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Lionel Brockman Richie, Jr. nació el 20 de Junio de 1949 en Alabama, Estados Unidos. Cuando terminó la secundaria, su familia se mudó a Illinois, pero él logró ganar una beca de tennis en el Instituto Tuskegee de Alabama, y regresó a su ciudad natal. Es ahí donde se forma musicalmente en el género R&B. En 1968, se convierte en el cantante principal y en saxofonista de la banda “The Commodores”. La agrupación firma un contrato con la disquera Atlantic Records para hacer un disco; posteriormente firman con Motown Records, y son designados a ser los teloneros de una presentación...

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...