Lionel Richie

Lionel Richie wrote his way from the Commodores' "Easy" and "Three Times a Lady" to one of the great solo runs in pop — "Hello", "All Night Long" and the Grammy Album of the Year Can't Slow Down (1983). The Tuskegee, Alabama native co-wrote "We Are the World" and has spent recent years as an American Idol judge and Kennedy Center honoree.