Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthdate
1952-09-19 (Age: 74)
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.
Filmography (54)
David Attenborough’s 100 Years on Planet Earth
2026
Billy Idol Should Be Dead
2026
Cerrone - Supernature
2025
SLY LIVES! (aka The Burden of Black Genius)
2025American 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
