Nile Rodgers
Born
19 September 1952 (73)
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' ca...
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 (40)
Billy Idol Should Be Dead
2026
Cerrone - Supernature
2025
SLY LIVES! (aka The Burden of Black Genius)
2025
American Music Awards 50th Anniversary Special
2024
Avicii - I'm Tim
2024
Disco’s Revenge
2024
ABBA: Against the Odds
2024
Nile Rodgers and Chic - Live at Montreux 2023
2023
Little Richard: King and Queen of Rock 'n' Roll
2023
Little Richard: I Am Everything
2023
Jimmie & Stevie Ray Vaughan: Brothers in Blues
2023
Sheila, toutes ces vies-là
2022
Taylor Hawkins Tribute Concert
2022
If These Walls Could Sing
2022
George Michael: Freedom Uncut
2022
Jimmy Carter: Rock & Roll President
2020
Sesame Street's 50th Anniversary Celebration
2019
Once in a Lifetime Sessions with Nile Rodgers
2019
Jean Paul Gaultier : Freak & Chic
2018
Chuck Berry: The Original King of Rock 'n' Roll
2018
Duran Duran: There's Something You Should Know
2018
Studio 54
2018
Avicii: True Stories
2017
George Michael: Freedom
2017
Duran Duran: Paper Gods Japan Tour
2017
Molly: The Real Thing
2016
Daft Punk Unchained
2015
Chic featuring Nile Rodgers au Festival Jazz à Vienne 2013
2015
Nile Rodgers: Secrets of a Hitmaker
2015
Breaking a Monster
2015
Cerrone
2015
CANAL+'s 30th anniversary
2014
Chic feat. Nile Rogers - Electric Picnic
2014
What Difference Does It Make?
2014
Finding the Funk
2014
David Bowie: Five Years
2013
Nile Rodgers: The Hitmaker
2013
Best Of Night Of The Proms vol. 6
2013
Ultrasuede: In Search of Halston
2011
Chic: Live at the Budokan
2009