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Lionel Richie receives humanitarian award

Rohit Panikker / TNN / Updated: Dec 4, 2011, 16:41 IST
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Musician Lionel Richie receives Harvard honour for co-writing the 1985 hit We Are The World.
Lionel Richie receives humanitarian award
The charity single We Are The Worldcreated a buzz when it released in 1985 and it was picked up yet again for a reboot to raise funds after the devastating Haiti earthquake of 2010.
And for his efforts in co-writing the single with Michael Jackson, singer/composer Lionel Richie will be receiving the Peter J Gomes Humanitarian Award, a prize that will be presented by the Harvard Foundation.
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The university will recognize the singer for co-writing 1985 charity single We Are the World, as well as its 2010 re-recording to benefit Haiti and his advocacy and fundraising for the Breast Cancer Research Foundation," said Dr. S. Allen Counter, director of the Harvard Foundation, in a recent statement.
The song, which was the brainchild of American entertainer and social activist Harry Belafonte and originally required Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie to team up with Stevie Wonder to write the song, but Wonder backed out due to a busy schedule, Richie sat along with the King of Pop and producer-composer Quincy Jones to finish the song back in 1985.
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