce a Curtis Mayfield biopic.[37]
On March 25, 2019, Richie announced a 33-date tour across North America for the summer. His 'Hello Tour' started in May at Arlington's KAABOO Festival and ran through August.[38]
In May 2023, Richie was invited to be a headline act at Windsor Castle for the Coronation Concert, in celebration of the Coronation of Charles III and Camilla.[39] Richie is the First Global Ambassador and First Chairman of the Global Ambassador Group for the Prince's Trust.[40]
Popularity in the Arab world
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Richie is a popular musician in various Arab states,[41] and has performed in Morocco, the United Arab Emirates, Egypt and Libya.[43] John Berman for ABC News reported in 2006 that "Grown Iraqi men get misty-eyed by the mere mention of his name. 'I love Lionel Richie,' they say. They can sing an entire Lionel Richie song." Berman wrote that Richie said he was told that Iraqi civilians were playing "All Night Long" the night U.S. tanks invaded Baghdad. Richie was against the war and has said he would like to perform in Baghdad someday.[43]
Personal life
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On October 18, 1975, Richie married his college sweetheart, Brenda Harvey. In 1983, 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. The Richies raised Nicole as their daughter and adopted her legally when she was nine years old.[44]
In June 1988, Harvey was arrested and charged with corporal injury to a spouse, resisting arrest, trespassing, vandalism, battery, and disturbing the peace after she found Richie at Diane Alexander's Beverly Hills apartment.[45] Richie and Harvey divorced on August 9, 1993, after nearly 18 years of marriage.[23] Richie married Diane Alexander on December 21, 1995.[23] They have a son, Miles Brockman Richie[46] (born May 27, 1994),[23] and a daughter, Sofia Richie (born August 24, 1998). The marriage ended in 2004.[47]
Richie suffered prolonged throat problems and had surgery four times in four years before being told by conventional doctors that he could lose his singing career. He then turned to a holistic doctor who said the problem was simply acid reflux caused by foods Richie was eating before going to bed.[48]
Richie became a grandfather in 2008 when Nicole Richie gave birth to a baby girl with Joel Madden, lead singer of the rock band Good Charlotte. Richie's second grandchild was born to the couple in 2009.[49]
Richie is a Freemason.[50]
Richie helped to raise over $3.1 million for the Breast Cancer Research Foundation.[51] Richie told the crowd that his grandmother was diagnosed with breast cancer in her 80s, but that she survived and lived until she was 103 years old. He stated that she was his enduring symbol of hope and his reason for becoming a breast cancer activist.[52]
Awards and honors
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Richie has won four Grammy Awards including Song of the Year in 1985 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.[53]
Richie was the first person to receive an RIAA diamond album award.[54]
Richie has been nominated for two Golden Globe awards and won one. In 1982, he was nominated for Best Original Song for the film Endless Love. In 1986, he was nominated and won the award for Best Original Song for the song "Say You, Say Me", featured in the film White Nights.[6] This song also won the Academy Award for Best Original Song.
Tours
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Headlining
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Running With the Night Tour (1984)
The Outrageous Tour (1986–1987)
In Concert (1998–2001)
The One World Tour (2004)
Coming Home Tour (2007)
Just Go Tour (2009)
Tuskegee Tour (2012)
All the Hits, All Night Long (2013–2016)[55]
All the Hits Tour (with Mariah Carey) (2017)
Hello! Hits Tour (2019)
Sing a Song All Night Long Tour (with Earth, Wind & Fire) (2023–2024)
Discography
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See also: Lionel Richie discography
Solo albums
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Lionel Richie (1982)
Can't Slow Down (1983)
Dancing on the Ceiling (1986)
Louder Than Words (1996)
Time (1998)
Renaissance (2000)
Just for You (2004)
Coming Home (2006)
Just Go (2009)
Tuskegee (2012)
With Commodores
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Machine Gun (1974)
Caught in the Act (1975)
Movin' On (1975)
Hot on the Tracks (1976)
Commodores (1977)
Natural High (1978)
Midnight Magic (1979)
Heroes (1980)
In the Pocket (1981)
Filmography
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Television
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Year Title Role Notes 2007 The Simpsons Himself (voice) Episode "He Loves to Fly and He D'ohs" 2011 Who Do You Think You Are? Himself Episode: "Lionel Richie" 2012 Sport Relief 2012 Barman Sketch: "Mo Farah and Misery Bear" 2014 Oprah's Master Class Himself Episode: "Lionel Richie" 2018–present American Idol Himself Judge, Season 16–present 2019 American Housewife Himself Episode: "American Idol" 2020 Jeopardy! The Greatest of All Time Himself Episode: "Match 1" 2022 Jeopardy! Himself Contestant; One episode
Film
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Year Title Role Notes 1977 Scott Joplin The Minstrel Singers Credited as The Commodores 1978 Thank God It's Friday Himself with The Commodores 1991 Madonna: Truth or Dare Himself Documentary 1996 The Preacher's Wife Britsloe 1998 Pariah Lavender Mob 2019 The Black Godfather Himself Documentary 2022 Studio 666 Himself 2024 The Greatest Night in Pop Himself Documentary
See also
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Biography portal
United States portal
List of best-selling music artists
List of highest-certified music artists in the United States
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Lionel Richie is a singer-songwriter who is famous for his illustrious solo career as well as his membership in funk act The Commodores.
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Lionel Richie is an unmistakable true great of popular music. From his time in the Commodores to his role as an accomplished balladeer and household name, he has written songs that have gone on to become standards. His music, a beguiling blend of soul, pop, easy listening and country, has enchanted the world over.
He joined the Commodores while he was still in college and, soon after, the group signed to Motown, releasing their debut recording ‘Machine Gun’, 1974. Among the band’s biggest hits was, ‘Three Times a Lady’ in 1978. Lionel began working with other artists and released his solo debut album on Motown, Lionel Richie, in 1982, and co-composed and recorded African famine relief recording, “We Are the World”, in 1985. Lionel went on to become a multi-award winning solo artist with a string of successful recordings.
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Although initially just one of the vocalists and the saxophone player in the Commodores, Richie’s beautiful voice, at once strong and subsequently cracking with emotion, ensured his ballads became an increasing feature of the group. And those ballads need little introduction: ‘Easy’, ‘Sail On’, ‘Still’ and the one for which Richie will forever be remembered, ‘Three Times A Lady’.
Lionel Richie has never been happy with categorisation, but to get on in American music, especially as an African-American from Alabama at the end of the 1960s, you had to conform. “See, I’m a rocker,” Richie told Creem magazine in 1978. “When we started out back in ’68 if I had my way I’d have said, ‘Turn the amp up on 12 and let’s go.’ But I couldn’t do it. I had to realize one thing: this industry divides into two categories – R&B and pop.” The scale of the Commodores’ success, in America and then worldwide, neatly confounded the group’s critics. In fact, Rolling Stone dubbed the group the ‘Black Beatles’, due to the scale of their late 1970s success. The group chalked up an impressive tally of US and UK singles, including two stateside chart-toppers, selling over 45 million records between 1974 and 1985.
The achievement of Richie’s duet with Diana Ross, ‘Endless Love’, in 1981, inspired him to make the break from the band he had been with since the late 1960s. Richie finally moved away from the Commodores with his accomplished self-titled debut album, released in 1982. Working with Commodores producer James Anthony Carmichael, the album contained ‘Truly’, a ballad on a par with his greatest Commodores moments. The upbeat ‘Serves You Right’, ‘You Are’ and the truly beautiful, downbeat ‘Wandering Stranger’, were highlights of Lionel Richie (the album) as well.
By the mid-1980s, Richie had become Motown’s biggest and most bankable star (mainly because of the quality of his material but also because it was a simple case of the label’s great artists having moved elsewhere). It was certainly the influence of former Motown labelmate Michael Jackson’s Thriller that inspired Richie’s Can’t Slow Down. Released in October 1983, it became Richie’s greatest work. Made with a huge team of people, it represented the very best of Richie the balladeer. ‘Stuck On You’, ‘Penny Lover’ and the touching, and for most of 1984, ubiquitous ‘Hello’ were standouts. The album’s review by bbc.co.uk likens Richie’s role to that of a head chef: “The late-night soul of ‘Love Will Find a Way’, is like the musical equivalent of cooking a gourmet meal – a drizzle of piano here, a pinch of synthesizer, there; tasteful, and sweet.” Although it was the up-tempo, calypso influenced ‘All Night Long (All Night)’ that was the album’s absolute highlight, a riot of sound and, in its video, colour, that arguably could be seen as the Motown label’s last truly great 45. Can’t Slow Down became an enormous hit, topping the charts on both sides of the Atlantic, selling over 20 million copies worldwide and bagging Richie the prestigious Album of the Year award at the Grammy Awards in 1985. It stayed in the UK album charts for a most impressive 154 weeks.
Dancing On The Ceiling was released in October 1986. Very much in the same vein, as Can’t Slow Down, it contained his Academy Award-winning song, ‘Say You, Say Me’ that he had written the previous year for the film White Nights. The boisterous title track was supported by a promo clip that featured Richie, through much video trickery, quite literally dancing on the ceiling. Q magazine said, “The overall standard of writing and arrangement is obsessively high.” Rolling Stone called the album “an impressive standard for mainstream popcraft in the eighties.”
It was a considerable period before the world heard new material from Richie. When he did return in May 1992, it was with a compilation album, Back To Front, which contained a mere three new tracks amid 13 solid Richie classics. It was an enormous hit, shooting to the No. 1 spot in the UK, and into the US Top 20. Of the new songs, ‘My Destiny’ became a UK Top 10 hit, and ‘Do It To Me’ topped the Billboard Hot R&B chart. The album marked his final release on the Motown label, the label he’d been with since the early 1970s.
It would be another four years before Lionel Richie set forth again. His album, Louder Than Words, was his first for Mercury and found him experimenting with new styles, away from the formula he’d established with the Commodores. Self-produced, the album dabbled in urban styles, such as new jack swing, which had been the craze of the day in R&B. Compared to his previous work, the album was a modest success, but it showed that Richie was able to move forward with the times. Lead single, ‘Don’t Wanna Lose You’ reached the UK Top 20, and his supporting live shows were well received.
After 1998’s Time, which was a return to more conventional balladry, 2000’s Renaissance returned Richie to the UK Top 10, featuring the beautiful single, ‘Angel’. A live version of the track was included on Richie’s first-ever live album, Encore. Released in November 2002, it was recorded in concert at Wembley Arena, London. May 2004’s Just For You was one of Richie’s best works of the 21st century, written and recorded in collaboration with artists such as Daniel Bedingfield, Lenny Kravitz and producers Paul Berry and Mark Taylor. The album had a contemporary sheen while containing Richie’s classic mixture of ballads and mid-tempo grooves.
The contemporary edge to Richie’s material continued with Coming Home, which returned him to the US Top 10 for the first time since 1986’s Dancing On The Ceiling. Released in September 2006, it found Richie working with contemporary producers such as Stargate, Raphael Saadiq, Jermaine Dupri and Rodney Jerkins. Richie’s renaissance continued with 2009’s Just Go. Described by allmusic.com as “wholly modern”, it was a step on from Coming Home, working again with Stargate, Akon and Christopher ‘Tricky’ Stewart. For the first time in his career, others wrote the majority of the material, with only one Richie original, the beautifully retro-sounding ‘Eternity’, which married Richie with David Foster’s timeless production skills.
2012’s Tuskegee was a perfect idea beautifully realised – named after Richie’s place of birth, it located the country aspect that had always been present in his music, and via a series of duets with country stars such as Shania Twain and Willie Nelson, covering his classic songs, it made an album that was very accomplished and different. It entered the US charts at No. 2, his highest placing for years, and went on to become one of the biggest-selling albums of 2012 — of any genre — in his homeland.
There is no shortage of Lionel Richie collections – The Definitive Collection and Soul Legends both have great merit. The title of Truly – The Love Songs says it all, really, a perfect sampling of his greatest ballad moments.
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International superstar Lionel Richie has a discography of albums and singles that are second to none. With more than 125 million albums sold worldwide, an Oscar®, a Golden Globe®, four Grammy Awards®, the distinction of MusicCares Person of the Year in 2016, Kennedy Center Honoree in 2017, the Gershwin Prize for Popular Song by the Library of Congress in 2022 and induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2022, the Tuskegee, Alabama, native is a true music icon.
Richie is known for his mega hits such as "Endless Love," "Lady," "Truly," "All Night Long," "Penny Lover," "Stuck on You," "Hello," "Say You, Say Me," "Dancing on the Ceiling," and for co-writing one of the most important pop songs in history, "We Are the World," for U.S.A for Africa. His song catalog also includes his early work with the Commodores, where he developed a groundbreaking style that defied genre categories, penning smashes such as "Three Times a Lady," "Still" and "Easy." Richie is one of two sole songwriters who has written eight No. 1 hits on the Billboard Hot 100 charts.
Richie launched his Las Vegas headlining residency show, Lionel Richie—All the Hits, in April 2016. In an unforgettable evening featuring his brightest and best anthems which have defined the music icon's unparalleled career, Richie took his fans on a spectacular musical journey, performing a variety of his seminal hits. The highly successful residency wrapped in October 2018 after a three-year run.
In spring 2019, Richie was named global ambassador and chairman of the Global Ambassador Group for the Prince's Trust, a charity founded in 1976 by King Charles III that helps young people all over the world achieve their dreams and transform their lives. Richie was also honored at the 23rd Annual Power of Love Gala in Las Vegas in 2019 that raised $10 million for the Cleveland Clinic Nevada to provide service, care and resources for patients in the fight against cognitive diseases.
Richie took fans on a spectacular musical journey with his new album, "Live from Las Vegas," along with his most recent tour, the Hello Tour, which kicked off in summer 2019. The album, which was released on Aug. 16, 2019, was No. 1 on the Billboard Artist 100 chart. The album also marks the legendary artist's first release on Capitol Records.
In an unforgettable evening featuring his brightest and best anthems which have defined the music icon's unparalleled career, Richie recently extended his Back to Las Vegas residency at Wynn Encore Theater with a 22-show engagement in 2022 and will continue the highly successful residency into 2023. Richie was a judge on ABC's "American Idol" for the past six seasons and will return to the judge's chair for the 2024 season.
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The biggest rock tour of 2020 just keeps getting bigger...
(USA for Africa)
“What happened in China, in Europe, it came here. So if we don’t save our brothers there, it’s going to come home. It’s all of us. All of us are in this together."
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Lionel Richie
June 20, 1949
1997 Inductee
Lionel Richie "now stands at the pinnacle of pop music, recognized around the world as the most successful singer/songwriter working today," Charles Whitaker announced in a 1987 Ebony article. "His string of nine No. 1 hits," Whitaker continued, "in nine consecutive years, is a music business record." Richie began as a lead singer with the Commodores, a funk/pop group that came to the attention of music fans in the early 1970s, and started forging his distinguished solo career in 1982. Since that time he has garnered many awards, including three Grammys, several American Music Awards, and a 1986 Oscar for Best Original Song with his hit theme to the film White Knights, "Say You, Say Me."
Richie was born in Tuskegee, Alabama. His mother and father, a school principal and a systems analyst for the U.S. Army, respectively, lived on the campus of Tuskegee Institute (now Tuskegee University), where his grandfather had worked with the college's founder, black leader Booker T. Washington. As a child, Richie was exposed to many different kinds of music, particularly by his maternal grandmother, Adlaide Foster, who taught him piano and preferred classical composers such as Johann Sebastian Bach and Ludwig van Beethoven. Even then, Richie showed signs of the talent he would later become, though his grandmother did not then appreciate this fact: "During my lessons," Richie recalled for Todd Gold in People, "I kept trying to make up my own songs, and it annoyed her." The fledgling artist was also influenced by the ballets and symphonies he attended at Tuskegee, but he preferred listening to gospel, rhythm and blues, and country.
Richie eventually enrolled in Tuskegee Institute; his initial goal was to become an Episcopal priest. He brought with him a saxophone that an uncle had given him as a child, though he did not know how to play it--according to Gold, "he thought it would help him meet girls." Regardless, it helped Richie to meet five other Tuskegee freshmen who were forming a musical group and sought him out because they heard he had a saxophone. Apparently, Richie's lack of prowess on the instrument proved no obstacle--he told Robert E. Johnson in Ebony that the men who would later become the Commodores "took ... two years to find out that I'd had no training on the sax." While Richie and the group practiced, aspiring to, as he put it for interviewer Lynn Van Matre of the Chicago Tribune, "revolutionize the music business," or "come out with a new sound, you know, and kill them," he also gave up his clerical ambitions in favor of an economics major and an accounting minor, which helped both the Commodores and himself in later business dealings.
The Commodores first began to gather a following when they won the opportunity to open for the Jackson Five's concerts in the early 1970s. Around the same time, they signed a contract with Motown Records, and after a two-year period of searching for the right producer and arranger, began to put out albums. At first the Commodores gained a reputation for party and dance music with disco-oriented hits like the instrumental "Machine Gun," and the song responsible for the dance craze of the same name, "Bump." Another of their most popular singles was "Brickhouse."
But by the mid-1970s, most of the Commodores, including Richie, started to feel that funky dance tunes were too ephemeral. They wanted to move towards writing and recording ballads, which they thought more likely to become timeless standards. In the same period, Richie worked more intensely on his songwriting skills than previously. The Commodores' 1975 album Caught in the Act contained their first ballad hits, "Sweet Love," and "Just to Be Close to You." They followed these up with more slow songs, which gained popularity in large measure due to Richie's romantic lyrics and smooth singing voice. "Easy," "Three Times a Lady," "Sail On," and "Still" confirmed Richie and the Commodores' change of style.
Richie was already working on other projects in 1980, including producing an album and writing the song "Lady" for country artist Kenny Rogers. In 1982 Richie decided to leave the Commodores to pursue a solo career, though his decision was not due to conflicts within the group. His first album on his own, Lionel Richie, gained him a hit with "Truly," which also won him his first Grammy, as Best Male Vocalist, in 1983. His string of hits, some of which helped Richie earn his music business record, includes 1983's "All Night Long," "Penny Lover," and "Hello"; and 1987's "Dancing on the Ceiling." Richie has also had great success with film themes such as "Endless Love" and the Oscar-winning "Say You, Say Me." Perhaps his most far-reaching and influential musical project, however, was the song "We Are the World," which Richie co-wrote with pop superstar Michael Jackson. The disc was recorded by U.S.A. for Africa, and its profits were donated to the cause of famine relief in Ethiopia.
Richie believes his success as a songwriter comes from God, whom he told Johnson was his "co-composer." He explained further: "I give credit to my co-writer because all I did was write down what He told me to write down." Richie also revealed to Johnson that he prefers to collaborate during the night. "In other words," he said, "from about eleven to about seven in the morning is a very wonderful time because ... God ain't worried with too many other folks ... I know He is very busy during the day, so I wait for late night, and it works for me."
Regardless of the authorship of Richie's songs, along with the phenomenal mainstream popularity that he enjoys come accusations from some critics that he has abandoned his black musical roots, especially after the hit he recorded with the country group Alabama, "Deep River Woman." Richie responded to this issue for Whitaker in Ebony: "I'm trying through my music to break the stereotype that says to satisfy Black people you have to play something funky. I'm broadening the base, trying to show that Black artists are capable of playing all kinds of music." ~~ Elizabeth Thomas
Awards
Winner of three Grammy Awards;, six American Music Awards; two American Black Achievement Awards from Ebony magazine and one People's Choice Award; Academy Award for best original song in a motion picture (White Knights), 1986, for "Say You, Say Me."
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Carrie Underwood is your newest "American Idol" judge.
The eight-time Grammy Award-winning singer -- who won season 4 of the singing competition show in 2005 -- was announced Thursday as Katy Perry's replacement on "Idol."
Underwood will join returning judges Luke Bryan and Lionel Richie alongside host Ryan Seacrest when "Idol" returns to ABC and Hulu in spring 2025.
"I remember being at home in our little house in Checotah and seeing on TV that there were auditions in St. Louis," the Oklahoma native says in a video revealing the big news. "My mom said, 'If you wanna go, I'll drive you.'"
"I went from nobody knowing my name to tens of millions of people watching the show," she said of how she skyrocketed to fame. "I'm proud of everything that I was able to accomplish on the show and I'm so proud of everything that I've accomplished since."
Some of Underwood's accomplishments include selling 85 million records, amassing 28 No. 1 singles and snagging numerous awards.
"This season, Carrie Underwood comes home," a message in the video reads.
Underwood replaces Perry, who served as a judge alongside Bryan and Richie for seven seasons after the "Idol" revival kicked off on ABC in 2018.
The "Firework" singer announced her departure on "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" in February and later told "Good Morning America" in April that her time on "Idol" had "healed my heart."
Auditions for the upcoming season of "Idol" kick off Monday, Aug. 12.
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After leaving the Commodores, Lionel Richie became one of the most successful male solo artists of the '80s, arguably eclipsed during his 1981-1987 heyday only by Michael Jackson and Prince. Richie dominated the pop charts during that period with an incredible run of 13 consecutive Top Ten hits, five of them number ones. As his popularity skyrocketed, Richie moved farther away from his R&B origins and concentrated more on adult contemporary balladry, which had been one of his strengths even as part of the Commodores. After 1987, Richie fell silent, taking an extended break from recording and touring before beginning a comeback toward the tail end of the '90s.
Lionel Brockman Richie, Jr., was born on June 20, 1949, in Tuskegee, AL, and grew up on the campus of the Tuskegee Institute, where most of his family had worked for two generations prior. While attending college there, Richie joined the Commodores, who went on to become the most successful act on the Motown label during the latter half of the '70s. Richie served as a saxophonist, sometime vocalist, and songwriter, penning ballads like "Easy," "Three Times a Lady," and "Still" (the latter two became the group's only number one pop hits). Although the Commodores maintained a democratic band structure through most of their chart run, things began to change when the '70s became the '80s. In 1980, Richie wrote and produced country-pop singer Kenny Rogers' across-the-board number one smash "Lady," and the following year, Richie's duet with Diana Ross, "Endless Love" (recorded for the Brooke Shields film of the same title), became the most successful single in Motown history, topping the charts for a stunning nine weeks. With the media's attention now focused exclusively on Richie, tensions within the Commodores began to mount, and before the end of 1981, Richie decided to embark on a solo career.
Richie immediately set about recording his solo debut for Motown. Titled simply Lionel Richie, the album was released in late 1982 and was an immediate smash, reaching number three on the pop charts on its way to sales of over four million copies. It spun off three Top Five pop hits, including the first single, "Truly," which became Richie's first solo number one. If Lionel Richie made its creator a star, the follow-up, Can't Slow Down, made him a superstar. Boasting five Top Ten singles, including the number ones "All Night Long (All Night)" and "Hello," Can't Slow Down hit number one, eventually sold over ten million copies, and won the 1984 Grammy for Album of the Year. Such was Richie's stature that he was invited to perform at the closing ceremonies of the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles, a spectacular stage event that was broadcast worldwide.
In 1985, Richie put his superstar status to work for a greater good, joining Michael Jackson in co-writing the USA for Africa charity single "We Are the World"; the all-star recording helped raise millions of dollars for famine relief. By the end of the year, he was on top of the charts again with "Say You, Say Me," a ballad recorded for the film White Nights but not included on the soundtrack album. The song was slated to be the title track on Richie's upcoming album, but delays in the recording process prevented the record from being released until August 1986, by which time the title was changed to Dancing on the Ceiling (in order to promote Richie's next single release). Three more Top Tens followed "Say You, Say Me," as did "Se La," which became the first of Richie's solo singles not to reach the pop Top Ten. Overall, Dancing on the Ceiling didn't match the success of Can't Slow Down, but it still sold an impressive four million copies, although Richie's reputation for sentimental ballads was beginning to incur a backlash in some quarters.
1987 saw Richie's nine-year streak of writing at least one number one single (a feat matched only by Irving Berlin) come to an end. As a matter of fact, Richie all but disappeared from the music business, simply choosing to take some time off after nearly two decades of recording and performing (or, perhaps, quitting while he was ahead). His silence was broken only in 1992, when Motown released a compilation titled Back to Front; in addition to some of his solo hits and a few Commodores tracks, Back to Front also featured three new songs, including the number one R&B hit "Do It to Me" (which wasn't as successful on the pop charts).
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Lionel Richie is arguably one of the most iconic voices, faces, and mustaches in all of music history. The singer-songwriter rose to prominence in the 1970s as a leader of the Motown movement and fronted the platinum-selling funk soul group Commodores before eventually going solo. He has written numerous hit records for himself and other artists, including instantly recognizable tracks such as “Hello,” “All Night Long,” and “Endless Love.” Richie has taken home Grammy Awards, Golden Globes, and even the Gershwin Prize for Popular Song from the Library of Congress. In 2022, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, due to his unmatchable achievements in music and culture.
Richie has developed a reputation as one of the most successful balladeers of the 1980s, and sold hundreds of millions of records across the Earth over the course of more than 5 decades. With that in mind, it should come as no surprise that Lionel Richie touts a massive net worth of over $200 million, according to Celebrity Net Worth. Though most of this financial windfall has come from his prolific music career, it’s certainly worth digging into Lionel Richie’s portfolio of brand deals and investments, and investigating the many contributing factors of this massive net worth.
Early Life & Career Beginnings
Long before Lionel Richie was the multimillionaire we all know and love, he was born to a U.S. Army systems analyst and a school teacher in Tuskegee, Alabama. Richie’s grandmother was a classically trained pianist, which may illustrate why Lionel was interested in music from such a young age. In addition to having dreams of joining the entertainment industry, Lionel Richie was an adept tennis player in his youth. Through his tennis record, the budding star received a full scholarship to the Tuskegee Institute.
Lionel Richie quickly joined the Institute’s marching band, and went on to form several group music ventures with his classmates and peers. In 1968, Richie inked a record deal with Atlantic Records as a singer and saxophonist of the Commodores. While their first arrival on the scene saw them performing as a support act for The Jackson 5, The Commodores quickly established themselves as a music force with tracks such as “Brick House,” “Three Times a Lady,” and “Sail On.” As the Commodores continued to rise in fame, Lionel Richie began branching out to earn songwriting credits for acts like The Temptations, Kenny Rogers, and Diana Ross.
