High School:<\/strong> Joliet East High School<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Yearbooks:<\/strong> 1966<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Yearbook photos of Lionel Richie from Joliet East High School<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/a> <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Lionel Brockman Richie, Jr.<\/strong>\u00a0(born June 20, 1949) is a singer, songwriter, and musician. He graduated from\u00a0Joliet East High School<\/a>, in Joliet, Illinois, in 1967, where he was a star member of the tennis team. Richie got interested in music in the mid \u201860s and joined the Commodores in 1968 as a singer and saxophone player. Following the success of \u201cEndless Love,\u201d his 1981 duet with Diana Ross<\/a>, Richie left the Commodores to launch his solo career. One of world\u2019s best-selling recording artists, Richie\u2019s musical style ranges from funk to pop ballads.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Awards (partial list):<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n Related Celeb Yearbook Blogs<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n Source: Wikipedia<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Lionel Richie Singer, Songwriter, Musician Birthdate: Jun 20, 1949 High School: Joliet East High School Yearbooks: 1966 Yearbook photos of Lionel Richie from Joliet East High School Lionel Brockman Richie, Jr.\u00a0(born June 20, 1949) is a singer, songwriter, and musician. He graduated from\u00a0Joliet East High School, in Joliet, Illinois, in 1967, where he was a star member of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2592,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrity"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.classmates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.classmates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.classmates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.classmates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.classmates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2548"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.classmates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8295,"href":"https:\/\/www.classmates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2548\/revisions\/8295"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.classmates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.classmates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.classmates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.classmates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Lionel](\"https:\/\/aboutclassmates.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/young-lionel-richie.jpg\")
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