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Lionel Richie American singer, songwriter, and producer Lionel Richie, 2012.

Lionel Richie

American singer, songwriter, and producer
Also known as: Lionel Brockman Richie, Jr.
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Virginia (Gini) Gorlinski was Arts and Culture Editor at Encyclopaedia Britannica. She was responsible primarily for subjects related to music and dance but also handled articles concerning Malaysia and...
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Lionel Richie (born June 20, 1949, Tuskegee, Alabama, U.S.) is an American singer, songwriter, and producer most admired for his smooth and soulful love ballads of the 1970s and ’80s. A highly versatile musician, he is able to perform—and skillfully blend—multiple musical styles, most notably funk, soul, rhythm and blues (R&B), and country. Richie was born into a well-educated musical family. His father was a U.S. Army systems analyst, and his mother was a teacher...

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