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- Nile Rodgers is a Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee, Songwriters Hall of Fame inductee and a multiple Grammy Award winning songwriter, composer, producer, arranger, and guitarist.
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Sonic innovator Nile Rodgers rocked beyond the boundaries of disco with inimitable guitar riffs fundamental to hip-hop, rock, and EDM. Bowie, Madonna, Daft Punk & others sought out Rodgers’ production prowess-yielding unabashedly freaky, incredibly danceable rock records.
Nile Gregory Rodgers Jr. (born September 19, 1952) is an American musician, songwriter and record producer. The co-founder of Chic, he has written, produced, and performed on records that have sold more than 500 million albums and 75 million singles worldwide. Rodgers is a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Songwriters Hall of Fame inductee.
2 days ago · Nile Rodgers is a Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee, Songwriters Hall of Fame inductee and a multiple Grammy Award winning songwriter, composer, producer, arranger, and guitarist. In 2023 he became the first creator to be awarded a Lifetime Achievement Grammy for his legacy in the same year as being awarded a Grammy for his new work with ...
Jun 10, 2017 · www.rockhall.com/inductees/nile-rodgers2017 winner of the Musical Excellence award Nile Rodgers give his acceptance speech at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame In...
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www.rockhall.com/inductees/nile-rodgersPharrell gives the induction speech for Nile Rodgers, the recipient of the Award for Musical Excellence, at the 32nd A...
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Rodgers has received the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences New York Chapter's Governor's Lifetime Achievement Award and the Heroes Award, and is a Dance Music Hall of Fame inductee. In 2011 he authored the critically acclaimed autobiography Le Freak: An Upside Down Story of Family, Disco, and Destiny.
As the co-founder of CHIC and the Chairman of the Songwriters Hall of Fame, Rodgers pioneered a musical language that generated chart-topping hits like “Le Freak,” (the biggest selling single in the history of Atlantic Records) and sparked the advent of hip-hop with “Good Times”.