Nile Rodgers

Nile Gregory Rodgers Jr born September 19 1952 is an American musician record producer and composer The cofounder 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 threetime Grammy Awardwinner 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 selftitled debut album in 1977 including the hit singles Dance Dance Dance Yowsah Yowsah Yowsah and Everybody Dance The 1978 album Cest 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 mostsampled songs of all time ushering in hiphop via the Sugarhill Gangs Rappers Delight inspiring Queens Another One Bites the Dust and anchoring the Daft Punk hit Around the World Description above from the Wikipedia article Nile Rodgers licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia