Nile Rodgers
Acting
- Born:
- 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.
Known For
Filmography
David Attenborough's 100 Years on Planet Earth
Billy Idol Should Be Dead
Live Aid at 40: When Rock ’n’ Roll Took on the World
Cerrone - Supernature
SLY LIVES! (aka The Burden of Black Genius)
American Music Awards 50th Anniversary Special
Avicii - I'm Tim
Camden
Disco's Revenge
Johnson and Knopfler's Music Legends
ABBA: Against the Odds
Nile Rodgers and Chic - Live at Montreux 2023
Little Richard: King and Queen of Rock 'n' Roll
Little Richard: I Am Everything
Jimmie & Stevie Ray Vaughan: Brothers in Blues
Sheila, toutes ces vies-là
Taylor Hawkins Tribute Concert
If These Walls Could Sing
George Michael: Freedom Uncut
Never Mind the Buzzcocks
Amol Rajan Interviews
By Whatever Means Necessary: The Times of Godfather of Harlem
Jimmy Carter: Rock & Roll President
Sesame Street's 50th Anniversary Celebration
Once in a Lifetime Sessions with Nile Rodgers
Jean Paul Gaultier: Freak & Chic
Chuck Berry: The Original King of Rock 'n' Roll
Duran Duran: There's Something You Should Know
The Big Narstie Show
Studio 54
Avicii: True Stories
George Michael: Freedom
Duran Duran: Paper Gods Japan Tour
I Was There When House Took Over the World
Soundbreaking
Michael McIntyre's Big Show
Molly: The Real Thing
Daft Punk Unchained
Chic featuring Nile Rodgers au Festival Jazz à Vienne 2013
Nile Rodgers: Secrets of a Hitmaker
Breaking a Monster
Cerrone
CANAL+'s 30th anniversary
Chic feat. Nile Rogers - Electric Picnic
What Difference Does It Make?
Finding the Funk
David Bowie: Five Years
Daft Punk | Random Access Memories | The Collaborators
Nile Rodgers: The Hitmaker
Best Of Night Of The Proms vol. 6
Ultrasuede: In Search of Halston
Chic: Live at the Budokan
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
Square Roots: The Story of SpongeBob SquarePants
Coming Back for More
Sex: The Revolution
NPR Tiny Desk Concerts
Chic: Le Freak - Live
Disco: Spinning The Story
Nile Rodgers and Chic - Live at Montreux 2004
Live Aid
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
The Making and Meaning of 'We Are Family'
A Diva's Christmas Carol
Wild Boys: The Story of Duran Duran
Public Enemy: Reflections of The Black Panthers
Curves Contours & Body Horns
Later... with Jools Holland
What is House? An Insider's Look at Dance Music
Live Aid
Goldene Kamera
Saturday Night Live