Lionel Richie honored at Hollywood handprints ceremony

LOS ANGELES - Four-time Grammy champ Lionel Richie solidified his heritage in Hollywood Wednesday, diving his feet and hands into a wet clearing section at the forecourt of the notorious TCL Chinese Theater. 

The 68-year-old R&B vocalist, a previous front man for Motown legends The Commodores, has sold in excess of 100 million records over a profession spreading over six decades. 

"This is nearly past the youth dream," Richie told AFP at the service on Hollywood Boulevard, a long-established custom propelled in the 1920s. 

"When I initially resulted in these present circumstances town, the Holiday Inn was back there, directly behind me, and the main thing I did was ran out the room, came first floor and put my feet in every one of the hands and feet on the ground. Presently, my hands and feet are going into this thing, it's nearly bizarre." 

Late night moderator Jimmy Kimmel, crisp off his Oscars facilitating obligations, displayed the service while veteran performing artist Samuel L. Jackson was close by to help Richie, who told the group the respect was an "out of body involvement." 

Lionel Brockman Richie Jr. was conceived on June 20, 1949 and raised on the private, truly dark Tuskegee Institute college grounds in Alabama, where his family had worked for ages. 

A secondary school tennis star, he acknowledged a grant to learn at the establishment however dropped out and truly thought to be turning into a cleric for some time. 

He framed a progression of groups, while still at school in 1968, joined yearning Motown aggregate The Commodores, playing saxophone and singing. 

He went ahead to keep in touch with some of his most persisting melodies for the gathering, including "Still," "Sail On," "Simple" and "Three Times a Lady," which earned a 1979 American Music Award and a People's Choice Award. 

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He later expressed "Woman" for Kenny Rogers and had a colossal hit nearby Diana Ross with "Perpetual Love," which turned into the best single in Motown history, beating the US graphs for nine weeks. 

Close by Michael Jackson and Prince, he was a standout amongst the best male solo specialists of the 1980s, with a keep running of 13 back to back best ten hits in the US Billboard outlines, five of them number ones. 

He scored a noteworthy hit with "Throughout the Night," and won an Oscar for "Say You, Say Me," composed for the film "White Nights." His Grammys incorporate the 1985 Song of the Year prize for "We Are the World," co-composed with Jackson. 

Richie dealt with a nine-year dash of composing no less than one number one single a year - an accomplishment coordinated just by Irving Berlin - appreciating a lot of his prosperity universally, with an especially solid following in the Arab world. 

Be that as it may, his run arrived at an end in 1987 and Richie took some time out, returning the 1990s, with blended outcomes. 

Regardless of the runaway achievement of "Hi," Richie has said he came to disdain being named a balladeer and picked just to take after his creative faculties. "I formed into something that even I didn't know my identity," he said at a Songwriters Hall of Fame affair in New York in 2016. 

"Every one of the melodies that I made were the tunes that they let me know would demolish my vocation." 

A devoted planter, Richie has said that in the event that he weren't a performer, he would be a scene modeler or inside fashioner.