Lionel Brockman Richie Jr., simply called Lionel Richie is one of the extremely popular musicians and songwriters in America. He was born on June 20, 1949, in Tuskegee, Alabama in the USA.
Lionel Richie Biography
Lionel Richie attended Joliet Township High School, East Campus in Joliet, Illinois, after which he earned a tennis scholarship at Tuskegee Institute where he graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in economics in the 1960s.
In 1968, he became part of the Commodore’s music band where he was a singer and saxophonist. The Commodores signed a recording contract with Atlantic Records in 1968 for one record before moving on to Motown Records.
The Commodores then became established as a popular soul group. Lionel gradually began writing romantic songs and sang more romantic, easy-listening ballads. Some of his songs include “Easy”, “Three Times a Lady”, “Still”, and the breakup ballad “Sail On”.
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.
Who is Lionel Richie’s Father Lionel Brockman Richie?
Lionel Richie’s father is Lionel Brockman Richie. There is little known about his life.
He was born on October 08, 1915, in the United States of America and died on May 23, 1990, at the of 74 of a heart attack.