Solo Career
While Lionel Richie’s career with the Commodores was impressive in its own right, his solo catalogue produced even more timeless hits. His self-titled debut premiered in 1982, fronted by hit singles such as “You Are” and “My Love.” Richie’s second studio album, “Can’t Slow Down,” sold over 8 million copies, and took home the Grammy award for Album of the Year. In total, Richie has released 10 solo studio LPs, the most recent of which being 2012’s “Tuskegee.” This is in addition to the 9 projects released by the Commodores between 1974 and 1981.
Throughout the years, Lionel Richie has also toured around the world, building a massive overseas audience, and bolstering his net worth with massive headliner checks. His most recent jet-setting venture was the Sing a Song All Night Long Tour, which he co-headlined with Earth, Wind & Fire throughout 2023. While Richie has become a certifiable legend through his music, he has also grown into a number of other impressive creative avenues.
American Idol Tenure
Lionel Richie joined the hit reality television series “American Idol” as a judge in 2018. Since the show’s 16th season, Richie has remained present as a judge, alongside Katy Perry and Luke Bryan. Over the years, the three judges have showcased distinct personalities on the show, lending their expertise and musical knowledge to contestants from around the country. Richie was reportedly paid $10 million for his first season with the series, though it remains unclear if that rate has been his standard in the following years, or if he has negotiated to receive more. Either way, the series has definitely bolstered Lionel Richie’s already impressive net worth in recent years.
Real Estate Holdings
Unlike many celebrities who invest heavily into real estate by buying and selling multiple properties at a markup, Lionel Richie seems to only have one home in his possession, which he bought for $6 million in 1999. Despite this fact, Richie has still found a way to make money from the 13,000 square foot Beverly Hills mansion. The home is situated right on the fourth hole of the Los Angeles Country Club, which hosted the US Open during June 2023. Lionel Richie reportedly rented out his home to those attending the event at a rate of $1 million per week, or a flat rate of $10 million for the full month.
This extremely prudent move certainly brought in tons of cash for Lionel Richie, and made use of his space while he was away on tour, making it a win-win for the acclaimed singer. Clearly, Lionel Richie holds a great business acumen, in addition to his incredible musical talent. Therefore, it should come as no surprise that the singer has managed to amass such an impressive net worth in his many decades writing and performing hit records.
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Lionel Richie has inked an exclusive publishing agreement with Universal Music Publishing Group (UMPG), it was announced today (Nov. 4). This new relationship with the world’s second largest music publisher will include some of Richie’s most iconic songs, like “All Night Long (All Night)” “Hello,” “Lady,” and “Dancing On the Ceiling,” among others.
It also sees Richie’s publishing and records united under the Universal Music Group (UMG) umbrella after a six-year stint with Kobalt Music Publishing, a relationship first announced in September 2015. Richie remains in contract with Capitol Records for his master recordings.
Jody Gerson, the chairman and CEO of UMPG, says, “I am thrilled that Lionel Richie has chosen UMPG to take care of his song catalogue. I have known Lionel personally for years and have always wanted to be his publisher. I am so happy the day has finally come. We will be the best publisher Lionel has ever had. My teams around the world couldn’t be more excited to work with his illustrious catalogue of hits spanning many, many decades.”
Trending on Billboard
Alabama-born Lionel Richie first made his mark on music history as co-lead singer and songwriter for funk band The Commodores, one of Motown’s greatest exports. Over the course of nine studio albums from 1974’s Machine Gun to 1988’s Rock Solid, Richie penned career-defining hits like “Easy” and “Three Times A Lady,” both of which cracked the top 5 of Billboard’s Hot 100 chart at their peak.
By 1982, he was making hits for himself, launching his solo career with a self-titled solo album. Today, he’s one of music’s most decorated veterans, earning 32 Grammy nominations and eight total wins. Since establishing himself as one of the eighties’ greatest crooners, Richie has also been a judge on American Idol, held residencies in Las Vegas, and headlined festivals like Bonnaroo, Outside Lands and Glastonbury — drawing the festival’s largest crowd to date with more than 200,000 audience members.
“Having partnered with Universal Music as recording artist for almost my entire career, joining the UMPG family as a songwriter feels like coming home.” Richie explained. “With their outstanding global team, I know my songs are in the best hands and I’m excited for what we can accomplish together.”
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Lionel Richie is back and ready to hit the stage.
The crooner is gearing up for his “All The Hits All Night Long” North American tour, which kicks off Wednesday in Hollywood, Florida. CNN caught up with Richie at Paramount Studios in Los Angeles during the singer’s final rehearsals for the 19-date tour. It’s there the music legend advised fans not to be fooled by the tour’s name.
“If they’re waiting for all night long, let me tell you, I gave that up a long time ago,” Richie told CNN. “I always used to say to them, all night long went all night long when ‘All Night Long’ was out. Now it’s down to a fierce 30 minutes, but if you want anything after that, I can pretty much guarantee an hour-45 to two hours solid.”
Richie promises the tour will be a mix of classic hits and fan favorites, ranging from his Commodores days to his 2012 release, “Tuskeegee.” To keep fans on their toes, the hit maker has a list of 14 songs to choose from each night. Richie compares planning out his shows to coaching a professional sports game.
“It’s like going to a football game and you know the plays,” he said. “So when I call out a different play, they’ll go to it.”
Richie’s last album found him recreating his biggest hits as collaborations with some of country music’s top names. Who does he want to jump on stage with him during this tour? The list is extensive.
“Bruno Mars. Come on Bruno, where are you? Sting. I could do Kenny Chesney any day of the week. Tim McGraw. I’m sure these guys were in the Commodores at some time. I just have to go back to see if their pictures were there, because they’re so familiar. The beautiful part about it is that the one thing they say to me when they meet me is, ‘I know every song.’”
With Mars confirmed to perform at the 2014 Super Bowl halftime show, Richie has no doubts the 27-year-old will do a great job.
“My boy is going to kill it. Are you kidding?” Richie said. “Listen, Bruno is the real deal. And what I love about him the most is that he’s a songwriter. He’ll take care of business. I’m not worried.”
As a music industry veteran, Richie has some sage advice for those up-and-comers who resort to shock tactics when hitting the stage.
“I’ve always said this – this is my little anecdote – but once you start taking off your clothes, that means you’ve got to have a hit record,” he said. “You’ve got to back it up with something. My philosophy is – I’m the other way around. Give me the hit record first and you don’t have to take off your clothes. Taking off the clothes means, ‘I need that hit record.’”
The “Hello” singer admits he’s still surprised to see younger fans in the crowds at his concerts.
“There are days I have to stop, blink, and turn around just for a moment to say, ‘OK, that’s right, it has been that long,’” Richie said. “There was the 21-year-old in the front row when the Commodores started and there’s the 21-year-old in the front row now.”
“The greatest thrill of this to me is what started out to be just, ‘Can we meet some girls on campus at the university?’ ended up being a career, and the songs still work. The music’s been around long enough where the next generation is taking possession of it.”
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Lionel Richie is no stranger to the spotlight, but he's not sure whether he wants it to follow him home.
After the season 21 finale of American Idol, E! News exclusively got the scoop about whether the All Night Long singer, who is father to Nicole and Sofia Richie, would ever let his family be the center of a new reality show.
"Let me say this to you: Living with my kids has been a reality series that I've been trying to forget for a long time," the 73-year-old quipped in the May 22 episode of E! News. "So, to bring it to the public right now would be something called, post-traumatic syndrome."
Nicole, 41, is no stranger to reality TV. She starred in The Simple Life alongside Paris Hilton, and then had her own show in 2014, Candidly Nicole, on which Sofia, 24, made occasional appearances.
"You know my kids, they have a journey. They're used to this thing called 'all your business, every day out in the street,'" Lionel continued. "I'm a little bit more reserved, so I'll let them do their thing and Papa Richard can kinda go home and enjoy the fireplace." (See more from Lionel's interview on tonight's episode of E! News.)
"Remember, now, winning number one is one thing," Lionel told E! News after the show. "Maintaining number one is called the hard work."
And Lionel knows Iam has the support he needs to take his win to the next level.
"He's got a great family support. The village raised him. So, he's got the support," he added. "Right now, he needs to think how do I get, first of all, across America and then around the world one song at a time?"
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Lionel Brockman Richie’s life journey has a lot of twist and turns. Growing up on the Tuskegee campus of the famous black college right in his home town, he dropped out of the university after his sophomore year. After a brief time considering becoming an episcopal church, he devoted himself to music fully by the mid 60’s. He became the lead singer and sax player of the Commodores in 1968. After a brief stint at Atlantic, the Commodores struck gold at Motown as a major funk band during the mid 70’s. By the late 70’s, Richie’s contributions to the band were mainly as a singer/songwriter.
In 1982, Richie released his self titled solo debut. It turned out to be a 4x platinum hit for him. But mainly on the strength of ballads like “Truly” and the uptempo pop of “You Are”. At this point, the funkiness he displayed in the Commodores would be album tracks for him. His next album,1983’s Can’t Slow Down was a major crossover success for him-a diamond charting album in the vein of Michael Jackson’s Thriller. Musically, the hits he was getting were a lot more diverse-from the Caribbean pop of “All Night Long” to the new wave rock of “Running With The Night”. Then there was “Love Will Find A Way”.
A slow,gated drum starts out the song. Then the close bass/rhythm guitar interaction. At the beginning, a Fender Rhodes is carrying the minor chorded lead melody. The rhythm guitar perfectly accents that-with the strings rising just as Richie’s first vocal chorus arriving. There’s also a light synthesizer part featured on the end. On the refrains of the song, the melody becomes a brighter and more major chorded one-with the strings leading back into the choruses. A slippery,pitch bent synthesizer joins the mix just as the song begins to fade out on its final choruses.
“Love Will Find A Way” is, as my friend Henrique pointed out, a quiet storm groove ballad that also functions as soulful, immaculately produced “sophistifunk” as well. As it turns out, its very mature take on romantic advice dovetails very well into another hit song (and one of my personal favorites from Lionel’s solo career) called “Love Will Conquer All” from his next album-1986’s Dancing On The Ceiling. Same goes for the music of the song as well. Lionel Richie’s solo music, despite its success, has never been based in funk. But “Love Will Find A Way” does bring out that very functional middle ground.
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Lineup Includes Gloria Estefan, Boyz II Men, Luke Bryan, Andra Day, Chris Stapleton and More, Premiering May 17 on PBS
The nation’s library, musical artists and American leaders honored pop music icon Lionel Richie in the nation’s capital on Wednesday, March 9, as he was awarded the Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song during an all-star tribute concert.
The lineup includes performances by previous Gershwin Prize honoree Gloria Estefan, Boyz II Men, Luke Bryan, Andra Day, Chris Stapleton, Miguel, Yolanda Adams, and a special performance by honoree Lionel Richie. Actor and comedian Anthony Anderson will host the event. The concert is by invitation only.
PBS stations will broadcast the concert — “Lionel Richie: The Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song” — at 9 p.m. ET on Tuesday, May 17 (check local listings) and on PBS.org and the PBS Video App as part of the co-produced Emmy Award-winning music series. It will also be broadcast to U.S. Department of Defense locations around the world via the American Forces Network.
Richie also appeared at the Library on Monday, March 7, at 7 p.m. ET in conversation with Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden. The event was streamed live on the Library’s YouTube channel and was open to the public with seating at a reduced capacity on a first-come, first-serve basis.
A songwriting superstar of the first order and 2022 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame nominee, Richie is known for his mega-hits such as “Endless Love,” “Lady,” “Truly,” “All Night Long,” “Penny Lover,” “Stuck on You,” “Hello,” “Say You, Say Me” and “Dancing on the Ceiling.” He also co-wrote one of the most important pop songs in history, “We Are the World,” for USA for Africa. His song catalog also includes his early work with The Commodores, where he developed a groundbreaking style that defied genre categories, penning smashes such as “Three Times a Lady,” “Still,” and “Easy.” Richie achieved the incredible distinction of writing No. 1 songs for 11 consecutive years.
Beyond his own impressive music career, Richie has mentored young artists as a judge on ABC’s “American Idol” for the past four seasons and is back for the fifth season.
Richie’s songs are part of the fabric of pop music and American culture. The Tuskegee, Alabama, native has sold more than 125 million albums worldwide. He has won an Oscar®, a Golden Globe®, four Grammy Awards®*, the distinction of MusicCares Person of the Year in 2016, and was a Kennedy Center Honoree in 2017.
“This is truly an honor of a lifetime, and I am so grateful to be receiving the Gershwin Prize for Popular Song,” Richie said.“I am proud to be joining all the other previous artists, who I also admire and am a fan of their music.”
Bestowed in recognition of the legendary songwriting team of George and Ira Gershwin, the Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song celebrates the work of artists whose careers reflect their influence, impact and achievement in promoting song as a vehicle of musical expression and cultural understanding. The honoree is selected by the Librarian of Congress in consultation with a board of scholars, producers, performers, songwriters and other music specialists. Previous recipients are Paul Simon, Stevie Wonder, Sir Paul McCartney, songwriting duo Burt Bacharach and the late Hal David, Carole King, Billy Joel, Willie Nelson, Smokey Robinson, Tony Bennett, Emilio and Gloria Estefan, and Garth Brooks.
“Lionel Richie: The Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song” is a co-production of WETA Washington, D.C.; Bounce, a division of Concord Music Group; and the Library of Congress. The executive producers are Carla Hayden for the Library of Congress and John F. Wilson for WETA Washington, D.C. The producers are Tim Swift and Bill Urban for Bounce; and Susan H. Vita and Jarrod MacNeil for the Library of Congress. The program director is Jerry Foley. The writer is Neal Kendall. Major funding is provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Wells Fargo is the presenting sponsor. Funding is also provided by AARP; The Ira and Leonore Gershwin Philanthropic Fund and The Leonore S. Gershwin Trust for the benefit of the Library of Congress Trust Fund Board, Michael Strunsky, trustee; Universal Music Group; the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers; and William C. Burton. Air transportation is provided by United Airlines.
About Lionel Richie
International superstar Lionel Richie has a discography of albums and singles that are second to none. With more than 125 million albums sold worldwide, he has been awarded an Oscar®, a Golden Globe®, four Grammy Awards®*, the distinction of MusicCares Person of the Year in 2016, and was a Kennedy Center Honoree in 2017.In March 2018,Richie put his handprints and footprints in cement at the TCL Chinese Theatre IMAX in Hollywood, one of the oldest awards in Hollywood. He recently received the Ivor Novello PRS for Music Special International Award.
Richie sold out arenas worldwide with a set list of his brightest and best anthems on his All The Hits, All Night Long Tour. In recent years, he also headlined festivals including Bonnaroo, Outside Lands, and Glastonbury, drawing the festival’s biggest crowd ever with more than 200,000 attendees.
Richie took fans on a spectacular musical journey with his latest album, Live from Las Vegas along with his most recent tour, the “Hello” tour, which kicked off in summer 2019. The album, which was released on August 16, 2019, was No. 1 on the Billboard Artist 100 chart. The album also marks the legendary artist’s first release on Capitol Records.
Richie was a judge on ABC’s “American Idol” for the past four seasons and is back in the ‘judge’s’ chair for the fifth season.He launched his Las Vegas headlining residency show, Lionel Richie — All the Hits in April 2016. In an unforgettable evening featuring his brightest and best anthems that have defined the music icon’s unparalleled career, Richie took his fans on a spectacular musical journey, performing a variety of his seminal hits. Richie recently extended his “Back to Las Vegas” residency at Wynn Las Vegas’ Encore Theater.
About the Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song
The Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song honors living musical artists whose contributions in the field of popular song exemplify the standard of excellence associated with George and Ira Gershwin, by promoting the genre of song as a vehicle of cultural understanding; entertaining and informing audiences; and inspiring new generations of musicians.
In making the selection for the prize, the Librarian of Congress consulted leading members of the music and entertainment communities, as well as curators from the Library’s Music Division, American Folklife Center and National Audio-Visual Conservation Center.
The Gershwin name is used in connection with the Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song courtesy of the families of George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin. GERSHWIN® is a registered trademark of Gershwin Enterprises.
The Library of Congress is the world’s largest library, offering access to the creative record of the United States — and extensive materials from around the world — both on-site and online. It is the main research arm of the U.S. Congress and the home of the U.S. Copyright Office. Explore collections, reference services and other programs and plan a visit atloc.gov; access the official site for U.S. federal legislative information atcongress.gov; and register creative works of authorship at copyright.gov.
About WETA
WETA is the leading public broadcaster in the nation’s capital, serving Virginia, Maryland and the District of Columbia with educational initiatives and with high-quality programming on television, radio and digital. WETA Washington, D.C., is the second-largest producing-station for public television in the United States, with news and public affairs programs, including “PBS NewsHour,” and “Washington Week;” performance specials, including “In Performance at the White House,” “The Kennedy Center Mark Twain Prize,” “National Memorial Day Concert,” and “A Capitol Fourth;” films by Ken Burns and Florentine Films, including “Muhammad Ali” and “Benjamin Franklin;” series and documentaries by Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr., including “Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.” and “Making Black America: Through the Grapevine;” and health content from Well Beings, a multiplatform campaign that includes original broadcast and digital content, engagement campaigns, and impactful local events, and the forthcoming documentary “Hiding in Plain Sight: Youth Mental Illness.” More information on WETA and its programs and services is available at www.weta.org. Visit www.facebook.com/wetatvfm on Facebook or follow @WETAtvfm on Twitter.
About PBS
PBS, with more than 330 member stations, offers all Americans the opportunity to explore new ideas and new worlds through television and digital content. Each month, PBS reaches over 120 million people through television and 26 million people online, inviting them to experience the worlds of science, history, nature and public affairs; to hear diverse viewpoints; and to take front row seats to world-class drama and performances. PBS’ broad array of programs has been consistently honored by the industry’s most coveted award competitions. Teachers of children from pre-K through 12th grade turn to PBS for digital content and services that help bring classroom lessons to life. Decades of research confirms that PBS’ premier children’s media service, PBS KIDS, helps children build critical literacy, math and social-emotional skills, enabling them to find success in school and life. Delivered through member stations, PBS KIDS offers high-quality educational content on T.V. – including a 24/7 channel, online at pbskids.org, via an array of mobile apps and in communities across America. More information about PBS is available at www.pbs.org, one of the leading dot-org websites on the internet, or byfollowing PBS on Twitter, Facebook or through our apps for mobile and connected devices. Specific program information andupdates for press are available at pbs.org/pressroom or byfollowing PBS Communications on Twitter.
About the Corporation for Public Broadcasting
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting, a private, nonprofit corporation created by Congress in 1967, is the steward of the federal government’s investment in public broadcasting. It helps support the operations of more than 1,500 locally managed and operated public television and radio stations nationwide. CPB is also the largest single source of funding for research, technology and program development for public radio, television, and related online services. For more information, visit cpb.org, follow us on Twitter @CPBmedia, Facebook and LinkedIn and subscribe for email updates.
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Brett Zongker, Library of Congress, bzongker@loc.gov | Lameka Lucas, WETA, llucas@weta.org
Website: Gershwin Prize, loc.gov/gershwin
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International superstar Lionel Richie boasts a discography of albums and singles that is second to none. With more than 125 million albums sold worldwide, an Oscar®, Golden Globe®, and four Grammy Awards®*, Richie has been honored with distinctions including 2016 MusicCares Person of the Year, 2017 Kennedy Center Honors, and the 2022 Gershwin Prize for […]
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Richie is known for his mega hits such as “Endless Love,” “Lady,” “Truly,” “All Night Long,” “Penny Lover,” “Stuck on You,” “Hello,” “Say You, Say Me,” and “Dancing on the Ceiling.” He co-wrote the 1985 song “We Are the World,” recorded by the history-making supergroup USA for Africa. Richie’s song catalog also includes his early work with The Commodores, where he developed a groundbreaking style that defied genre, penning smashes such as “Three Times a Lady,” “Still,” and “Easy.” Richie is one of only two solo songwriters who has written eight number one hits that made the Billboard Hot 100 chart.
A dedicated philanthropist, in 2019 Richie was named Global Ambassador and first Chairman of the Global Ambassador Group for The Prince’s Trust, a charity founded by King Charles III. In this role, Richie supports the charity as it sets to work on a new global remit, tackling issues such as youth education and unemployment, supporting indigenous youth and helping build sustainable communities. Richie was also honored at 2019’s Annual Power of Love Gala in Las Vegas for his support of Keep Memory Alive, the Cleveland Clinic’s center for improving the lives of those affected by brain disorders.
Now completed his 6th season, Richie serves as a judge on ABC’s “American Idol.” His 7th season on the panel is set to debut in spring 2024. Also in 2024, Richie continues his longtime residency, now at the Wynn Encore Theater, in “Lionel Richie: King of Hearts.” In 2023, Richie concluded his acclaimed 20-city “Sing A Song All Night Long” arena tour featuring special guests—one of the best-selling bands of all time—Earth, Wind & Fire. The tour kicked off in St. Paul, with stops across North America in Chicago, Toronto, and New York, and finished with a showstopping performance at the Kia Forum in Los Angeles.
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Dolly Parton, Pat Benatar and Lionel Richie are among acts voted into Rock Hall
The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame's 2022 class leans heavily on pop hitmakers from the 1980s, but also includes rapper Eminem and country star Dolly Parton, who initially rejected her nomination.
The Gershwin Prize for Popular Song is going to pop star Lionel Richie
Richie, responsible for a seemingly endless catalog of hits, will be awarded the songwriting prize this spring by the Library of Congress.
Nashville's Love For Lionel Richie Runs Deep
One of pop's greatest crossover artists, Lionel Richie's latest album is a collection of his biggest hits sung as duets with some of Nashville's biggest stars. It's the biggest-selling new album of 2012, but a quick look at the charts shows there are plenty of other country songs made in his image.
A Cover Album Is A Tiny Museum Of Songs
Looking back over several new (and drastically different) albums of cover songs reveals that it's been a very good year for assertive, interpretive pop music.
Hello? Is This The Country Album You're Looking For?
On Tuskegee, country artists like Tim McGraw help re-imagine the ballads that made Lionel Richie famous.
Hello? Is This The Country Album You're Looking For?
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Are you ready to go back in time with some old-school jams? Because Lionel Richie and Earth, Wind & Fire are bringing their most memorable songs on the road with them this summer for the “Sing A Song All Night Long Tour.” Today (March 6), Richie made the video announcement on Instagram. The 73-year-old songwriter wore a black shirt and jacket as he shared the news while fans could watch glimpses of past performances of the Alabama native and the popular ’70s/’80s band.
“Well, my friends, the time has come to announce a tour,” the “Easy” songwriter said. “Not just any tour, but the tour I’ve been trying to do for years. And now it’s going to actually happen. ‘Sing A Song All Night Long.’ Lionel Richie, Earth, Wind, & Fire, together on the same stage, and I’m inviting you to the party. So join us; this is the place you need to be.”
Richie rose to fame in the 1970s as a songwriter and the co-lead singer of the Motown group Commodores. In 1981, he wrote and produced the single “Endless Love,” which he recorded as a duet with fellow icon Diana Ross. A year later, Richie launched his solo career with his debut album, Lionel Richie. It sold over 4 million copies.
Now, the four-time Grammy Award-winning singer judges the singing competition show “American Idol.” He joined during its 16th season and has held onto his chair ever since. The show has launched several well-known artists’ careers, including EGOT recipient Jennifer Hudson, Fantasia, Jordan Sparks, and Ruben Studdard.
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Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden Honors Lionel Richie with the Gershwin Prize for Popular Song.
With former Gershwin Prize honoree Gloria Estefan performing “Dancing on the Ceiling” to open the festivities, Lionel Richie received the 2022 Gershwin Prize for Popular Song at a gala taped recently at Constitution Hall. The celebratory concert airs at 9 pm Tuesday, May 17, on PBS (check local listings), streaming on PBS.org and on the PBS app.
The concert, hosted by actor and comedian Anthony Anderson, features musical tributes to Richie by Estefan, Boyz II Men, Luke Bryan, Andra Day, Chris Stapleton, Miguel, and Yolanda Adams, with a special performance by Richie himself.
The Tuskegee, Ala., native, who has sold more than 125 million albums worldwide and has won an Oscar, a Golden Globe and four Grammys, said his message was that love is the only answer. “I travel the world, and all people really want me to say is ‘I love you,’” he said. “All they want to hear is, ‘I love you.’ … ‘I love you’ is forever, the only words the world wants to hear. And the day we realize we’re a family, and not a tribe … the day that happens, we will clearly be united, together, as one.”
The Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song is bestowed in recognition of the legendary songwriting team of George and Ira Gershwin to celebrate the work of artists whose careers reflect their influence, impact, and achievement in promoting song as a vehicle of musical expression and cultural understanding. The honoree is selected by the Librarian of Congress in consultation with a board of scholars, producers, performers, songwriters, and other music specialists. Previous recipients are Paul Simon, Stevie Wonder, Sir Paul McCartney, songwriting duo Burt Bacharach and the late Hal David, Carole King, Billy Joel, Willie Nelson, Smokey Robinson, Tony Bennett, Emilio and Gloria Estefan, and Garth Brooks.
“Lionel Richie: The Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song” is a co-production of WETA Washington, D.C.; Bounce, a division of Concord Music Group; and the Library of Congress. Major funding was provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
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ABC and dick clark productions announced that legendary performer, musician, producer and "American Idol" TV personality Lionel Richie will be honored with the prestigious Icon Award at the "2022 American Music Awards" (AMAs), the world's largest fan-voted award show, making him the only artist in history to be featured on the AMAs stage in every decade since the show's inception. The Icon Award honors an artist whose body of work has marked a global influence over the music industry. As part of the recognition, the 17-time AMA winner will take the stage to accept his 18th award and look back on his most iconic songs and AMA achievements over the years. Hosted by Wayne Brady, the "2022 American Music Awards" will air live from the Microsoft Theater at L.A. LIVE in Los Angeles on Sunday, Nov. 20, at 8:00 p.m. EST/PST on ABC and stream the next day on Hulu.
