New trend? Lionel Richie is now also writing his memoirs

Music legend Lionel Richie (75) has already achieved many professional successes and can now also call himself an “author”. Loud People The superstar will tell his story in his “intimate and extremely honest autobiography” and thereby “hopefully inspire all those who doubt themselves” or believe that “their dreams don’t matter.” In the book he describes how, as a shy late bloomer who struggled greatly with his ADHD, he eventually rose to become a world-famous entertainer and composer – with love songs that, for many people, are the soundtrack of their lives.

Lionel explains: “I have always been the reluctant hero of my own story.” People The publisher describes the memoir as a journey that begins in his youth during the civil rights movement on a university campus in Tuskegee, Alabama. It continues with his time with the Commodores up to his breakthrough as a solo artist – this catapulted him straight into the musical Olympus. speaks in his work Lionel But also about his “darkest times,” in which he only “barely survived” personal challenges, a rapidly changing music industry and a vocal cord injury that quickly ended his career. But through “divine intervention,” according to the publisher, he made an impressive comeback.

After decades of success as a musician, songwriter and producer, with over 125 million records sold worldwide Lionel a fixture in the music industry. But his passion goes far beyond music: In addition to his numerous awards as a Grammy, Oscar and Golden Globe winner, he is also an entrepreneur and philanthropist. Next year he will also start as a star judge on the eighth season of American Idol. But the music legend seems to particularly thrive in his role as a grandfather. Lionel speaks highly of his baby granddaughter. “We have a lot of fun together”the proud grandpa reported opposite E! News.