After success on Wall Street with Crown Growth Partners, Geoff Block turned his attention to managing his family’s holdings through his RLB Squared company. Geoff Block has numerous outside interests, including the music of singer-songwriter Lionel Richie.
Born in 1949 in historic Tuskegee, Alabama, Richie helped found the Commodores, one of the top rhythm and blues acts of the 1970s. Playing the saxophone and singing, he also wrote such hits as “Easy” and “Three Times a Lady.”
Richie went solo in 1980. His song “Endless Love” became a hit duet with Diana Ross, and his 1982 self-titled album climbed the Billboard charts and earned him a Grammy for best male pop vocalist. His next album, Can’t Slow Down (1984), introduced his popular song “All Night Long” and won Richie a best-album Grammy.
Richie added to his fame by co-authoring (with Michael Jackson) the humanitarian hit “We Are the World.” His success continued with 1986’s album Dancing on the Ceiling, a four-million copy bestseller.
Setbacks such as his father’s death and a messy divorce interrupted Richie’s career until the release of Louder Than Words in 1996. Two other works followed, Renaissance (2000) and Coming Home (2006). He returned to top album status with Tuskegee (2012), a country CD in which he collaborated with Jennifer Nettles and Willie Nelson. The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts honored Richie for his lifetime achievement in December, 2017.
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