Nile Rodgers

Known for ActingBorn 1952-09-19 (age 73)New York City, New York, USA

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.Read more

Movies & web series

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

Square Roots: The Story of SpongeBob SquarePants

Sesame Street's 50th Anniversary Celebration

Live Aid

Chic featuring Nile Rodgers au Festival Jazz à Vienne 2013

The Making and Meaning of 'We Are Family'

Johnson and Knopfler’s Music Legends

Avicii - I'm Tim

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

Avicii: True Stories

Nile Rodgers: The Hitmaker

Taylor Hawkins Tribute Concert

Never Mind the Buzzcocks

Soundbreaking

Wild Boys: The Story of Duran Duran

Eventual Wife

Michael McIntyre's Big Show

Live Aid

Sheila, toutes ces vies-là

I Was There When House Took Over the World

Jimmie & Stevie Ray Vaughan: Brothers in Blues

David Bowie: Five Years

George Michael: Freedom

Daft Punk Unchained

Finding the Funk

David Attenborough's 100 Years on Planet Earth

ABBA: Against the Odds

George Michael: Freedom Uncut

SLY LIVES! (aka The Burden of Black Genius)

Live Aid at 40: When Rock ’n’ Roll Took on the World

Jimmy Carter: Rock & Roll President

Sex: The Revolution

NPR Tiny Desk Concerts

Billy Idol Should Be Dead

Disco: Spinning The Story

Little Richard: I Am Everything

Nile Rodgers: Secrets of a Hitmaker

If These Walls Could Sing

Duran Duran: There's Something You Should Know

Coming to America

Cerrone - Supernature

Saturday Night Live

Studio 54

Jean Paul Gaultier : Freak & Chic

Coming 2 America

A Diva's Christmas Carol

Disco's Revenge

Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve with Ryan Seacrest