Acting
Nile Rodgers
EN, FR, SV, NL cinema · 64 credits
Born
19 September 1952 (age 74)
Birthplace
New York City, New York, USA
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
Opus
Executive Producer, Songs
Avicii - I'm Tim
as Self - Artist
Disco's Revenge
as Self, Executive Producer
Studio 54
as Self
Cerrone
as Self
Finding the Funk
as Self
Live Aid
as Self
A Diva's Christmas Carol
as CEO of Record Label
Eventual Wife
2000
Eventual Wife
Original Music Composer
Public Enemy: Reflections of The Black Panthers
1999
Public Enemy: Reflections of The Black Panthers
as Self, Original Music Composer
Beverly Hills Cop III
Original Music Composer, Theme Song Performance, Music Producer
Blue Chips
Original Music Composer
White Hot
Original Music Composer
Earth Girls Are Easy
Original Music Composer
Coming to America
Original Music Composer
Live Aid
as Self
Alphabet City
Original Music Composer
Soup for One
Original Music Composer