Lionel Richie
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Football, basketball, you hear them all day long.
I was going to be an Episcopal priest, thinking that's my avenue.
And I'm on stage one night at the Jackson show, and all of a sudden, some girl said, sing it, baby.
And I said, call the minister back on the phone.
I said, I don't think I'm going to be priest material.
Just what you don't understand.
You have to know at that point.
You have to identify your lane.
I had never heard that, Joe, in my life.
You know what I'm saying?
And from that point on, it was just a matter of riding this wave of we finished that Jackson tour.
Hollywood Bowl, Motown saw us there.
Suzanne DePass was, of course, the one who put the Jacksons together and all that.
She knew us from our manager, Cape Cod, and Martha's Vineyard Island.