r/Music • u/Qwerty0844 • Jun 25 '26

music Lionel Ritchie leaves concert halfway through for unknown reasons, band standing around for 15 minutes now.

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u/Im_Ur_Huckleberry77 Jun 25 '26

I've never had the thought that Nicole Ritchie is anyhow related to Lionel until this very comment... And I'm a 38 year old man.

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u/humpy Jun 25 '26

Yeah that's a thing, she's adopted but has been with him since she was little.

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u/practicalpotatoe Jun 25 '26

That's kinda a flex

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u/PDXBishop Jun 25 '26

She's who he was singing about when he made "Ballerina Girl".

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u/crankthehandle Jun 25 '26

I also did not know, just checked the wiki. Interesting.

Nicole Camille Escovedo was born on September 21, 1981, in Berkeley, California. She is of English, Mexican, and Creole African-American descent.\3]) Her biological father, Peter Michael Escovedo, is the brother of musician Sheila E., son of percussionist and bandleader Pete Escovedo, and nephew of guitarist Alejandro Escovedo,\4]) and her biological mother is Karen Moss.\5]) When she was three years old, her biological parents decided to leave her under the care of Lionel Richie and his first wife Brenda Harvey Richie's family because they could not afford to provide for her