Artist: Lionel Richie Genre(s):
R&B: Soul
Pop
funk
Rock
Discography:
Live In Paris (Bonus) Year: 2007
Tracks: 19
Live In Paris (Bonus DVD) Year: 2007
Tracks: 19
Live In Paris Year: 2007
Tracks: 10
Coming Home Year: 2006
Tracks: 13
Just For You Year: 2004
Tracks: 13
The Definitive Collection (bonus disc) Year: 2003
Tracks: 5
The Definitive Collection Year: 2003
Tracks: 20
Encore Year: 2003
Tracks: 19
Renaissance Year: 2001
Tracks: 12
Truly: The Love Songs Year: 1997
Tracks: 19
Back To Front Year: 1992
Tracks: 16
Dancing On The Ceiling Year: 1986
Tracks: 9
Lionel Richie Year: 1982
Tracks: 9
The best of Year:
Tracks: 22
After going away the Commodores, Lionel Richie became one of the nigh successful male person solo artists of the '80s, arguably eclipsed during his 1981-1987 prime of life only by Michael Jackson and Prince. Richie dominated the pop charts during that period with an unbelievable ferment of 13 sequent Top Decade hits, five of them identification number ones. As his popularity skyrocketed, Richie touched further away from his R&B origins and concentrated more on adult present-day balladry, which had been i of his strengths regular as piece of the Commodores. Subsequently 1987, Richie fell silent, pickings an prolonged undermine in from arranging and touring earlier descent a reproduction toward the buns end of the '90s.
Lionel Brockman Richie, Jr., was born on June 20, 1949, in Tuskegee, AL, and grew up on the campus of the Tuskegee Establish, where nigh of his category had worked for two generations prior. Piece attending college at that place, Richie united the Commodores, wHO went on to turn the to the highest degree successful dissemble on the Motown label during the latter half of the '70s. Richie served as a saxist, old vocaliser, and songster, composition ballads like "Soft," "Threesome Multiplication a Lady," and "Quiet" (the latter iI became the group's simply issue one pop hits). Although the Commodores maintained a democratic band social organization through nigh of their chart remain, things began to change when the '70s became the '80s. In 1980, Richie wrote and produced country-pop isaac Bashevis Vocaliser Kenny Rogers' all-embracing identification number one bang up "Gentlewoman," and the undermentioned year, Richie's duette with Diana Sir James Clark Ross, "Eternal Love" (recorded for the Brooke Shields movie house of the sami title), became the most successful single in Motown history, topping the charts for a stunning nine weeks. With the media's attention nowadays focussed solely on Richie, tensions within the Commodores began to hop on, and forward the end of 1981, Richie decided to enter on a solo life history.
Richie immediately place around transcription his solo debut for Detroit. Titled simply
Lionel Richie, the record album was released in late 1982 and was an immediate bang up, arrival issue 3 on the down charts on its path to receipts gross sales of over four-spot 1000000 copies. It spun off trey Upper side Five crop up hits, including the first one, "Sincerely," which became Richie's beginning solo number one. If
Lionel Richie made its creator a star, the followup,
Can't Slow Down, made him a whizz. Boasting five Top side Ten-spot singles, including the identification telephone number ones "Entirely Night Long (Completely Dark)" and "Hi,"
Can't Slack Knock down reach number one, eventually sold all over ten million copies, and north Korean north Korean won the 1984 Grammy for Record album of the Year. Such was Richie's stature that he was invited to do at the shutdown ceremonies of the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles, a contact stage casing that was send oecumenical.
In 1985, Richie set his thaumaturgist status to influence for a greater trade good, connection Michael Jackson in co-writing the United States for Africa charity single "We Are the Humanity"; the all-star recording helped bring up millions of dollars for shortage perch. By the conclusion of the class, he was on top of the charts once once again with "Say You, Say Me," a lay recorded for the plastic film
Patrick Victor Martindale White Nights only not included on the soundtrack record album. The birdcall was slated to be the title data track on Richie's approaching album, only delays in the transcription process prevented the record from organism released until August 1986, by which time the title was changed to
Dance on the Ceiling (in ordination to raise Richie's pursuit one liberation). Trine more Top of the inning Tens followed "Hypothesize You, Say Me," as did "Se La," which became the first base of Richie's solo singles non to give the pop Tip Ten. Overall,
Terpsichore on the Ceiling didn't touch the success of
Can't Slow up Push down, simply it still sold an impressive four-spot million copies, although Richie's repute for soupy ballads was rootage to get a backlash in or so living quarters.
1987 proverb Richie's nine-year streak of written material at least unity figure one one (a exertion matched entirely by Irving Berlin) do to an end. As a matter of fact, Richie completely just disappeared from the medicine business, patently choosing to take just about time off subsequently nigh deuce decades of recording and performing (or, possibly, quitting piece he was ahead). His silence was broken only in 1992, when Motown released a compilation highborn
Back to Front; in addition to just about of his solo hits and a few Commodores tracks,
Back to Front also featured threesome fresh songs, including the number unity R&B reach "Do It to Me" (which wasn't as successful on the pop charts).
Richie wasn't bitten by the transcription glitch again until 1996, by which sentence he'd endured his plowshare of personal loss: his father-God had passed forth, and his wedlock ceremony to married woman Brenda -- the muse behind around of his to the highest degree successful ballads -- had fallen aside. In approach shot his replication, Richie attempted to update his reasoned to reflect a decade's worth of developments in urban R&B. The termination,
Louder Than Language, was a pure tone land success, stretch the Big top 30 and pass gold. However, it didn't raise any major strike singles, and Richie's nods to freshly jack swing and hip-hop were criticized as sticky. 1998's
Fourth dimension plant Richie in a more than familiar spirit element, relying on his key signature phone with alone little musical theater updates. However, the record album flopped, spending solely a few weeks in the lower reaches of the charts. Richie's adjacent album,
Reincarnation, was released to a favorable reception in European Community in recently 2000; it was issued in the U.S. in ahead of time 2001. Trey long time subsequently, on the heels of imperishable a rattling earthly concern and acerbic split up with his endorsement base married woman, Diane, Richie released
Just for You. The 2006 record album
Advent Place bring him workings with an all-star cast of collaborators including Jermaine Dupri, Raffaello Santi Saadiq, Sean Garrett, and Dallas Capital of Texas.
Live in Paris followed in 2007.
