Lionel Richie is one of music’s biggest icons and now he is being honored as such at this year’s American Music Awards.
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Taking to press, the AMAs announced the news, saying in a tweet: “Announcing the 2022 #AMAs Icon Award recipient @LionelRichie.”
Announcing the 2022 #AMAs Icon Award recipient @LionelRichie 🎉
📣 More than 125 million albums sold worldwide
📣 17x #AMAs winner
📣 12 No. 1 hits + 13 Top 10 hits on the @billboard Hot 100Party with us at the #AMAs “All Night Long” on Sunday, Nov 20 at 8/7c on @ABCNetwork! pic.twitter.com/qQsg0yxGuA
— American Music Awards (@AMAs) November 7, 2022
Richie has since responded to the news in a statement that reads: “I’m immensely grateful for a career that has taken me to places I never imagined that I’d go, from arenas worldwide to studio sets to the AMA stage.”
“I can recall one of the first times I got to perform at the AMAs. It was to sing ‘We Are the World’ among the most iconic musicians of my generation, so it is surreal to be receiving this recognition 36 years later,” he continued.
Richie is one of the most decorated artists of all time. Having been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, he has scored five Billboard Hot 100 #1 singles as a solo artist and has won four Grammy Awards, an Oscar, and a Golden Globe.
The 50th annual American Music Awards will be held on November 20 at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles.
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He was hot for the first three albums after that… I don’t even wanna mention what he did besides being a judge on American idol💅🏾
Oh damn is the guy who did “party rock is in the house tonight!” with a haircut?
🤣😂🤣 or s e x y and I know it 💅🏾
Yaaaaassss Richie Rich.
Estimated net worth: $200 million
Black, rich, accomplished and unbothered. Beautiful 😻
Go away! Fake Shayla 💅🏾 FU trashy ashy bish