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Nile Rodgers
Rodgers in 2012
Rodgers in 2012
Background information
Birth nameNile Gregory Rodgers Jr.
Born (1952-09-19) September 19, 1952 (age 72)
New York City, New York, U.S.
Genres
Occupations
  • Record producer
  • songwriter
  • musician
  • composer
  • arranger
  • guitarist
Instruments
  • Guitar
  • vocals
Years active1970–present
Labels
WebsiteOfficial website

Nile Gregory Rodgers Jr. (born September 19, 1952) is an American record producer, songwriter, musician, composer, arranger and guitarist. The co-founder of Chic, he has written, produced, and/or performed on records that have cumulatively sold more than 250 million albums and singles worldwide. [1]

Formed in 1976 with bassist Bernard Edwards, Chic was one of the most popular bands of the disco era, releasing Chic in 1977, C'est Chic in 1978, and Risqué in 1979. The iconic singles "Dance,Dance,Dance (Yowsah Yowsah Yowsah)", "Le Freak" and "Good Times" hit the top of the charts, with "Good Times" becoming [2] "Good Times" [3]Using a hit song’s iconic beat, bass line or guitar riff in another recording is fairly common today among artists and producers. Known as “sampling,” the practice dates back to 1979, when the Sugar Hill Gang brazenly featured Chic’s “Good Times” as the basis for its “Rapper’s Delight,” now considered rap’s first hit single.

Since then, “Good Times” has inspired dozens of hit songs, including Vaughan Mason & Crew’s “Bounce, Rock, Skate, Roll” (1980), Queen’s “Another One Bites the Dust” (1980), Blondie’s “Rapture” (1981)...

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So with Chic no longer occupying most of his time, Rodgers was free to focus solely on working with others. What followed was a string of the post-disco era's biggest albums and singles. First up was Let's Dance, one of David Bowie's all-time best-selling albums. From there, offers from others flooded in, as Rodgers scored further hits -- INXS' "Original Sin," Duran Duran's "The Reflex" and "Notorious," Madonna's "Like a Virgin," Mick Jagger's "She's the Boss," Jeff Beck's "Flash," the B-52's' "Cosmic Thing," and the Vaughan Brothers' "Family Style," among many others.

Nile Rodgers' contribution to popular music has been extremely significant, so much more than the signature "chucking" style he developed as a brilliant rhythm guitarist. The musician penned some of the most progressive and popular songs of the disco era with Chic, who topped the Billboard Hot 100 with "Le Freak" and the hip-hop catalyst "Good Times," and released platinum albums such as C'est Chic (1978) and Risqué (1979). He has since produced dozens of hits, over several decades, for a wide variety of other artists, including Diana Ross' "Upside Down," David Bowie's "Let's Dance," Madonna's "Like a Virgin," and Daft Punk's "Get Lucky," and has remained an inspiration for aspiring musicians born long after disco's supposed death. Rodgers continued to lead Chic 40 years after the band's debut, even after he and partner Bernard Edwards became Songwriters Hall of Fame members. Revitalized in the late 2010s as the main attraction at festivals as diverse as Essence and Glastonbury, Chic returned to the studio for It's About Time (2018). 



of 250 million. 250  million With his band Chic, there was “Le Freak,” “Good Times,” and a half-dozen other disco classics. Madonna’s Like a Virgin and David Bowie’s Let’s Dance. Diana Ross’s “I’m Coming Out” and Duran Duran’s “Notorious.” Daft Punk’s “Get Lucky”



