The Alabama-born Lionel Richie
He is an international superstar, an Oscar, multi-Grammy and Golden Globe winner, a music legend whose recorded legacy includes timeless classic hits and multi- platinum best-selling albums.
The Alabama-born entertainer has had numerous career accomplishments, including five Grammy Awards, an Oscar, eleven American Music Awards, five People’s Choice Awards and a ‘World Music Lifetime Achievement Award’ with a much-deserved Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Grammy voters continued to show their appreciation for Richie’s work with two 2007 nominations, for ‘Coming Home’ as Best R&B Album and the album’s memorable hit single, ‘I Call It Love’ for ‘Best Male R&B Vocal Performance’.
As the co-founder of The Commodores at Alabama’s Tuskegee Institute in 1967, Richie experienced his first taste of success after the group signed to Motown Records in 1971, becoming one of the most popular U.S. funk bands with ‘Machine Gun’ and ‘Brick House’ before creating a slew of slow jam classics such as ‘Easy’, ‘Three Times a Lady’ and ‘Sail On’.
