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.

Known For

Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen

Saturday Night Live

Jimmy Kimmel Live!

NPR Tiny Desk Concerts

Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve with Ryan Seacrest

Michael McIntyre's Big Show

Never Mind the Buzzcocks

The Big Narstie Show

All Movies (54)

• David Attenborough's 100 Years on Planet Earth2026 · as Self
• Billy Idol Should Be Dead2026 · as Self
• Cerrone - Supernature2025 · as Guest
• SLY LIVES! (aka The Burden of Black Genius)2025 · as Self
• American Music Awards 50th Anniversary Special2024 · as Self
• Avicii - I'm Tim2024 · as Self - Artist
• Disco's Revenge2024
• ABBA: Against the Odds2024 · as Self
• Nile Rodgers and Chic - Live at Montreux 20232023
• Little Richard: King and Queen of Rock 'n' Roll2023 · as Self
• Little Richard: I Am Everything2023 · as Self
• Jimmie & Stevie Ray Vaughan: Brothers in Blues2023 · as Self
• Sheila, toutes ces vies-là2022 · as Self
• Taylor Hawkins Tribute Concert2022 · as Self
• If These Walls Could Sing2022 · as Self
• George Michael: Freedom Uncut2022 · as Self
• Jimmy Carter: Rock & Roll President2020 · as Self
• Sesame Street's 50th Anniversary Celebration2019 · as Self
• Once in a Lifetime Sessions with Nile Rodgers2019 · as Self
• Jean Paul Gaultier : Freak & Chic2018 · as Self
• Chuck Berry: The Original King of Rock 'n' Roll2018 · as Self
• Duran Duran: There's Something You Should Know2018 · as Self
• Studio 542018 · as Self
• Avicii: True Stories2017 · as Self
• George Michael: Freedom2017 · as Self
• Duran Duran: Paper Gods Japan Tour2017 · as Self
• Molly: The Real Thing2016 · as Self
• Daft Punk Unchained2015 · as Self
• Chic featuring Nile Rodgers au Festival Jazz à Vienne 20132015
• Nile Rodgers: Secrets of a Hitmaker2015 · as Self
• Breaking a Monster2015 · as Self
• Cerrone2015 · as Self
• CANAL+'s 30th anniversary2014 · as Self
• Chic feat. Nile Rogers - Electric Picnic2014
• What Difference Does It Make?2014 · as Self
• Finding the Funk2014 · as Self
• David Bowie: Five Years2013 · as Self
• Nile Rodgers: The Hitmaker2013
• Best Of Night Of The Proms vol. 62013
• Ultrasuede: In Search of Halston2011 · as Self
• Chic: Live at the Budokan2009 · as Guitar
• Square Roots: The Story of SpongeBob SquarePants2009 · as Self
• Coming Back for More2009
• Chic: Le Freak - Live2006 · as Guitar
• Disco: Spinning The Story2005 · as self
• Nile Rodgers and Chic - Live at Montreux 20042005
• Live Aid2004 · as Self
• The Making and Meaning of 'We Are Family'2002 · as Self
• A Diva's Christmas Carol2000 · as CEO of Record Label
• Wild Boys: The Story of Duran Duran2000 · as Self
• Public Enemy: Reflections of The Black Panthers1999 · as Self
• Curves Contours & Body Horns1993 · as Self
• What is House? An Insider's Look at Dance Music1991
• Live Aid1985 · as Self

All TV Shows (18)

• Live Aid at 40: When Rock ’n’ Roll Took on the World2025 · as Self
• Camden2024 · as Self
• Johnson and Knopfler’s Music Legends2024 · as Self
• Never Mind the Buzzcocks2021 · as Self - Panellist
• Amol Rajan Interviews2021 · as Self - Interviewed Guest
• By Whatever Means Necessary: The Times of Godfather of Harlem2020 · as Self
• The Big Narstie Show2018 · as Self
• I Was There When House Took Over the World2017 · as self
• Soundbreaking2016 · as Self
• Michael McIntyre's Big Show2016 · as Self - Performer
• Daft Punk | Random Access Memories | The Collaborators2013 · as Himself
• Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen2009 · as Self - Guest
• Sex: The Revolution2008
• NPR Tiny Desk Concerts2008 · as Self
• Jimmy Kimmel Live!2003 · as Self - Musical Guest
• Goldene Kamera1984 · as Self
• Saturday Night Live1975 · as Self - Cameo (uncredited)
• Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve with Ryan Seacrest1972 · as Self - Performer (Los Angeles)