International superstar Lionel Richie has an unparalleled ability to masterfully blend a variety of music, from pop to country. As a songwriter and performer, Richie has sold more than 125 million albums sold worldwide and has received numerous awards throughout his storied career including an Oscar®, four GRAMMYS®, and a Golden Globe® among other notable industry distinctions. As a performer, his incomparable music catalog has earned him 12 No. 1 hits and 13 Top 10 hits on the Billboard Hot 100 Charts, and led to collaborations with some of the industry's iconic personalities, such as Kenny Rogers, Diana Ross and Barbra Streisand. Richie's 12 No. 1 hits were released in 11 consecutive years, ranging from his No. 1 hit in 1977 with the Commodores, "Easy," to a consecutive string of other No. 1 successes including "All Night Long (All Night)," "Say You" and "Dancing on the Ceiling." Richie penned the Kenny Rogers song "Sail," which spent six weeks at No. 1. Embarking on a new chapter in 1981, Richie launched his solo career with a multiweek No. 1 hit, "Truly"; and later his album "Can't Slow Down" had five chart-topping singles including his memorable hit "All Night Long" and is on record as the biggest selling album in the history of Motown Records. In 1985, Richie co-wrote the global anthem "We Are the World" with Michael Jackson, recording with more than 45 artists surrounding the American Music Awards. The song spent four weeks as the No. 1 on the Hot 100 and charted around the world, helping to raise millions of dollars to support famine relief efforts in Africa and went on to win multiple GRAMMYS. He took home the Academy Award® for "Best Song" in 1986, where he was in contention twice in the same category for his hit composition of "Say You, Say Me," for the film "White Nights." In 2016, Richie was named the MusiCares Person of the Year and was the recipient of the coveted Johnny Mercer Prize by the Songwriters Hall of Fame. In 2017, Richie received the Kennedy Center Honors Award and in 2022, Richie was awarded the Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Richie sold out arenas worldwide on his All The Hits, All Night Long Tour and has headlined festivals including Bonnaroo, Outside Lands and Glastonbury. He launched his Las Vegas headlining residency show Lionel Richie - All the Hits in April 2016, and his subsequent 2019 album Live from Las Vegas hit No. 1 on the Billboard Artist 100 chart upon release. The album brought fans inside the spectacular musical journey of his brightest and best anthems that have defined his unparalleled career. Richie extended his "Back to Las Vegas" residency at Wynn Las Vegas' Encore Theater with a 22-show engagement in 2022. Richie serves as a judge on ABC's "American Idol" and is currently filming his fifth season on the show.
"I'm immensely grateful for a career that has taken me to places I never imagined that I'd go, from arenas worldwide to studio sets to the AMA stage," said Richie. "I can recall one of the first times I got to perform at the AMAs. It was to sing 'We Are the World' among the most iconic musicians of my generation, so it is surreal to be receiving this recognition 36 years later."
The definition of an icon, Richie has won 17 AMAs over the course of his career, starting with the 1979 hit pop/rock single "Three Times a Lady" with the Commodores. Richie won again in 1980 with the Commodores for Soul/R&B Group before going on to receive the bulk of his awards for his solo career. He took home two awards in 1982 for "Endless Love," two in 1983 for Pop/Rock Single ("Truly") and Soul/R&B Male, and the award for Favorite Soul/R&B Single for "All Night Long (All Night)" in 1984. The following year, Richie - who hosted the 1985 show - had a record-breaking evening, winning six AMAs in one night, including Pop/Rock Male and multiple video awards for "Hello." In 1987, he again took home Pop/Rock Male and earned four awards throughout the night. To this day, he holds the record for most music video AMAs with six wins and is among the most decorated AMA winners of all time as this year's Icon Award brings his total to 18 awards.
"Lionel Richie has had a profound impact on countless people around the world and on the music industry as a whole," said executive producer and showrunner Jesse Collins. "From the millions of dollars raised due to 'We Are the World' to the global influence his unique sound still has today, Richie is the definition of a living legend and honoring him with the AMAs Icon Award is a no-brainer."
As previously announced, the evening will feature can't-miss performances and collaborations from Carrie Underwood, Imagine Dragons, J.I.D., P!NK, Tems, Wizkid and Yola. Additional performers will be announced in the coming weeks.
About the "2022 American Music Awards":
- The AMAs represents the year's top achievements in music determined by the fans, for the fans. Last year's show stands as the most social telecast of 2021 with 46.5 million interactions, underscoring the role fans play in the annual event. A vibrant night of non-stop music, the AMAs features a powerful lineup featuring first-time collaborations and exclusive world premiere performances from music's biggest names - from Pop to Rap, R&B to Country, Latin to K-Pop – and more, as well as memorable moments that live on in pop culture.
- As the world's largest fan-voted awards show, the AMAs will air globally across a footprint of linear and digital platforms in more than 120 countries and territories.
- Fan voting is now open via VoteAMAs.com and Twitter in all award categories, except Favorite K-Pop Artist. Voting for Favorite K-Pop Artist will open Tuesday, Nov. 1.
- The "2022 American Music Awards" winners are voted entirely by fans. Nominees are based on key fan interactions - as reflected on the Billboard charts - including streaming, album and song sales, radio airplay and tour grosses. These measurements are tracked by Billboard and its data partner Luminate, and cover the eligibility period of Sept. 24, 2021, through Sept. 22, 2022.
- The "2022 American Music Awards" are produced by dick clark productions and Jesse Collins Entertainment. Jesse Collins is showrunner and executive producer. Dionne Harmon, Jeannae Rouzan-Clay and Larry Klein are also executive producers. For the latest AMA news, exclusive content and more, follow the AMAs on social (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, Snapchat and YouTube), online at theamas.com and ABC.com, and join the conversation by using the official hashtag for the show, #AMAs.
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Limited vinyl LP repressing. Lionel Richie is the eponymous debut solo studio album by pop/soul singer/songwriter Lionel Richie, released on October 6, 1982 on Motown Records. It was recorded and released while Richie was still a member of the Commodores; he would leave the group shortly after the album's release. The first single from the album, "Truly", topped the Billboard Hot 100. Follow-up single "You Are" reached #4, and "My Love" reached #5. The album was also a hit, reaching #1 on the Cashbox albums chart on December 11, 1982. As well as featuring English musician Thomas Dolby on synthesizers, Joe Walsh provided the guitar solo for the song "Wandering Stranger".
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Lionel Richie is turning 75 this year (just like we are!) and we’re celebrating with a special birthday edition of the Vault of Soul. If you haven’t been following along, each week of Black Music Month, we’ve opened the 88.9 Vault of Soul with profiles of iconic soul pioneers. Continue reading to read about how Lionel Richie continues to spark influence, from the ’80s to today.
By Avieana Rivera, Music Coordinator
BIOGRAPHY
Lionel Richie was born on June 20th, 1949 in Tuskegee, Alabama. Growing up, his father worked as a stem analyst for the U.S. Army and his mother was an educator. Richie was raised on the campus of Tuskegee Institute, where his grandfather had worked alongside the college’s founder, Booker T. Washington, who later gifted the home to their family. Richie’s grandmother, Adelaide Mary Brown, taught him how to play the piano and introduced him to classic composers. It was then when he developed a diverse music taste, ranging from classical compositions, to rhythm and blues.
COMMODORES
This music taste would serve him well throughout his time at Tuskegee Institute, where he eventually enrolled as an undergraduate. It was there where he met Thomas McClary and William King. Together, they formed their band the Mystics, where Richie played the saxophone. The Mystics later combined with another student band called the Jays. This added members Andre Callahan, Michael Gilbert and Milan Williams, and solidified the formation of Commodores. They started off playing local gigs at fraternities. They shuffled through a few different band members before Richie got his turn in the spotlight as a lead singer. Eventually, Commodores landed a deal with Atlantic Records, however it wasn’t until they switched over to Motown Records that their music started taking off. With Motown, Commodores were able to open for the Jackson 5, and soon after release their debut album Machine Gun. Throughout their ’80s reign, Commodores heavily influenced the music scene, blending funk and soul music into their own sound, and doing it time and time again. Lionel Richie was a big part of this, as his voice, lyrics and image permeated the band’s image.
CAN’T SLOW DOWN: RICHIE GOES SOLO
In 1982, after almost a decade of hits, the band decided to take a hiatus. It was during this time that Lionel Richie was encouraged by the label and other members of the band to record a solo album. His self-titled, debut album was released in October of that year, and was a massive success, selling 4 million copies and containing three hit singles. It also won him his first Grammy: Best Male Pop Vocal Performance for the song “Truly.” This success led him to pursue a solo career, being the first member to leave the band. His second album, Can't Slow Down, fittingly came only a year later, and was an even bigger hit than the first. The album sold over double what the previous had, and earned Richie two Grammy nominations. This massive break at the start of the decade painted Richie as a pivotal figure in the ’80s. His voice defined a generation, and his songs were loved for decades to come. He would go on to release nine more studio albums and start a family, eventually learning to slow down along the way. Nowadays, Richie works as a judge on American Idol, gifting his wisdom to a younger generation of musicians.
SONGWRITING SUCCESS
While he was still with the Commodores, Richie honed his skills as a songwriter, not only for the band, but also for other artists. Some of his most notable songs written during this time were “Happy People,” which he gave to The Temptations, and “Lady,” which he gave to Kenny Rogers.
Richie also had a lot of his songs appear in films. His song “Say You, Say Me” was written for the 1985 film White Nights, and won Richie his first and only Academy Award. In 1981, Richie collaborated with Diana Ross on the title song for the film Endless Love. This song was a huge success, and would later become one of Motown’s biggest hits. It was nominated for a Grammy, an Oscar, and a Golden Globe award. The pair worked together again on “Missing You,” a song that Richie wrote and produced for Ross. In an interview, Richie attributed his songwriting success to God, calling Him his co-composer. Richie maintains that he is simple the middle-man, and that God is the one telling him what to write.
WHO INFLUENCED LIONEL RICHIE
Marvin Gaye
Diana Ross
Al Green
Elton John
James Taylor
WHO LIONEL RICHIE INFLUENCED
Ne-yo
Pharrell Williams
Tim Mcgraw
Babyface
AWARDS AND HONORS
Grammy Award, Best Male Pop Vocal Performance, “Truly” (1983)
Grammy Award, Album of the Year, Can’t Slow Down, (1985)
Grammy Award, Producer of the Year, Non-Classical (1985)
Grammy Award, Song of the Year, “We are the World” (1986)
Academy Award, Best Original Song, “White Nights” (1986)
Golden Globe Award, Best Original Song, “White Nights” (1986)
American Music Award, Favorite Soul/R&B Single “All Night Long (All Night)” (1984)
American Music Award, Favorite Pop/Rock Male Artist (1985)
American Music Award, Favorite Pop/Rock Male Artist (1987)
BET Lifetime Achievement Award (2014)
Berklee College of Music, Honorary Doctorate
SPOTLIGHT TRACKS
“TRULY” (1982)
“Truly” is the first taste fans ever got of Lionel Richie as a solo artist. The song came as the debut single off of his debut album, Lionel Richie. “Truly” went number one on the Billboard charts in just a month, and proved to Richie that he could have a successful solo career. The song starts off slowly, showcasing Richie’s stellar vocals and highlighting his lyrical genius. The song takes off to a steady pace, building an almost jazzy tune while maintaining a classic ballad feel. The mix of strings in the background and the clear pitch of Richie’s vocals makes it feel like he’s singing this love song directly to you. Finally, the song erupts as Richie bels out an impressive high note, before ending as fast as it begun. This song is catchy, and there’s no wondering why fans loved (and continue to love) it as much as they did.
“HELLO” (1984)
“Hello” was a single off of Richie’s second album, Can’t Slow Down. The song went number one on three Billboard charts, and features the iconic line “Hello, is it me you’re looking for?” The powerhouse ballad tells the story of unrequited love. The music video for “Hello” features Richie as an art teacher, who falls in love with a blind student. In the video he follows her around and sings to her as she goes about her school day. Eventually, he realizes that the student feels the same way after she makes a sculpture of his head in class. The song, however, does not share this resolution, ending in a lonely “Hello?”
“WE ARE THE WORLD” (1985)
“We are the World” was a charity single written by Lionel Richie and Michael Jackson and recorded by a supergroup under the name USA for Africa. The song was written in order to raise money for famine relief in Africa and did just that. The group consisted of Richie, Jackson, Kenny Rogers, Stevie Wonder, Paul Simon, James Ingram, Dionne Warwick, Willie Nelson, Al Jarreau, Bruce Springsteen, Kenny Loggins, Bruce Perry, Daryl Hall, Huey Lewis, Kim Carnes, Bob Dylan, Ray Charles, Tina Turner, Billy Joel, Cyndi Lauper, and Diana Ross. The song alone raised over $60 million for famine relief with more money raised from merchandise and promotions. It “We are the World” was the first song ever certified multi-platinum. It later won three Grammy Awards, one American Music Award, and a People's Choice Award.
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International superstar Lionel Richie boasts a discography of albums and singles that is second to none. With more than 125 million albums sold worldwide, an Oscar®, Golden Globe®, and four Grammy Awards®*, Richie has been honored with distinctions including 2016 MusicCares Person of the Year, 2017 Kennedy Center Honors, and the 2022 Gershwin Prize for Popular Song by the Library of Congress. In 2022, he was both inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and received the 2022 American Music Awards Icon Award, his 18th AMA award. The legendary singer, songwriter, producer, and Tuskegee, Alabama native is a true music icon.
Richie is known for his mega hits such as “Endless Love,” “Lady,” “Truly,” “All Night Long,” “Penny Lover,” “Stuck on You,” “Hello,” “Say You, Say Me,” and “Dancing on the Ceiling.” He co-wrote the 1985 song “We Are the World,” recorded by the history-making supergroup USA for Africa. Richie’s song catalog also includes his early work with The Commodores, where he developed a groundbreaking style that defied genre, penning smashes such as “Three Times a Lady,” “Still,” and “Easy.” Richie is one of only two solo songwriters who has written eight number one hits that made the Billboard Hot 100 chart.
A dedicated philanthropist, in 2019 Richie was named Global Ambassador and first Chairman of the Global Ambassador Group for The Prince’s Trust, a charity founded by King Charles III. In this role, Richie supports the charity as it sets to work on a new global remit, tackling issues such as youth education and unemployment, supporting indigenous youth and helping build sustainable communities. Richie was also honored at 2019’s Annual Power of Love Gala in Las Vegas for his support of Keep Memory Alive, the Cleveland Clinic’s center for improving the lives of those affected by brain disorders.
Now completed his 6th season, Richie serves as a judge on ABC’s “American Idol.” His 7th season on the panel is set to debut in spring 2024. Also in 2024, Richie continues his longtime residency, now at the Wynn Encore Theater, in “Lionel Richie: King of Hearts.” In 2023, Richie concluded his acclaimed 20-city “Sing A Song All Night Long” arena tour featuring special guests—one of the best-selling bands of all time—Earth, Wind & Fire. The tour kicked off in St. Paul, with stops across North America in Chicago, Toronto, and New York, and finished with a showstopping performance at the Kia Forum in Los Angeles.
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“We are the world/We are the children/We are the ones who make a brighter day/So let’s start giving/There’s a choice we’re making/We’re saving our own lives/It’s true we’ll make a better day/Just you and me” Lyrics by Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie: “We Are the World” January 1985.
DJ Dave note: The day that I published this music blog article, March 7, 2024, was the 39th anniversary of when the USA for Africa single and video for “We Are the World” was released: 3/7/85.
One of the best musical documentaries that I have viewed this decade is “The Greatest Night in Pop.” The 2024 film focuses on a charity single called “We Are the World” which was recorded over the course of a 12-hour period during late January 1985.
I want to thank my friend Jerry English for giving me the idea and inspiration for this latest music blog message. I am grateful that Jerry encouraged me to watch “The Greatest Night in Pop” film last month and I highly recommend viewing this outstanding documentary.
While I won’t be giving a review of “The Greatest Night in Pop” movie, I will be sharing about certain aspects of the film, the recording of “We Are the World”, and the songs significance in modern music history.
I also will be communicating what I consider to be the best 1980s singles by 15 of the artists who had solo vocal lines within the 1985 charity song. Every song that I will be listing was a major pop hit during the 80s.
“We Are the World” was written by Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie, with Quincy Jones and Michael Omartian producing the song which was recorded by a supergroup of pop artists called USA for Africa.
According to “The Greatest Night in Pop” documentary, over 40 pop artists assembled at A&M Recording Studios in Hollywood, California, to record final vocal tracks for the “We Are the World” song.
Michael Jackson arrived first for this historic musical event around 8:00 pm. Soon after scores of other artists came on the scene, with many coming directly from the American Music Awards happening that evening, including the host of the annual music ceremony Lionel Richie.
Around 10:30 pm, Quincy Jones gathered the vocal artists and musicians together to start the recording process. This assembled multitude worked throughout the night during their marathon recording session completing the final audiotape at 8:00 am.
Six weeks later on March 7, 1985, “We Are the World” was released as a single. The song was an immediate hit: Reaching number 1 on three Billboard charts: R&B Singles chart, Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks listing and the Hot 100 Pop singles survey, where it spent 4 weeks at the top spot.
After “We Are the World” was released, it was honored by multiple music awards. In 1986, the song achieved 4 Grammy Awards. The single also received awards by MTV for its music video, a People’s Choice Award and an American Music Award.
The original inspiration for artists to come together and record a song for African famine relief came from Harry Bellafonte. He is quoted on the USA for Africa website about the lasting effect of the “We Are the World” single:
“In 1985, the music industry and the world came together in an unprecedented outpouring of generosity in response to the tragic famine wreaking havoc in Africa at the time. The biggest names in music ‘checked their egos at the door’ to create what was and still is a worldwide phenomenon.”
Bellafonte continues: “The recording of the original We Are the World sold more than 7 million records worldwide. The worldwide sale of that record generated more than $60 million which has been used to assist Africa and Africans affected by the famine and other critical issues since 1985. The song became and remains the people’s anthem and continues to be revered and loved globally.”
Below are artists who sang solo parts on the “We Are the World” song:
Lionel Richie
Stevie Wonder
Paul Simon,
Kenny Rogers,
James Ingram
Tina Turner
Billy Joel
Michael Jackson
Diana Ross,
Dionne Warwick
Willie Nelson
Al Jarreau
Bruce Springsteen
Kenny Loggins
Steve Perry
Daryl Hall
Huey Lewis
Cyndi Lauper
Kim Carnes
Bob Dylan
Ray Charles
For the remainder of this message, I will convey what I consider to be the best and most memorable 80s pop hits, by 15 of the artists who had solo parts on the “We Are the World” recording. The songs that I have selected were all major top 40 singles from 1980 through 1989.
The top 15 songs and artists that I have picked are entirely based on my opinions. My selections are singles that I deem to be culturally, historically, aesthetically significant, meaningful or relevant.
In researching historical musical data for this article, I used “The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits” by Joel Whitburn for documentation. The placement of singles on the countdown derives solely on my favorability of songs and not on how I rate each of the artists listed.
Now without further ado, here is my countdown of 15 outstanding singles from “We Are the World” singers:
15. That’s What Friends Are For—Dionne Warwick: 1985
Positions on Billboard Charts: #1 Hot 100, The #1 biggest single of 1986
That’s What Friends Are For” was written by Burt Bacharach and Carole Bayer Sager and was recorded as a charity single for AIDS research and prevention. The 45-rpm record label says: “Dionne and Friends” who were Elton John, Gladys Knight, and Stevie Wonder. Won two Grammy Awards in 1986.
14. Lady—Kenny Rogers: 1980
Positions on Billboard charts: #1 Hot 100, 3rd biggest song of 1986
Lionel Richie wrote and produced “Lady” for Kenny Rogers. It was the first song of the 80s to chart on all four Billboard singles charts – Country, Hot 100, Adult Contemporary and Hot Soul. Rated as the 10th biggest single in the 80s decade. Biggest selling song in Rogers’ career.
13. On the Road Again—Willie Nelson: 1980
Positions on Billboard Charts: #1 Hot Country, #7 Adult Contemporary, #20 Hot 100
Country crossover hit. Written by Willie Nelson for the movie “Honeysuckle Rose.” The artist also starred as the lead actor in the 1980 film. Won a Grammy Award for “Best Country Song.” Became the 9th number one country hit for the singer-songwriter and is considered a signature song for Nelson.
12. Upside Down—Diana Ross: 1980
Positions on Billboard Charts: #1 Hot 100, 18th Biggest song of 1980
“Upside Down” was written and produced by Nile Rodgers and Bernard Edwards, who were members of the R&B band Chic in 1980. Big international hit for Diana Ross. Billboard ranks single at #80 on their “Hot 100, 60th Anniversary” chart.
11. Betty Davis Eyes—Kim Carnes: 1981
Position on Billboard Charts: #1, Hot 100, The #1 biggest single of 1981
Written in 1973 by Jackie De Shannon and Donna Weiss. Signature song for Kim Cranes. Single spent nine non-consecutive weeks at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100. Won 2 Grammys Awards for Song of the Year” and “Record of the Year.”
10. Footloose—Kenny Loggins: 1984
Peak Positions on Billboard Charts: #1 Hot 100, 4th Biggest Song of 1984
Kenny Loggins co-wrote “Footloose” with Dean Pitchford for a 1984 movie that shares the same name as the Loggins’ song. It was the biggest selling single for the “yacht rock” music maestro. The first of two number 1 hits from the “Footloose” film (“Let’s Hear It for the Boy” by Denise Williams was second #1 single from movie).
9. Girls Just Want to Have Fun–Cyndi Lauper: 1984
Peak Positions on Billboard Charts: #2 Hot 100, 15th Biggest Song of 1984
Singer-songwriter Cyndi Lauper wrote “Girls Just Want to Have Fun” which was her debut single from the album “She So Unusual.” Has become a feminist anthem and signature song for Lauper. Won top honors with a MTV Music Video Award and an American Video Award for this successful clip.
8. You Can Call Me Al—Paul Simon: 1986
Peak positions with Billboard Charts: #15 Adult Contemporary, #23 Hot 100
A world-wide hit for singer-songwriter Paul Simon who penned this song for the 2-time Grammy winning album “Graceland.” Artist used African musicians on single, mixing pop, rock, jazz and zydeco, with musical styles that originated in South Africa. Biggest hit for Simon during the 80s.
7. What’s Love Got to Do with It—Tina Turner: 1984
Peak Positions on Billboard Charts: #1 Hot 100, 2nd Biggest Song of 1984
Comeback song for Tina Turner and became her biggest selling single. “What’s Love Got to Do with It” received 3 Grammy Awards: for “Record of the Year”, “Song of the Year” and “Best Female Pop Vocal Performance.” Was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1989.
6. Oh, Sherrie—Steve Perry: 1984
Peak Positions on Billboard Charts: #3 Hot 100, 33rd Biggest Song of 1984
First solo single for Steve Perry from the album “Street Talk.” Artist was still a member of Journey when “Oh, Sherrie” was a hit song during the summer of ’84. Was the biggest selling solo single by the outstanding rock vocalist.
5. Born in the USA—Bruce Springsteen: 1984
Peak Positions on Billboard Charts: #9 Hot 100, 92nd Biggest Hit of 1984
Title track from the Bruce Springsteen 1983 album “Born in the USA.” One of the best-known songs by the Boss. The third of 7 top ten singles on the Billboard Hot 100 from legendary LP (1983-1985). The song is still a staple on classic rock radio stations here in 2024.
4. We Didn’t Start the Fire—Billy Joel: 1989
Peak Positions on Billboard Charts: #1 Hot 100, 35th Biggest Song of 1989
Billy Joel wrote the lyrics of “We Didn’t Start the Fire” which document historical, political, cultural and sports highlights between the years 1948 and 1989. The “Piano Man” sings in a rapid paced manner that calls for multiple listens to comprehend all of the historical events mentioned. Joel still performs this song as the first encore selection at every one of his 2024 concerts.
3. The Power of Love—Huey Lewis: 1985
Positions on Billboard Charts: #1 Hot 100, 15th Biggest Song of 1985
“The Power of Love” was written by Huey Lewis, along with Lewis Hayes and Johnny Colla for the 1985 film “Back to the Future. The single is backed up by Lewis’ band the News and became that band’s first #1 chart topping song. It was one of the biggest singles from the summer of ’85.
2. All Night Long (All Night)—Lionel Richie: 1983
Peak Positions on Billboard Charts: #1 Hot 100, 12th Biggest Song of 1984
The most successful solo single by the former lead singer of the Commodores. Written by Lionel Richie, “All Night Long” has a diversity of musical elements: pop, rock, and R&B, mixed with a Caribbean/African beat. This Richie signature song is still a favorite to play at wedding receptions this decade.
Man in the Mirror—Michael Jackson: 1988
Peak Positions on Billboard Charts: #1 Hot 100, 21st Biggest Song of 1988
My number 1 song on the countdown is by the “King of Pop” Michael Jackson. “Man in the Mirror” was written by Glen Ballard and Siedah Garrett, produced by Quincy Jones and Jackson.
The Andraé Crouch Choir recorded background gospel vocals on the song and it became Jackson’s 4th consecutive single from the 1987 “Bad” album to peak at number 1 on the Billboard Hot 100.
The message of the lyrics offer encouragement: “I’m starting with the man in the mirror/I’m asking him to change his ways/And no message could have been any clearer/If you wanna make the world a better place/Take a look at yourself and then make a change.”
“Man in the Mirror” is my favorite Michael Jackson solo song of all-time and I am glad to proclaim this excellent song to be my number 1 single of outstanding pop hit by artists who had solo vocals on “We Are the World.”
That wraps up my countdown on what I consider to be the 15 best singles from the “We Are the World” solo singers. I completely understand that my listing of 80s singles in this category was written from my point of view and is subjective.
If you were creating a similar register of excellent 80s pop hits by the same artists, your tabulation may be totally different. What do you consider to be the best singles by the “We Are the World” pop stars? I hope you will comment below.
In closing, I must ask this question: Is the recording in late January 1985 of “We Are the World” the greatest night in pop? Obviously, the answer to this query is debatable.
I will say that the assembly of over 40 artists for “We Are the World” has to be considered the greatest gathering ever of pop music superstars with the recording of this historic session. It may never be duplicated again.
Will there ever be another version of fundraising similar to what pop artists did with “We Are the World” in 1985? I am hoping that type of event will happen this century. Rock on!
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The song, from his first, self-titled solo album, was the follow-up to his chart-topping duet with Diana Ross, “Endless Love,” from the film of the same name. “Truly” continued Richie’s pre-eminence as a balladeer, going to the top of both the Adult Contemporary chart and the pop pinnacle, where it replaced Joe Cocker & Jennifer Warnes’ “Up Where We Belong.” It went on to reach No.6 in the UK, and to win a Grammy Award in the Best Male Pop Vocal category.
