After Chic's breakup in 1983, Rodgers produced several major albums and singles for other artists, including David Bowie's Let's Dance, " Original Sin" by INXS, Duran Duran's " The Reflex" and " Notorious", and Madonna's " Like a Virgin". With Edwards, Rodgers wrote and produced music for other artists, including the songs " He's the Greatest Dancer" and " We Are Family" for Sister Sledge and " I'm Coming Out" and " Upside Down" for Diana Ross. 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".
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. įormed 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". Known for his chucking guitar style, in 2014 Rolling Stone wrote that "the full scope of Nile Rodgers' career is still hard to fathom". He is a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Songwriters Hall of Fame inductee, and the recipient of six Grammy Awards, including the Grammy Lifetime Achievement/Special Merit Award. 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. (born September 19, 1952) is an American record producer, guitarist, and composer. and Harry Nile! Here is Jim French's legendary private eye, investigating the dark corners of the 1940s northwest.Nile Gregory Rodgers Jr. Out of a rainy Seattle night comes crime, mystery, adventure.
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