Sugarhill Gang, "Rapper's Delight"These collaborations also became the basis of major rap songs years later. "He's the Greatest Dancer" begat "Gettin' Jiggy Wit It"...Sister Sledge, "He's the Greatest Dancer" 0 Will Smith, "Gettin' Jiggy Wit It"...and "I'm Coming Out" became "Mo Money, Mo Problems."Diana Ross, "I'm Coming Out" The Notorious B.I.G. featuring Puffy Daddy and Mase, "Mo Money, Mo Problems" Rodgers teamed up with David Bowie in 1983 to produce Let's Dance. The record became one of Bowie's greatest commercial successes, and the title track is now one of his most famous tunes. He also was called in to produce INXS's song "Original Sin," which was the band's first major hit in the United State His work on Madonna's second album, Like A Virgin, cemented his reputation as one of the greatest producers of the '80s. That album pushed Madonna to superstar status with the era-defining smashes "Like A Virgin" and "Material Girl."Madonna, "Like A Virgin""Material Girl" At some point a few years ago, the robots of Daft Punk found an old Chic record and were inspired to invite Rodgers to collaborate with them on their album Random Access Memories.[4]


Although he recorded three solo albums during the 1980s and 1990s, Rodgers has found the most success collaborating as producer or performer with many artists including Sister Sledge, Diana Ross, Thompson Twins, Sheena Easton, David Bowie, Bryan Ferry, Duran Duran, Madonna, INXS, Britney Spears, Daft Punk, Pharrell Williams, Sam Smith, Pitbull, Lady Gaga, Kylie Minogue, Keith Urban, Christina Aguilera and George Michael. On April 7, 2017, Rodgers was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and received an Award for Musical Excellence.[5] He was appointed chairman of the Songwriters Hall of Fame in July, 2018. [6]

Early life

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Nile Rodgers was born September 19, 1952 to Beverly Goodman, a black woman whose family descended from southern sharecroppers. She got pregnant the first time she had sex, and gave birth to Rodgers when she was 14. His biological father, Nile Rodgers Sr. -- a traveling percussionist who specialized in Afro-Cuban beats -- was rarely present as Rodgers grew up; although influential in his life, Rodgers saw his father only a "handful" of times prior to his death in 1970. In 1959, Goodman married Bobby Glanzrock, who was white, Jewish, and "central casting handsome." [7]Richard Pryor, Thelonius Monk, and Lenny Bruce, often visited their home in Greenwich Village.[8] When Rodgers was a child, Glanzrock and Goodman became heroin addicts. Rodgers began using drugs at 13.[9][10] In his teens, Rodgers became a subsection leader of the Lower Manhattan branch of the New York Black Panther party.[11]

played guitar in 1970 with a jazz-rock band called New World Rising. He was a teenager then, organizing for the Black Panthers and unofficially attending Stuyvesant High School. (He wasn’t enrolled, he explained; he just sat in on classes with teachers he found interesting.) By his late teens Mr. Rodgers studied the guitar with intensity, playing stints in African, Persian, Latin, jazz and boogaloo bands [12]


Need racial identity, began playing guitar at 19 

Around 1972, Rodgers and Edwards formed a jazz-rock fusion group called the Big Apple Band. This outfit moonlighted as a backup band, touring behind smooth soul vocal group New York City in the wake of their 1973 hit "I'm Doin' Fine Now." After New York City broke up, the Big Apple Band hit the road with Carol Douglas for a few months, and Rodgers and Edwards decided to make a go of it on their own toward the end of 1976. At first they switched their aspirations from fusion to new wave, briefly performing as Allah & the Knife Wielding Punks, but quickly settled into dance music. They enlisted onetime LaBelle drummer Tony Thompsonand vocalists Norma Jean Wright and Alfa Anderson, and changed their name to Chic in summer 1977 so as to avoid confusion with Walter Murphy & the Big Apple Band (who'd just hit big with "A Fifth of Beethoven").