Hot ta trot indeed
That success is part of a unique statistic in Richie’s songwriting story, which is that from 1976 to 1986, in a run of 11 years, he wrote or co-wrote a No.1 song on the US pop and/or R&B charts every year. The sequence began with his first bestseller as a writer for the Commodores, “Just To Be Close To You,” which topped the R&B list in 1976 and was followed by their hits “Easy” (1977), “Too Hot Ta Trot” and “Three Times A Lady” (1978), and “Still” in 1979. The latter pair were also pop No.1s.
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In 1980, Lionel branched out by writing Kenny Rogers’ pop champion “Lady,” after which came “Endless Love” (which topped both charts) and then “Truly.” Between 1983 and ’85, “All Night Long (All Night),” “Hello” and “Say You, Say Me” were all winners on both the pop and R&B surveys, and “Say You” was actually No.1 from 1985 into the early part of 1986, giving Richie that incredible 11-year run.
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Slippery When Wet
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Once Lionel Richie sat down at the piano and exhibited his sensitive side, The Commodores became primarily known for romantic balladry. When they started out, steamy funk was their specialty.
They came together on the campus of Tuskegee Institute, an all-black college in Alabama, as a merger of two local combos. Guitarist Thomas McClary (born October 6, 1949 in Eustis, Florida), Richie (born June 20, 1949 in Tuskegee and then on sax), and trumpeter William ‘WAK’ King (born January 30, 1949 in Birmingham, Ala.) had been with The Mystics, while keyboardist Milan Williams (born March 28, 1948 in Okolona, Mississippi) came in from The Jays. Bassist Michael Gilbert and drummer Andre Callahan completed the ranks. They chose their name when either a blindfolded McClary or King placed his finger on the word ‘commodore’ in a dictionary.
Then Callahan went into the Air Force. The diminutive Walter ‘Clyde’ Orange (born December 10, 1946 in Jacksonville, Florida) was his replacement. “I had my own group called the J-Notes,” says Orange. “I had a full-paid scholarship to go to Alabama State as a percussionist.” He flew to New York and joined the band. “We definitely did a lot of James Brown stuff,” notes Clyde. “James Brown, Wilson Pickett, we did whoever was hot at the time.” Manager Benny Ashburn brought them to New York during the summers; they played around Tuskegee while attending school. Their debut album was a quick affair. “In two hours’ time, it was cut,” says Clyde. “They turned on the machine and said play.” Only a single from the session, Rise Up, appeared on Atlantic in 1969. Then Gilbert got drafted. In came Ronald LaPread.
An extended gig opening on a Jackson 5 tour led to big things for The Commodores. “Benny went in and did his job, and got us signed with Motown,” says Orange. At first they inherited everyone’s leftover material, but their promising ’72 MoWest debut The Zoo (The Human Zoo) saw them working with writer/producers Gloria Jones and Pam Sawyer. It didn’t hit. “It was hard for anyone to capture what the Commodores were doing,” says Clyde. “You’d see us in concert, and there was all this energy, but they didn’t know how to harness and capture this energy on record.”
Finally they found someone who knew how, right under Motown’s studio roof. “We would walk in sometimes, and we always saw this young man named James Carmichael,” says Clyde of the busy staff arranger. “We were there to do a session with someone, I’ve forgotten exactly who, and we said, almost at the same time, ‘That is the guy we need!’” After a month in Tuskegee woodshedding with Carmichael, The Commodores were ready. James implored them to write their own material. A funk-soaked instrumental penned by Williams initially titled The Ram caught Berry Gordy’s ear. “He said, ‘“The Ram?” What does that mean?’” recalls the drummer. “’It sounds like machine guns to me!’” The retitled funkfest Machine Gun went to #5 R&B in 1974, followed by the #12 entry I Feel Sanctified before year’s end.
With McClary’s crackling guitar lines keeping the funk red-hot, Slippery When Wet, penned by McClary and Orange, was The Commodores’ first R&B chart-topper in July of ’75, achieving a #19 pop showing. Carmichael supervised its recording at Motown’s L.A. studios (Detroit was by now a distant memory for the label). 1977’s Brick House was another funk juggernaut. But the group’s focus shifted.
“I was the main lead singer at the time. But when it came down to recording, Carmichael didn’t hear my voice. He heard Lionel Richie,” says Orange, “that pop-R&B.” Richie’s country-tinged approach took precedence on Just To Be Close To You (1976), Easy (1977), Three Times A Lady (1978), Sail On, and Still (both 1979), all soft, intimate ballads that he penned and fronted. Richie went solo in a big way with Endless Love, his ‘81 platinum duet with Diana Ross. Motown had itself another superstar whose genre-obliterating music dominated the ‘80s. McClary split too.
The Commodores picked up British-born vocalist J.D. Nicholas and kept right on going on Motown. Nightshift, their heartfelt ’84 tribute to fallen heroes Marvin Gaye and Jackie Wilson, proved yet another R&B chart-topper. Clyde, WAK, and J.D. still have their latest edition of The Commodores on the road.
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Lionel Brockman Richie Jr. (born June 20, 1949) is an American singer, songwriter, 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 number one single "Lady" for Kenny Rogers.
In 1981, 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. In 1982, he 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".
Richie's second album, Can't Slow Down (1983), reached number one on the US Billboard 200 chart and sold over 20 million copies worldwide, becoming one of the best-selling albums of all time; and spawned the number one singles "All Night Long (All Night)" and "Hello". He then co-wrote the 1985 charity single "We Are the World" with Michael Jackson, which sold over 20 million copies. His third album, Dancing on the Ceiling (1986), spawned the number one single "Say You, Say Me" (from the 1985 film White Nights) and the No. 2 hit title track. From 1986 to 1996, Richie took a break from recording; he has since then released seven studio albums. He has joined the singing competition American Idol to serve as a judge, starting from its sixteenth season (2018 to present).
During his solo career, Richie became one of the most successful balladeers of the 1980s, and has sold over 100 million records worldwide, making him one of the world's best-selling artists of all time. He has won four Grammy Awards, including Song of the Year for "We Are the World", and Album of the Year for Can't Slow Down. "Endless Love" was nominated for an Academy Award; while "Say You, Say Me" won both the Academy Award and the Golden Globe award for Best Original Song. In 2016, Richie received the Songwriters Hall of Fame's highest honor, the Johnny Mercer Award. In 2022, he received the Gershwin Prize for Popular Song by the Library of Congress; as well as the American Music Awards Icon Award. He was also inducted into Black Music & Entertainment Walk of Fame, and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2022.
Early life
Richie was born on June 20, 1949, in Tuskegee, Alabama, the son of Lionel Brockman Richie (1915–1990), a U.S. Army systems analyst, and Alberta R. Foster (1917–2001), a teacher and school principal. His grandmother Adelaide Mary Brown was a pianist who played classical music. On March 4, 2011, he appeared on NBC's Who Do You Think You Are?, which found out that his maternal great-grandfather was most likely the biological son of federal judge and slaveowner Morgan Welles Brown. He was also the national leader of an early Black American fraternal organization. Notably, J. Louis Brown was:
[P]rincipal organizer and Supreme Grand Archon of the Knights of Wise Men, a fraternal organization for black men in the post-Civil War period. Formed in Nashville in 1879, it was a fraternal insurance and burial benefit society, as were so many others during the period.
Richie grew up on the campus of Tuskegee Institute. Their family home was given to his grandparents as a gift from Booker T. Washington. He graduated from Joliet Township High School, East Campus in Joliet, Illinois. A star tennis player in Joliet, he accepted a tennis scholarship to attend Tuskegee Institute, where he was a member of the marching band, the Marching Crimson Pipers , and graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in economics with a minor in accounting.
Richie considered studying divinity to become a priest in the Episcopal Church, in which he had been baptised, but ultimately decided he was not "priest material" and decided to continue his musical career despite not knowing how to read or write music. He is a member of Kappa Kappa Psi, a national honor fraternity for band members, and an active life member of Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity.
Career
Commodores
Main article: Commodores
As a student in Tuskegee, Richie formed a succession of R&B groups in the mid-1960s. In 1968, he became a 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 initially as a support act to The Jackson 5. The Commodores then became established as a popular soul group. Their first several albums had a danceable, funky sound, as in such tracks as "Machine Gun" and "Brick House". Over time, Richie wrote and sang more romantic, easy-listening ballads such as "Easy", "Three Times a Lady", "Still", and the breakup ballad "Sail On".
In 1974, Richie achieved his first commercial success as a songwriter with "Happy People", which he co-wrote with Jeffrey Bowen and Donald Baldwin. Originally intended as a Commodores track, it was recorded by The Temptations, who had their No. 1 R&B with the song. By the late 1970s, Richie had begun to accept songwriting commissions from other artists. He wrote "Lady" with Kenny Rogers, which hit No. 1 in 1980, and produced Rogers' album Share Your Love the following year. Richie and Rogers maintained a strong friendship in later years. Latin jazz composer and salsa romantica pioneer La Palabra enjoyed international success with his cover of "Lady", which was played at Latin dance clubs. Also in 1981, Richie sang the title theme song for the film Endless Love, a duet with Diana Ross. Issued as a single, the song topped the Canada, Brazil, Australia, Japan, New Zealand and US pop music charts, and became one of Motown's biggest hits.
Solo career
Richie's 1982 debut solo album, Lionel Richie, contained three hit singles: the U.S. number-one song "Truly", which continued the style of his ballads with the Commodores and launched his career as one of the most successful balladeers of the 1980s, and the top five hits "You Are" and "My Love". The album hit No. 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 two Grammy Awards, including Album of the Year, propelling him into the first rank of international superstars. The album contained the number-one hit "All Night Long", a Caribbean-flavored dance number that was promoted by a colorful music video produced by former Monkee Michael Nesmith. In 1984, he performed "All Night Long" at the ending ceremony of the XXIII Olympic Games in Los Angeles.
Several more Top 10 hits followed, the most successful of which was the ballad "Hello" (1984), a sentimental love song that showed how far he had moved from his R&B roots. Richie had three more top ten hits in 1984, "Stuck on You" (No. 3), "Running with the Night" (No. 7) and "Penny Lover" (No. 8), as well as writing and producing "Missing You" for former labelmate and duet partner Diana Ross (No. 10 Pop, No. 1 R&B). In 1985, he wrote and performed "Say You, Say Me" for the film White Nights. The song won an Academy Award and reached No. 1 on the U.S. charts, staying there for four weeks, making it the number-two song of 1986 according to Billboard's Year-End Hot 100 chart, behind the charity single "That's What Friends Are For" by Dionne and Friends. He also collaborated with Michael Jackson on the charity single "We Are the World" by USA for Africa, another number-one hit.
In 1986, 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.S. No. 1), "Dancing on the Ceiling" (U.S. No. 2), "Love Will Conquer All" (U.S. No. 9), "Ballerina Girl" (U.S. No. 7), and "Se La" (U.S. No. 20). He made his return to recording and performing following the release of his first greatest-hits collection, Back to Front, in 1992.
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, sticking instead with his chosen path of well-crafted soul music, which in the intervening years has become known as contemporary R&B.
Richie's albums in the late 1990s such as Louder Than Words and Time failed to match the commercial success of his earlier work. Some of his recent albums, such as Renaissance and Just for You, have returned to his older style and achieved success in Europe but only modest notice in the United States.
Later career
Richie was the headliner at a 2006 Fourth of July tribute concert with Fantasia Barrino at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. On May 7, 2006, Richie performed on the main stage (Acura Stage) at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, replacing Antoine "Fats" Domino, who had fallen ill. Richie released his eighth studio album titled "Coming Home" on September 12, 2006. The first single of the album was "I Call It Love" and was premiered in July 2006, becoming his biggest hit in the U.S. in ten years. The album was a success for Richie in the United States, peaking at No. 6.
On May 2, 2008, Richie was the 21st recipient of the George and Ira Gershwin Lifetime Achievement Award at UCLA's annual Spring Sing. In accepting the award, Richie said: "Forget about surviving 30 some odd years in the music business, Lionel Richie survived 27 years of Nicole Richie."
In May 2009, Richie announced that he would like to get The Commodores back together soon. An album, Just Go, was released in 2009. On July 7, 2009, Richie performed "Jesus is Love" at Michael Jackson's memorial service.
Richie returned to Australia in 2011 where he and guest artist Guy Sebastian toured the country and New Zealand with concert dates throughout March and April. Richie and Guy Sebastian recorded Richie's 1983 number-one single "All Night Long" together to raise money for Australian floods and New Zealand earthquake relief.
On March 26, 2012, Richie released his tenth studio album, Tuskegee, which featured 13 of his hit songs performed as duets with country stars. The album returned him to the top of the Billboard 200 chart, his first number one album there since Dancing on the Ceiling, and achieved platinum status within six weeks of release.
On June 28, 2015, Richie played to an audience of between 100,000 and 120,000 people at the Glastonbury Festival, England. His show was described as "triumphant" by the BBC and was followed by his return to the top of the UK albums chart with a reissued compilation album of his work as both a solo artist and with the Commodores. In September 2017, ABC announced that Richie would be a judge for the revival of American Idol. Richie has been a judge on the reboot for seven seasons, including 2024.
In May 2017, Richie was honored at Berklee College of Music during its 2017 commencement concert when graduating students performed a medley of his discography. Richie was also awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Music. On December 3, 2017, Richie received the Kennedy Center Honors. In October 2017, it was reported that Richie had secured the rights to produce a Curtis Mayfield biopic.
On March 25, 2019, Richie announced a 33-date tour across North America for the summer. His 'Hello Tour' started in May at Arlington's KAABOO Festival and ran through August.
In May 2023, Richie was invited to be a headline act at Windsor Castle for the Coronation Concert, in celebration of the Coronation of Charles III and Camilla. Richie is the First Global Ambassador and First Chairman of the Global Ambassador Group for the Prince's Trust.
Popularity in the Arab world
Richie is a popular musician in various Arab states, and has performed in Morocco, the United Arab Emirates, Egypt and Libya. John Berman for ABC News reported in 2006 that "Grown Iraqi men get misty-eyed by the mere mention of his name. 'I love Lionel Richie,' they say. They can sing an entire Lionel Richie song." Berman wrote that Richie said he was told that Iraqi civilians were playing "All Night Long" the night U.S. tanks invaded Baghdad. Richie was against the war and has said he would like to perform in Baghdad someday.
Personal life
On October 18, 1975, Richie married his college sweetheart, Brenda Harvey. In 1983, 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. The Richies raised Nicole as their daughter and adopted her legally when she was nine years old.
In June 1988, Harvey was arrested and charged with corporal injury to a spouse, resisting arrest, trespassing, vandalism, battery, and disturbing the peace after she found Richie at Diane Alexander's Beverly Hills apartment. Richie and Harvey divorced on August 9, 1993, after nearly 18 years of marriage. Richie married Diane Alexander on December 21, 1995. They have a son, Miles Brockman Richie (born May 27, 1994), and a daughter, Sofia Richie (born August 24, 1998). The marriage ended in 2004.
Richie suffered prolonged throat problems and had surgery four times in four years before being told by conventional doctors that he could lose his singing career. He then turned to a holistic doctor who said the problem was simply acid reflux caused by foods Richie was eating before going to bed.
Richie became a grandfather in 2008 when Nicole Richie gave birth to a baby girl with Joel Madden, lead singer of the rock band Good Charlotte. Richie's second grandchild was born to the couple in 2009.
Richie is a Freemason.
Richie helped to raise over $3.1 million for the Breast Cancer Research Foundation. Richie told the crowd that his grandmother was diagnosed with breast cancer in her 80s, but that she survived and lived until she was 103 years old. He stated that she was his enduring symbol of hope and his reason for becoming a breast cancer activist.
Awards and honors
Main article: List of awards received by Lionel Richie
Richie has won four Grammy Awards including Song of the Year in 1985 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.
Richie was the first person to receive an RIAA diamond album award.
Richie has been nominated for two Golden Globe awards and won one. In 1982, he was nominated for Best Original Song for the film Endless Love. In 1986, he was nominated and won the award for Best Original Song for the song "Say You, Say Me", featured in the film White Nights. This song also won the Academy Award for Best Original Song.
Tours
Headlining
Running With the Night Tour (1984)
The Outrageous Tour (1986–1987)
In Concert (1998–2001)
The One World Tour (2004)
Coming Home Tour (2007)
Just Go Tour (2009)
Tuskegee Tour (2012)
All the Hits, All Night Long (2013–2016)
All the Hits Tour (with Mariah Carey) (2017)
Hello! Hits Tour (2019)
Sing a Song All Night Long Tour (with Earth, Wind & Fire) (2023–2024)
Discography
See also: Lionel Richie discography
Solo albums
Lionel Richie (1982)
Can't Slow Down (1983)
Dancing on the Ceiling (1986)
Louder Than Words (1996)
Time (1998)
Renaissance (2000)
Just for You (2004)
Coming Home (2006)
Just Go (2009)
Tuskegee (2012)
With Commodores
Machine Gun (1974)
Caught in the Act (1975)
Movin' On (1975)
Hot on the Tracks (1976)
Commodores (1977)
Natural High (1978)
Midnight Magic (1979)
Heroes (1980)
In the Pocket (1981)
Filmography
Television
Year Title Role Notes 2007 The Simpsons Himself (voice) Episode "He Loves to Fly and He D'ohs" 2011 Who Do You Think You Are? Himself Episode: "Lionel Richie" 2012 Sport Relief 2012 Barman Sketch: "Mo Farah and Misery Bear" 2014 Oprah's Master Class Himself Episode: "Lionel Richie" 2018–present American Idol Himself Judge, Season 16–present 2019 American Housewife Himself Episode: "American Idol" 2020 Jeopardy! The Greatest of All Time Himself Episode: "Match 1" 2022 Jeopardy! Himself Contestant; One episode
Film
Year Title Role Notes 1977 Scott Joplin The Minstrel Singers Credited as The Commodores 1978 Thank God It's Friday Himself with The Commodores 1991 Madonna: Truth or Dare Himself Documentary 1996 The Preacher's Wife Britsloe 1998 Pariah Lavender Mob 2019 The Black Godfather Himself Documentary 2022 Studio 666 Himself 2024 The Greatest Night in Pop Himself Documentary
See also
In Spanish: Lionel Richie para niños
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Cover performances by Josh Gray, Mali Koa, VC Pines, Fiona Bevan, Jacob Neverhill and Nora Bart
Collaboration is part of Concord Music Publishing’s REimagined initiative
Rolling out weekly at YouTube.com/mahoganysessions and across streaming platforms http://mhgny.lnk.to/Covers
As one of the world’s leading music publishers, home to over 400,000 copyrighted songs, Concord Music Publishing is a treasure chest of some of the world’s most celebrated compositions.
In the latest evolution of the publisher’s REimagined series, Concord has partnered with Mahogany to showcase a selection of their evergreen and iconic 80s classics, performed by some of the most exciting new and emerging talent, under the platform’s COVERS brand.
REimagined, a sync and exploitation led initiative by the publisher, has seen the showcasing of catalogues including Andrew Lloyd Webber and Apple, the publishing arm of the Beatles label. The results have led to placements including Lyra’s version of the 1969 Jackie Lomax classic New Day on ITV’s Love Island and for leading e-bike Vanmoof’s European ad campaign.
For their 80s REimagined series, Concord Music Publishing have included copyrights from Lionel Richie (Hello), Phil Collins (Against All Odds), Cyndi Lauper (Time After Time), John Farnham (You’re The Voice), Wilson Philips (Hold On) and Genesis (I Can’t Dance).
Formed in 2018, the Mahogany COVERS brand has been bringing together the greatest songs ever written and placing them in the capable hands of some of the UK’s most promising artists. The Concord sync team worked with Mahogany on the creative direction of the new recordings from Mali Koa, Flownn, Jacob Neverhill, VC Pines and Fiona Bevan.
Sara Lord, SVP International Sync and Project Development at Concord Music Publishing comments, “For our 3rd annual live REimagined event of the 80s we had a great plan involving a chequered dance floor and blow up flamingos strewn about the place… sadly that was not to be, so we wanted a partner who knew how to make something virtual feel as close to being in the actual room as possible.
“Mahogany were a dream to work with, and their COVERS channel a natural fit. They understood what we needed and ultimately together we’ve created some wonderful sync friendly covers from our 80s catalogue. Oh and still managed to all have a disgustingly sweet Blue Lagoon cocktail whilst sporting mirror ball encrusted sunglasses. Job done.”
Imogen Reay, Sync Associate at Concord Music Publishing comments, “REimagined has always been a highlight in the sync team, and I’m so thankful that 2020 got to be the year of the 80s – we needed that energy. After carefully selecting the tracks at the start of the year (not knowing just how literal Genesis’ I Can’t Dance was going to become!) we took the brief to Mahogany COVERS. James and the team brought some epic independent talent to the project, combined with our own Josh Gray with Goldfingers and Fiona Bevan. Hearing them all transform these tracks and watching it all filmed in the slick COVERS aesthetic was a real high point. I can’t wait for the results to be shared with the world!”
Mahogany Partnerships Director, James Gaster, adds, “Working with the Concord team has been an absolute pleasure. We’ve really felt the benefit of their forensic knowledge of their catalogue and writers. It was great to collaborate as we selected the artists, connected those artists to the right songs and ensured that the arrangement, instrumentation and performance of those songs captured not only the magic of the song, as it was first written, but also giving each an entirely original feel which we expect to bring new audiences and sync placements to the songs and these artists.”
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
MALI-KOA
Sydney born vocalist and songwriter Mali-Koa holds in high esteem the power of a well-written song.
Featured on JP Cooper’s All This Love and H Block’s INK Numbers Game, she also received her first international writing cut with artist G-Eazy on his title track The Beautiful and Damned. All steadfast signs that the focus for the artist remains in the simplicity of good music and collaborative work. “At the end of the day, when a song speaks to you in volumes effortlessly. That’s the kind of music I want to make.”
FLOWNN
With a musical career spanning ten years, Flownn is the debut solo offering from Sophie-Rose Harper. With a history of fronting bands since 2011 and touring with the likes of Michael Kiwanuka, Paolo Nutini, Laura Mvula, Mystery Jets and Bruce Springsteen, Flownn has been in development since 2019, working with producers like Model Man, Pablo Nouvelle and Pearse Macintyre, she has honed her sound of distinct, honeyed vocals and bold, refreshing electro-pop.
JACOBNEVERHILL
JacobNeverhill is carving a name for himself with his ability to craft ethereal vocal melodies and atmospheric pop. The singer-songwriter and producer is an artist that fully dedicates himself to creating intimate soundscapes that anyone can appreciate and find a deep connection with. Drawing upon influences such as The 1975 and Kevin Garret.
VC PINES
VC Pines aka Jack Mercer is totally immersed in a well of alternative soul, poetry and punk performance.
Alongside a seven-piece band – The Violet Collective, VC Pines delivers deep organ drones and trills to provide the dark underbelly for this gritty alt-soul avenue, sugarcoated by seventies-esque trumpet and trombone.
Fiona Bevan
Fiona Bevan is a Canadian-British songwriter, singer and multi-instrumentalist from Suffolk, UK, with a sweet, fiery voice and soulful, cinematic folk sound creating “startling odysseys that suggest Erykah Badu, Joanna Newsom and Kate Bush spine-tinglingly joined” (The Guardian).
Her latest EP, ‘Wild Angels Sweet Demons’ went to number 3 in the iTunes UK and France singer-songwriter charts.
Nora Bart
Nora Bart is a singer-songwriter from the Netherlands, now residing in the UK. Inspired by the works of Tory Kelly, John Mayer and Alessia Cara, Nora’s music carries the raw honesty of who she is in the songs that she writes and performs. Nora released her first record in April this year titled Speak Your Mind, which had already amassed several thousand streams and has been featured on a number of playlists. Nora is set to release some new music in the new year but after her success with artist JacobNeverhill on their duet record Lost, she is currently focussing on a covers EP project to be released through Mahogany Records.
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The nation’s library, musical artists and American leaders honored pop music icon Lionel Richie in the nation’s capital on Wednesday, March 9, as he was awarded the Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song during an all-star tribute concert.
The lineup includes performances by previous Gershwin Prize honoree Gloria Estefan, Boyz II Men, Luke Bryan, Andra Day, Chris Stapleton, Miguel, Yolanda Adams, and a special performance by honoree Lionel Richie. Actor and comedian Anthony Anderson will host the event. The concert is by invitation only.
PBS stations will broadcast the concert — “Lionel Richie: The Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song” — at 9 p.m. ET on Tuesday, May 17 (check local listings) and on PBS.org and the PBS Video App as part of the co-produced Emmy Award-winning music series. It will also be broadcast to U.S. Department of Defense locations around the world via the American Forces Network.
Richie also appeared at the Library on Monday, March 7, at 7 p.m. ET in conversation with Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden. The event was streamed live on the Library’s YouTube channel and was open to the public with seating at a reduced capacity on a first-come, first-serve basis.
A songwriting superstar of the first order and 2022 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame nominee, Richie is known for his mega-hits such as “Endless Love,” “Lady,” “Truly,” “All Night Long,” “Penny Lover,” “Stuck on You,” “Hello,” “Say You, Say Me” and “Dancing on the Ceiling.” He also co-wrote one of the most important pop songs in history, “We Are the World,” for USA for Africa. His song catalog also includes his early work with The Commodores, where he developed a groundbreaking style that defied genre categories, penning smashes such as “Three Times a Lady,” “Still,” and “Easy.” Richie achieved the incredible distinction of writing No. 1 songs for 11 consecutive years.
Beyond his own impressive music career, Richie has mentored young artists as a judge on ABC’s “American Idol” for the past four seasons and is back for the fifth season.
Richie’s songs are part of the fabric of pop music and American culture. The Tuskegee, Alabama, native has sold more than 125 million albums worldwide. He has won an Oscar®, a Golden Globe®, four Grammy Awards®*, the distinction of MusicCares Person of the Year in 2016, and was a Kennedy Center Honoree in 2017.
“This is truly an honor of a lifetime, and I am so grateful to be receiving the Gershwin Prize for Popular Song,” Richie said.“I am proud to be joining all the other previous artists, who I also admire and am a fan of their music.”
Bestowed in recognition of the legendary songwriting team of George and Ira Gershwin, the Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song celebrates the work of artists whose careers reflect their influence, impact and achievement in promoting song as a vehicle of musical expression and cultural understanding. The honoree is selected by the Librarian of Congress in consultation with a board of scholars, producers, performers, songwriters and other music specialists. Previous recipients are Paul Simon, Stevie Wonder, Sir Paul McCartney, songwriting duo Burt Bacharach and the late Hal David, Carole King, Billy Joel, Willie Nelson, Smokey Robinson, Tony Bennett, Emilio and Gloria Estefan, and Garth Brooks.
