Nile Rodgers

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Age

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Born: September 19, 1952
From: 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.

Works

55 films

Square Roots: The Story of SpongeBob SquarePants

200910.0

Live Aid

19857.9

SLY LIVES! (aka The Burden of Black Genius)

20256.9

Studio 54

20186.5

Daft Punk Unchained

20157.2

Avicii - I'm Tim

20248.1

Eternal Disco - The Greatest Hits

20268.0

David Attenborough's 100 Years on Planet Earth

20267.0

Avicii: True Stories

20178.0

Jean Paul Gaultier : Freak & Chic

20186.4

Taylor Hawkins Tribute Concert

20227.9

If These Walls Could Sing

20226.5

Little Richard: I Am Everything

20236.6

Chic: Live at the Budokan

20094.8

Sesame Street's 50th Anniversary Celebration

20199.3

Jimmy Carter: Rock & Roll President

20206.9

Billy Idol Should Be Dead

20266.8

ABBA: Against the Odds

20247.0

George Michael: Freedom Uncut

20227.1

Disco's Revenge

20246.8

A Diva's Christmas Carol

20006.2

Ultrasuede: In Search of Halston

20112.8

Curves Contours & Body Horns

1993

George Michael: Freedom

20177.2

David Bowie: Five Years

20137.5

Chuck Berry: The Original King of Rock 'n' Roll

20188.0

Finding the Funk

20147.2

Sheila, toutes ces vies-là

20227.5

Chic featuring Nile Rodgers au Festival Jazz à Vienne 2013

20159.0

Cerrone

2015

Live Aid

20049.2

CANAL+'s 30th anniversary

20146.0

What Difference Does It Make?

20145.1

Duran Duran: There's Something You Should Know

20186.6

What is House? An Insider's Look at Dance Music

1991

The Making and Meaning of 'We Are Family'

20029.0

Nile Rodgers: Secrets of a Hitmaker

20156.7

Public Enemy: Reflections of The Black Panthers

19995.5

American Music Awards 50th Anniversary Special

2024

Molly: The Real Thing

2016

Little Richard: King and Queen of Rock 'n' Roll

202310.0

Jimmie & Stevie Ray Vaughan: Brothers in Blues

20237.4

Disco: Spinning The Story

20056.8

Wild Boys: The Story of Duran Duran

20008.0

Cerrone - Supernature

20256.6

Duran Duran: Paper Gods Japan Tour

2017

Breaking a Monster

20153.2

Coming Back for More

2009

Nile Rodgers: The Hitmaker

20138.0

Best Of Night Of The Proms vol. 6

2013

Chic: Le Freak - Live

2006

Nile Rodgers and Chic - Live at Montreux 2023

2023

Once in a Lifetime Sessions with Nile Rodgers

2019

Nile Rodgers and Chic - Live at Montreux 2004

2005

Chic feat. Nile Rogers - Electric Picnic

2014