{"id":246708,"date":"2010-01-29T13:03:24","date_gmt":"2010-01-29T18:03:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jamati.com\/online\/?p=9331"},"modified":"2010-01-29T13:03:24","modified_gmt":"2010-01-29T18:03:24","slug":"akons-tribute-to-lionel-richie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/246708","title":{"rendered":"Akons tribute to Lionel Richie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-9332\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jamati.com\/online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/akon_lionel-richie-300x210.jpg\" alt=\"akon_lionel-richie\" width=\"300\" height=\"210\" \/>Presented by Target, the UNCF &#8211; An Evening of Stars&#8221; tribute to legendary Lionel Richie was truly an emotional experience worth being part of. From the performances by Natalie Cole, Jesse McCartney, Stevie Wounder, Johnny Gill, Brian McKnight, Chrisette Michele, Katharine McPhee, Ledisi and Africa&#8217;s very own Akon,\u00a0who performed\u00a0&#8221;Just Go&#8221; a song which he originally collaborated with Lionel Richie for his latest album.<\/p>\n<p>The main purpose for this &#8220;evening of stars tribute&#8221; is to serve as a fundraiser for the United Negro College Fund so liefs can continue to be touched byhelping children in America to further they higher education.<span id=\"more-9331\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>To see Akons\u00a0and Lionel Richie\u00a0click: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=kdPDogycjys\">Lionel Richie ft Akon &#8211; \\&#8221;Just Go\\&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>To see Ledisi&#8217;s perfomance click: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=gyWjHv4nnk\">Ledisi &#8211; My endeless love (tribute to Lionel Richie)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Presented by Target, the UNCF &#8211; An Evening of Stars&#8221; tribute to legendary Lionel Richie was truly an emotional experience worth being part of. From the performances by Natalie Cole, Jesse McCartney, Stevie Wounder, Johnny Gill, Brian McKnight, Chrisette Michele, Katharine McPhee, Ledisi and Africa&#8217;s very own Akon,\u00a0who performed\u00a0&#8221;Just Go&#8221; a song which he originally [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1903,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-246708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1903"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246708\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}