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".
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Acting (48 movies)
Jimmie & Stevie Ray Vaughan: Brothers in Blues
2023
Chic featuring Nile Rodgers au Festival Jazz à Vienne 2013
2015
Live Aid
1985
Little Richard: King and Queen of Rock 'n' Roll
2023
CANAL+'s 30th anniversary
2014
Disco: Spinning The Story
2005
Once in a Lifetime Sessions with Nile Rodgers
2019
George Michael: Freedom Uncut
2022
What Difference Does It Make?
2014
Little Richard: I Am Everything
2023
Breaking a Monster
2015
Taylor Hawkins Tribute Concert
2022
Cerrone
2015
Square Roots: The Story of SpongeBob SquarePants
2009
If These Walls Could Sing
2022
Chic: Live at the Budokan
2009
Daft Punk Unchained
2015
Sheila, toutes ces vies-là
2022
ABBA: Against the Odds
2024
Avicii - I'm Tim
2024
Nile Rodgers and Chic - Live at Montreux 2023
2023
David Bowie: Five Years
2013
Coming Back for More
2009
Chic: Le Freak - Live
2006
Best Of Night Of The Proms vol. 6
2013
Nile Rodgers: Secrets of a Hitmaker
2015
George Michael: Freedom
2017
Finding the Funk
2014
Wild Boys: The Story of Duran Duran
2000
Avicii: True Stories
2017
A Diva's Christmas Carol
2000
Studio 54
2018
Chuck Berry: The Original King of Rock 'n' Roll
2018
Sesame Street's 50th Anniversary Celebration
2019
Duran Duran: There's Something You Should Know
2018
Live Aid
2004
Jean Paul Gaultier : Freak & Chic
2018
Jimmy Carter: Rock & Roll President
2020
Molly: The Real Thing
2016
Nile Rodgers: The Hitmaker
2013
The Making and Meaning of 'We Are Family'
2002
Curves Contours & Body Horns
1993
Ultrasuede: In Search of Halston
2011
Duran Duran: Paper Gods Japan Tour
2017
Disco’s Revenge
2024
SLY LIVES! (aka The Burden of Black Genius)
2025
Cerrone - Supernature
2025
Nile Rodgers and Chic - Live at Montreux 2004
2005
| Title | Year | Job |
|---|---|---|
| Soup for One | 1982 | Original Music Composer |
| Alphabet City | 1984 | Original Music Composer |
| Coming to America | 1988 | Original Music Composer |
| Earth Girls Are Easy | 1988 | Original Music Composer |
| White Hot | 1989 | Original Music Composer |
| Blue Chips | 1994 | Original Music Composer |
| Beverly Hills Cop III | 1994 | Original Music Composer |
| Public Enemy: Reflections of The Black Panthers | 1999 | Original Music Composer |
| Eventual Wife | 2000 | Original Music Composer |
| Opus | 2025 | Executive Producer |