Nile Rodgers
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
66
Gender
Male
Birthday
1952-09-19 (73 years old)
Place of Birth
New York City, New York, USA
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
Saturday Night Live
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
NPR Tiny Desk Concerts
Goldene Kamera
Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve with Ryan Seacrest
Live Aid
Avicii - I'm Tim
Studio 54
Never Mind the Buzzcocks
Michael McIntyre's Big Show
If These Walls Could Sing
The Big Narstie Show
Sesame Street's 50th Anniversary Celebration
CANAL+'s 30th anniversary
Avicii: True Stories
Little Richard: King and Queen of Rock 'n' Roll
Daft Punk Unchained
Little Richard: I Am Everything
David Bowie: Five Years
SLY LIVES! (aka The Burden of Black Genius)
George Michael: Freedom
Camden
George Michael: Freedom Uncut
Molly: The Real Thing
Jean Paul Gaultier : Freak & Chic
ABBA: Against the Odds
Nile Rodgers: Secrets of a Hitmaker
A Diva's Christmas Carol
Finding the Funk
Taylor Hawkins Tribute Concert
Chuck Berry: The Original King of Rock 'n' Roll
Public Enemy: Reflections of The Black Panthers
Square Roots: The Story of SpongeBob SquarePants
American Music Awards 50th Anniversary Special
What Difference Does It Make?
Live Aid
Disco’s Revenge
Coming Back for More
Live Aid at 40: When Rock ’n’ Roll Took on the World
Breaking a Monster
Nile Rodgers: The Hitmaker
Jimmy Carter: Rock & Roll President
Johnson and Knopfler’s Music Legends
Duran Duran: Paper Gods Japan Tour
Jimmie & Stevie Ray Vaughan: Brothers in Blues
Once in a Lifetime Sessions with Nile Rodgers
Sex: The Revolution
By Whatever Means Necessary: The Times of Godfather of Harlem
Curves Contours & Body Horns
Cerrone
Ultrasuede: In Search of Halston
The Making and Meaning of 'We Are Family'
I Was There When House Took Over the World
Wild Boys: The Story of Duran Duran
Sheila, toutes ces vies-là
Chic featuring Nile Rodgers au Festival Jazz à Vienne 2013
Nile Rodgers and Chic - Live at Montreux 2023
Disco: Spinning The Story
Daft Punk | Random Access Memories | The Collaborators
Duran Duran: There's Something You Should Know
Cerrone - Supernature
Chic feat. Nile Rogers - Electric Picnic
Best Of Night Of The Proms vol. 6
Chic: Le Freak - Live
Chic: Live at the Budokan
Nile Rodgers and Chic - Live at Montreux 2004
