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". Description above from the Wikipedia article Nile Rodgers, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Personal Details
Movies (40)
Cerrone - Supernature
as Guest
2025
Opus
Executive Producer (Production)
2025
SLY LIVES! (aka The Burden of Black Genius)
as Self
2025
American Music Awards 50th Anniversary Special
as Self
2024
Avicii - I'm Tim
as Self - Artist
2024
Disco’s Revenge
2024
ABBA: Against the Odds
as Self
2024
Nile Rodgers and Chic - Live at Montreux 2023
2023
Little Richard: King and Queen of Rock 'n' Roll
as Self
2023
Little Richard: I Am Everything
as Self
2023
Jimmie & Stevie Ray Vaughan: Brothers in Blues
as Self
2023
Sheila, toutes ces vies-là
as Self
2022
Taylor Hawkins Tribute Concert
as Self
2022
If These Walls Could Sing
as Self
2022
George Michael: Freedom Uncut
as Self
2022
Jimmy Carter: Rock & Roll President
as Self
2020
Sesame Street's 50th Anniversary Celebration
as Self
2019
Once in a Lifetime Sessions with Nile Rodgers
as Self
2019
Jean Paul Gaultier : Freak & Chic
as Self
2018
Chuck Berry: The Original King of Rock 'n' Roll
as Self
2018
Duran Duran: There's Something You Should Know
as Self
2018
Studio 54
as Self
2018
Avicii: True Stories
as Self
2017
George Michael: Freedom
as Self
2017
Duran Duran: Paper Gods Japan Tour
as Self
2017
Molly: The Real Thing
as Self
2016
Daft Punk Unchained
as Self
2015
Chic featuring Nile Rodgers au Festival Jazz à Vienne 2013
2015
Nile Rodgers: Secrets of a Hitmaker
as Self
2015
Breaking a Monster
as Self
2015
Cerrone
as Self
2015
CANAL+'s 30th anniversary
as Self
2014
Chic feat. Nile Rogers - Electric Picnic
2014
What Difference Does It Make?
as Self
2014
Finding the Funk
as Self
2014
David Bowie: Five Years
as Self
2013
Nile Rodgers: The Hitmaker
2013
Best Of Night Of The Proms vol. 6
2013
Ultrasuede: In Search of Halston
as Self
2011
Chic: Live at the Budokan
as Guitar
2009
TV Shows (10)
Live Aid at 40: When Rock ’n’ Roll Took on the World
as Self
2025
Camden
as Self
2024
Johnson and Knopfler’s Music Legends
as Self
2024
Never Mind the Buzzcocks
as Self - Panellist
2021
By Whatever Means Necessary: The Times of Godfather of Harlem
as Self
2020
The Big Narstie Show
as Self
2018
I Was There When House Took Over the World
as self
2017
Michael McIntyre's Big Show
as Self - Performer
2016
Daft Punk | Random Access Memories | The Collaborators
as Himself
2013
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
as Self - Guest
2009