Nile Rodgers
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.
Known For
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Jimmie & Stevie Ray Vaughan: Brothers in Blues
Chic featuring Nile Rodgers au Festival Jazz à Vienne 2013
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Live Aid
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Public Enemy: Reflections of The Black Panthers
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Little Richard: King and Queen of Rock 'n' Roll
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La Soirée anniversaire des 30 ans de Canal+
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Disco: Spinning The Story
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Once in a Lifetime Sessions with Nile Rodgers
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George Michael: Freedom Uncut
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What Difference Does It Make?
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Little Richard: I Am Everything
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Breaking a Monster
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Taylor Hawkins Tribute Concert
Chic feat. Nile Rogers - Electric Picnic
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Cerrone
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Square Roots: The Story of SpongeBob SquarePants
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If These Walls Could Sing
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Chic: Live at the Budokan
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Daft Punk Unchained
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Sheila, toutes ces vies-là
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ABBA: Against the Odds
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Avicii - I'm Tim
Nile Rodgers and Chic - Live at Montreux 2023
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David Bowie: Five Years
Coming Back for More
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Chic: Le Freak - Live
Best Of Night Of The Proms vol. 6
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Nile Rodgers, les secrets d’un faiseur de tubes
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George Michael: Freedom
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Finding the Funk
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Wild Boys: The Story of Duran Duran
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Avicii: True Stories
CEO of Record Label
A Diva's Christmas Carol
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Studio 54
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Chuck Berry: The Original King of Rock 'n' Roll
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Sesame Street's 50th Anniversary Celebration
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Duran Duran: There's Something You Should Know
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Live Aid
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Jean Paul Gaultier : Freak & Chic
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Jimmy Carter: Rock & Roll President
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Molly: The Real Thing
Nile Rodgers: The Hitmaker
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The Making and Meaning of 'We Are Family'
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Curves Contours & Body Horns
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Ultrasuede: In Search of Halston
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Duran Duran: Paper Gods Japan Tour
Disco’s Revenge
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American Music Awards 50th Anniversary Special
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SLY LIVES! (aka The Burden of Black Genius)
Guest
Cerrone - Supernature
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
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Gender
Male
Birthday
1952-09-19
Place of Birth
New York City, New York, USA
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