1970s: Chic, Le Freak, Sister Sledge

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At 20, Rodgers got his first "good" paying gig as a session guitarist in New York. He toured with the Sesame Street band, led by Joe Raposo, then working in the house band at Harlem's Apollo Theater, where they played behind other R&B artists.[13][14] In 1970, while touring with Sesame Street, Rodgers met bassist Bernard Edwards.[9] Together they formed The Big Apple Band,[15] and worked as back-up musicians for the vocal group New York City.[16] As a result of New York City band's, "I'm Doin' Fine Now"--their one hit--Rodgers and Edwards were able to tour extensively, even opening for The Jackson 5 on the American leg of their first world tour in 1973.[17]

When the band dissolved after their second album, Rodgers and Edwards joined forces with drummer Tony Thompson, and worked and recorded as a funk rock band called The Boys, which played numerous gigs up and down the East Coast. Despite major label interest in their demos, they could not get a record deal when the record companies discovered they were black, as they thought that black rock artists would be too hard to promote. The band continued playing mostly local bars.[18][19]

While in the Big Apple Band, Rodgers and Edwards worked with Ashford & Simpson, Luther Vandross, and many others. Since another New York artist, Walter Murphy, had a band also called The Big Apple Band, Rodgers and Edwards were forced to change their band's name to avoid confusion.[20] Thus, in 1977 they renamed the band Chic. Rodgers has stated that a major inspiration was a Roxy Music gig he saw in London.

Between gigs, they recorded their first album with then-boss Luther Vandross, who provided background vocals on the group's early recordings.[21] The band scored numerous top ten hits and helped propel disco to new levels of popularity, including "Le Freak", "I Want Your Love",[22] "Everybody Dance",[23] "Dance, Dance, Dance",[24] "My Forbidden Lover", and "Good Times" became club/pop/R&B standards.[25]"Le Freak" was composed after being turned away from Studio 54, despite being invited by the opening night performer Grace Jones.[26] "Le Freak" became Atlantic Records' only triple platinum selling singleCite error: A <ref> tag is missing the closing </ref> (see the help page). peaked at No. 3 and remained on the charts well into 1980. The first two singles, "He's the Greatest Dancer" and the title cut "We Are Family" both reached No. 1 on the R&B chart, and No. 6 and No. 2, respectively on the Pop chart.[27][28][29] "He's the Greatest Dancer" was sampled in 1998 on Will Smith's "Gettin' Jiggy Wit It".[30] and in April 2018, "We Are Family" was selected to be preserved in the Library of Congress.[31]

1980s: Diana Ross, David Bowie, INXS, Madonna, B-52s

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The 1979 disco backlash derailed Chic, and Edwards retreated from work,[32] while Rodgers' drug use accelerated.[9] Among the duo's last projects together was in 1980, when Rodgers and Edwards wrote and produced the album Diana for Diana Ross, which yielded the hits "Upside Down"[33] and "I'm Coming Out".Cite error: A <ref> tag is missing the closing </ref> (see the help page).

Rodgers and Edwards eleased their final Atlantic album under contract, Believe[34] and the film soundtrack Soup For One .[35]before Chic broke up, primarily because of personal conflicts between Rodgers and Edwards.[36] Following Chic's breakup, Rodgers began a solo career. His first album was Adventures in the Land of the Good Groove.[37] 

Toward the end of his tenure in Chic, he and Edwards had begun producing and writing for other artists, including hits for Sister Sledge ("We Are Family") and Diana Ross ("I'm Coming Out"). So with Chic no longer occupying most of his time, Rodgers was free to focus solely on working with others. What followed was a string of the post-disco era's biggest albums and singles. First up was Let's Dance, one of David Bowie's all-time best-selling albums. From there, offers from others flooded in, as Rodgers scored further hits -- INXS' "Original Sin," Duran Duran's "The Reflex" and "Notorious," Madonna's "Like a Virgin," Mick Jagger's "She's the Boss," Jeff Beck's "Flash," the B-52's' "Cosmic Thing," and the Vaughan Brothers' "Family Style," among many others.

