Hello, Lionel Richie!
Distinguished singer-songwriter, musician, and record producer Lionel Richie will receive the 2011 Peter J. Gomes Humanitarian Award from the Harvard Foundation on Dec. 5 at Kirkland House. Richie is a multi-award-winning superstar and musical genius who has written and recorded many popular love songs. He co-wrote, with the late Michael Jackson, the song “We Are the World” to benefit hunger victims in Africa in 1985, and the song was performed again in 2010 to benefit the victims of the earthquake in Haiti. He is also an advocate for breast cancer research and has helped to raise funds to support the Breast Cancer Research Foundation. “The students and faculty of the Harvard Foundation are pleased to present the 2011 Humanitarian Award to Mr. Lionel Richie in memory of the late Rev. Peter J. Gomes,” said S. Allen Counter, director of the Harvard Foundation. “Richie is one of our nation’s most creative musical artists,...
