Artist

Lionel Richie

Wins

4

Nominations

33

Category

Composing/Arranging General Gospel & Contemporary Christian Music Music Video/Film Non-Classical Pop Production R&B

Biography

"I think the whole world is dying to hear someone say, 'I love you.' I think that if I can leave the legacy of love and passion in the world, then I think I've done my job in a world that's getting colder and colder by the day."

  • Born Lionel Brockman Richie Jr. June 20, 1949, in Tuskegee, Alabama.
  • "All Night Long (All Night)," one of Lionel Richie's best-known songs, went to No. 1 and was nominated for Song Of The Year in 1984. That same year, his album Can't Slow Down spent 59 weeks in the Billboard Top 10 and eventually sold more than 10 million copies.
  • Richie earned his first career GRAMMY for 1982 for Best Pop Vocal Performance, Male for "Truly." Can't Slow Down won Album Of The Year in 1984, and "We Are The World," a charity single he wrote with Michael Jackson, won Song Of The Year for 1985. He also earned the Producer Of The Year (Non-Classical) GRAMMY for 1984. Richie made his GRAMMY stage debut at the 23rd GRAMMY Awards in 1981, where he performed "Lady" as part of a Song Of The Year medley.
  • Richie is an avid gardener, and has said that if he weren't a musician, he would be a landscape architect or interior designer.
  • Richie was honored as MusiCares Person of the Year in 2016. The annual Person of the Year gala raises funds for MusiCares, which provides services and resources that cover a wide range of financial, medical and personal emergencies for music people.
  • In addition to his work on "We Are The World," which raised more than $63 million for famine relief in Africa, Richie has raised more than $3.1 million for the Breast Cancer Research Foundation.

 

All Grammy Awards and Nominations for Lionel Richie

  • Best Music Film

    The Greatest Night In Pop

    Lionel Richie, Bruce Eskowitz, George Hencken, Bao Nguyen, Julia Nottingham, Harriet Sternberg, Larry Klein

  • Male R&B Vocal Performance

    I Call It Love

    Lionel Richie

  • Best R&B Album

    Coming Home

    Lionel Richie

  • Best Dance Recording

    Angel

    Brian Rawling, Mark Taylor, Lionel Richie

  • Song Of The Year Winner

    We Are The World

    Michael Jackson, Lionel Richie

  • Album Of The Year Winner

    Can't Slow Down

    James Anthony Carmichael, Lionel Richie

  • Song Of The Year

    Hello (Single)

    Lionel Richie

  • Male Pop Vocal Performance

    Hello (Single)

    Lionel Richie

  • Producer Of The Year, Non-Classical Winner

    James Anthony Carmichael, Lionel Richie

  • Record Of The Year

    All Night Long (All Night) (Single)

    James Anthony Carmichael, Lionel Richie

  • Song Of The Year

    All Night Long (All Night) (Single)

    Lionel Richie

  • Best Arrangement, Instruments and Vocals

    All Night Long (All Night) (Single)

    James Anthony Carmichael, Lionel Richie

  • Male Pop Vocal Performance

    All Night Long (All Night) (Single)

    Lionel Richie

  • Producer Of The Year, Non-Classical

    Producer Of The Year

    James Anthony Carmichael, Lionel Richie

  • Male Pop Vocal Performance Winner

    Truly

    Lionel Richie

  • Pop Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocals

    Endless Love (Single)

    Diana Ross, Lionel Richie

  • R&B Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocals

    Lady (You Bring Me Up) (Single)

    Thomas McClary, Walter Orange, Commodores, Milan Williams, William King, Lionel Richie

  • Best Score Soundtrack For Visual Media (Includes Film And Television)

    Endless Love (Album)

    Thomas McClary, Jonathan Tunick, Lionel Richie

  • Producer Of The Year, Non-Classical

    Producer Of The Year

    Lionel Richie

  • Record Of The Year

    Endless Love (Single)

    Diana Ross, Lionel Richie

  • Song Of The Year

    Endless Love (Single)

    Lionel Richie

  • Record Of The Year

    Lady (Single)

    Kenny Rogers, Lionel Richie

  • Song Of The Year

    Lady (Single)

    Lionel Richie

  • Best Inspirational Performance

    Jesus Is Love (Track)

    Ronald LaPread, Thomas McClary, Walter Orange, Commodores, Milan Williams, William King, Lionel Richie

  • R&B Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocals

    Heroes (Album)

    Ronald LaPread, Thomas McClary, Walter Orange, Commodores, Milan Williams, William King, Lionel Richie

  • R&B Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocals

    Midnight Magic (Album)

    Ronald LaPread, Thomas McClary, Walter Orange, Commodores, Milan Williams, William King, Lionel Richie

  • Pop Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocals

    Sail On (Track)

    Ronald LaPread, Thomas McClary, Walter Orange, Commodores, Milan Williams, William King, Lionel Richie

  • Song Of The Year

    Three Times A Lady (Single)

    Lionel Richie

  • R&B Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocals

    Natural High

    Ronald LaPread, Thomas McClary, Walter Orange, Commodores, Milan Williams, William King, Lionel Richie

  • Pop Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocals

    Three Times A Lady (Single)

    Ronald LaPread, Thomas McClary, Walter Orange, Commodores, Milan Williams, William King, Lionel Richie

  • Best R&B Song

    Brick House

    Ronald LaPread, Thomas McClary, Walter Orange, Milan Williams, William King, Lionel Richie

  • Best R&B Song

    Easy (Single)

    Lionel Richie

  • R&B Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocals

    Easy (Single)

    Ronald LaPread, Thomas McClary, Walter Orange, Commodores, Milan Williams, William King, Lionel Richie

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