Nile Rodgers
Known for: Acting
Born: September 19, 1952
Place of birth: New York City, New York, USA
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.
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Filmography
65 movies · 17 TV shows, newest first
6.5
Eternal Disco - The Greatest Hits
2026
7.0
David Attenborough's 100 Years on Planet Earth
2026
6.9
Billy Idol Should Be Dead
2026
6.9
Live Aid at 40: When Rock ’n’ Roll Took on the World
2025
6.6
Cerrone - Supernature
2025
5.6
Opus
2025
7.1
SLY LIVES! (aka The Burden of Black Genius)
2025NR
American Music Awards 50th Anniversary Special
2024
8.1
Avicii - I'm Tim
2024
5.8
Camden
2024
6.8
Disco's Revenge
2024
8.5
Johnson and Knopfler's Music Legends
2024
7.1
ABBA: Against the Odds
2024
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Nile Rodgers and Chic - Live at Montreux 2023
2023
10.0
Little Richard: King and Queen of Rock 'n' Roll
2023
6.6
Little Richard: I Am Everything
2023
7.4
Jimmie & Stevie Ray Vaughan: Brothers in Blues
2023
7.5
Sheila, toutes ces vies-là
2022
7.9
Taylor Hawkins Tribute Concert
2022
6.5
If These Walls Could Sing
2022
7.3
George Michael: Freedom Uncut
2022
7.9
Never Mind the Buzzcocks
2021
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Amol Rajan Interviews
2021
6.3
Coming 2 America
2021
3.3
By Whatever Means Necessary: The Times of Godfather of Harlem
2020
6.9
Jimmy Carter: Rock & Roll President
2020
9.3
Sesame Street's 50th Anniversary Celebration
2019
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Once in a Lifetime Sessions with Nile Rodgers
2019
6.4
Jean Paul Gaultier : Freak & Chic
2018
8.0
Chuck Berry: The Original King of Rock 'n' Roll
2018
6.6
Duran Duran: There's Something You Should Know
2018
4.3
The Big Narstie Show
2018
6.5
Studio 54
2018
8.0
Avicii: True Stories
2017
7.3
George Michael: Freedom
2017
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Duran Duran: Paper Gods Japan Tour
2017
7.5
I Was There When House Took Over the World
2017
7.8
Soundbreaking
2016
7.1
Michael McIntyre's Big Show
2016
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Molly: The Real Thing
2016
7.2
Daft Punk Unchained
2015
9.0
Chic featuring Nile Rodgers au Festival Jazz à Vienne 2013
2015
6.7
Nile Rodgers: Secrets of a Hitmaker
2015
3.2
Breaking a Monster
2015
NR
Cerrone
2015
6.0
CANAL+'s 30th anniversary
2014NR
Chic feat. Nile Rogers - Electric Picnic
2014
5.1
What Difference Does It Make?
2014
7.2
Finding the Funk
2014
7.5
David Bowie: Five Years
2013
NR
Daft Punk | Random Access Memories | The Collaborators
2013
8.0
Nile Rodgers: The Hitmaker
2013
NR
Best Of Night Of The Proms vol. 6
2013
3.2
Ultrasuede: In Search of Halston
2011
4.8
Chic: Live at the Budokan
2009
4.9
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
2009
10.0
Square Roots: The Story of SpongeBob SquarePants
2009
NR
Coming Back for More
20097.0
Sex: The Revolution
2008
7.0
NPR Tiny Desk Concerts
2008
NR
Chic: Le Freak - Live
2006
6.8
Disco: Spinning The Story
2005
NR
Nile Rodgers and Chic - Live at Montreux 2004
2005
9.2
Live Aid
2004
5.3
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003
9.0
The Making and Meaning of 'We Are Family'
2002
6.2
A Diva's Christmas Carol
2000
8.0
Wild Boys: The Story of Duran Duran
20008.0
Eventual Wife
20005.5
Public Enemy: Reflections of The Black Panthers
1999
5.9
Beverly Hills Cop III
1994
6.1
Blue Chips
1994
NR
Curves Contours & Body Horns
1993
NR
What is House? An Insider's Look at Dance Music
1991
3.8
White Hot
1989
5.6
Earth Girls Are Easy
1988
6.9
Coming to America
1988
7.9
Live Aid
1985
4.7
Alphabet City
19845.7
Goldene Kamera
1984
5.2
Soup for One
1982
6.9
Saturday Night Live
1975