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Lionel Richie autograph 8×10 colour photo
Authentic Lionel Richie autograph 8×10 colour photo, signed in blue marker.
Born June 20, 1949. is an American singer, songwriter, actor and record producer. Beginning in 1968, he was a member of the funk and soul band the Commodores and then launched a hugely successful solo career in 1982. He also co-wrote the 1985 charity single “We Are the World” with Michael Jackson. Which sold over 20 million copies. Richie has sold over 100 million records worldwide, making him one of the world’s best-selling artists of all time. He is also a five-time Grammy Award winner. In 2016, Richie received the Songwriters Hall of Fame’s highest honour, the Johnny Mercer Award.
As a student in Tuskegee, Lionel Richie autograph formed a succession of R&B groups in the mid-1960s. In 1968, he became a singer and saxophonist with the Commodores. They signed a recording contract with Atlantic Records in 1968 for one record. Before moving on to Motown Records initially as a support act to The Jackson 5. The Commodores then became established as a popular soul group. Their first several albums had a danceable, funky sound, as in such tracks as “Machine Gun” and “Brick House.” Over time, Lionel Richie autograph wrote and sang more romantic, easy-listening ballads such as “Easy”. “Three Times a Lady”, “Still”, and the tragic breakup ballad “Sail On”.
Richie helped to raise over $3.1 million for the Breast Cancer Research Foundation. He was the featured performer at the Foundation’s Soirée Bouquet, the annual spring gala, in 2003. Richie told the crowd that his grandmother was diagnosed with breast cancer in her 80s. She survived and lived until she was 103 years old. He stated that she was his enduring symbol of hope and his reason for becoming a breast cancer activist.
