Nile Rodgers

Nile Rodgers

Nile Gregory Rodgers

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In the collection

10 records
Chic Chic, 1977 C’est Chic Chic, 1978 Risqué Chic, 1979 Diana Diana Ross, 1980 Like A Virgin Madonna, 1984 Dancing In The Street David Bowie And Mick Jagger, 1985 Material Girl Madonna, 1985 Cosmic Thing The B-52’s, 1989 Live At The Budōkan Chic, 1999 Random Access Memories Daft Punk, 2013

Played with

Bernard Edwards 6 records together Tony Thompson 5 records together Bernard Edwards & Nile Rodgers 5 records together Chic 4 records together Rob Sabino 4 records together Alfa Anderson 4 records together Andy Schwartz 4 records together Gene Orloff 3 records together Raymond Jones 3 records together Sammy Figueroa 3 records together Cheryl Hong 3 records together Karen Milne 3 records together

About

Influential guitarist, songwriter and producer, born 19 September 1952 in New York City.
A leading light of the disco scene in the late 1970s, he recorded as part of Chic and with bandmate Bernard Edwards produced many of the most popular and memorable disco hits of the 1970s and 1980s. You can take a look at the entry Bernard Edwards & Nile Rodgers for a more complete list of their works together.
Rodgers produced artists like Sister Sledge, Diana Ross, David Bowie, Madonna, Duran Duran, Mick Jagger, INXS, Thompson Twins, Grace Jones, The B-52’s and Beavis & Butt-Head and is responsible as either artist, producer or writer of songs that have accounted for sales of over 100,000,000 records.
Rodgers is also the first African-American to own his own national music distribution company Sumthing Else MusicWorks, Inc., which is a leader in the distribution of video game soundtracks.