Nile Rodgers
- Acting
- September 19, 1952 · 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 · Self
- Billy Idol Should Be Dead · Self
- Live Aid at 40: When Rock ’n’ Roll Took on the World · Self
- Cerrone - Supernature · Guest
- Opus · Songs, Executive producer
- SLY LIVES! (aka The Burden of Black Genius) · Self
- American Music Awards 50th Anniversary Special · Self
- Avicii - I'm Tim · Self
- Camden · Self
- Disco's Revenge · Self, Executive producer
- Johnson and Knopfler's Music Legends · Self
- ABBA: Against the Odds · Self
- Nile Rodgers and Chic - Live at Montreux 2023
- Little Richard: King and Queen of Rock 'n' Roll · Self
- Little Richard: I Am Everything · Self
- Jimmie & Stevie Ray Vaughan: Brothers in Blues · Self
- Sheila, toutes ces vies-là · Self
- Taylor Hawkins Tribute Concert · Self
- If These Walls Could Sing · Self
- George Michael: Freedom Uncut · Self
- Never Mind the Buzzcocks · Self
- Amol Rajan Interviews · Self
- Coming 2 America · Songs
- By Whatever Means Necessary: The Times of Godfather of Harlem · Self
- Jimmy Carter: Rock & Roll President · Self
- Sesame Street's 50th Anniversary Celebration · Self
- Once in a Lifetime Sessions with Nile Rodgers · Self
- Jean Paul Gaultier: Freak & Chic · Self
- Chuck Berry: The Original King of Rock 'n' Roll · Self
- Duran Duran: There's Something You Should Know · Self
- The Big Narstie Show · Self
- Studio 54 · Self
- Avicii: True Stories · Self
- George Michael: Freedom · Self
- Duran Duran: Paper Gods Japan Tour · Self
- I Was There When House Took Over the World · Self
- Soundbreaking · Self
- Michael McIntyre's Big Show · Self
- Molly: The Real Thing · Self
- Daft Punk Unchained · Self
- Chic featuring Nile Rodgers au Festival Jazz à Vienne 2013
- Nile Rodgers: Secrets of a Hitmaker · Self
- Breaking a Monster · Self
- Cerrone · Self
- CANAL+'s 30th anniversary · Self
- Chic feat. Nile Rogers - Electric Picnic
- What Difference Does It Make? · Self
- Finding the Funk · Self
- David Bowie: Five Years · Self
- Daft Punk | Random Access Memories | The Collaborators · Self
- Nile Rodgers: The Hitmaker
- Best Of Night Of The Proms vol. 6
- Ultrasuede: In Search of Halston · Self
- Chic: Live at the Budokan · Guitar
- Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen · Self
- Square Roots: The Story of SpongeBob SquarePants · Self
- Coming Back for More
- Sex: The Revolution · Self
- NPR Tiny Desk Concerts · Self
- Chic: Le Freak - Live · Guitar
- Disco: Spinning The Story · Self
- Nile Rodgers and Chic - Live at Montreux 2004
- Live Aid · Self
- Jimmy Kimmel Live! · Self
- The Making and Meaning of 'We Are Family' · Self
- A Diva's Christmas Carol · CEO of Record Label
- Wild Boys: The Story of Duran Duran · Self
- Eventual Wife · Music
- Public Enemy: Reflections of The Black Panthers · Self, Music
- Beverly Hills Cop III · Music, Theme Song Performance
- Blue Chips · Music
- Curves Contours & Body Horns · Self
- Later... with Jools Holland
- What is House? An Insider's Look at Dance Music
- White Hot · Music
- Earth Girls Are Easy · Music
- Coming to America · Music
- Live Aid · Self
- Alphabet City · Music
- Goldene Kamera · Self