Alberta Richie is the mother of popular R and B musician Lionel Richie. Alberta was a teacher. She was born on January 27, 1917, in Tuskegee, Macon County in Alabama in the United States of America. She died at the age of 83 on January 15, 2001, in her birth town in Alabama.
Her son, Lionel Richie became part of the Commodores where he became a singer and saxophonist in 1968. The Commodores signed a recording contract with Atlantic Records in 1968 for one record before moving on to Motown Records.
Lionel is a member of Kappa Kappa Psi which happens to be a national honour fraternity for band members and he is also an active life member of Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity.
Who is Alberta R. Richie’s Mother Adelaide Mary Brown?
Lionel Richie’s grandmother is Adelaide Mary Brown. She was born on 19 January 1893, in Tennessee, United States to parents John Louis Brown, her father and Volenderver Towson, her mother.
Adelaide got married to Albert Davidson Foster in September 1915, in Davidson, Tennessee in the United States of America. The couple had several children out of which Alberta Richie, Lionel Richie’s mother, was a part.
Adelaide died on 30 November 1996, in Tuskegee, Macon, Alabama, United States, at the age of 103.
