Who is Lionel Richie? Does he really have such a big charm? Today, I will introduce you to the love song prince of the European and American music scenes and his world-renowned golden song "Say You, Say Me".
Lionel Richie is a true singer who was born in Alabama in 1949. During his college years, with the encouragement of his classmates, he joined a choir to perform for new students. Interestingly, he was later highly regarded for his composing talent, but at that time he could not even read the score. Later, another choir in the school was understaffed due to the graduation of some of its members and left the school, and asked to merge with his choir and was named "Commodore of the Navy". By the summer of 1968, they were already the most popular band in the Montgomery area and had received a record contract.
In 1982, he quit the band to fly solo, released his first solo album of the same name, and immediately won the first title of his career with Truly. He then released his second solo album, Can't Slow Down, in 1983, with even greater success, winning the Grammy Award for "Best Album" of the year and finishing fifty-sixth among the 100 best-selling records in the United States in the twentieth century with a total of more than 10 million copies sold.
Since then, his achievements in the music world have been even more out of control, and a song "Say You, Say Me" has made him known to everyone. The song is the theme song for the movie White Nights. The film follows the friendship of a former Soviet ballet dancer and a black-American tap dancer as they plan their escape. The song is sung at the end of the film. Compared with the obscurity of the film itself, "Say you say me" as the theme song is world-renowned.
At the time, Leonard Ritchie spent two weeks composing the song he thought might fit the film's plot, "Say You, Say Me." After the director heard it, he liked it very much, so he decided to put it at the end of the film. As a result, the song not only won the championship, but also won the Oscar and Golden Globe Awards for "Best Original Song".
As long as everyone gives a love, the world will be a better place, which is the theme of this song, so the lyricist calls for true feelings in the world, which of course first requires everyone to tell each other their hearts, trusting others and trusting themselves.
The success of the song did not make Leonard Richie proud and complacent and stop there. After that, a song called "Endless Love" made him recognized as the "Prince of Love Songs". Since the release of his first album, Leonard Richie has conquered the hearts of fans around the world with his soulful singing. As one of the brightest stars in the American rock scene in the 1980s, he collaborated with michael Jackson, the king of pop music, to compose the most famous charity single of all time, "We are the World", which caused a sensation in the international music scene.
As a legend in the European and American music scenes, Leonard Ritchie has been in the music scene for 30 years, winning 5 Grammy Awards in his lifetime, and selling nearly 100 million records. He is already a legend in his own right, and his enduring love song classics are the best commentary on the eternity of his beloved. "Endless Love", "Hello", etc., as the national love songs in the minds of generations, have become the must-have songs at weddings. Lionel Richie sang the love of everyone in his magnetic voice, and because of this, fans took his love songs as a treasure trove.