Nile Rodgers
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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ActingBirthday
September 19, 1952Gender
MaleKnown Movie Credits
55Place of birth
New York City, New York, USA![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/original/g3ApsaEiNiuwL1k51xIXwOgvQiE.jpg)
Cast credits
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Live Aid
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What Difference Does It Make?
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Daft Punk Unchained
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David Bowie: Five Years
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Chic: Le Freak - Live
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Nile Rodgers: Secrets of a Hitmaker
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George Michael: Freedom
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Finding the Funk
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Wild Boys: The Story of Duran Duran
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Avicii: True Stories
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A Diva's Christmas Carol
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Studio 54
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Chuck Berry: The Original King of Rock 'n' Roll
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Sesame Street: 50th Anniversary Celebration!
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Duran Duran: There's Something You Should Know
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Nile Rodgers and Chic: Live at Glastonbury 2017
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Live Aid
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Jimmy Carter: Rock & Roll President
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