[38] As a producer, Rodgers was (XXXX). He produced David Bowie's biggest selling album Let's Dance with several hit singles including the title track, "Let's Dance", “China Girl,” and "Modern Love". He produced the single "Original Sin" by INXS.[23] In 1984, he produced Madonna's blockbuster album Like a Virgin, spawning  two signature hits "Material Girl" and the album's title track, "Like a Virgin", as well as a third popular song, "Dress You Up."[39] The album saw an unofficial reunion of Chic's core members, with Rodgers, Edwards, drummer Tony Thompson and keyboard player Robert Sabino all contributing.[40] That same year, Rodgers joined Robert Plant's platinum selling studio band The Honeydrippers, on The Honeydrippers: Volume One.[41] He worked extensively with Duran Duran, remixing their largest selling hit single, "The Reflex", and in 1984 and followed up with "The Wild Boys" on their 1984 live album, Arena.  The hit "Notorious"’ album, which yielded the No. 2 title song in 1986, was produced by Rodgers as well.[42] In 1985, Rodgers produced albums for Sheena Easton, Jeff Beck, Thompson Twins, Mick Jagger, and many others, Cite error: A <ref> tag is missing the closing </ref> (see the help page).  He was awarded No. 1 Singles Producer in the World in Billboard magazine to close out the year.Cite error: The <ref> tag has too many names (see the help page).He produced albums for Grace Jones, Earth Wind and Fire's vocalist Philip Bailey, and performed on "Higher Love" with Steve Winwood, and records for Cyndi Lauper, and others. Cite error: A <ref> tag is missing the closing </ref> (see the help page).Cite error: The <ref> tag has too many names (see the help page). He then worked on the soundtrack cut “Language is a Virus” Laurie Anderson's Home of the Brave.[43]In 1989, he co-produced the B-52's multi-platinum album Cosmic Thing, that not only reached No. 4 on the Billboard 200 Album chart, but also featured the hit singles "Love Shack", and “Roam”.[44] That year he also produced Workin' Overtime, Diana Ross' return to Motown.[45]

This period sparked Rodgers' interest in soundtracks, among the first of which were ‘’Alphabet City’’, [46] ‘’Gremlins’’, ("Out Out" – Peter Gabriel), Cite error: The <ref> tag has too many names (see the help page). White Nights (“People Have Got to Move” “This is Your Day”) [47] and The Fly ("Help Me") – Bryan Ferry).  [48]

Rodgers formed the short-lived experimental band Outloud in 1987, with David Letterman’s guitarist, composer, and vocalist Felicia Collins and acclaimed French session musician, producer, composer, and keyboardist Philippe Saisse; the trio released a single album, ‘’Out Loud,’’ on Warner Bros. Records.Cite error: The <ref> tag has too many names (see the help page).

In 1988, Rodgers composed his first orchestral soundtrack for the film Coming to America (which grossed $288 million) starring Eddie Murphy.  and ‘’Earth Girls Are Easy’’ (the latter introducing him to the B-52s),[49][50]

1990s: Production, reformed Chic and death of Edwards, Sumthing Else

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Nile Rodgers at his Le Crib Studios, 1999

. In September 1990, shortly after the death of Stevie Ray Vaughan, Epic Records released the Rodgers-produced Vaughan Brothers album, Family Style.[51]Early in the decade he also produced projects for David Bowie, Eric Clapton, [52] The B-52s, David Lee Roth,[53] Ric Ocasek,[54] The Stray Cats [55] and many other artists, along with continuing soundtrack work on Thelma and Louise,[56] and Cool World.[57]  and The Beavis and Butt-head Experience.[58]"

Rodgers and Edwards formed a new version of Chic in 1992 and recorded new material for the album Chic-Ism. [59] In 1996 they released a Japan-only album consisting of old Chic material rerecorded with guest vocalists, Chic Freak and More Treats . Edwards and Rodgers performed with Sister Sledge,  Steve Winwood, and Slash in a series of commemorative concerts in Japan.Cite error: The <ref> tag has too many names (see the help page).

