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When it came clip for the 2022 American Music Awards to observe the bequest and interaction of Lionel Richie, it took aggregate superstars – including 1 of Lionel’s chap icons. Charlie Puth and Stevie Wonder kicked disconnected the tribute to Lionel, 73, this year’s recipient of the Icon Award. Stevie, 72, and Charlie, 30, teamed up for a medley of Lionel’s hits, turning the Microsoft Theatre into the biggest soft barroom successful Los Angeles. The 2 each took a crook playing a snippet of a Lionel Richie hit, showing the man’s interaction passim the decades. The tribute ended with “We Are The World,” and everyone successful the theatre joined.
Some of the night’s biggest stars — similar Ari Lennox — came retired to sing, and Lionel couldn’t assistance himself. He jumped connected signifier and joined in.
#AMAs King Stevie redeemed himself with the We Are The World sing-along due to the fact that I cognize astatine 1 constituent Lionel was looking similar Da F 🥴😳. There was nary 1 other who could've done the tribute??? 😂😂😂. #AMAs pic.twitter.com/ZAMfwJoNTC
— whataboutpromblane (@whataboutpromb1) November 21, 2022
Linda homenagem ao #lionelrichie nary #AMAs cantando "We Are The World" 🥺 pic.twitter.com/2Ct0Y520gv
— Rafael dos Anjos 1️⃣3️⃣ (@_rafa84) November 21, 2022
“I started retired here, astatine the AMAs, and my career, to this day, forty years later, I’m backmost astatine the AMAs,” said Lionel erstwhile accepting the Icon Award, who thanked Dick Clark, before thanking his kids – Sofia Richie, Nicole Richie, and Miles Richie – and their mothers, for helping rise them.
Smokey Robinson, the archetypal big of the AMAs backmost successful 1972, said helium was “honored” to contiguous the grant to his “brother,” Lionel Richie. From there, audiences were treated to a retrospective of Lionel’s career, from his clip with the Commodores, to his breakout arsenic a solo artist.
#AMAs Icon Award winner: Lionel Richie 👏 pic.twitter.com/YbDtFUbuV2
— E! News (@enews) November 21, 2022
The AMAs announced successful aboriginal November that Lionel would person the Icon Award astatine the 2022 ceremonial and marque past arsenic well: with his 2022 performance, helium becomes the lone creator to beryllium featured connected the AMAs signifier each decennary since the show’s instauration successful 1974 (per Billboard). The Icon Award is his 18th wide AMA, with his archetypal 2 coming with the ban, the Commodores, and the remainder won arsenic a solo artist. In 1984, Richie was the archetypal to big the AMAs by himself. The pursuing year, helium returned arsenic the big and won a then-record six awards that night.
“I’m immensely grateful for a vocation that has taken maine to places I ne'er imagined that I’d go, from arenas worldwide to workplace sets to the AMA stage,” Lionel Richie said successful a connection astir the Icon Award. “I tin callback 1 of the archetypal times I got to execute astatine the AMAs. It was to sing ‘We Are the World’ among the astir iconic musicians of my generation, truthful it is surreal to beryllium receiving this designation 36 years later.”
🎤 @StevieWonder and @charlieputh volition instrumentality the signifier to grant @LionelRichie and execute a medley of our 2022 Icon Award recipient's deed songs 🎤
✨ @AriLennox volition besides articulation the solemnisation of #IconLionel's monumental philharmonic vocation ✨
SUNDAY astatine 8/7c connected @ABCNetwork 📺 #AMAs pic.twitter.com/BNqKPMs5iF
— American Music Awards (@AMAs) November 14, 2022
“Lionel Richie has had a profound interaction connected countless radical astir the satellite and connected the euphony manufacture arsenic a whole,” enforcement shaper and showrunner Jesse Collins said successful a statement. “From the millions of dollars raised owed to ‘We Are the World’ to the planetary power his unsocial dependable inactive has today, Richie is the explanation of a surviving legend, and honoring him with the AMAs Icon Award is simply a no-brainer.”
This show volition headdress disconnected a banner twelvemonth for Lionel. In 2022, Lionel was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame arsenic portion of the Class of 2022, which included Eminem, Dolly Parton, Carly Simon, Eurythmics, Duran Duran, and Pat Benatar.
Lionel Richie (Alexis C Glenn/UPI/Shutterstock) “I indispensable accidental besides that determination are radical that person really had to tolerate rather a bit,” helium said successful the speech, admitting helium preferred circuit beingness implicit home life. “Sometimes erstwhile you autumn successful emotion with the euphony business, you thin to autumn retired of emotion and radical don’t recognize what the hellhole you’re doing over. I missed 25 years of pep rallies, bonfires, and household reunions.”
From there, helium thanked his 3 children – including Sofia Richie and Nicole Richie – earlier adding, “I privation to convey them for really sitting done my magical enigma tour. And I privation to fto everyone cognize that I americium astir apt not coming location for rather a while. I’m successful emotion with this business. I emotion what I do. Thank you truthful overmuch for this astonishing moment.” (h/t Vulture)
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