{"id":118065,"date":"2024-07-18T15:02:05","date_gmt":"2024-07-18T15:02:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/07\/18\/amazed-lionel-richie-responds-to-emmy-nod-for-we-are-the-world-doc\/"},"modified":"2024-07-18T15:02:05","modified_gmt":"2024-07-18T15:02:05","slug":"amazed-lionel-richie-responds-to-emmy-nod-for-we-are-the-world-doc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/07\/18\/amazed-lionel-richie-responds-to-emmy-nod-for-we-are-the-world-doc\/","title":{"rendered":"“Amazed” Lionel Richie responds to Emmy nod for “We Are the World” doc"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Lionel Richie<\/strong>, who’s\u00a0won an Oscar and several Grammys, was nominated for an Emmy Wednesday\u00a0in connection with the Netflix documentary he helped produce, The Greatest Night In Pop.<\/em>\u00a0Now, he’s responding to the honor.<\/p>\n

The documentary details the creation of the all-star 1985 charity single “We Are the World,” which featured everyone from Michael Jackson<\/strong>, Diana Ross<\/strong> and Stevie Wonder<\/strong>\u00a0to Bruce Springsteen<\/strong>, Billy Joel<\/strong> and Bob Dylan<\/strong>. It was nominated for three Emmys, including Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Special.<\/p>\n

Lionel\u00a0wrote on Instagram<\/strong><\/a>, “I am still amazed by what we accomplished in 1985 and I\u2019m even more amazed after receiving an Emmy nomination for The Greatest Night In Pop<\/em>. It has been an absolute joy to be able to bring this moment in history to life alongside\u00a0@netflix.”<\/p>\n

“A big thank you and congratulations to all of the artists and participants for making ‘We Are The World’ happen, and thank you to the\u00a0@televisionacad\u00a0for recognizing our documentary,” he added.<\/p>\n

Other Emmy nominees this year include Billy Joel, for his\u00a0CBS Special<\/strong><\/a> The 100th – Live at Madison Garden<\/em>, and Sara Bareilles<\/strong>, nominated for Outstanding Original Music and Lyrics for “The Medium Time,” which she wrote for her Netflix series Girls5Eva<\/em>. Her Instagram\u00a0reaction<\/strong><\/a> was “Omg.” next to the “shocked face” emoji.<\/p>\n

Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Courtesy of Netflix \u00a9 2024 Lionel Richie, who’s\u00a0won an Oscar and several Grammys, was nominated for an Emmy Wednesday\u00a0in connection with the Netflix documentary he helped produce, The Greatest Night In Pop.\u00a0Now, he’s responding to the honor. The documentary details the creation of the all-star 1985 charity single “We AreRead More →<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[701,702,227,527,700,490,528,276,703,648],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118065"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118065\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}