“Lionel Richie: The Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song” is a co-production of WETA Washington, D.C.; Bounce, a division of Concord Music Group; and the Library of Congress. The executive producers are Carla Hayden for the Library of Congress and John F. Wilson for WETA Washington, D.C. The producers are Tim Swift and Bill Urban for Bounce; and Susan H. Vita and Jarrod MacNeil for the Library of Congress. The program director is Jerry Foley. The writer is Neal Kendall. Major funding is provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Wells Fargo is the presenting sponsor. Funding is also provided by AARP; The Ira and Leonore Gershwin Philanthropic Fund and The Leonore S. Gershwin Trust for the benefit of the Library of Congress Trust Fund Board, Michael Strunsky, trustee; Universal Music Group; the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers; and William C. Burton. Air transportation is provided by United Airlines.
About Lionel Richie
International superstar Lionel Richie has a discography of albums and singles that are second to none. With more than 125 million albums sold worldwide, he has been awarded an Oscar®, a Golden Globe®, four Grammy Awards®*, the distinction of MusicCares Person of the Year in 2016, and was a Kennedy Center Honoree in 2017.In March 2018,Richie put his handprints and footprints in cement at the TCL Chinese Theatre IMAX in Hollywood, one of the oldest awards in Hollywood. He recently received the Ivor Novello PRS for Music Special International Award.
Richie sold out arenas worldwide with a set list of his brightest and best anthems on his All The Hits, All Night Long Tour. In recent years, he also headlined festivals including Bonnaroo, Outside Lands, and Glastonbury, drawing the festival’s biggest crowd ever with more than 200,000 attendees.
Richie took fans on a spectacular musical journey with his latest album, Live from Las Vegas along with his most recent tour, the “Hello” tour, which kicked off in summer 2019. The album, which was released on August 16, 2019, was No. 1 on the Billboard Artist 100 chart. The album also marks the legendary artist’s first release on Capitol Records.
Richie was a judge on ABC’s “American Idol” for the past four seasons and is back in the ‘judge’s’ chair for the fifth season.He launched his Las Vegas headlining residency show, Lionel Richie — All the Hits in April 2016. In an unforgettable evening featuring his brightest and best anthems that have defined the music icon’s unparalleled career, Richie took his fans on a spectacular musical journey, performing a variety of his seminal hits. Richie recently extended his “Back to Las Vegas” residency at Wynn Las Vegas’ Encore Theater.
About the Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song
The Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song honors living musical artists whose contributions in the field of popular song exemplify the standard of excellence associated with George and Ira Gershwin, by promoting the genre of song as a vehicle of cultural understanding; entertaining and informing audiences; and inspiring new generations of musicians.
In making the selection for the prize, the Librarian of Congress consulted leading members of the music and entertainment communities, as well as curators from the Library’s Music Division, American Folklife Center and National Audio-Visual Conservation Center.
The Gershwin name is used in connection with the Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song courtesy of the families of George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin. GERSHWIN® is a registered trademark of Gershwin Enterprises.
The Library of Congress is the world’s largest library, offering access to the creative record of the United States — and extensive materials from around the world — both on-site and online. It is the main research arm of the U.S. Congress and the home of the U.S. Copyright Office. Explore collections, reference services and other programs and plan a visit atloc.gov; access the official site for U.S. federal legislative information atcongress.gov; and register creative works of authorship at copyright.gov.
About WETA
WETA is the leading public broadcaster in the nation’s capital, serving Virginia, Maryland and the District of Columbia with educational initiatives and with high-quality programming on television, radio and digital. WETA Washington, D.C., is the second-largest producing-station for public television in the United States, with news and public affairs programs, including “PBS NewsHour,” and “Washington Week;” performance specials, including “In Performance at the White House,” “The Kennedy Center Mark Twain Prize,” “National Memorial Day Concert,” and “A Capitol Fourth;” films by Ken Burns and Florentine Films, including “Muhammad Ali” and “Benjamin Franklin;” series and documentaries by Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr., including “Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.” and “Making Black America: Through the Grapevine;” and health content from Well Beings, a multiplatform campaign that includes original broadcast and digital content, engagement campaigns, and impactful local events, and the forthcoming documentary “Hiding in Plain Sight: Youth Mental Illness.” More information on WETA and its programs and services is available at www.weta.org. Visit www.facebook.com/wetatvfm on Facebook or follow @WETAtvfm on Twitter.
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PBS, with more than 330 member stations, offers all Americans the opportunity to explore new ideas and new worlds through television and digital content. Each month, PBS reaches over 120 million people through television and 26 million people online, inviting them to experience the worlds of science, history, nature and public affairs; to hear diverse viewpoints; and to take front row seats to world-class drama and performances. PBS’ broad array of programs has been consistently honored by the industry’s most coveted award competitions. Teachers of children from pre-K through 12th grade turn to PBS for digital content and services that help bring classroom lessons to life. Decades of research confirms that PBS’ premier children’s media service, PBS KIDS, helps children build critical literacy, math and social-emotional skills, enabling them to find success in school and life. Delivered through member stations, PBS KIDS offers high-quality educational content on T.V. – including a 24/7 channel, online at pbskids.org, via an array of mobile apps and in communities across America. More information about PBS is available at www.pbs.org, one of the leading dot-org websites on the internet, or byfollowing PBS on Twitter, Facebook or through our apps for mobile and connected devices. Specific program information andupdates for press are available at pbs.org/pressroom or byfollowing PBS Communications on Twitter.
About the Corporation for Public Broadcasting
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting, a private, nonprofit corporation created by Congress in 1967, is the steward of the federal government’s investment in public broadcasting. It helps support the operations of more than 1,500 locally managed and operated public television and radio stations nationwide. CPB is also the largest single source of funding for research, technology and program development for public radio, television, and related online services. For more information, visit cpb.org, follow us on Twitter @CPBmedia, Facebook and LinkedIn and subscribe for email updates.
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Media Contacts:
Brett Zongker, Library of Congress, bzongker@loc.gov | Lameka Lucas, WETA, llucas@weta.org
Website: Gershwin Prize, loc.gov/gershwin
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GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — A Grand Rapids insurance company announced Lionel Richie has signed on as its official brand ambassador.
Acrisure made the announcement Thursday.
We’re told Richie will engage with Acrisure’s social media communities to spread awareness for the company's services. He’ll also highlight the company’s shift toward becoming a Fintech services provider.
Acrisure says Richie chose to join their team for their innovative business practices and because the company aligns with his morals and professional ambitions.
"Acrisure could have coasted on its reputation as a massive player in the insurance industry, but it hasn't. Instead, it avoided the complacency that comes with success and has embraced innovation in so many ways. As a result, Acrisure has emerged as a true leader in the Fintech space," says Richie. "From what I've seen, its culture really values empathy – a sign that you can be focused on growth without forgetting where you started. At the end of the day, that's the type of company I want to work with."
The company previously landed the rights to name the home of the Pittsburgh Steelers "Acrisure Stadium."
READ MORE: Grand Rapids company makes deal to name stadium of NFL's Pittsburgh Steelers
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With his gift expressing emotion through music and his velvety smooth voice, Lionel Richie is one of the greatest singer/songwriters of his generation. In a career that spans five decades, his catalogue of songs are the playlists of generations of music lovers and have become classic standards for parties and weddings.
Richie rose to fame as singer and saxophonist with The Commodores, which formed in his hometown of Tuskegee, AL, and eventually contributed to writing some of their funky hits, such as “Brick House.” He later segued into and became known for writing ballads, such as “Easy” and the group’s first number one hit, “Three Times a Lady.”
During his time with the Commodores, Richie also found success writing hits for other artists, such as “Happy People” (as a co-writer) for The Temptations. In 1980, he and Kenny Rogers joined forces to cross pop and country, with Richie writing “Lady” for Rogers. This single charted on four “Billboard” charts, making it to number one on the Hot 100, Adult Contemporary and Country. The following year, Richie wrote another chart-topper, this time a duet he performed with Diana Ross. “Endless Love” would go on to become one of the most popular rock duets of all time, and lead to a successful solo career for Richie.
Throughout the 1980s, Richie became a music icon of that generation, at first with ballads reminiscent of his Commodore days, such as his first solo hit “Truly,” for which he won his first Grammy. As time passed, he crossed genres, and had hits across multiple charts, including pop, adult contemporary, R&B and even country. His 1983 album, “Can’t Slow Down,” features love ballads like “Hello,” upbeat dance tunes like “All Night Long” and his first country hit, “Stuck on You,” and won two Grammys, including Album of the Year. All three of his albums released in the 1980s have been certified multi-platinum, and five singles reached the number one spot on the Hot 100 chart.
In 1985, he and Michael Jackson co-wrote “We Are the World,” which was recorded by dozens of that era’s best-known artists as a charity to provide relief to famine-stricken areas of Africa. It’s gone on to become one of the top-ten best-selling singles of all time and won three overall Grammys, including one for Richie as Song of the Year.
Although he slowed down after his huge successes, Richie has continued to write and record, most recently and most successfully in 2012 with a country album called “Tuskegee,” named for his hometown. This album contains new versions of his previous hits, each recorded with a different country artist, including “Lady” with Rogers and “Easy” with Willie Nelson, and reached number one on the “Billboard” 200, eventually becoming another platinum album for the artist.
I have no doubt that if we could fast-forward 100 years, someone somewhere will be romancing a love with “My Love,” recovering from a breakup with “Easy” or “dancing on the ceiling” at a wedding. Richie’s timeless classics will live on, and he’s earned his spot in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Tour our gallery ranking his 15 best songs.
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SANTA MONICA, November 4, 2021 – Universal Music Publishing Group (UMPG), a leading, global music publisher, today announced that Grammy Award-winning recording artist and songwriter Lionel Richie has signed an exclusive, global publishing agreement. The deal includes songs written throughout Richie’s solo career including super hits “Hello,” “Lady,” “Dancing on the Ceiling,” “All Night Long,” and numerous others. With more than 125 million albums sold worldwide, six Grammy Awards, an Oscar and a Golden Globe, Richie (Capitol Records) is an international icon whose discography is a defining part of pop music. He is one of the only songwriters in ... more
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SANTA MONICA, November 4, 2021 – Universal Music Publishing Group (UMPG), a leading, global music publisher, today announced that Grammy Award-winning recording artist and songwriter Lionel Richie has signed an exclusive, global publishing agreement. The deal includes songs written throughout Richie’s solo career including super hits “Hello,” “Lady,” “Dancing on the Ceiling,” “All Night Long,” and numerous others.
With more than 125 million albums sold worldwide, six Grammy Awards, an Oscar and a Golden Globe, Richie (Capitol Records) is an international icon whose discography is a defining part of pop music. He is one of the only songwriters in history to have #1 records for eleven consecutive years, as well as one of only two songwriters to solely write eight #1 hits on the Billboard Hot 100. In addition to Richie’s extensive catalog of mega-hits like “Penny Lover,” Truly,” “Say You, Say Me” and “Ballerina Girl,” he co-wrote “We Are the World,” one of the most important and timeless pop songs in history.
Jody Gerson, Chairman and CEO of UMPG, said: “I am thrilled that Lionel Richie has chosen UMPG to take care of his song catalogue. I have known Lionel personally for years and have always wanted to be his publisher. I am so happy the day has finally come. We will be the best publisher Lionel has ever had. My teams around the world couldn’t be more excited to work with his illustrious catalogue of hits spanning many, many decades.”
Richie said: “Having partnered with Universal Music as recording artist for almost my entire career, joining the UMPG family as a songwriter feels like coming home. With their outstanding global team, I know my songs are in the best hands and I’m excited for what we can accomplish together.”
About Lionel Richie
International superstar Lionel Richie has a discography of albums and singles that are second to none. His music is part of the fabric of pop music. With more than 125 million albums sold worldwide, an Oscar®, a Golden Globe®, six Grammy Awards®*, the distinction of MusicCares Person of the Year in 2016, and Kennedy Center Honoree in 2017. In March 2018, Richie put his handprints and footprints in cement at the TCL Chinese Theatre IMAX in Hollywood, one of the oldest awards in Hollywood. He recently received the Ivor Novello PRS for Music Special International Award. The Tuskegee, Alabama native is a true music icon.
Lionel Richie is known for his mega-hits such as “Endless Love,” “Lady,” “Truly,” “All Night Long,” “Penny Lover,” “Stuck on You,” “Hello,” “Say You, Say Me,” “Dancing on the Ceiling,” and co-wrote one of the most important pop songs in history, “We Are the World,” for USA for Africa. His song catalog also includes his early work with The Commodores, where he developed a groundbreaking style that defied genre categories, penning smashes such as “Three Times a Lady,” “Still,” and “Easy.” Richie has had 11 consecutive years where he wrote #1 songs*.
Richie sold out arenas worldwide with a set list of his brightest and best anthems on his All The Hits, All Night Long Tour. In recent years, he also headlined festivals including Bonnaroo, Outside Lands, and Glastonbury, drawing the festival’s biggest crowd ever with more than 200,000 attendees.
Richie took fans on a spectacular musical journey with his latest album, Live from Las Vegas along with his most recent tour, the “Hello” tour, which kicked off in Summer 2019. The album, which was released on August 16, 2019 was #1 on the Billboard Artist 100 chart. The album also marks the legendary artist’s first release on Capitol Records.
Richie was a judge on ABC’s American Idol for the past 3 seasons and has returned to the ‘Judge’s’ chair for this 2021 season. He launched his Las Vegas headlining residency show, Lionel Richie—All the Hits in April 2016. In an unforgettable evening featuring his brightest and best anthems which have defined the music icon’s unparalleled career, Richie took his fans on a spectacular musical journey, performing a variety of his seminal hits. Richie’s Back to Las Vegas residency will start back up with newly announced concerts for Fall 2021.
* Grammy Awards include: Album of the Year (1984) – Can’t Slow Down, Best Male Pop Performance (1982) – Truly, Producer of the Year (1984), Song of the Year (1986) – We Are The World, Record of the Year (1986) – We Are The World, Best Group Pop Performance (1986) – We Are The World
* #1 songs include: 1976 Just to Be Close to You (R&B #1), 1977 Easy (R&B #1), 1978 Three Times a Lady, 1979 Still, 1980 Lady, 1981 Endless Love, 1982 Truly, 1983 All Night Long (All Night), 1984 Hello, 1985 Say You, Say Me + We Are The World, 1986 Dancing on the Ceiling (Radio & Records #1)
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Lionel Richie and Lisa Parigi's longtime relationship is one of the sweetest.
The music veteran met his now-girlfriend, who is 40 years his junior, at a dinner party after being introduced by mutual friends, and the two have been together ever since.
Prior to dating Parigi, Richie had been married to his high school sweetheart Brenda Harvey-Richie from 1975 to 1993, with whom he adopted daughter Nicole, as well as Diane Alexander from 1995 to 2004, with whom he shares kids Sofia and Miles.
During an April 2019 interview with PEOPLE, Richie discussed his relationship with Parigi and the lessons he's learned about love throughout the years.
"I'm a man who's been through the ups and the downs, the ins and the outs of love," he said, adding that he is still a "hopeless romantic." He added of Parigi, "She's extremely beautiful, but most importantly she's smart and helps me deal with my crazy world."
Over the years, Richie and Parigi have attended numerous events together, such as the 2023 Breakthrough Prize ceremony and the 2024 Grammys.
So, who is Lionel Richie's girlfriend? Here is everything to know about Lisa Parigi.
She grew up in Switzerland
Parigi was born and raised in Switzerland. She spoke about her upbringing during an interview with Harper's Bazaar Arabia, sharing that the weather in her home country wasn't her favorite and she prefers sunny Los Angeles, where she now lives with Richie. "We have four seasons and most of the time it just rains or either snows, so that's, you know, a little depressing," Parigi said.
She is also of Caribbean, Swiss and Chinese descent and can speak four languages fluently.
She's an entrepreneur
Parigi is the founder and CEO of the lifestyle brand The Estate Collection and the skincare line Glow Up Beauty. Her lifestyle brand sells candles and fragrance oils that are "influenced by travel + lust for life," according to its Instagram page, while her skincare brand focuses on providing vegan, sulfate-, paraben- and cruelty-free products.
Each candle in Parigi's candle collection is inspired by a luxury destination such as Beverly Hills, the Swiss Alps and St. Tropez.
She previously worked in tech
Prior to launching her own businesses, Parigi worked in the corporate technology industry. She previously held positions at numerous companies based in Geneva and Zurich, as she told Harper's Bazaar Arabia.
She and Richie met through mutual friends
Parigi shared the sweet story of how she and Richie met for the first time with Harper's Bazaar Arabia.
She was still living in Switzerland at the time and was invited to a dinner party while on a trip to L.A. Richie happened to be in attendance at the dinner, and the pair were introduced by mutual friends. When talking about their initial connection, Parigi shared that it felt organic and real right off the bat. "We had great conversations, we spoke all night long about everything," said Parigi. "It's been beautiful so far."
Her favorite Richie song is "Stuck On You"
Parigi is her boyfriend's biggest cheerleader, and when asked what her favorite song of Richie's was, she chose "Stuck On You."
The entrepreneur shared her memories of the song with Harper's Bazaar Arabia, explaining, "Although I go to literally almost every show, each time, it feels like I'm hearing it for the first time, so it captivates me, and it feels special."
She and Richie are dog parents
Parigi and Richie are proud parents to a dog named Sylvester. The canine has his own Instagram account, while also making frequent appearances on Parigi's Instagram account. Sylvester is an important aspect of the couple's life together, with the pet's Instagram bio declaring that he's "the boss of the house."
She's there for all of Richie's big moments
Parigi is by Richie's side for every moment, big and small. As Richie told PEOPLE in 2019, "At this time in my life when you can be so jaded about things, [my girlfriend] Lisa kind of makes everything feel a bit safe."
In 2017, Parigi accompanied Richie to Washington, D.C., along with his kids, to receive his Kennedy Center Honor. A few years later, in December 2019, the couple met Pope Francis at the Vatican. Parigi posted about the meeting on Instagram. She captioned the post in part, "So grateful I could share this magical moment with my love @lionelrichie."
She's close with Richie's kids
As evidenced by her Instagram, Parigi has grown close with Richie's kids, particularly his daughter Sofia. On Sofia's birthday in August 2022, Parigi shared a selfie of her, Richie and Sofia, captioned, "@sofiarichie You light up every room you walk into & your laugh is contagious. Celebrating you always.. Birthday Queen 👑 Love u so much Sof 💓."
A few months later, Parigi attended Sofia's bridal shower for her wedding to Elliot Grainge. "To a lifetime of love ✨ showering the bride to be with happiness & blessing😍 @sofiarichie," Parigi wrote alongside photos from the shower. Sofia wed Grainge on April 22, 2023, in the South of France.
Parigi has also shared photos of her spending time with the whole Richie family, including Nicole and Miles.
She attended King Charles and Queen Camilla's coronation concert with Richie
Ahead of King Charles and Queen Camilla's May 6, 2023, crowning ceremony, Parigi and Richie attended a garden party at Buckingham Palace. Parigi looked stunning in a blue floral gown with a white headpiece as she met both the King and Queen.
Parigi also attended the Coronation Concert, at which Richie performed, where she took a selfie with Richie, Sofia and Grainge.
She and Richie love to travel together
In June 2023, the couple celebrated Richie's 74th birthday in Amsterdam. They took a boat ride along the city's famous canals and stayed at the Waldorf Astoria.
"Celebrating my love 365 Days 🎂 you bring so much love & light to all of our lives… ✨ Amsterdam you are pure bliss!" Parigi wrote on Instagram alongside photos from the trip.
She and Richie have walked many red carpets together
Parigi is often Richie's plus-one to Hollywood events.
In February 2024, she accompanied the "All Night Long" singer to the Grammys in Los Angeles. Parigi dazzled in a three-piece white suit by Schiaparelli, while Richie looked dapper in an Alexander McQueen ensemble.
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Lionel Richie has inked an exclusive publishing agreement with Universal Music Publishing Group (UMPG), it was announced today (Nov. 4). This new relationship with the world’s second largest music publisher will include some of Richie’s most iconic songs, like “All Night Long (All Night)” “Hello,” “Lady,” and “Dancing On the Ceiling,” among others.
It also sees Richie’s publishing and records united under the Universal Music Group (UMG) umbrella after a six-year stint with Kobalt Music Publishing, a relationship first announced in September 2015. Richie remains in contract with Capitol Records for his master recordings.
Jody Gerson, the chairman and CEO of UMPG, says, “I am thrilled that Lionel Richie has chosen UMPG to take care of his song catalogue. I have known Lionel personally for years and have always wanted to be his publisher. I am so happy the day has finally come. We will be the best publisher Lionel has ever had. My teams around the world couldn’t be more excited to work with his illustrious catalogue of hits spanning many, many decades.”
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Alabama-born Lionel Richie first made his mark on music history as co-lead singer and songwriter for funk band The Commodores, one of Motown’s greatest exports. Over the course of nine studio albums from 1974’s Machine Gun to 1988’s Rock Solid, Richie penned career-defining hits like “Easy” and “Three Times A Lady,” both of which cracked the top 5 of Billboard’s Hot 100 chart at their peak.
By 1982, he was making hits for himself, launching his solo career with a self-titled solo album. Today, he’s one of music’s most decorated veterans, earning 32 Grammy nominations and eight total wins. Since establishing himself as one of the eighties’ greatest crooners, Richie has also been a judge on American Idol, held residencies in Las Vegas, and headlined festivals like Bonnaroo, Outside Lands and Glastonbury — drawing the festival’s largest crowd to date with more than 200,000 audience members.
“Having partnered with Universal Music as recording artist for almost my entire career, joining the UMPG family as a songwriter feels like coming home.” Richie explained. “With their outstanding global team, I know my songs are in the best hands and I’m excited for what we can accomplish together.”
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Lionel Brockman Richie Jr (born June 20, 1949 in Tuskegee) is a singer, songwriter, record producer, and television personality. He was a founding songwriter and co-lead singer of the Commodores; later a top-selling solo artist; and currently a celebrity judge for ABC's "American Idol" reality show.
Richie is the son of Lionel Richie Sr, a systems analyst for the U.S. Army, and Alberta Foster Richie, an educator and principal of Eliza Kelly Elementary School. Foster's mother, Adelaide Mary Brown, was a pianist and the choir director at Tuskegee Institute.
Richie grew up in the former Booker T. Washington residence just across from the campus, which Washington had presented to his grandparents as a gift. His grandmother taught him the piano and his uncle, a big band player and former arranger for Duke Ellington, gave him a saxophone.
Richie's family moved to Joliet, Illinois while he was in grade school, and he graduated from Joliet East High School in 1967. He accepted a tennis scholarship to Tuskegee, and returned to his familiar surroundings that fall. While he was walking across campus with his saxophone, another student asked if he could play and he was recruited into a trio called "The Mystics" with Thomas McClary and William King, playing local parties and dances. They merged with another group, "The Jays" in 1968 and, after flipping through a dictionary, settled on the name "Commodores" for the expanded group, which expanded its range to bookings in Mississippi and Louisiana.
Producer Jerry Williams was impressed when he saw the Commodores in Tuskegee and brought them to New York City for a recording session in February 1969. Despite not making a big splash with that record, they hired Benny Ashburn as manager and formed the "Commodores Entertainment Corporation" . Ashburn booked them at a lawyers' convention in New York where Suzanne De Passe, creative assistant to Motown founder Barry Gordy, heard them. She signed them to open for the Jackson Five in the 1970 and 1971 tours. The group soon signed a recording contract with Motown subsidiary MoWest Records.
Meanwhile, Richie, who had once considered a divinity degree, completed his bachelor of science in economics at Tuskegee in 1974. He married Brenda Harvey on October 18, 1975. As the Commodores' main songwriter, he steered the band from their early dance-funk sound toward more R&B-style ballads. One of his songs, "Happy People", which was co-written by Jeffrey Bowen and Donald Baldwin, ended up being recorded by The Temptations and reaching No. 1 on the R&B charts.
While performing with the Commodores, Richie continued to work with other artists. He produced Kenny Rogers' 1980 album "Share Your Love" and wrote the hit song "Lady" for it. His composition "Endless Love" was recorded as a duet with him and Diana Ross as the title track for the 1981 feature film. He ultimately decided to embark on a career as a solo artist in 1982.
Richie's first solo album for Motown sold more than 4 million copies and boasted three hit singles, "Truly" (for which he won the Grammy for "Best Male Pop Vocal Performance"), "You Are", and "My Love". He doubled his sales with the follow up, "Can't Slow Down", which featured the hit single "All Night Long", and was named Album of the Year at the Grammy Awards. That album later became the first record to be "Certified Diamond" by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).
Richie spent most of the mid-1980s on the pop charts with "Hello", "Stuck on You", "Running with the Night" and "Penny Lover" all reaching the top 10 in 1984. Diana Ross also hit the top 10 with "Missing You", which Richie wrote and produced. His 1985 song "Say You, Say Me" for the film "White Nights" was the 2nd biggest hit of 1985 and won an Academy Award for Best Original Song. Also that year, Richie worked with Michael Jackson to write "We Are the World" to benefit USA for Africa, a project initiated by Harry Belafonte which garnered a Grammy Award for "Song of the Year".
Richie's 1986 album "Dancing on the Ceiling" launched five hit singles, including "Say You, Say Me", "Dancing on the Ceiling", "Love Will Conquer All", "Ballerina Girl", and "Se La". After finishing the extended "Outrageous Tour" he slowed down his recording schedule, not releasing another original studio album for a decade. His 1990s releases, in a style now labeled "contemporary R&B" didn't match the success of his 1980s work. His popularity remained high in Europe, Australia, New Zealand and the Middle East, however.
Richie and his wife, who had an adopted daughter, split in 1988 and formally divorced in 1993. He married Diane Alexander two years later and had two more children with her, before divorcing in 2004. He was inducted into the Alabama Music Hall of Fame in 1997.
Richie returned to the pop charts in 2006 with the single "I Call it Love". His 2012 country crossover album "Tuskegee" went platinum and topped the Billboard 200 in April. He was featured on the Pyramid Stage at England's Glastonbury Festival in 2015.
In 2017 Richie was tapped as a judge for the relaunch of "American Idol" on ABC. That December he was one of five honorees at the 40th Kennedy Center Honors. He was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2022. In 2023 he was invited to perform at Windsor Castle in celebration of the coronation of King Charles III and Queen Camilla.
