Lionel Brockman Richie Jr., simply called Lionel Richie happens to be a very popular singer, songwriter and record producer based in America. He was born on June 20, 1949, in Tuskegee, Alabama in the USA.
Lionel Richie Biography
Lionel Richie had his high school education at Joliet Township High School, East Campus in Joliet, Illinois, after which he enrolled at Tuskegee Institute where he graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in economics in the 1960s.
Whiles in Tuskegee, he formed a succession of R&B groups. In 1968, he became part of the Commodores where he became a singer and saxophonist. The Commodores signed a recording contract with Atlantic Records in 1968 for one record before moving on to Motown Records.
Before Lionel got into music, he had intentions of going to study divinity to become a priest in the Episcopal Church where he was baptised, but he felt he was not a priest material which made him change his mind and pursue music.
Lionel is a member of Kappa Kappa Psi, which is a national honour fraternity for band members and is also an active life member of Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity.
Who is Alberta R. Richie Lionel Richie’s Mother?
Lionel Richie’s mother is Alberta 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.