The morning after their final performance in Japan, in his hotel room, Edwards died of pneumonia. Rodgers discovered Edwards' body. [60] A year later, Rodgers returned to Japan to pay homage to his fallen partner. In 1999, Rodgers released Live at the Budokan, a live recording of an April 17, 1996 concert. The album was not overdubbed or changed in order to keep the recording of Rodgers' last performance with Edwards pure.[61][62]“When Bernard died unexpectedly in Japan in 1996 I cried like a baby and suffered intensely but eventually realised the best tribute to him would be to carry on and be the best I could be”.[13]


Rodgers started playing live concerts again while composing and producing music for film soundtracks: Beverly Hills Cop III,[63] Blue Chips, [64] The Flintstones[65] and Feeling Minnesota, working with Bob Dylan), among others.Cite error: The <ref> tag has too many names (see the help page).

In 1997, Notorious BIG released "Mo Money Mo Problems" sampling Rodgers and Edwards' song "I'm Coming Out" from Diana Ross's  platinum album, Diana. "Mo Money, Mo Problems" topped the Billboard Hot 100 for two weeks[66] and was nominated for the 1998 Grammy Award for Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group.[67]

In 1998, Rodgers founded Sumthing Else Music Works record label and Sumthing Distribution, an independent music label distributor. Sumthing focused on distributing video game soundtracks. Its titles include the complete Halo and Resident Evil as well as Gears of War and Borderlands.[68] (More on sumthihng - black owned)

2000s: Soundtracks, Duran Duran, We Are Family Foundation

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In the early 2000s, Rodgers worked extensively on film and video game soundtracks, including Rush Hour 2,[69] Snow Dogs,[70] and Semi-Pro starring Will Ferrell, who co-wrote the title song "Love Me Sexy" with Rodgers. [71]

In 2002, Rodgers returned to work again with the original five members of Duran Duran when he co-produced Astronaut.[63] The album rose to No.3 in the UK.[72]

In 2002, following the September 11 attacks, Rodgers estalbished the The We Are Family Foundation to promote tolerance and multiculturalism education and to support victims of intolerance. The foundation's first project began with a re-recording of "We Are Family" , performed by more than 200 musicians and celebrities. The accompanying music video was directed by Spike Lee. The Making and Meaning of We Are Family, an 80-minute documentary, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2002. In March 2002, a video of over 100 famous children’s characters singing "We Are Family" aired simultaneously on the Disney Channel, Nickelodeon and PBS. Robert Dole and Orrin Hatch proposed a National We Are Family Day in congress by former Senator Robert Dole and Senator Orrin Hatcha. During the 2002 Salt Lake City Olympics, the Children's Museum of Utah launched a We Are Family exhibit.[73] better source needed It’s not all about glitz and glamour, however. Nile started the We Are Family Foundation in the wake of New York City’s 9/11 tragedy to provide a voice for young people. The foundation creates and supports programmes that promote cultural diversity while nurturing the vision, talents and ideas of young people who are positively changing the world, connecting them to brands, mentors and partnerships: its motto is the song, the mission, the world – doing work as far afield as in Nicaragua, Mali, Malawi  and Nepal.[13]

Rodgers served as co-musical director for the tribute concert to Ahmet Ertegün at the Montreux Jazz Festival in the summer of 2006. A PBS documentary, Atlantic Records: The House That Ahmet Built, uses footage from this show, as it was one of the last times Ertegün would be captured on video.



