Nile Rodgers
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American record producer, musician and composer
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 7
Top works
- Fender Stratocaster 70 Years
- C'est chic
- Le Freak. Autobiografia do Maior Hitmaker da Música Pop
- We Are Family
- Freak
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1952-09-19
Discography
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 130,129
- Total plays
- 976,979
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Nile Gregory Rodgers (born September 19, 1952 in New York City) is a musician, composer, arranger, guitarist and music producer, and co-founding member of the seminal multi-platinum hit R&B band Chic, with influential bassist, the late Bernard Edwards. Rodgers began his career as a session guitarist in New York, playing with the Sesame Street band in his teens, and then working in the house band at Harlem's renowned Apollo Theater, backing artists like Aretha Franklin, Ben E. King, Nancy Wilson
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 354 diseases and injuries for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017
· 2018 · cited 10,995x
- Global Burden of Cardiovascular Diseases and Risk Factors, 1990–2019
· 2020 · cited 10,229x
- The protein data bank: A computer-based archival file for macromolecular structures
· 1977 · cited 6,778x
- Global, regional, and national age-sex-specific mortality for 282 causes of death in 195 countries and territories, 1980–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017
· 2018 · cited 6,186x
- Global, regional, and national comparative risk assessment of 84 behavioural, environmental and occupational, and metabolic risks or clusters of risks for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017
· 2018 · cited 3,907x
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Key facts
- Born
- Nile Gregory Rodgers Jr. , ( 1952-09-19 ) September 19, 1952 (age 73) , New York City, U.S.
- Genres
- Disco soul R&B rock funk
- Occupations
- Guitarist songwriter record producer philanthropist
- Instruments
- Guitar vocals
- Years active
- 1972–present
- Labels
- Warner Sumthing Atlantic Virgin Mirage
- Member of
- Chic
- Website
- nilerodgers .com
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Encyclopedic overview
Nile Gregory Rodgers Jr. (born September 19, 1952) is an American guitarist. The co-founder of Chic, he has written, produced, and performed on records that have sold more than 750 million albums and 100 million singles worldwide.
Formed as the Big Apple Band in 1972 with bassist Bernard Edwards, Chic released their self-titled debut album in 1977; it featured the hit singles "Dance, Dance, Dance (Yowsah, Yowsah, Yowsah)" and "Everybody Dance". The 1978 album C'est Chic included "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.
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