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Lionel Richie

via FirstLadyB:

Legendary singer Lionel Richie had plans to become a man of the cloth.

“I left my mom and dad’s house to go to Tuskegee University, and I met my Commodore friends there,” Richie said. “At the time I was seriously considering being an Episcopal priest,” Richie told People.

But, after his first time playing with the Commodores, his plans changed.

“[But] the first time I played with the Commodores, a group of girls screamed,” he recalled. “Up until that moment no one, no girl, had ever screamed at me. I didn’t play basketball, football, baseball. I played on the tennis team, and no girl ever screamed at the tennis court. It was right after those girls screamed, I remembered saying to myself, ‘I don’t think I’m gonna be priest material.’

The Grammy award winning singer recently announced his upcoming new album Live From Las Vegas and Hello Tour.

LIONEL RICHIE WANTED TO BE A EPISCOPAL PRIEST  was originally published on praisecleveland.com