Discography
Commodores (1974) Machine Gun. Atlantic Records
Commodores (1975) Caught in the Act. Motown Records
Commodores (1975) Movin' On. Motown Records
Commodores (1976) Hot on the Tracks. Motown Records
Commodores (1977) Commodores. Motown Records
Commodores (1978) Natural High. Motown Records
Commodores (1979) Midnight Magic. Motown Records
Commodores (1980) Heroes. Motown Records
Commodores (1981) In the Pocket. Motown Records
Richie, Lionel (1982) Lionel Richie. Motown Records
Richie, Lionel (1983) Can't Slow Down. Motown Records
Richie, Lionel (1986) Dancing on the Ceiling. Motown Records
Richie, Lionel (1996) Louder Than Words. Mercury Records
Richie, Lionel (1998) Time. Mercury Records
Richie, Lionel (2000) Renaissance. The Island Def Jam Music Group
Richie, Lionel (2002) Encore (live). Island Records
Richie, Lionel (2004) Just for You. Island Records
Richie, Lionel (2006) Coming Home. The Island Def Jam Music Group
Richie, Lionel (2006) The Sounds of the Season (EP). The Island Def Jam Music Group
Richie, Lionel (2009) Just Go. Island Records
Richie, Lionel (2012) Tuskegee. Mercury Records
References
Nathan, David (1985) Lionel Richie: An Illustrated Biography. McGraw-Hill ISBN 9780070460300
Lacher-Feldman, Jessica (March 27, 2023) "Lionel Richie". Encyclopedia of Alabama
"Lionel Richie" (May 8, 2023) Wikipedia - accessed May 8, 2023
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Richie was born into a well-educated musical family. His father was a U.S. Army systems analyst, and his mother was a teacher who later became a school principal. For most of his childhood, Richie lived in the home of his maternal grandparents, virtually on the campus of the historic Tuskegee Institute (now Tuskegee University). His grandmother was a classical pianist, and through her he was introduced to the fundamentals of music as well as to the great composers of the classical tradition. His uncle, a big-band jazz musician and arranger, gave him his first saxophone. Initially, Richie gravitated toward gospel music, largely because he was interested in becoming a minister, but he readily absorbed musical influences from various African American popular styles as well as from country music, which permeated the American South.
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As a youth, Richie moved with his family to Illinois, where he attended Joliet East High School. After graduating in 1967, he returned to Alabama to study economics and accounting at the Tuskegee Institute. During his first year there, he joined a campus band, the Mystics, as a saxophonist, composer, and, occasionally, singer. With some personnel changes in 1968, the Mystics became the funk and rhythm-and-blues group the Commodores, with Richie as a lead vocalist.
Encouraged by the strength of their local following, the Commodores used their summer study break to explore performance opportunities in New York City. When they arrived in the city, they were picked up by an agent and subsequently booked into a number of well-established nightclubs; the following summer they embarked on a European tour. During one of their performances, the group attracted the attention of an executive from Motown Record Corporation, who arranged for them to open for the American tour of pop music sensation the Jackson 5 in 1971. With that engagement the Commodores strode into the mainstream.
In 1974, the year that Richie graduated from the Tuskegee Institute with a bachelor’s degree in economics, the Commodores signed with the Motown label. It was not until 1978, however, that the group recorded its first Billboard Hot 100 number one hit: “Three Times a Lady,” a sentimental ballad in waltz time. The song was written and sung by Richie, who had been inspired by the celebration of his parents’ 37th wedding anniversary. In 1979 the group scored another number one hit with Richie’s love song “Still.” Although they released some moderately successful funk numbers, the Commodores were basically buoyed by Richie’s ballads, which typically melded instrumental sounds of country music with melodies and beats of rhythm and blues.
Richie’s wide-ranging musical talents led to collaboration with other artists, including country musician Kenny Rogers, for whom he wrote and produced “Lady” in 1980, and pop-soul singer Diana Ross, with whom he recorded “Endless Love” in 1981. Such musical excursions accelerated Richie’s rapid rise in popularity and ultimately precipitated his split from the Commodores. Release of the album Lionel Richie in 1982 marked the start of Richie’s solo career.
The next several years were a whirlwind, with the release of numerous number one hits—including the Latin-tinged dance song “All Night Long (All Night)” (1983) and the lyrical love songs “Hello” (1984) and “Say You, Say Me” (1985)—and two more albums: Can’t Slow Down (1983) and Dancing on the Ceiling (1986). Can’t Slow Down not only won a Grammy Award for album of the year but became and long remained one of Motown’s best-selling albums. In 1985 Richie wrote “We Are the World” with pop icon Michael Jackson to raise money for African famine relief; the song generated some $50 million in donations and received a Grammy for song of the year.
After the success of Can’t Slow Down and Dancing on the Ceiling, Richie’s production slowed. A decade passed before he recorded his next studio album, Louder than Words (1996), a stylistically updated blend of gentle jazz, rhythm and blues, and hip-hop. Although a success by market standards, the album was greeted with less enthusiasm than Richie’s earlier works. For the next 15 years, response to his albums was generally lukewarm.
In 2012 Richie strode back into the spotlight with Tuskegee, a collection of his greatest hits recast as country duets and performed with Shania Twain, Tim McGraw, Rascal Flatts, Willie Nelson, and other luminaries of country music. Within just a few weeks, the album reached number one on Billboard’s Top 200 and Country Music charts and eventually became one of the top-selling albums of the year. Following a 2013–15 world tour, in 2016 Richie launched a residency in Las Vegas. Two years later he became (with pop singer Katy Perry and country artist Luke Bryan) a judge on the revival of the television singing competition American Idol.
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Singer/songwriter Richie is set to appear on the new season of the TV series ‘American Idol’ as a judge and has recently filed trademark applications for two catchphrases related to his new role. As reported by The Blast, Richie’s company, RichLion Holdings LLC, has recently filed trademark applications in a variety of classes for “Here Comes Da Judge” and “Here Comes Da Judge —Lionel Richie.”
Richie will join country singer Luke Bryan and Katy Perry as judges on the new season of ‘Idol,’ which will debut in 2018.Some of you may remember the phrase “Here Comes the Judge” from the 1960s TV show ‘Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In.’ According to Wikipedia, the phrase originates from two 1968 songs, one from Shorty Long and another by Pigmeat Markham, who first introduced the phrase on ‘Laugh-In.’ Afterward, it was repeated on the TV series by both Sammy Davis, Jr. and Flip Wilson.
Richie’s RichLion Holdings has filed a number of trademark applications this year, including one for “Hello is it me you’re looking for?” in June for merchandise in international class 16, including posters, pens, paperweights, and more. Another application for the design image of Richie’s face was filed on October 12 in a variety of international classes, including wall and floor art, bedding and towels, and candles.
And, among the many recent trademark applications filed by the company, it also filed one for the phrase “All Night Long” for . . . wait for it . . . bedding!
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In his new role, Richie will leverage broadcast and social media platforms to raise awareness and generate excitement as Acrisure expands its direct-to-consumer offerings. Additionally, he will contribute to various marketing initiatives, showcasing Acrisure's transformation into a comprehensive fintech services provider.
“Acrisure could have simply relied on its reputation as a major player in the insurance industry, but it didn't. Instead, it actively avoided complacency and fostered innovation in multiple ways. As a result, Acrisure has emerged as a true frontrunner in the Fintech space,” Richie said. “What impresses me the most is the company's culture, which genuinely values empathy—a testament to the fact that growth can be pursued without losing sight of one's origins. Ultimately, that's the kind of company I want to collaborate with.”
“His exceptional skill at connecting authentically with an audience will make him an invaluable resource for the organization,” Williams said. “We’re thrilled to partner with Lionel as we pursue our mission of limitless growth.”
Richie's involvement with Acrisure adds to the company's roster of recent marketing accomplishments. Notably, Acrisure secured the naming rights for Acrisure Stadium, the new home of the Pittsburgh Steelers. Additionally, the company unveiled Acrisure Arena in Southern California, an entertainment and sports venue serving as the home of the AHL's Coachella Valley Firebirds. Acrisure also formed a partnership with UBS Arena and the New York Islanders, resulting in "The Acrisure Great Hall" being designated as the main entrance to the venue.
Acrisure also recently announced its expansion into Central and Eastern Europe with the acquisition of Unilink Group, the region’s largest distribution platform, as well as the expansion of its corporate advisory and solutions division into North America.
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LIONEL RICHIE
A country boy from Tuskegee reconnects with his unlikely roots
By Russell Hall
Lionel Richie is a giant of soul, R&B and pop music, having scored hit singles and sold albums in the multimillions since the mid-1970s—first with his group the Commodores and, since 1982, as a solo artist. But the music that first caught the ear of this Tuskegee, Ala., native was very different from either the dance-floor funk of the Commodores or the ebullient pop of solo smashes like “All Night Long (All Night)” and “Dancing on the Ceiling.” “Back in Tuskegee in the late ’50s and early ’60s, all you heard were popular country artists of the day,” says Richie, now 62. “It’s what I grew up with. I didn’t even think of it as country music, it was just music.” He credits country with instilling in him an emphasis on melody and lyrical storytelling. “I didn’t realize it, but I was being indoctrinated with something that would come out in me later as a songwriter,” he says.
Even as he scored triumphs like co-writing (with Michael Jackson) the all-star charity smash “We Are the World,” not to mention winning five Grammys and an Oscar, he kept a hand in country music. In 1980 he wrote and produced the chart-topping “Lady” for longtime friend Kenny Rogers, and hit the country charts himself with “Stuck on You” and “Deep River Woman” (the latter featuring country group Alabama). He’s performed at the Country Music Association Awards three times, and in April the Academy of Country Music will honor him with an all-star televised concert in Las Vegas.
Now Richie has fully immersed himself in the genre with his new album, Tuskegee, which finds him recreating many of his classics as duets with country stars like Blake Shelton (“You Are”), Tim McGraw (“Sail On”), Willie Nelson (“Easy”) and Sugarland’s Jennifer Nettles (“Hello”). “It was probably the most fun I’ve ever had in the studio,” he says. Richie spoke with us from Nashville about the new album, his complicated relationship with success and his rich legacy.
Why make this album?
Recording a country album has been on my bucket list for a long time. I came to Nashville thinking I’d do just a couple of duets. But as we got into it, I started thinking, “Wow, I’ve got Willie Nelson, Shania Twain and Tim McGraw on this album. Let’s keep going.” From a layman’s point of view, I was thinking, “I’m doing songs with some great country singers,” not realizing that country music today is divided into contemporary and traditional country. But I just plowed right in and put them all on the same album without any of those considerations. I was told to expect to finish in three weeks. Instead, nearly 10 months passed before I put the album to rest.
Who surprised you most?
Blake Shelton and Jennifer Nettles, when it comes to straight up lung power. I had to remind them both I had to sing those songs, too. (laughs) And then the rendition that just melted me completely was the one by Willie Nelson. He makes “Easy” sound like it was written for him.
Did you give the artists instructions?
I told them to fit the songs to themselves, to do the songs as if they were performing them onstage tomorrow. That was a good thing in that it took me out of my comfort zone. These are songs I could normally sing in my sleep, but now I had to be wide awake. In that sense they became brand new. Still, one compliment I kept getting was, “You have to sing this song the way the melody goes.” If you turned these songs into nursery rhymes, you would still have to sing those melodies.
When did you first write?
After I joined the Commodores [in 1968]. I played by ear and thought all songwriters had to read and write music. Then I began learning there were great writers like Marvin Gaye and Smokey Robinson who couldn’t read music. After we joined Motown [in 1972] I met these writers face to face. Motown was the best incubator in the world. It allowed me to fit in a very safe environment and grow without the pressure to have a hit record, or even be a lead singer. We started out as the opening act for the Jackson 5—the pressure wasn’t on us so much as it was on them.
How did those first writing attempts turn out for you?
Actually, quite good. I didn’t realize it until I started bringing material to the Motown meetings. Someone said, “You wrote that song? You got any more?” The third or fourth song, “Happy People” [1974], became a No. 1 R&B hit for the Temptations. I wrote it with Jeffrey Bowen. After that, the songwriting guys asked me if I had more material. I was like, “Yeah, but I don’t want to give any more away.” They didn’t realize the Commodores were signed as a group to the label. From that point forward, I started writing song after song for the Commodores.
How did you write “Lady?”
The original title of “Lady” was “Baby.” I flew to Las Vegas to meet with Kenny, and he said, “You know, I married a real lady. I’m a country guy, and I have no business with a lady like this. By the way Lionel, what’s the name of this song you wrote for me?” I said, “Lady.” (laughs) There was no way I was going to say “Baby” at that point. Kenny had given me the concept for the lyrics, the things I needed to finish the song. It became an ode to his marriage at that time.
What was it like going solo?
Suddenly everything was on me, and I wasn’t used to being singled out. I was used to being in that cocoon where if anything went wrong it was shared among all of us. I originally figured I could keep the Commodores going while having a solo career—but the nature of the group concept wouldn’t allow that. You couldn’t have the group while also having that much notoriety being focused on one person. That was the period where I was most frightened. If God could have called me and said, “Lionel, the next five years are a shoo-in, don’t worry,” I would have had no problem. But from day to day you have doubts.
After that success, you barely recorded between 1986 and 1996. Why?
I started thinking more about my family and about what I had missed along my journey. My dad was dying, right there in front of me. How much time had I spent with him? Had that been quality time? People kept telling me I needed to go back and do another album while things were hot. But I couldn’t. That would have meant going on tour, and if I went on tour I wouldn’t be able to be with Dad. [Lionel Richie Sr. died in 1990.] It was a confusing time. A lot of things were coming unglued. But time away was the best thing that could have happened for me. It allowed me to recharge.
Describe your playing style.
I don’t play piano that much. I tend to just block a few chords. Keeping things sparse allows me to be more creative with the melodies. The more space you take up playing, the less you have for the vocal melody. The vocal makes up for my limitations as a player.
Know a hit when you write one?
Wish I could say that was the case. Three songs I wanted to pull from the Can’t Slow Down album were “All Night Long,” “Running With the Night” and “Hello.” And the one I wanted to pull from the Commodores album was “Brick House.” (laughs) Fortunately people around me know better.
Do you think about your legacy?
Only in the past year have I begun to think about that. When you start out, you’re just looking to get played on the radio. Twenty years pass, and people start using the word “standards” to describe your songs. We’re getting ready to stage a celebration of the songs themselves—the event in Las Vegas—and you step back and think, “Wow, how did all this happen?” It’s hitting home, after all those years in Tuskegee, all those years writing songs at home, in the back of a bus or on a plane, to have come full circle.
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Lionel Richie is the eponymous debut solo studio album by American singer Lionel Richie, released on October 6, 1982, on Motown Records. It was recorded and released while Richie was still a member of the Commodores; he left the group shortly after the album's release. The first single from the album, "Truly", topped the Billboard Hot 100. Follow-up single "You Are" reached number four, and "My Love" reached number five. The album was also a hit, reaching number one on the Cashbox albums chart on December 11, 1982.In 2003, Lionel Richie was re-released as part of a remaster series that saw two additional tracks added: a solo version of "Endless Love" and an instrumental version of "You Are". Eagles member Joe Walsh provided the guitar solo for the song "Wandering Stranger". Tracklist Serves You Right 5:08 Wandering Stranger 5:36 Tell Me 5:28 My Love 4:05 Round And Round 4:48 Truly 3:19 You Are 4:49 You Mean More To Me 3:01 Just Put Some Love In Your Heart 1:21
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When he's not performing, Grammy-winning singer Lionel Richie is a supportive dad and grandfather.
The "Endless Love" singer, 74, is a father of three, including Nicole Richie.
He is also now a grandfather of three, after his youngest daughter, Sofia Richie Grainge and her husband Elliot Grainge, announced they had welcomed a daughter Eloise Samantha Grainge on May 20.
Last September, Lionel Richie shared an Instagram video of his children cheering him on during a performance.
"Lionel!" his youngest daughter Sofia Richie Grainge yells toward the stage in the brief clip. Sister Nicole Richie then chimes in with another exuberant "Lionel!" before the camera pans to show the superstar singer-songwriter waving at his daughters.
"Take your Kids to Work Day turned out well," the elder Richie wrote in the accompanying caption, along with a laughing emoji. Richie Grainge added three more laughing emojis in a reply to her dad's post.
Read on for more about Lionel Richie and his three children.
Nicole Richie
Nicole Richie, 42, is Lionel Richie's eldest daughter and is the founder and creative director of the apparel and jewelry brand House of Harlow 1960.
Lionel Richie told People magazine in a 2022 interview that when he and his former wife Brenda Harvey adopted Nicole when she was 9, it "was actually a godsend."
"She was a little girl who needed a shot," Lionel Richie said at the time. "She was used to people coming and going. She looked at me and I'd say, 'I'm not going anywhere.'"
In addition to being a father of three, Lionel Richie is also a grandfather to Nicole Richie's two children, daughter Harlow and son Sparrow.
Nicole Richie and her family, including her husband Joel Madden, her father Lionel Richie and his girlfriend Lisa Parigi and her mother Brenda Harvey Richie, all attended the red carpet premiere of the "Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead" remake in Los Angeles on April 2.
Miles Richie
After Richie and Harvey divorced in 1993, he went on to marry fashion designer Diane Alexander, with whom he shares son Miles Richie and daughter Sofia Richie Grainge. The elder Richie and Alexander divorced in 2004.
Miles Richie, now 29, works as a model and signed with leading agency Wilhelmina Models in 2018. His runway debut came at Philipp Plein's Fall 2018 show in February 2018.
"It is interesting in this modeling field and the fashion field, you have to push yourself. My dad and my mom, they all just keep pushing me forward every single day and every day, I'm just determined to be better," Miles Richie told Essence in 2020.
Sofia Richie Grainge
The youngest Richie sibling, Sofia Richie Grainge, is also a model. The 25-year-old married music executive Elliot Grainge in 2023.
Richie Grainge revealed in a Vogue interview published in January that she and her husband were expecting their first child. On May 24, Richie Grainge announced in an Instagram photo post they had welcomed a daughter named Eloise Samantha Grainge on May 20.
Lionel Richie told People in January that he's "pumped up" to be welcoming another grandchild into the Richie family.
"I am now going to spoil yet another child in the world," he said, before joking, "I am not quite sure what the child will do to me, but I'm hoping that the child gives the parents a bit of a run, because every parent wants to get even as to what you did to me."
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Lionel Richie (born June 20, 1949, Tuskegee, Alabama, U.S.) is an American popular singer, songwriter, and producer most admired for his smooth and soulful love ballads of the 1970s and ’80s. A highly versatile musician, he is able to perform—and skillfully blend—multiple musical styles, most notably funk, soul, rhythm and blues, and country.
Richie was born into a well-educated musical family. His father was a U.S. Army systems analyst, and his mother was a teacher who later became a school principal. For most of his childhood, Richie lived in the home of his maternal grandparents, virtually on the campus of the historic Tuskegee Institute (now Tuskegee University). His grandmother was a classical pianist, and through her he was introduced to the fundamentals of music as well as to the great composers of the classical tradition. His uncle, a big-band jazz musician and arranger, gave him his first saxophone. Initially, Richie gravitated toward gospel music, largely because he was interested in becoming a minister, but he readily absorbed musical influences from various African American popular styles as well as from country music, which permeated the American South.
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As a youth, Richie moved with his family to Illinois, where he attended Joliet East High School. After graduating in 1967, he returned to Alabama to study economics and accounting at the Tuskegee Institute. During his first year there, he joined a campus band, the Mystics, as a saxophonist, composer, and, occasionally, singer. With some personnel changes in 1968, the Mystics became the funk and rhythm-and-blues group the Commodores, with Richie as a lead vocalist.
Encouraged by the strength of their local following, the Commodores used their summer study break to explore performance opportunities in New York City. When they arrived in the city, they were picked up by an agent and subsequently booked into a number of well-established nightclubs; the following summer they embarked on a European tour. During one of their performances, the group attracted the attention of an executive from Motown Record Corporation, who arranged for them to open for the American tour of pop music sensation the Jackson 5 in 1971. With that engagement the Commodores strode into the mainstream.
In 1974, the year that Richie graduated from the Tuskegee Institute with a bachelor’s degree in economics, the Commodores signed with the Motown label. It was not until 1978, however, that the group recorded its first Billboard Hot 100 number one hit: “Three Times a Lady,” a sentimental ballad in waltz time. The song was written and sung by Richie, who had been inspired by the celebration of his parents’ 37th wedding anniversary. In 1979 the group scored another number one hit with Richie’s love song “Still.” Although they released some moderately successful funk numbers, the Commodores were basically buoyed by Richie’s ballads, which typically melded instrumental sounds of country music with melodies and beats of rhythm and blues.
Richie’s wide-ranging musical talents led to collaboration with other artists, including country musician Kenny Rogers, for whom he wrote and produced “Lady” in 1980, and pop-soul singer Diana Ross, with whom he recorded “Endless Love” in 1981. Such musical excursions accelerated Richie’s rapid rise in popularity and ultimately precipitated his split from the Commodores. Release of the album Lionel Richie in 1982 marked the start of Richie’s solo career.
The next several years were a whirlwind, with the release of numerous number one hits—including the Latin-tinged dance song “All Night Long (All Night)” (1983) and the lyrical love songs “Hello” (1984) and “Say You, Say Me” (1985)—and two more albums: Can’t Slow Down (1983) and Dancing on the Ceiling (1986). Can’t Slow Down not only won a Grammy Award for album of the year but became and long remained one of Motown’s best-selling albums. In 1985 Richie wrote “We Are the World” with pop icon Michael Jackson to raise money for African famine relief; the song generated some $50 million in donations and received a Grammy for song of the year.
After the success of Can’t Slow Down and Dancing on the Ceiling, Richie’s production slowed. A decade passed before he recorded his next studio album, Louder than Words (1996), a stylistically updated blend of gentle jazz, rhythm and blues, and hip-hop. Although a success by market standards, the album was greeted with less enthusiasm than Richie’s earlier works. For the next 15 years, response to his albums was generally lukewarm.
In 2012 Richie strode back into the spotlight with Tuskegee, a collection of his greatest hits recast as country duets and performed with Shania Twain, Tim McGraw, Rascal Flatts, Willie Nelson, and other luminaries of country music. Within just a few weeks, the album reached number one on Billboard’s Top 200 and Country Music charts and eventually became one of the top-selling albums of the year. Following a 2013–15 world tour, in 2016 Richie launched a residency in Las Vegas. Two years later he became (with pop singer Katy Perry and country artist Luke Bryan) a judge on the revival of the television singing competition American Idol.
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If Lionel Richie had only been the frontman for The Commodores he would have earned a place in music history, but his subsequent solo career made him a superstar in the '80s and beyond. Richie was born in Tuskegee, Alabama on June 20, 1949, where he began playing in bands in the '60s.
In 1968, he and some members of his band The Mystics merged with members of another local band, The Jays, to form The Commodores. Though the band would later become famous for a pop-friendly R&B approach, their early sound was far edgier and funkier. With Richie on vocals, keyboards, and sax, The Commodores released their debut album, Machine Gun, in 1974, scoring a hit with the instrumental title track. By 1976 they were reaching the upper rungs of the Top 40 with hits like "Sweet Love" and "Just To Be Close To You."
But they became bona fide pop stars the following year with the ubiquitous smashes "Easy" and "Brick House." Though Richie wasn't the band's only singer/songwriter, his name became synonymous with The Commodores by the time of hit ballads like 1978's "Three Times a Lady" and 1979's "Still." By the beginning of the '80s he was penning pop hits for others, like Kenny Rogers' "Lady."
A solo career seemed imminent, and after 1981's In the Pocket, he left The Commodores, releasing his hugely successful, self-titled solo album in 1982, featuring the hits "You Are," "Truly," and "My Love." 1983 blockbuster follow-up Can't Slow Down was the biggest album of Richie's career, eventually achieving Diamond status and including No. 1 hits "Hello" and "All Night Long." 1986's Dancing on the Ceiling boasted huge hits too, like the title track and "Say You, Say Me."
Richie's profile dipped with his '90s releases, but he experienced something of a comeback with 2006's Coming Home, his first Gold album in a decade.
And in 2012 he earned his first No. 1 album since the '80s by shifting direction with Tuskegee, a country-flavored album on which he partnered with top country singers on new versions of his classic tunes.
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SANTA MONICA, November 4, 2021 – Universal Music Publishing Group (UMPG), a leading, global music publisher, today announced that Grammy Award-winning recording artist and songwriter Lionel Richie has signed an exclusive, global publishing agreement. The deal includes songs written throughout Richie’s solo career including super hits “Hello,” “Lady,” “Dancing on the Ceiling,” “All Night Long,” and numerous others. With more than 125 million albums sold worldwide, six Grammy Awards, an Oscar and a Golden Globe, Richie (Capitol Records) is an international icon whose discography is a defining part of pop music. He is one of the only songwriters in ... more
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SANTA MONICA, November 4, 2021 – Universal Music Publishing Group (UMPG), a leading, global music publisher, today announced that Grammy Award-winning recording artist and songwriter Lionel Richie has signed an exclusive, global publishing agreement. The deal includes songs written throughout Richie’s solo career including super hits “Hello,” “Lady,” “Dancing on the Ceiling,” “All Night Long,” and numerous others.
With more than 125 million albums sold worldwide, six Grammy Awards, an Oscar and a Golden Globe, Richie (Capitol Records) is an international icon whose discography is a defining part of pop music. He is one of the only songwriters in history to have #1 records for eleven consecutive years, as well as one of only two songwriters to solely write eight #1 hits on the Billboard Hot 100. In addition to Richie’s extensive catalog of mega-hits like “Penny Lover,” Truly,” “Say You, Say Me” and “Ballerina Girl,” he co-wrote “We Are the World,” one of the most important and timeless pop songs in history.
Jody Gerson, Chairman and CEO of UMPG, said: “I am thrilled that Lionel Richie has chosen UMPG to take care of his song catalogue. I have known Lionel personally for years and have always wanted to be his publisher. I am so happy the day has finally come. We will be the best publisher Lionel has ever had. My teams around the world couldn’t be more excited to work with his illustrious catalogue of hits spanning many, many decades.”
Richie said: “Having partnered with Universal Music as recording artist for almost my entire career, joining the UMPG family as a songwriter feels like coming home. With their outstanding global team, I know my songs are in the best hands and I’m excited for what we can accomplish together.”
