Nile Rodgers

Actor · Born September 19, 1952 · New York City, New York, USA

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.

Acted in 12

2020s

2025
Cerrone - Supernature
Guest
2023
Nile Rodgers and Chic - Live at Montreux 2023
Movie

2010s

2015
Chic featuring Nile Rodgers au Festival Jazz à Vienne 2013
Movie
2013
Nile Rodgers: The Hitmaker
Movie
Best Of Night Of The Proms vol. 6
Movie

2000s

2009
Chic: Live at the Budokan
Guitar
Coming Back for More
Movie
2006
Chic: Le Freak - Live
Guitar
2005
Nile Rodgers and Chic - Live at Montreux 2004
Movie
2000
A Diva's Christmas Carol
CEO of Record Label

1990s

1992
Later... with Jools Holland
TV · 69 Seasons · Talk
1991
What is House? An Insider's Look at Dance Music
Movie

Sound 9

2020s

2025
Opus
Songs
50
2021
Coming 2 America
Songs
54

1990s

1980s

1989
White Hot
Original Music Composer
1988
Earth Girls Are Easy
Original Music Composer
60
Coming to America
Original Music Composer
66
1984
Alphabet City
Original Music Composer
51
1982
Soup for One
Original Music Composer

Produced 2

2020s

2025
Opus
Executive Producer
50
2024
Disco's Revenge
Executive Producer

Appearances55

2020s

2026
David Attenborough's 100 Years on Planet Earth
Self
Billy Idol Should Be Dead
Self
73
2025
Live Aid at 40: When Rock ’n’ Roll Took on the World
Self · 3 episodes
SLY LIVES! (aka The Burden of Black Genius)
Self
79
2024
Avicii - I'm Tim
Self - Artist
78
Camden
Self · 1 episode
66
Disco's Revenge
Self
Johnson and Knopfler's Music Legends
Self · 1 episode
ABBA: Against the Odds
Self
2023
Little Richard: King and Queen of Rock 'n' Roll
Self
Little Richard: I Am Everything
Self
78
Jimmie & Stevie Ray Vaughan: Brothers in Blues
Self
2022
Sheila, toutes ces vies-là
Self
Taylor Hawkins Tribute Concert
Self
If These Walls Could Sing
Self
73
George Michael: Freedom Uncut
Self
2021
Never Mind the Buzzcocks
Self - Panellist · 1 episode
Amol Rajan Interviews
Self - Interviewed Guest · 1 episode
2020
By Whatever Means Necessary: The Times of Godfather of Harlem
Self · 4 episodes
Jimmy Carter: Rock & Roll President
Self