Composer producer musician arranger Pitbull - producer Snoop Halo THree Paul Weller Diana Ross Jimmie Vaughan Jody watley Halo 2 (composer, music supervisor, producer) Age of Empires (video game) David Banner Lil Kim Duran Duran Mary J Joss Stone Beasties Brooks and Dunn LL Cool J Mariah Britney Babes in Toyland the Fall Will Smith Tom JOnes




2010s: Autobiography, Daft Punk, It's About Time

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In 2010, Rhino Records released a four-CD box set, Nile Rodgers Presents The Chic Organization, Volume 1: Savoir Faire,Cite error: The <ref> tag has too many names (see the help page). which for the first time collected and remastered tracks from all of the acts produced by The Chic Organization up to their original break-up in 1983.[74] Rodgers provided sleeve notes for the set, which was also reissued in 2013.[75]

Rodgers'  autobiography, entitled Le Freak: An Upside Down Story of Family, Disco, and Destiny, was published by Spiegel & Grau, a Random House imprint, in late 2011.[76] The book was named one of the top 10 of the "25 Greatest Rock Memoirs of All Time" by Rolling Stone.Cite error: The <ref> tag has too many names (see the help page).

In 2012, Rodgers began a collaboration with electronic band Daft Punk for their latest album, and said: “For me, spiritually and artistically, working with them was as good as anything I’ve ever done.” Cite error: The <ref> tag has too many names (see the help page).. He also worked on multiple tracks with Avicii,[77] Chase & Status, [49] and Felix da Housecat.Cite error: A <ref> tag is missing the closing </ref> (see the help page). Rodgers co-wrote and played guitar on three of the album’s tracks-- "Give Life Back to Music", "Lose Yourself to Dance", and "Get Lucky"[78]—and when the latter was released as a single prior to the album’s release on  April 21, 2013, it entered the official UK Singles Chart at No. 3, despite having been available for little more than 24 hours, and rose to No. 1 on April 28, 2013. In the United States, “Get Lucky” went to No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100[79] and went on to sell more than 9.3 million copies.<ref-name="new statesman" /> In an interview with Official Charts Company, Rodgers said, "I've had big records and Number 1s; I have had records that were Number 1 in the United States but nowhere else… I've had records which have done well [in the UK], but not in the States. But to have this ubiquitous record, that is a hit everywhere… It's amazing to me! I'm out on the road and I can hear it wherever I go. I'm flabbergasted!"[80]

In July 2013, Rhino Records released Nile Rodgers Presents The Chic Organization [[Up All Night (The Chic Organization album)|Up All Night The Greatest Hits), a compilation album featuring songs written, played or produced by Rodgers and Bernard Edwards for Chic and various artists including Diana Ross, Sister Sledge, Carly Simon, Debbie Harry, Johnny Mathis, Sheila & B. Devotion and Norma Jean Right. Up All Night reached No. 2 on the UK Compilation Album Chart for the week ending July 13, 2013 [citation needed]. IS THIS THE SAME ALBUM AS ‘’Savior Faire’’ but released?[81]A sequel, ‘’Nile Rodgers Presents The Chic Organization Presents Up All Night (The Greatest Hits Disco Edition), was released in October, and includes a medley taken from Chic ft. Nile Rodgers' live performance at the 2013 Glastonbury Festival.[75]


Rodger’s debut performance of “Get Lucky” was with Daft Punk at the Grammy Awards on January 2014, where the group was also joined onstage by Stevie Wonder and Pharrell Williams.[82]  At the ceremony, Rodgers won three Grammy Awards for his work with Daft Punk and Random Access Memories including Best Pop Duo/Group Performance, Record of the Year and Album of the Year. Cite error: A <ref> tag is missing the closing </ref> (see the help page). His solo single "Do What You Wanna Do (IMS Anthem)" was released in August 2014.[83] to benefit his We Are Family Foundation. The Foundation creates and supports programs that promote cultural diversity via the talent of youth around the world.[84]

Chic's first single in more than 23 years, "I'll Be There", was released in March 2015, along with a live streamed concert from The Roundhouse in London, UK.[85]  The song, created by Rodgers from original Chic outtake tapes from the 70s, featured Edwards and Thompson as well as vocalists Alfa Anderson and Luci Martin.Cite error: The <ref> tag has too many names (see the help page). The song went to #1 on Billboard's Dance Music Chart.[86]

