Nile Rodgers

Nile Rodgers

  • Birthday: 1952-09-19
  • Place of birth: New York City, New York, USA

Biography

Nile Gregory Rodgers Jr. (born September 19, 1952) is an American musician, record producer and composer. The co-founder of Chic, Rodgers has written, produced, and performed on records that have sold more than 500 million albums and 75 million singles worldwide. He is a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee, a three-time Grammy Award-winner, and the chairman of the Songwriters Hall of Fame. Known for his "chucking" guitar style, Rolling Stone wrote in 2014 that "the full scope of Nile Rodgers' career is still hard to fathom". Formed as the Big Apple Band in 1972 with bassist Bernard Edwards, Chic released their self-titled debut album in 1977, including the hit singles "Dance, Dance, Dance (Yowsah, Yowsah, Yowsah)" and "Everybody Dance". The 1978 album C'est Chic produced the hits "I Want Your Love" and "Le Freak", with the latter selling more than seven million singles worldwide. The song "Good Times" from the 1979 album Risqué was a number one single on the pop and soul charts, and became one of the most-sampled songs of all time, "ushering in" hip-hop via the Sugarhill Gang's "Rapper's Delight", inspiring Queen's "Another One Bites the Dust", and anchoring the Daft Punk hit "Around the World". Description above from the Wikipedia article Nile Rodgers, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Filmography

Chic: Le Freak - Live

2006

As Guitar

Cerrone

2015

As

Finding the Funk

2014

As Self

Breaking a Monster

2015

As Self

Daft Punk Unchained

2015

As Self

Studio 54

2018

As Self

Live Aid

2004

As Self

Live Aid

1985

As Self

A Diva's Christmas Carol

2000

As CEO of Record Label

Production

Opus

0000

As Executive Producer

Beverly Hills Cop III

1994

As Original Music Composer

Earth Girls Are Easy

1988

As Original Music Composer

Coming to America

1988

As Original Music Composer

Blue Chips

1994

As Original Music Composer

White Hot

1989

As Original Music Composer

Public Enemy: Reflections of The Black Panthers

1999

As Original Music Composer

Alphabet City

1984

As Original Music Composer

Soup for One

1982

As Music

Beverly Hills Cop III

1994

As Theme Song Performance

Opus

0000

As Songs

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