Lionel Richie | tr
Lionel Richie, 20 Haziran 1949 tarihinde Amerika Birleşik Devletleri’nin Alabama eyaletindeki Tuskegee bölgesinde dünyaya geldi. Buranın adını taşıyan enstitüde büyüyen Richie, 60’lı yılların ortalarında R&B gruplarıyla iletişim kurmaya başladı. Kısa süre sonra Commodores topluluğuna öncü vokalist ve saksofoncu olarak girdi. Grup, 1968’de Atlantic ile gerçekleştirdiği tek albümlük anlaşmanın ardından Motown Kayıt Şirketi’yle sözleşme yaptı.
70’li yıllarda Commodores adı, Amerika’nın en çok dinlenilen soul müzik grubu olarak anılmaya başladı. Lionel Richie, grubun en önemli ismiydi. Hem şarkıları yazıyor, hem de "Easy", "Three Times A Lady" ve "Still" gibi ağır tempolu ve romantik yönü ağır basan parçalarda vokali üstleniyordu. Yumuşak ve etkileyici...
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...
