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Country music has always been about as close to R&B as you can possibly get. We're storytellers.

Lionel Richie

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Lionel Richie
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: June 20
Actor
Film Actor
Musician
Pianist
Record Producer
Saxophonist
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Tuskegee
Alabama
Lionel Brockman Richie
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Lionel B. Richie
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