Rodgers worked on Duran Duran's fourteenth album, Paper Gods, as producer, performer and co-writer on a number of tracks including the single "Pressure Off" with Janelle Monae. Upon release on September 11, 2015, the album debuted at No. 10 on the Billboard 200, the band's highest debut in 22 years.Cite error: The <ref> tag has too many names (see the help page). He collaborated with Lady Gaga on a remake of Chic’s  "I Want Your Love" that was used for Tom Ford's Spring/Summer 2016 collection [87] and played guitar on Christina Aguilera’s song "Telepathy, which went to #1 on Billboard Dance Charts, November 12, 2016.[88] The song was written for the show about the emergence of rap called  The Get Down which aired Netflix.[89]

Following George Michael's death in December 2016, a new version of Michael's song "Fantasy" was released in September 2017, credited to "George Michael featuring Nile Rodgers." The track, previously released as a B-side by Michael's label in 1990, was reworked by Rodgers and features his guitar playing.  It was Michael's only posthumous release.[90]

After 11 nominations - 2003, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2016 - Rodgers was inducted into the 2017 class of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for Musical Excellence. "It's sort of bittersweet," says Rodgers. "I'm quite flattered that they believed that I was worthy, but my band Chic didn't win. They plucked me out of the band and said, 'You're better than Chic.' That's wacky to me ... I am flattered and I think it's cool, but I feel like somebody put me in the lifeboat and told my family they can't get in." [91]

David Bowie - Legacy - composer

Already an inductee in 2016, Rodgers was unanimously elected as the Chairman of The Songwriters Hall of Fame in July 2018, taking over for Kenneth Gamble and Leon Huff for three years.[92]

Chic’s first album since 1992, called ‘’It’s About Time,’’ was released on June 22, 2018 (check). It was preceded by the single,"Till the World Falls.” Special guests on the album included Craig David, Janelle Monae, and Elton John, and was cited by ‘’DJ Magazine’’ as having “adopted he more modern sound of Rodgers’ recent collaborative releases.[93]

"The Hitmaker"

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Rodgers plays a 1960 Fender Stratocaster with a 1959 neck, which he nicknamed "The Hitmaker.” He acquired the guitar as a trade-in at a small shop in Miami Beach, Florida. Exceptionally light, it has a maple fingerboard and bears a well-worn white finish. Rodgers has stated that it does not sound like any other Stratocaster in the world. In his autobiography, Le Freak, An Upside Down Story of Family, Disco and Destiny, Rodgers explained:

"One day, following a gig in Miami, Nard got me to trade in my prized jazz guitar, a hollow-bodied Gibson Barney Kessel, for a sleek solid-bodied Fender Stratocaster, the six-string equivalent of trading in a Range Rover for a Porsche. The local act that opened for us played on our equipment, and their guitar player sounded better than I did on my own amplifier. Nard convinced me it was the guitar that made the difference. His soul-man makeover plan was working. He came to my room to admire my new guitar and showed me the style the other guy had played on my amp. He fingered the chords with his left hand, and his right hand would continuously play sixteen notes to the bar while accenting the main parts of the rhythm. He called it ‘chucking.’ Bernard used to be a guitar player before he switched to bass, and one lesson was all I needed. For the next few nights straight, while my roommate pursued all manner of trysts, I was having a love affair in the bathroom with my new ax. In just a few days, I'd emerge as a chucking funk guitarist who knew more jazz chord inversions than most of my R&B counterparts."

