Action 8 News was in Tuskegee as music superstar Lionel Richie thanked his first teacher for being such an important part of his life.
Richie and a crew from ABC’s “American Idol” have been in Tuskegee to shoot auditions and other video clips for the show. He was born and raised in Tuskegee before becoming a legendary performing artist with The Commodores and one of the world’s best-selling and award-winning solo singers.
“I’m getting teary-eyed. I’m getting teary-eyed because this is the closest thing to my mother,” Richie said as he stood next to Dr. Outland. “The first student I met on the campus was Lionel Richie and his mother Alberta,” Outland told Action 8 News. “Alberta Richie and Lionel, and since that time, I’ve been trying to grow, to reach the status that they have sent out here before all of us.”
“It’s great for the community because it gives us a chance to show more of our history, what it was like to grow up here and then to go away and have the international success in terms of what Lionel has done as an entertainer,” Haygood said.
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