About Lionel Richie
International superstar Lionel Richie has a discography of albums and singles that are second to none. His music is part of the fabric of pop music. With more than 125 million albums sold worldwide, an Oscar®, a Golden Globe®, six Grammy Awards®*, the distinction of MusicCares Person of the Year in 2016, and Kennedy Center Honoree in 2017. In March 2018, Richie put his handprints and footprints in cement at the TCL Chinese Theatre IMAX in Hollywood, one of the oldest awards in Hollywood. He recently received the Ivor Novello PRS for Music Special International Award. The Tuskegee, Alabama native is a true music icon.
Lionel Richie is known for his mega-hits such as “Endless Love,” “Lady,” “Truly,” “All Night Long,” “Penny Lover,” “Stuck on You,” “Hello,” “Say You, Say Me,” “Dancing on the Ceiling,” and co-wrote one of the most important pop songs in history, “We Are the World,” for USA for Africa. His song catalog also includes his early work with The Commodores, where he developed a groundbreaking style that defied genre categories, penning smashes such as “Three Times a Lady,” “Still,” and “Easy.” Richie has had 11 consecutive years where he wrote #1 songs*.
Richie sold out arenas worldwide with a set list of his brightest and best anthems on his All The Hits, All Night Long Tour. In recent years, he also headlined festivals including Bonnaroo, Outside Lands, and Glastonbury, drawing the festival’s biggest crowd ever with more than 200,000 attendees.
Richie took fans on a spectacular musical journey with his latest album, Live from Las Vegas along with his most recent tour, the “Hello” tour, which kicked off in Summer 2019. The album, which was released on August 16, 2019 was #1 on the Billboard Artist 100 chart. The album also marks the legendary artist’s first release on Capitol Records.
Richie was a judge on ABC’s American Idol for the past 3 seasons and has returned to the ‘Judge’s’ chair for this 2021 season. He launched his Las Vegas headlining residency show, Lionel Richie—All the Hits in April 2016. In an unforgettable evening featuring his brightest and best anthems which have defined the music icon’s unparalleled career, Richie took his fans on a spectacular musical journey, performing a variety of his seminal hits. Richie’s Back to Las Vegas residency will start back up with newly announced concerts for Fall 2021.
* Grammy Awards include: Album of the Year (1984) – Can’t Slow Down, Best Male Pop Performance (1982) – Truly, Producer of the Year (1984), Song of the Year (1986) – We Are The World, Record of the Year (1986) – We Are The World, Best Group Pop Performance (1986) – We Are The World
* #1 songs include: 1976 Just to Be Close to You (R&B #1), 1977 Easy (R&B #1), 1978 Three Times a Lady, 1979 Still, 1980 Lady, 1981 Endless Love, 1982 Truly, 1983 All Night Long (All Night), 1984 Hello, 1985 Say You, Say Me + We Are The World, 1986 Dancing on the Ceiling (Radio & Records #1)
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Fans were disappointed “all night long.”
Lionel Richie was slammed by viewers of King Charles’ coronation concert over his lackluster performance for the newly minted monarch on Sunday.
Richie, 73, took the stage in front of 20,000 people and belted his greatest hits, such as “All Night Long” — which skyrocketed the Alabama native to fame in 1983 — and “Easy,” which Richie sang with the Commodores in 1977.
Several underwhelmed Twitter users likened Richie’s voice to the Muppet Kermit the Frog or that of a karaoke singer in a bar.
“Hello, Met Police, I’d like to report a murderer. Yes, his name is Lionel Richie and the victim is his own song,” tweeted one angry viewer.
“If anyone finds some lost keys in Windsor they belong to Lionel Richie,” teased another.
“Lionel Richie sounds awful,” simply stated a third person.
“OK, is it just me or has Lionel Richie lost the ability to sing?” tweeted a fourth person. “He doesn’t sound like himself at all.”
Other Twitter users defended the singer and blamed the issues on the sound equipment.
“The sound of the main microphone is awful for all who used it,” defended one user.
“This is a cruise ship concert. It’s absolutely shocking,” tweeted a second person.
The Post reached out to Richie for comment.
Richie was not the only high-profile celebrity to perform at the concert. His fellow “American Idol” judge Katy Perry also made an appearance on the stage after him, and she belted out a few of her own hits.
Perry, 38, was cemented in coronation history after the “Roar” singer was spotted looking confused inside Westminster Abbey and then tripping and nearly falling to the ground following the ceremony.
Also appearing onstage was the British pop group Take That and former Pussycat Doll Nicole Scherzinger, 44, who claimed to be having a real “Disney princess moment” while singing “Reflections” from the film “Mulan.”
Classical stars such as pianist Lang Lang and opera singer Andrea Bocelli also appeared on the next day’s concert bill.
The musical celebration came just one day after the coronation ceremony, which took place on Saturday, May 6, at Westminster Abbey.
It marked the official transfer of power from the late Queen Elizabeth II, who died in September at the age of 96.
Prince Harry was also in attendance for his father’s ascent to the throne, marking the royal’s first time back in the United Kingdom since releasing his bombshell memoir “Spare” in January.
The Duke of Sussex attended the ceremony without his wife, Meghan Markle, and was back on a plane to Los Angeles moments after the coronation ceremony had concluded.
He spent less than 24 hours in the UK.
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Lionel Richie songs — both in his work with The Commodores and his solo stardom— dominated multiple charts for a decades.
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Nowadays, Lionel Richie is one of the elder statesmen of popular music: a broad umbrella that covers pop, rock, R&B, soul and even country music. This can be seen every time he imparts wisdom on "American Idol" hopefuls.
He entered rare pop cultural air starting in the '70s with The Commodores, a funk and soul group from Richie's hometown of Tuskegee, Ala. Some of the band's defining singles — namely "Easy" — previewed things to come from the future solo megastar. As you'll revisit shortly, Richie's sweet ballads provided a counterpunch to "Brick House" and other raunchier, heavier Commodores classics.
In 1982, Richie recorded a solo album at the behest of both his bandmates and their label home, Motown. Instant success followed, leading Richie to leave The Commodores and embrace his seemingly inevitable run of '80s dominance. One year later came the diamond-certified LP Can't Slow Down, which went on to win the Grammy for Album of the Year. His next album, Dancing on the Ceiling, verified that Richie was among the voices of the decade.
Although a 10-year hiatus of albums followed Dancing on the Ceiling, his star never faded. Scattered songs since his 1976-86 run have reminded us why he's one of the greatest multi-genre ballad singers and writers of the past 50 years.
Read on for Wide Open Country's picks for Richie's 20 best songs.
1 of 20
"You Are" (Lionel Richie, 1983)
Early in his solo run, Richie stuck with the D-flat major tunes that marked his final years with The Commodores. Though his later solo material made a bigger impact on pop culture, this and other tracks off Richie's self-titled album don't fall prey to '80s overproduction.
2 of 20
"Jesus is Love" (The Commodores' Heroes, 1980)
Richie began the decade he dominated as a member of his hometown band The Commodores. An interesting pivot from his love song repertoire, "Jesus is Love" pleads for peace in a broken world, not unlike the spirituals at the heart of American popular music.
3 of 20
"To Love a Woman" (With Enrique Iglesias) (Encore, 2003)
Over 20 years before Miranda Lambert collaborated with Enrique Iglesias, Richie proved that he could once again adapt to the times by keeping pace with one of the early aught's top global pop stars. Though Richie hasn't lost a step between then and now, "To Love a Woman" is the newest song on our list.
4 of 20
"Angel" (Renaissance, 2000)
The first song on Richie's first album of the 21st century blends the timeless voice of a living legend with turn-of-the-century pop trends. Think of it as him following Cher's lead. Listeners dug it, making it Richie's most recent Top 5 adult contemporary hit.
5 of 20
"Do It To Me" (Back to Front, 1992)
In a gutsy move, a new song topped the track list of a 1992 collection of Richie's best work, solo and as a Commodore. It worked because "Do It To Me" belongs in the same discussion as the various classics compiled by Motown.
6 of 20
"Old-Fashion Love" (The Commodores' Heroes, 1980)
Disco's influence lingered into the '80s on this Commodores classic. It's one of the best marriages of the band's upbeat, funky stompers and Richie's sentimental love songs.
7 of 20
"Endless Love" (With Diana Ross) (Endless Love: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, 1981)
Richie recorded a pair of songs with Diana Ross, a fellow Motown band member turned solo sensation, for the film "Endless Love." The most famous of these, "Endless Love" became Richie's first major label without The Commodores. He looped back to it much later as a duet with Shania Twain.
8 of 20
"Truly" (Lionel Richie, 1982)
One of multiple great piano-led ballads from in between Richie's time with The Commodores and his run as one of the biggest solo pop stars on the planet, "Truly" was a huge steppingstone toward him becoming a household name.
9 of 20
"Say You, Say Me" (Dancing on the Ceiling, 1986)
The first of several songs on our list from the crucial '80s LP Dancing on the Ceiling, "Say You, Say Me" and its surprise tempo change was first heard in the 1985 film "White Knights." Motown didn't want the surefire hit on another label, so they blocked its inclusion on the movie's soundtrack. Still, it won Best Original Song for a film from both the Oscars and the Golden Globes.
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"Night Train (Smooth Alligator)" (Dancing on the Ceiling, 1986)
Leave your streaming service of choice playing after "Say You, Say Me" to hear something from totally out of left field. Richie gets as funky as his Commodores peers while rocking as hard as Prince.
11 of 20
"Sweet Love" (The Commodores' Movin' On, 1975)
Early on, The Commodores were mostly known for such rowdy material as the band's first R&B No. 1, 1975's "Slippery When Wet." That same year, Richie's tamer-yet-no-less-tantalizing ballads got introduced to the mix. Even with 1977's rowdy R&B classic "Brick House" being arguably the band's signature song, Richie-led songs played an equal role in the group's staying power.
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"Still" (The Commodores' Midnight Magic, 1979)
Richie solidified his status as one of the era's most gifted — and most ever-present — singers in all of popular music with "Still," the final Commodores single of the '70s. The sentimental ballad reached No. 1 on Billboard's pop and R&B charts. It was the group's last No. 1 in the states until 1985's "Nightshift."
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"Dancing on the Ceiling" (Dancing on the Ceiling, 1986)
A couple of things make "Dancing on the Ceiling" compelling nearly 40 years later. One, Richie leaned into the sounds of the time — from new wave to the solo work of Michael Jackson — without losing his voice. Better yet, at a time when truly bizarre music videos made songs stick out in the crowded MTV marketplace, Richie got weird in the best possible way.
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"Deep River Woman" (With Alabama) (Dancing on the Ceiling, 1986)
Alabama native Richie worked with the band Alabama on this mid-'80s dream team-up. Randy Owen's always been a top-tier ballad singer in his own right, making this the ideal collaboration to earn Richie a Top 10 country hit.
15 of 20
"Just to Be Close to You" (The Commodores' Hot on the Tracks, 1976)
Richie's decade of chart dominance with The Commodores and as a solo artist began with "Just to Be Close to You," his first No. 1 single as a vocalist. Though Richie has always been able belt out songs with the best of them, here he talk-sings for stretches of one of the most sensual tales in his catalog.
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"Hello" (Can't Slow Down, 1983)
One of several monster hits off Can't Slow Down, "Hello" may forever stand as the go-to example for anyone debating that no one in the '80s — and few from any era of popular music — brought more emotion to songs about matters of the heart than Richie. It doesn't hurt that it's backed by the right blend of soft rock finesse and R&B passion.
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"Stuck on You" (Can't Slow Down, 1983)
The Rolls-Royce of Richie ballads, "Stuck on You," wasn't all that different from the country love songs of its time. It's no surprise, then, that it became the former Commodores member's first minor country hit, reaching No. 24 on Billboard's Hot Country Songs chart. In all likelihood, Motown calculated this by putting a photo of Richie in a cowboy hat on the single artwork.
18 of 20
"All Night Long (All Night)" (Can't Slow Down, 1983)
Stacking selections from Can't Slow Down draws attention to the musical variety on the diamond-certified album. Its lead single — and our pick for Richie's best song — is "All Night Long (All Night)," as it famously crosses the dance-pop of the moment with calypso and reggae. It's Richie's shifts in melodic direction here that remind us why he's an ideal mentor for your next "American Idol."
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"Three Times a Lady" (The Commodores' Natural High, 1978)
A pop culture staple that needs no introduction, Richie entered the love song stratosphere of Frank Sinatra and other crooners with the chart-topping hit "Three Times a Lady." The piano-based ballad wasn't all that different from some of the sultrier, softer country love songs at the time. It's no shocker, then, that Conway Twitty turned it into a Top 10 country hit five years later.
20 of 20
"Easy" (The Commodores' Commodores, 1977)
Richie's finest moment as a singer and songwriter came when his hometown band The Commodores made a mark on the year of punk rock and Fleetwood Mac's Rumors with one of the definitive Motown singles of the '70s: "Easy." Richie's silky-smooth vocals and the song's overall chill vibe makes it easy to lose sight that it's about a breakup.
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Carrie Underwood is your newest "American Idol" judge.
The eight-time Grammy Award-winning singer -- who won season 4 of the singing competition show in 2005 -- was announced Thursday as Katy Perry's replacement on "Idol."
Underwood will join returning judges Luke Bryan and Lionel Richie alongside host Ryan Seacrest when "Idol" returns to ABC and Hulu in spring 2025.
"I remember being at home in our little house in Checotah and seeing on TV that there were auditions in St. Louis," the Oklahoma native says in a video revealing the big news. "My mom said, 'If you wanna go, I'll drive you.'"
"I went from nobody knowing my name to tens of millions of people watching the show," she said of how she skyrocketed to fame. "I'm proud of everything that I was able to accomplish on the show and I'm so proud of everything that I've accomplished since."
Some of Underwood's accomplishments include selling 85 million records, amassing 28 No. 1 singles and snagging numerous awards.
"This season, Carrie Underwood comes home," a message in the video reads.
Underwood replaces Perry, who served as a judge alongside Bryan and Richie for seven seasons after the "Idol" revival kicked off on ABC in 2018.
The "Firework" singer announced her departure on "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" in February and later told "Good Morning America" in April that her time on "Idol" had "healed my heart."
Auditions for the upcoming season of "Idol" kick off Monday, Aug. 12.
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Megahits like “All Night Long,” “Hello” and “Three Times a Lady” helped make Lionel Richie one of the best-known artists of the 1980’s, but to the generation who was in diapers when he was dancing on the ceiling, he’s not an international superstar but something far less fabulous: a father.
“Young people come up to me all the time and say, ‘Oh my God, you’re Nicole Richie’s dad; I just saw you on ‘The Simple Life,’ ” he said one recent morning in his sprawling Manhattan hotel suite. “They have no idea who I am or what I’ve done.”
What he’s done in his three-decades-long career is sell nearly 100 million albums worldwide, win five Grammys and earn an Oscar and a Golden Globe for his hit “Say You, Say Me,” from the “White Nights” soundtrack. While he enjoyed success with the R&B band the Commodores, Mr. Richie became a household name with his solo debut, “Lionel Richie,” and its even more successful follow-up, “Can’t Slow Down,” which on the strength of ballads like “Stuck on You” and “Penny Lover” sold more than 10 million copies. He used his fame for good when he and Michael Jackson wrote “We Are the World,” a song that raised more than $50 million for African famine relief.
In recent years his once blazing hot career has cooled, but now Mr. Richie is hoping to regain relevance with a new album, “Coming Home,” which will be released today by Island/Def Jam. In an effort to ensure that his latest effort doesn’t end up being largely ignored like several of his recent albums, he has teamed up with young hit-making producers like Jermaine Dupri, Dallas Austin and Raphael Saadiq. “I asked them, ‘What does Lionel Richie sound like in 2006?’ ” Mr. Richie said, “And they said, ‘The same way he sounded like in 1976 — we’ll just bring you new beats.’ ”
While the album’s feel and lyrics are vintage Richie, the beats are indeed updated. “I Call It Love,” for example, sounds like a track that could have easily appeared on the album by the young R&B singer Ne-Yo. “All Around the World,” with its aggressive horns and strings, could be dubbed “All Night Long 2006.” And Mr. Dupri said “What You Are” was his modern interpretation of “Hello.” Still, Mr. Dupri, who helped resurrect Mariah Carey’s floundering career, said he was not interested in turning Mr. Richie into the next Usher or Justin Timberlake.
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Carrie Underwood is your newest "American Idol" judge.
The eight-time Grammy Award-winning singer -- who won season 4 of the singing competition show in 2005 -- was announced Thursday as Katy Perry's replacement on "Idol."
Underwood will join returning judges Luke Bryan and Lionel Richie alongside host Ryan Seacrest when "Idol" returns to ABC and Hulu in spring 2025.
"I remember being at home in our little house in Checotah and seeing on TV that there were auditions in St. Louis," the Oklahoma native says in a video revealing the big news. "My mom said, 'If you wanna go, I'll drive you.'"
"I went from nobody knowing my name to tens of millions of people watching the show," she said of how she skyrocketed to fame. "I'm proud of everything that I was able to accomplish on the show and I'm so proud of everything that I've accomplished since."
Some of Underwood's accomplishments include selling 85 million records, amassing 28 No. 1 singles and snagging numerous awards.
"This season, Carrie Underwood comes home," a message in the video reads.
Underwood replaces Perry, who served as a judge alongside Bryan and Richie for seven seasons after the "Idol" revival kicked off on ABC in 2018.
The "Firework" singer announced her departure on "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" in February and later told "Good Morning America" in April that her time on "Idol" had "healed my heart."
Auditions for the upcoming season of "Idol" kick off Monday, Aug. 12.
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International superstar Lionel Richie has a discography of albums and singles that are second to none. His music is part of the fabric of pop music; in fact, Richie is one of only two songwriters in history to achieve the honor of having #1 records for nine consecutive years. With more than 100 million albums sold worldwide, an Oscar, a Golden Globe, four Grammy Awards, and the distinction of MusicCareSemperson of the year in 2016, the Tuskegee, Alabama native is a true music icon.
Lionel Richie is known for his mega-hits such as Endless Love, Lady, Truly, All Night Long, Penny Lover, Stuck on You, Hello, Say You, Say Me, Dancing on the Ceiling, and one of the most important pop songs in history, We Are the World, written with Michael Jackson for USA for Africa. His song catalog also includes his early work with The Commodores, where he developed a groundbreaking style that defied genre categories, penning smashes such as Three Times a Lady, Still, and Easy.
Richie launched his Las Vegas headlining residency show, Lionel Richie-All the Hits, a The AXIS at Planet Hollywood Resort Casino in April 2016. In an unforgettable evening featuring his brightest and best anth s which have defined the music icon unparalleled career, Richie takes his fans on a spectacular musical journal, performing a variety of his s inal hits. With his most recent All the Hits, All Night Long Tour, Richie sold out arenas worldwide. In recent years, he also headlined festivals including Bonnaroo, Outside Lands, and Glastonbury, drawing the festival biggest crowd ever with more than 200,000 attendees.
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The Courier’s Lisa Bloch sat down with Lionel Richie to talk about his music, his passions and his life experiences.
Hello!? It’s Lionel I’m looking for Is that you?” The door to the trailer swung open and Lionel’s support staff, his stylist, hair and make-up artists, photographers, and assistants marched in, purposely focused, in anticipation of Lionel’s live national telecast of “American Idol.” Bruce Eskowitz, Lionel’s manager, who had been visiting with me, began to introduce me to Lionel’s team. And in that instant, the man I was looking for, the legendary Lionel Richie, walked in.
Brandishing his beautiful bright smile, Lionel held out his arms for my hug as Bruce quickly introduced me to him and his fiancé, Lisa. The interview had been set weeks ago, but something instantly told me my greeting was authentic Lionel. His warmth and charisma come naturally. As if we were friends from the neighborhood, the comfortable conversation began to gush. Or was it “me” gushing over him.
Lionel Brockman Richie, Jr. was born in Tuskegee, Alabama on June 20, 1949 to school teacher Alberta Foster Richie and retired army captain and Army System Analyst Lionel Brockman Richie Sr. Raised with his sister, Deborah, in the house across the street from Tuskegee University, music, religion, and academics were a big part of the Richie home. Lionel’s maternal grandmother, Adelaide M. Foster, a classically trained pianist and the choir director for Tuskegee University, sat regularly with Lionel at the piano, and encouraged him to attend the university’s musical events. His uncle, a big band player and arranger, stirred Lionel’s interests in jazz and provided Lionel with his first saxophone.
Once becoming a student at Tuskegee University, Lionel focused his energies, beyond his academics, on music. During his freshman year, he entered a talent show in a group called the Mystics. They had great success and were a big surprise to the upperclassmen. A well-known group made up of seniors, called the Jays, took notice. When they graduated, the two groups decided to merge. The Jays and Mystics became one, calling themselves the Commodores. In their travels they played a great deal of the venues referred to as the “chitlin circuit”.
In 1969, while Lionel was still in college, the Commodores traveled to New York for their first studio recording with Atlantic Records. While there, the group’s manager arranged for the Commodores to play at a black lawyers’ convention where Suzanne De Passe of Motown Records happened to be. Immediately impressed, she brought the group to Motown and signed them to open for the Jackson Five in venues and stadiums around the United States.
The Commodores’ first big hits, such as “Machine Gun” and “Brick House,” were known for their funky, danceable sound. Their first album debuted in 1974, the same year Lionel achieved his first success as a songwriter with “Happy People,” recorded by The Temptations. Lionel graduated Tuskegee University, that same year, with a Bachelor’s of Science in Economics. He married Brenda Harvey, his college sweetheart, the following year.
Thanks to Lionel’s song writing and lead vocals on love ballads, the Commodores amassed hits such as “Just to Be Close to You,” “Easy,” “Three Times a Lady,” “Still,” and “Sail on.” In 1980 Lionel wrote and produced “Lady” for country singer Kenny Rogers, and the title song for the film “Endless Love,” which was recorded with Diana Ross. It earned Lionel an Academy Award nomination, five Grammy nominations, an American Music Award and a People’s Choice Award.
In 1982, Lionel ended his association with the Commodores in a heartfelt break-up and released his first solo album, “Lionel Richie.” It sold more than two million copies, and featured the single “Truly.” His second album, “Can’t Slow Down” released in 1983 featured the “chart-popping” singles “Hello,” “Penny Lover,” “Stuck on You” and “All Night Long,” which he memorably sang at the closing ceremony of the XXIII Olympic Games. More success followed in 1986, with an Oscar win for his song “Say You, Say Me” for the film “White Knights,” and a nomination for “Miss Celie’s Blues” from the film “The Color Purple.” Another album followed that year, as did one of his most notable accomplishments. He co-wrote “We Are the World” with Michael Jackson. The single sold over 20 million copies, and the event Lionel mobilized raised more than $60 million for African famine relief.
In the late 1980’s, Lionel slowed down for a desperately needed break during difficult times. His father passed away, and Lionel’s marriage to Brenda (with whom he shared their adopted daughter, Nicole) ended. The “king of love” pushed forward. He married Diane Alexander two years later, and together they had two children, Miles Brockman and Sofia, who were raised in Beverly Hills. The couple divorced in 2004.
In the subsequent years, Lionel continued to write music, release albums and dazzle audiences globally. His tenth studio album, “Tuskegee,” in 2012, a compilation of 13 hit songs performed with country stars, brought him back to the top of the Billboard 200 chart. In 2015, his performance before 150,000 screaming fans at the Glastonbury Festival in England was hailed as “triumphant” by the BBC.
Accolades for Lionel have come outside the entertainment arena, as well. Three prestigious universities have awarded him with honorary Doctorates in music: Boston College, Tuskegee University and in 2017 the Berklee College of Music. He received the Kennedy Center Honors Award for his lifetime contributions to American culture in 2017. Lionel has been an advocate for Breast Cancer Research over the years. And in 2019, The Prince of Wales selected Lionel as the First Chairman of the Global Ambassador Group for the Prince’s Trust.
It’s no surprise that Lionel has said that he’s “addicted to exhaustion.” As a businessman, in 2018, while on “Idol,” he said “Hello” to home décor, launching his “home collection” business. He has invested in “Heal,” a service that provides home-based medical care. Lionel thinks of it as an “Uber doctor” in the privacy of one’s own home. And his perfumery business, aptly named “Hello,” uses his creative sensory talents. Lionel’s newly-released scent has been recognized as the 2020 Fragrance of the Year, top five finalist, by the Fragrance Foundation.
Success in these new endeavors is hardly surprising, given Lionel’s accomplishments thus far. He has won four Grammy awards as well as being named the 2016 MusiCares Person of the Year. He has one Academy Award, 17 American Music Awards, a Golden Globe Award, the 2014 BET Lifetime Achievement Award, and the NAACP Image Award for Entertainer of the Year. He is executive producing “The Sammy Davis Jr. Story” for Paramount Pictures as well as the Robert Johnson movie for the studio, and a film for Disney Pictures that will feature Lionel’s songs. He begins his fifth year-long residency in Las Vegas this fall, at The Wynn. He’s back in the recording studio and has just completed his fourth season as a judge on ABC’s “American Idol.” Lionel is one of the world’s best-selling artists of all time, having sold over 100 million records worldwide. As a global icon, he is truly beloved.
Lionel, what made you fall in love with Beverly Hills?
Well, I just realized over the years that when people would say, “where are you going on your vacation?” some people would reply, “I’m going to Greece,” or “I’m going to London,” or “I’m going to Tokyo,” or wherever they are going around the world. I discovered something about Beverly Hills; I don’t have to travel anywhere. Everyone is from everywhere here. It’s such a diverse place that if you want Greek food, we’ve got it. Italian food, we have it. We also have the greatest stores. And by the way, you will bump into everyone in the world at every restaurant in town. It’s the greatest place because it has a European vibe but in America. One corner has one vibe; another corner has another vibe. One house has one vibe; another house as another vibe. It’s a melting pot of the entire world, and it’s just the coolest place to live.
Growing up in Tuskegee, your grandmother played Bach throughout the house and spent hours with you at the piano. Can you tell the story of when she discovered you couldn’t read music?
The first part of my life, I was trying to read music the honest way the way my grandmother was taught. So, one day, she gave me an assignment in which she would play it for me once, then leave the room so that I could rehearse the piece. When she would walk back in, she would say, “All right, here we go. Let’s play it.” Well on this one particular day, I must tell you, I played the piece from beginning to end, flawlessly, but my grandmother looked at me and said, “You didn’t read the music.” And I said, “Grandma, I read the music.” She said, “You did not read the music.” I said, “Why don’t you think I read the music?” She said because I didn’t turn the page. It was at that point I realized I was not able to read the music. But I could copy whatever I heard.
