Stevie Surprise, Charlie Puth & More Stars Recreate ‘We Are The World’ At 2022 AMAs In Honor Of Lionel Richie
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When it came time for the 2022 American Track Awards to relish an even time the legacy and impact of Lionel Richie, it took more than one superstars – including regarded as one of Lionel’s fellow icons. Charlie Puth and Stevie Surprise kicked off 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 largest piano bar in Los Angeles. The 2 every took a turn playing a snippet of a Lionel Richie hit, displaying the man’s impact for the interval of the a protracted time. The tribute ended with “We Are The World,” and all people within the theatre joined.
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Seemingly the most crucial evening’s largest stars — admire Ari Lennox — came out to grunt, and Lionel couldn’t attend himself. He jumped on stage and joined in.
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Linda homenagem ao #lionelrichie no #AMAs cantando “We Are The World” 🥺 pic.twitter.com/2Ct0Y520gv
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“I started out here, on the AMAs, and my profession, to within the intervening time, forty years later, I’m reduction on the AMAs,” said Lionel when accepting the Icon Award, who thanked Dick Clark, sooner than thanking his teenagers – Sofia Richie, Nicole Richie, and Miles Richie – and their moms, for serving to lift them.
Smokey Robinson, the foremost host of the AMAs reduction in 1972, said he used to be “honored” to present the award to his “brother,” Lionel Richie. From there, audiences had been handled to a retrospective of Lionel’s profession, from his time with the Commodores, to his breakout as a solo artist.
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The AMAs presented in early November that Lionel would receive the Icon Award on the 2022 ceremony and compose historical previous as properly: alongside with his 2022 efficiency, he becomes the highest artist to be featured on the AMAs stage every decade since the present’s creation in 1974 (per Billboard). The Icon Award is his 18th overall AMA, alongside with his first two coming with the ban, the Commodores, and the the relaxation obtained as a solo artist. In 1984, Richie used to be the foremost to host the AMAs by himself. The next year, he returned because the host and obtained a then-file six awards that evening.
“I’m immensely grateful for a profession that has taken me to areas I below no circumstances imagined that I’d trot, from arenas worldwide to studio sets to the AMA stage,” Lionel Richie said in an announcement about the Icon Award. “I will be capable to come to a decision regarded as one of the predominant foremost cases I bought to do on the AMAs. It used to be to grunt ‘We Are the World’ amongst basically the most iconic musicians of my generation, so it is surreal to be receiving this recognition 36 years later.”
“Lionel Richie has had a profound impact on hundreds of of us world huge and on the tune alternate as a total,” govt producer and showrunner Jesse Collins said in an announcement. “From the hundreds of thousands of bucks raised as a result of ‘We Are the World’ to the arena influence his new sound peaceable has as of late, Richie is the definition of a living legend, and honoring him with the AMAs Icon Award is a no-brainer.”
This efficiency will cap off a banner year for Lionel. In 2022, Lionel used to be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Reputation as allotment of the Class of 2022, which integrated Eminem, Dolly Parton, Carly Simon, Eurythmics, Duran Duran, and Pat Benatar.
Lionel Richie (Alexis C Glenn/UPI/Shutterstock) “I relish to tell also that there are those who relish basically had to tolerate rather a bit,” he said within the speech, admitting he preferred tour lifestyles over domestic lifestyles. “Infrequently whenever you happen to tumble in fancy with the tune industry, you are seemingly to tumble out of fancy and of us don’t realize what the hell you’re doing over. I overlooked 25 years of pep rallies, bonfires, and family reunions.”
From there, he thanked his three teenagers – including Sofia Richie and Nicole Richie – sooner than including, “I ought to thank them for basically sitting via my magical thriller tour. And I ought to let all people know that I’m potentially no longer coming home for rather a while. I’m in fancy with this industry. I love what I compose. Thanks so great for this astonishing moment.” (h/t Vulture)
