Lionel Richie
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Lionel Richie, född 20 juni 1949 i Tuskegee, Alabama, USA, amerikansk sångare.
Hans karriär inom musikbranschen är lång, med varierande intensitet och popularitet. Han har bla. spelat in musik med stora artister som tex. Michael Jackson. Lionel Richie har sålt omkring 100 miljoner album och vunnit fem så kallade Grammy's, en Oscar och en Golden Globe. Han är ett välbekant namn världen runt. Han sjunger bla. låten "Stuck on you".
Han är adoptivfar till Simpel life-stjärnan Nicole Richie
[redigera] Lionel Richie´s musikalbum, singlar och biografi etc.
http://www.lionelrichie.com
Year & Albumname: 2006 - Defnitive Collection [Bonus DVD] 2006 - Coming Home [Deluxe Edition] 2006 - Coming Home [Bonus Track] 2006 - Coming Home [Bonus Tracks] 2006 - Coming Home 2004 - Just for You [UK 14-track Version] 2004 - Just for You [Bonus Tracks] 2004 - Just for You 2004 - Encore 2003 - Lionel Richie [Bonus Tracks] 2003 - Dancing on the Ceiling [Bonus Tracks] 2003 - Can't Slow Down [Deluxe Edition] 2002 - Encore [International Version] 2001 - Renaissance [Import] 2001 - Renaissance 2001 - Back to Front [Holland Bonus Tracks] 1998 - Time 1996 - Louder Than Words 1986 - Dancing on the Ceiling 1983 - Can't Slow Down 1982 - Lionel Richie
Year & Singelname: 2006 - I Call It Love, (Part 2) 2006 - I Call It Love, (Part 1) 2006 - I Call It Love 2004 - Long Long Way to Go 2004 - Just for You [US 12"] 2004 - Just for You [CD #2] 2003 - To Love a Woman 2001 - I Forgot 2001 - Don't Stop the Music [UK CD] 2001 - Don't Stop the Music [Germany CD] 2001 - Cinderella 2001 - Angel [US 12"] 2001 - Angel [Australia CD] 2000 - Angel, (Part 2) 2000 - Angel, (Part 1) 2000 - Angel [Import CD] 1996 - Ordinary Girl 1996 - Don't Wanna Lose You [Part 2] 1996 - Don't Wanna Lose You [Part 1] 1992 - My Destiny 1992 - Do It to Me [CD Single] 1992 - Do It to Me [Cassette Single] 1985 - All Night Long
Year & Compilationname: 2006 - Soul Legends 2006 - Love Collection 2006 - Gold 2004 - Definitive Collection [2 CD Import] 2003 - Definitive Collection [Bonus Disc] 2003 - Definitive Collection 2003 - 20th Century Masters - (The Millennium Collection: The Best of Lionel Richie) 2002 - Truly: The Love Songs [UK Import] 2002 - Encore 1997 - Truly: The Love Songs 1992 - Back to Front 1985 - Composer: Great Loves Songs With the Commodores and Diana Ross
Year & Videoname: 2003 - Outrageous [Tour Live] 2003 - Collection 1992 - Back to Front [Video] 1991 - All Night Long [Video]
[redigera] Lionel Richie Biography:
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 RB 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 RB hit "Do It to Me" (which wasn't as successful on the pop charts).
Richie wasn't bitten by the recording bug again until 1996, by which time he'd endured his share of personal loss: his father had passed away, and his marriage to wife Brenda -- the muse behind some of his most successful ballads had fallen apart. In approaching his comeback, Richie attempted to update his sound to reflect a decade's worth of developments in urban RB. The result, Louder Than Words, was a moderate success, reaching the Top 30 and going gold. However, it didn't produce any major hit singles, and Richie's nods to new jack swing and hip-hop were criticized as awkward. 1998's Time found Richie in a more familiar element, relying on his signature sound with only slight musical updates. However, the album flopped, spending only a few weeks in the lower reaches of the charts. Richie's next album, Renaissance, was released to a favorable reception in Europe in late 2000; it was issued in the U.S. in early 2001. Three years later, on the heels of enduring a very public and bitter divorce with his second wife, Diane, Richie released Just for You. The 2006 album Coming Home found him working with an all-star cast of collaborators including Jermaine Dupri, Raphael Saadiq, Sean Garrett, and Dallas Austin. Steve Huey, All Music Guide.
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