Superstar singer/songwriter Lionel Richie has announced the release of a “deeply candid” tell-all memoir that promises to reveal details of his personal life and decades-long career.
According to a statement by book publisher HarperOne, Richie’s memoir is set to be “deeply candid” as the 75-year-old award winning musician “seeks to inspire all who doubt themselves or feel their dreams don’t matter by chronicling lessons learned in the course of his most unlikely of success stories – from a painfully shy, ‘tragically’ late bloomer grappling with ADHD to his dramatic transformation into a world-class entertainer and composer of love songs that have played like the soundtrack of our lives.”
The forthcoming book will open with Lionel’s early years as a Tuskegee University student in Alabama and follow his life as his career rose to Herculean heights as the lead singer of the Commodores and then as a solo artist.
The formal press release about his memoir revealed that the Oscar winner, who admitted that he has “always been the reluctant hero of my own story”, will tell how he “barely survived” the death of his father, two divorces and a near-career-ending vocal cord injury.
“Richie will share how he lived to tell this story – and through divine intervention, soon took off to higher heights, with one of the greatest rejuvenation stories ever told,” teased the publisher.
Scheduled for a September 30 release, the book has yet to be titled.
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