Nile Rodgers
New York City, New York, USA
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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.
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Jimmie & Stevie Ray Vaughan: Brothers in Blues
Chic featuring Nile Rodgers au Festival Jazz à Vienne 2013
Public Enemy: Reflections of The Black Panthers
Little Richard: King and Queen of Rock 'n' Roll
Square Roots: The Story of SpongeBob SquarePants
Chuck Berry: The Original King of Rock 'n' Roll
Duran Duran: There's Something You Should Know
American Music Awards 50th Anniversary Special
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Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve with Ryan Seacrest
By Whatever Means Necessary: The Times of Godfather of Harlem
Daft Punk | Random Access Memories | The Collaborators
Live Aid at 40: When Rock ’n’ Roll Took on the World