[94] The Fender Custom Shop introduced a limited editor Nile Rodgers Hitmaker Stratocaster guitar—a recreation of his own—in January 2014.[95]

Selected live performances and television specials

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Rodgers served as co-musical director for the tribute concert to Ahmet Ertegün at the Montreux Jazz Festival in the summer of 2006. A PBS documentary, Atlantic Records: The House That Ahmet Built, used footage from this show, as it was one of the last times Ertegün would be captured on video.[96] In 2013, BBC Four broadcast a documentary about his music life called Nile Rodgers: The Hitmaker.[97] In 2017, BBC Four aired a three-hour, three-part series, "Nile Rodgers: How To Make It in the Music Business"[98] He was was the subject of a Front and Center episode that aired on PBS, called "Front and Center: Songwriters Hall of Fame: Nile Rodgers."  The program featured the induction of Edwards and Rodgers into the Songwriters Hall of Fame as well as an intimate concert and talk at the McKittrick Hotel in New York City.[99]

Chic ft. Nile Rodgers co-headlined the 2014 Essence Festival with Prince.  Guests who performed during a segment of the show highlighting Chic's songwriting and production work for other artists were Kathy Sledge for Sister Sledge's "We Are Family", Janelle Monáe for Sister Sledge's "He's the Greatest Dancer".[100] and Prince for David Bowie's "Let's Dance".Cite error: The <ref> tag has too many names (see the help page).  The ball was verified by the Guinness Book of World Records as the largest ever built at 10.33 meters in diameter.[101]

In 2015, Rodgers launched FOLD Festival (FreakOut! Let's Dance). A multi-day, annual event with a diverse line-up of artists including Beck, Duran Duran, Chaka Kahn, Keith Urban, Janelle Monáe, Ginger Minj, Chic and many others.[102][103]

Health and personal life

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In October 2010, Rodgers was diagnosed with aggressive prostate cancer.[104] As a result, he started a cancer blog called "Walking on Planet C" detailing his status and upcoming projects.[105] After surgery and treatment, he received a medical “all clear” in 2013.[106] Although he had another cancer scare in 2017, he was cancer free as of 2018.[93]

Awards and recognition

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Year Organization Award Notes
2005 Dance Music Hall of Fame Inductee
National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences
NY Chapter 		Governor's Lifetime Achievement Award
2014 National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences Grammy Award With Daft Punk: Album of the Year
Random Access Memories
National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences Grammy Award With Daft Punk: Record of the Year
"Get Lucky"
National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences Grammy Award With Daft Punk
Best Pop Duo/Group Performance
"Get Lucky"
Rolling Stone 50 Most Important People in EDM "The full scope of Nile Rodgers' career is still hard to fathom,
and it's not just ongoing, it's in overdrive."[107]
Canadian Music Week Festival The Nile Rodgers Global Creators Award Presented by Paul Williams[108]
Ivor Novello Awards Special International Award Presented by Johnny Marr [109]
International Music Summit IMS Legends Award Presented by Simon LeBon[110]
National Academy of Records Arts and Sciences Grammy Hall of Fame Inductee[111] Chic's "Le Freak"
2015 Golden Camera Lifetime Achievement[112]
Grammy Hall of Fame Inductee Chic's "Le Freak"
BMI BMI R&B/Hip Hop Icon Award[113]
National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences Honoree of the Producers and Engineers Wing[114]
Horzu Goldene Kamera award for musical lifetime achievement.[115]
2016 Songwriters Hall of Fame Inductee[116] With Bernard Edwards
British GQ ICON of the Year[117]
BBC BBC Music Day Ambassador[118][119]
2017 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 11th nomination for Induction[91] Chic
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Inductee Musical Excellence[5]
2018 Songwriters Hall of Fame Appointed Chairman Unanimously elected
Berklee College of Music Honorary Doctor of Music Degree[120]
Abbey Road Studios Appointed Chief Creative Adviser[121]
National Recording Registry Library of Congress recommendation for being
"culturally, historically, or artistically significant." 		Chic's "Le Freak"[122]
Music Business Association (Music Biz) Chairman's Award for Sustained Creative Achievements[123]

Discography

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See main article, Nile Rodgers production discography

References

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