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Lionel Brockman Richie, Jr. (Tuskegee, Alabama, 20 giugno 1949), è un noto cantante e compositore statunitense.
Dopo aver fatto parte dei Commodores si è affermato come solista.
Alcune delle sue canzoni più famose sono Endless Love (1981, duetto con Diana Ross), We Are The World (scritto con Quincy Jones e Michael Jackson), All Night Long (1984) e Say You Say Me (che vinse il Premio Oscar nel 1986). .
Bart was born Lionel Begleiter the youngest of seven surviving children in East London to Galician Jews, and grew up in Stepney. His father worked as a tailor in a garden shed in London E1. The family had escaped the pogroms in Galicia which was then part of the Austrian Empire.
Lionel later changed his name to Bart derived from the name of the silk screen printing firm he and John Gorman[1] created ("G & B Arts", for Gorman and Begleiter) after he had completed his National Service with the Royal Air Force.
As a young man he was quite...
Lionel Belasco (born 1881; died in New York City, c. June 24, 1967) was a prominent pianist, composer and bandleader, best known for his calypso recordings. According to various sources, he was born either in Barbados or in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago; he grew up in Trinidad, the son of a Afro-Caribbean mother and a Sephardic Jewish father. He traveled widely in the Caribbean and South America in his youth, absorbing a wide variety of musical influences. He was leading his own band by 1902. He made his first phonograph recordings in Trinidad in 1914, and soon after...
