7 Songs You Didn't Know Lionel Richie Wrote

Born on June 20, 1949 in the small city ofTuskegee, Alabama, Lionel Brockman Richie Jr. would go on to become one of American ...
AOL

Lionel Richie Once Befriended a Racist Neighbor in Tuskegee: 'Talk to People with Assumptions About You'

Lionel Richie has always wanted to make peace and spread love. The Grammy-winning American Idol judge, 76, who hails from Tuskegee, Alabama, opens up like never before in his new memoir Truly, out now ...
The Grio

Lionel Richie says his parents stopped him from marching with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Lionel Richie once passed up on an opportunity to march alongside Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and other Freedom Fighters. During a recent interview with The Guardian about his new memoir, “Truly,” the ...
The Root

Lionel Richie Back With New Music

The Commodores legend and R&B-pop legacy Lionel Richie is back after a three-year hiatus with Tuskegee, named after the town of his birth, Tuskegee, Ala. A departure from his previous work, Tuskegee ...
The Arts Desk

CD: Lionel Richie - Tuskegee

There are a couple of hiccups. But just that. One of those is the closer, “Angel”, with non-country star Pixie Lott. At the other end of the album is “You Are” with Blake Shelton. More or less ...
Houston Press

Lionel Richie Charts a Truly Magical Musical Journey

It was only the second group that a teenaged Lionel Richie had ever been in, but they still needed a name. Leaving it up to fate, bandmember Michael Gilbert closed his eyes, opened a dictionary, and ...