Richie biography

This is the very soft voice that the students loved so much. In addition to musical activity, Lionel was a noticeable activist. During his career, Richie sold more than millions of records around the world, which made him one of the best -selling artists of all time. We learn a little more about this amazing performer. In high school, Richie was a local tennis star, and in college he even received an additional scholarship for this sport.

He received a bachelor's degree of science in the field of economics. Richie examined the study of theology to become a priest in the episcopal church, but in the end decided that he was made not from the “material of the priest”, and continued his musical career. In the year, he became a singer and a saxophonist in the Commodores group, who signed a contract with Atlantic Records to record one album, and then switched to Motown Records as a warm -up for The Jackson 5.

They confidently gained popularity and became a well -known group. In the year, Richie achieved his first commercial success as an author of songs with the composition “Happy People”, which he wrote in collaboration with Jeffrey Bowen and Donald Baldwin. By the end of the x Richie, he began to accept orders for the composition of songs from other artists.

He composed Lady for Kenny Rogers, who became a hit in the year, and the next year he produced him album “Share Your Love”. In the same album was his famous "All Night Long" - a dance melody with a Caribbean. He also composed and produced “Missing You” for Diana Ross's colleague. The song received the Academy Award and took first place in the charts of the United States, staying there for four weeks.

In the same year, he and Michael Jackson organized a recording Lionel Richie released Dancing on the Ceiling - his last wide popular album, which made a series of five American and British hits. In the year, he violated the silence with his album Louder than Words, in which he resisted any change in the style of the last decade, adhering to his chosen path of well-thought-out second-hand music.

Richie X albums, such as Louder than Words and Time, could not compare with the commercial success of his earlier works. At the beginning of the two thousandth, Lionel Richie periodically performed, worked with other stars, planned to reunite The Commodores. In he released another explosive hit Angel, one of his last successful songs.

Richie gave us a special mood for Sound X, taught us the great ballads about love. We wish him to continue to create and follow the difficult, but such amazing way of a living legend.