When did you realize that playing music by ear was not going to be an impediment?
When I joined Motown, and believe it or not, I realized shortly after that some of the greatest writers in the world – Marvin Gaye, Smokey Robinson could not read music. Paul McCartney, Michael Jackson, Erroll Garner, the great jazz player wasn’t that good at reading music, but he could really play from his own head. Once I got my own permission from them, I was able to experiment. Yes, they could play the piano, but they couldn’t do all that orchestration. That’s when I realized, I can do this. And, of course, hallelujah! It worked.
You were raised in the Deep South during the 1950’s and 60’s where racism was rampant. When did you become aware of the oppression, injustice and inequality around you?
When I was growing up in the South in Tuskegee, Alabama, I was basically living on a college campus. As kids growing up, we called it the bubble because we didn’t really know what was going on outside of our bubble. It wasn’t until probably the March on Washington on Walter Cronkite in New York on TV when I realized it was happening in Montgomery, Alabama, 38 miles away from Tuskegee.
Your parents worked hard to shelter you from the brutal realities. Why?
I have to tell you, I now understand when the Klan was marching through Tuskegee, in my early years. My parents put us to bed early. So, we never knew that they were marching. Anything that happened in terms of racism, they kept it from us. For the longest time we couldn’t figure out why our parents were shielding us from this. As we got older, I asked my mom and dad why they kept us out of that. They said, “because we wanted you to grow up knowing there were no limitations. And if we told you what was happening, and what people thought of us, then it might limit your goals as to what you would pursue in your future.”
Today, 50 plus years later, what advice do you have for all of those out there who are facing obstacles?
The hardest person in the world to get to know is yourself. The hardest person in the world you have to trust is yourself. The hardest person you have to believe in is yourself. And the most important person to meet, if you meet no one else, is yourself. All the world needs is your special understanding and interpretation of you.
As a world-famous parent, which has its built-in challenges, you often look back to the lessons you learned from your parents. Your father’s advice and teachings made an indelible mark on your life. Can you share some of his words that still resonate with you today?
He would say to me, over and over again, “aptitude plus attitude determines altitude.” If you are just smart, and you have all the aptitude and nothing else, you go halfway. If you just have the greatest attitude in the world but no aptitude, you go halfway. But if you have both of them together, the sky’s the limit. If you have to have only one, having the right attitude will put you in a higher position because people will like to be around you so much.
Another one I kept asking my dad, “I don’t understand why you’re so happy. I’m playing back your life and you’ve had a very difficult life. I don’t understand why you’re just so happy every day?” And he said, “Son, if you lose your sense of humor, they have you.”
They have you?
You can lose your house; you can lose your money; you can lose friends and family. But if you lose your mind, it’s over. The only way to really survive in this world is to have a sense of humor. And I have found that over the years, that is the only thing that has gotten me through some very difficult times. In the face of complete disaster, I would think about how my dad would smile through this situation. And the answer is, it’s recoverable. If you understand that life is a challenge, life is painful, you can overcome obstacles. It was George Washington Carver who said, “Great men and women are not born. They were just individuals faced with a problem and overcame it.” I’m using that as my mantra as I go through life.
Community means everything to the City of Beverly Hills and to the Courier. Please tell us about the community in Tuskegee.
I refer to my growing up as the village. But really, it was a university campus where it was a melting pot. We had German professors, Czech professors, French professors, and it was just every imaginable kind of doctor and lawyer, etc. Segregation was all around us. Still, it was a melting pot. I use that association when thinking about Beverly Hills. In Beverly Hills, we have almost that same sense of community where we have just about every imaginable walk of life. It’s all religions and all cultures. It’s this incredible community of people. The world is in conflict, but we live in Beverly Hills where everyone is from wherever. You can actually come to Beverly Hills and get the best education of your life in terms of what the world is like.
The people in our community share a love for our city and enjoy its connectivity. My bet is you know your neighbors.
I do know my neighbors, and the people across the street. Especially during the pandemic, it’s become a really fun thing. I’ve gotten closer to my neighbors than I’ve ever gotten before because I’ve never been home for a year and four months. So, I mean, we’ve had all kinds of behind the mask kind of conversations, and I’ve gotten to know them even better. We have different views on things, but also, we have so much in common.
Who were your mentors? Who have you idol’-ized along the way?
Tuskegee, Alabama had some very famous people. I was very blessed. I didn’t realize that. Those guys walking around in those Airforce uniforms those were the Tuskegee Airmen. As time went on, I realized, oh my God, Chief Anderson. Well, that was Charles Anderson’s father. He was the one who flew Eleanor Roosevelt in the first flight to see whether black pilots could actually fly a plane. She went up with Chief Anderson, Charles Anderson’s father. But he was Chief Anderson to us.
Even my grandmother and Mel Dawson, who wrote the Negro Symphony. He was just an amazing arranger, conductor, writer, and composer. He would come by the house talking about music with my grandmother. She also knew Booker T. Washington and George Washington Carver.
My family was a member of the Episcopal Church, and Father Vernon Jones had a huge influence on my life. He managed to get all of us to be interested in the lessons of the church by putting a ping pong table and a pool table in the undercroft of the church. Every Saturday we would go by the church, and he would teach us how to be altar boys and at the same time, we tried to beat him at ping pong and pool. It’s how he mentored us in terms of paying attention to certain things in life. I was very blessed.
And once you left Tuskegee?
Outside of Tuskegee I must tell you, Quincy Jones, Sidney Poitier, and Gregory Peck [have been my mentors]. I happened to run into some wonderful, wonderful people when I first came to Beverly Hills, and they gave me solid advice on how to maneuver, and how to navigate the world of entertainment and the world of celebrity. Clarence Avant, Dick Clark, I can call off so many wonderful people. They were just there for me. And then of course, there’s a grandeur to have been able to have known Nelson Mandela.
Did you meet him in South Africa or in America?
I met him in America. When we first got word that he was coming to America, (a group of us) were all given assignments and it was funny – my assignment was to make sure that he had suits. So, I went shopping at Neiman Marcus with Winnie Mandela. I remember we were running around the store and this was the first time I ever met her. This sounds like a dream. But at the same time, it was such an amazing moment to know that this man just spent all this time in prison, and he came out, reunited with his family, and then came to L.A. and to New York for the first time. And we had something to do with it.
He whispered something in your ear that brought you to tears. What did that teach you about humanity and humility?
First I was in awe of being in his presence. It just fascinated me to know that a man can spend that much time in prison and come out and have his sense of humor and have the wherewithal to say that it was a teachable moment, instead of a bitter moment.
He whispered to me, “I want to thank you for your lyrics, because it got me through many years of isolation in prison.” The fact that he had heard my music, that he knew my music, and then for him to tell me that I contributed something to his health, mental health, whatever the case may be, just made me feel so worthy of being a human being and a songwriter. I was reduced to tears. I just didn’t realize I touched somebody so isolated from the world for so long.
On “Idol” you have said, “Singing is singing. Moving people to evoke an emotion is everything.” Did you make a conscious decision at one point that you were going to sing about love? Or did it naturally evolve from the hopeless romantic that you are?
Let me just establish the fact that I am a hopeless romantic. I am in love with love. There is nothing else that matters or survives. We come to this planet in search of love. We only feel good when we are loved, or we are in love with something or someone. It is just a natural thing of life. “I Love You” are the only three words that never go out of style. And so, it doesn’t matter whether you are a rock star, or a stoner or a gangster, or a politician, not to put that in the same light [laughs], but the point is sooner or later, you’re going to tell someone “I love you.” Three corny words. The simplicity of writing about things that matter, matters of the heart it’s timeless. I miss you; I want you; I need you. I’m lonely. I lost you. I want you forever. I always figured if I could get my music played at a wedding, I’m halfway there.
“Life begins after you step out of your comfort zone” is another one of your wise quotes, and one that truly resonates with me. Tell us about that shy young band member who was coerced to kiss a strange girl.
Well, I was unlike the guy you see and know now. I was painfully shy when I was younger, and I wanted desperately to be in this band, the Commodores. Everything was going along very well as the horn player, until I found out I was going to be a lead singer. I was writing the songs so I started spending more time up front as a lead singer. It was just Clyde, the drummer, and myself. The keyboard player was Milan Williams. I was the saxophone player. I prefer to say I was the best saxophone holder that ever lived.
When I got up to the front, remember very shy, I kept ignoring the girls. And so, members of the band kept screaming at me, “Kiss the girl in the front row!” And I kept saying, “I don’t know the girl in the front row.” Remember now, in Tuskegee, Alabama, you don’t just grab girls and kiss them. The guys in my band were older than me and had been in other bands before I’ve never been in a band before. So, I’m up front, and finally, I bend over and I kiss the girl in the front row. The entire room screamed. And then the next problem they had after that was “Lionel, stop kissing the girl in the front row and sing the song” [laughs].
What about the unexpected pairing of you and Kenny Rogers? You were a saxophonist in a funk band and a budding song writer, and he was a country singer? Your power ballad, “Lady” became a record-breaking hit for him. It also helped launch your solo career. Please tell us more about this “gruesome twosome” and about this lifelong friendship.
It was the most unlikely friendship, but now that I look back, probably the most divinely orchestrated brotherhood that could ever happen in life is the story of Kenny Rogers and Lionel Richie.
I got a phone call from Kenny saying, “I would like to have one of your ballots.” 21 million copies later, it was just the greatest thing that ever happened since sliced bread. From there, we became buddies. But he lived here and I lived in Alabama. He kept trying to convince me to move out here and I kept saying “No, I like living in Alabama.” So finally, I was in his guest house in the Knoll, (an iconic property in Beverly Hills) and I said “I’ll just stay in the guest house here in Beverly Hills.” I was as happy as can be paying little money and making a lot of money, and writing “Hello,” “All Night Long,” etc. That was a magical house. Then Kenny sold the house to Marvin Davis, after I was the one who showed Marvin the house because I was in the guest house working on the songs. So I made a deal with Marvin Davis, “I get to stay in the guest house; I come with the house.” That was our joke. Marvin bought the house and I stayed in the [guest] house until finally one day he said, “I think it’s time for you to buy your wife a house I think you need to basically get out” [laughs].
Kenny and I, from that point on, became this gruesome twosome. I was there when his kids were born. He was a brother that I never had. Every kind of experience that I was about to go through in my life, he had been through the same thing. When I was leaving the Commodores, he left the group, The First Edition. Every time I would go through a certain period of my life, he would sit down and tell me that this is what it’s going to feel like, this is how you should deal with it, etc. He basically was a mentor through that whole period of my life. I must tell you, there has never been a person that was more suited for my Southern roots. He’s from Houston, Texas; I’m from Tuskegee, Alabama. And for some weird reason, I’m still going back to look at my family history, because I know we were related somewhere along the line. He was just the perfect friend and we had so many years of laughter to the point where, no matter where we were, I would walk on stage and we had the greatest impromptu show of life. I miss him to this day; I really do miss him.
The Commodores were described as the “Black Beatles” from Tuskegee, but eventually the family broke up. You have described it as a challenging period. How do you reflect on it now?
Well, you just touched on a lot of things. The Black Beatles, we didn’t give ourselves the name. We played a show in Germany and in that show was the likes of AC DC, Queen was closing, and the Commodores were the opening act. Now, of course, what the heck are we doing on this show? But anyway, it was a disastrous show and just before we went out on stage, we did an interview backstage. In the interview they said, “who are you guys?” and we said “we want to be the Black Beatles. We’re going to take over the world.” When the article came out it said, “Look out world, the Black Beatles are coming.” That’s the greatest thing you could ever write. We only had two hit records. So, it was just hilarious.
But the break-up was very difficult because everyone saw us as a group. These were brothers I never had. In fact, I was saying every day “Thank God for the Commodores because then there would be no Lionel Richie.” And that’s the truth, because they gave me the opportunity to sit in this little cocoon, and just take it all in and grow and discover. From that little quiet kid who was shy on that university campus in that first talent show together to then going to Madison Square Garden.
You took a break from the entertainment industry in the late 1980’s. What did you learn during that time off?
That break was not a break I was expecting. Truthfully, I didn’t take that break because I said I think I need to take a break. That break was like a divine guidance break.
My father called me on the phone and said, “I’m going for a doctor’s exam and I want you to come and go with me to check this out.” You know, my dad was a military guy; I never saw him sick a day in my life. So, for him to ask me to do this and to be with him, I thought, oh, this is pretty serious. From that moment, I found that it was a slippery slope.
And what I thought was going to be a short period of time for him to recover and to go back, it ended up being two and a half years to his death. And then from there, I didn’t want to start the album and miss that opportunity to be with him. During this period, I also went through a divorce and throat surgery and everything else. It was a terrible period of my life. But it was very interesting it gave me an opportunity to do something I’d never done before, which is stop and reflect. I look back on it now as probably the best thing that could have ever happened because if I had kept going at the speed I was going, I would have probably crashed and burned. There’s just no way to keep up that kind of pace and not hurt someone whether it be mentally, physically, or emotionally. Something was going to break.
But I got to learn from my parents a lot more. I found out that I had great friends not only in Beverly Hills and in Los Angeles, but also in Alabama, because everyone was reaching out. And so, it gave me a sense of community again. People that knew me in Beverly Hills, but I didn’t think they thought enough of me that we were friends they came forward and helped me through a very, very painful period. And so, it was one of those moments that I look back on. Yes, it was not pleasant in terms of what I was going through, but yet,
I think it did a great deal to mold me into who I am today.
“We Are the World,” was one of your crowning achievements. You co-wrote the song for more than 40 of the biggest musical stars of the day for African Famine Relief. Please share the challenges leading up to this once in a lifetime accomplishment.
This question right here could probably take three volumes of books; I am going to try to consolidate it as best I can. This was a monumental task of really not knowing what we were biting off.
Harry Belafonte called on the phone and said, “we have a situation I go to Africa every year, and we have a crisis. We need a
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The country boy from Alabama is one of two Motown hitmakers who began their professional life in a group, and parlayed that into solo superstardom, worldwide. In Lionel Richie’s case, he has also composed some of the most popular songs of the past half-century. Little wonder he is among the recipients of the George &
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FAST FACTS
First Hit: “Truly”
Biggest Hit: “All Night Long (All Night)”
Top Album: Can’t Slow Down
Career Highlight: Global sales of more than 50 million albums
In early 1981, it becomes clear that Lionel Richie is sure to have a career beyond the Commodores. He is Grammy®-nominated as a songwriter and a producer for a hit record (“Lady” by country crossover star Kenny Rogers) which has nothing to do with the group. In 1982, it happens again: this time with his nominations in five Grammy® categories for the song, “Endless Love,” which he wrote, produced and sang as a duet (No. 1 for nine weeks) with Diana Ross.
“I didn’t experience the impact the song had right away, because I was out on the road with the Commodores,” Lionel explains. “When I returned to Los Angeles, I was told, ‘Mr. Richie, this is what “Endless Love” had done.’ It was amazing.”
By now, the musician – the son of an army captain and a schoolteacher – is in his thirties and has travelled some distance, literally and metaphorically, since June 20, 1949, when he was born in Tuskegee, Alabama. His solo career beckons, ten years after the Commodores joined Motown, and six years after the start of the group’s remarkable string of hit records and sellout concert tours.
In early 1982, Lionel prepares to cut his first solo album, working with the Commodores’ longtime producer, James Anthony Carmichael. He calls it “a survey of all the music that I’ve done in the past.” Lionel Richie is released in September, as is the first single, “Truly.” The sensuous ballad is No. 1 by November and wins Lionel his first Grammy®. The album yields two more Top 5 singles, “You Are” and “My Love,” on which Kenny Rogers also sings.
Lionel’s second album, Can’t Slow Down, is released in the fall of ’83, a few weeks before the calypso party energy of “All Night Long (All Night)” hits No. 1. Four more Top 10 singles follow, including “Hello” (another No. 1, which is also his first solo chart-topper in the UK) and “Stuck On You.”
In September 1983, Lionel undertakes a 48-date world tour, including three weeks in Asia. On October 29, the mayor of his hometown, Tuskegee, proclaims it to be “Lionel Richie Day.” In the U.S., the tour includes sellout weeks at Radio City Music Hall in New York and the Universal Amphitheatre in Los Angeles.
In the U.S. alone, Can’t Slow Down spends three years on the charts, with three weeks at No. 1, and sells more than 10 million copies. It takes Grammy® honors as Album of the Year. In August ’84, an estimated two billion people see Lionel sing “All Night Long (All Night)” at the televised closing ceremonies of the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.
Lionel continues to stretch his talent, penning a melancholy tribute to the late Marvin Gaye, “Missing You,” for Diana Ross, and co-writing – with Michael Jackson – USA For Africa’s uplifting fundraising anthem, “We Are The World.” His composition “Say You, Say Me” for the movie White Knights is a No. 1 smash, and earns as Oscar as Best Song.
Dancing On The Ceiling is Lionel’s final studio album for Motown, a No. 1 success which brings total worldwide sales for his first three albums to more than 25 million. He joins Mercury Records, which in 2012 releases Tuskegee, an album of his many chartbusters remade with some of country music’s biggest stars. Among them are two Commodores hits, “Sail On” with Tim McGraw and “Easy” with Willie Nelson, as well as “Endless Love” with Shania Twain and “All Night Long (All Night)” with Jimmy Buffett.
Lionel recalls advice once given to him by Frank Sinatra: “If you’re lucky enough in this business to have one hit record, and the fans ask you to play it over and over again, you’ve got yourself a career. And if you find yourself with more than one hit record, well, you’re the luckiest man on the planet.”
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EXCLUSIVE: Recording artist and newly minted American Idol judge Lionel Richie has been granted the rights to produce a feature based on the life of legendary songwriter and musician Curtis Mayfield. Richie, who acquired the rights from the Curtis Mayfield Estate, is mounting the project via his RichLion Productions.
“It’s an honor for me to bring the life of one of my idols and friend to the screen,” the former Commordores frontman said. “I’m so grateful to be working closely with Altheida Mayfield, Cheaa Mayfield and the Curtis Mayfield Estate and couldn’t be happier to be moving forward on this amazing project about a one-of-a-kind music genius.”
“It’s time to celebrate and re-evaluate Curtis’ legacy,” added Altheida Mayfield, the singer’s widow. “For years, too many others have tried to claim what he alone did. He was a genius, always stood on his own.”
Born in Chicago in 1942, Mayfield started writing songs at age 11 before joining Jerry Butler in the Impressions at age 14. Mayfield has written more than 1,900 songs including the Impressions’ hits “People Get Ready” and “Keep on Pushin’” reflecting his awareness of political and social concerns among black people. His group had a pair of top 10 pop hits — “It’s All Right” and cover “Amen” — and six No. 1s on the Billboard R&B Singles chart. In addition, he scored various films such as the Gordon Parks, Jr.-directed blaxploitation drama Superfly, and Warner Bros’ 1976 film Sparkle. He was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2002; Richie received a special award from that group last year.
In 1990, Curtis Mayfield was paralyzed from the neck down after stage lighting equipment fell on him during an outdoor concert in New York. Although he was unable to play instruments after the accident, Curtis continued to sing, compose music and record. After an acclaimed four-decade career, Mayfield died in 1999 at 57.
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The country boy from Alabama is one of two Motown hitmakers who began their professional life in a group, and parlayed that into solo superstardom, worldwide. In Lionel Richie’s case, he has also composed some of the most popular songs of the past half-century. Little wonder he is among the recipients of the George &
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The country boy from Alabama is one of two Motown hitmakers who began their professional life in a group, and parlayed that into solo superstardom, worldwide. In Lionel Richie’s case, he has also composed some of the most popular songs of the past half-century. Little wonder he is among the recipients of the George & Ira Gershwin Lifetime Achievement Award.
FAST FACTS
First Hit: “Truly”
Biggest Hit: “All Night Long (All Night)”
Top Album: Can’t Slow Down
Career Highlight: Global sales of more than 50 million albums
In early 1981, it becomes clear that Lionel Richie is sure to have a career beyond the Commodores. He is Grammy®-nominated as a songwriter and a producer for a hit record (“Lady” by country crossover star Kenny Rogers) which has nothing to do with the group. In 1982, it happens again: this time with his nominations in five Grammy® categories for the song, “Endless Love,” which he wrote, produced and sang as a duet (No. 1 for nine weeks) with Diana Ross.
“I didn’t experience the impact the song had right away, because I was out on the road with the Commodores,” Lionel explains. “When I returned to Los Angeles, I was told, ‘Mr. Richie, this is what “Endless Love” had done.’ It was amazing.”
By now, the musician – the son of an army captain and a schoolteacher – is in his thirties and has travelled some distance, literally and metaphorically, since June 20, 1949, when he was born in Tuskegee, Alabama. His solo career beckons, ten years after the Commodores joined Motown, and six years after the start of the group’s remarkable string of hit records and sellout concert tours.
In early 1982, Lionel prepares to cut his first solo album, working with the Commodores’ longtime producer, James Anthony Carmichael. He calls it “a survey of all the music that I’ve done in the past.” Lionel Richie is released in September, as is the first single, “Truly.” The sensuous ballad is No. 1 by November and wins Lionel his first Grammy®. The album yields two more Top 5 singles, “You Are” and “My Love,” on which Kenny Rogers also sings.
Lionel’s second album, Can’t Slow Down, is released in the fall of ’83, a few weeks before the calypso party energy of “All Night Long (All Night)” hits No. 1. Four more Top 10 singles follow, including “Hello” (another No. 1, which is also his first solo chart-topper in the UK) and “Stuck On You.”
In September 1983, Lionel undertakes a 48-date world tour, including three weeks in Asia. On October 29, the mayor of his hometown, Tuskegee, proclaims it to be “Lionel Richie Day.” In the U.S., the tour includes sellout weeks at Radio City Music Hall in New York and the Universal Amphitheatre in Los Angeles.
In the U.S. alone, Can’t Slow Down spends three years on the charts, with three weeks at No. 1, and sells more than 10 million copies. It takes Grammy® honors as Album of the Year. In August ’84, an estimated two billion people see Lionel sing “All Night Long (All Night)” at the televised closing ceremonies of the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.
Lionel continues to stretch his talent, penning a melancholy tribute to the late Marvin Gaye, “Missing You,” for Diana Ross, and co-writing – with Michael Jackson – USA For Africa’s uplifting fundraising anthem, “We Are The World.” His composition “Say You, Say Me” for the movie White Knights is a No. 1 smash, and earns as Oscar as Best Song.
Dancing On The Ceiling is Lionel’s final studio album for Motown, a No. 1 success which brings total worldwide sales for his first three albums to more than 25 million. He joins Mercury Records, which in 2012 releases Tuskegee, an album of his many chartbusters remade with some of country music’s biggest stars. Among them are two Commodores hits, “Sail On” with Tim McGraw and “Easy” with Willie Nelson, as well as “Endless Love” with Shania Twain and “All Night Long (All Night)” with Jimmy Buffett.
Lionel recalls advice once given to him by Frank Sinatra: “If you’re lucky enough in this business to have one hit record, and the fans ask you to play it over and over again, you’ve got yourself a career. And if you find yourself with more than one hit record, well, you’re the luckiest man on the planet.”
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TRACK OF THE WEEK DAY & DATE: Number One in the U.K. on Monday, March 26, 1984. SONGWRITER: Lionel Richie. PRODUCERS: Lionel Richie, James Anthony Carmichael. BACKSTORY: Welcome to one of those occasions where a Motown record was a bigger hit – and first – in Britain than in America. “Hello” spent – count
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TRACK OF THE WEEK
DAY & DATE: Number One in the U.K. on Monday, March 26, 1984.
SONGWRITER: Lionel Richie.
PRODUCERS: Lionel Richie, James Anthony Carmichael.
BACKSTORY: Welcome to one of those occasions where a Motown record was a bigger hit – and first – in Britain than in America. “Hello” spent – count ’em – six weeks at the top of the U.K. charts as winter turned to spring in 1984. In the U.S., the record held the summit for two weeks in May. Not that Lionel Richie’s countrymen and women failed to show him the love: every one of the five 45s from his second album, Can’t Slow Down, reached the Top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100, “Hello” among them.
“I tape my idea with just the piano,” explained Richie in the liner notes of the 2003 deluxe edition of Can’t Slow Down. “Then Carmichael takes that tape and says, ‘Meet me at the studio.’ He puts the rhythm and the music around that piano. His job is to make it sound like a ‘record’ without destroying the innocence or sensitivity of the original thought.” Richie is referring to record producer James Anthony Carmichael; the two of them began working together when Richie was in the Commodores at Motown in the 1970s. “My mission is to help [Lionel] reach his destination,” said the producer in his Can’t Slow Down comments.
Carmichael added, “I loved ‘Hello.’ It was a monster hit. But Lionel didn’t want to finish it. I had to beg him. After I did my part on it, it was my turn to hate the song.” In fact, that song was originally written for Richie’s first solo album, but the singer and his producer decided to omit it – despite the objections of Richie’s then-wife Brenda and his creative assistant, Rita Leigh. “We thought it had tremendous potential,” Leigh told Lionel biographer Roberta Plutzik, “and we thought ‘You Are’ was the one to drop. Of course, that song turned out to be a hit, too.”
“Hello” had another asset: a mini-drama promotional video directed by Bob Giraldi, who had been previously responsible for videos by Michael Jackson (“Beat It”) and Richie himself (“Running With The Night”), among others. In this, the storyline featured Lionel as a teacher, lecturing to a class, which includes a young, blind student, played by Laura Carrington. The video was a major success on MTV, helping to boost sales of “Hello” and Can’t Slow Down.
REMAKES: For a song so strongly identified with its original writer/performer, “Hello” has attracted a significant number of cover versions. Actress, singer and Grammy-winning composer Zooey Deschanel was one: her “Hello” was heard in the movie soundtrack of 2016 animated comedy Trolls. Easy listening stars drawn to the song included Paul Anka, Shirley Bassey and Gloria Lynne. The old-school actor Howard Keel baritoned it and another Richie tune, “Lady,” on his Just For You album. Likewise, Luther Vandross cut “Hello” and Richie’s “Endless Love” for his 1994 album, Songs. Lionel himself revisited the hit on his 2012 album, Tuskegee, pairing up with Jennifer Nettles of Sugarland.
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