Īs the Big Apple Band, Rodgers and Edwards worked with Ashford & Simpson, Luther Vandross, and many others. Although there was label interest, record companies passed on the band after discovering its members were black, believing that black rock artists would be too hard to promote. The band dissolved after their second album failed to yield a hit, but Nile and Bernard joined forces with drummer Tony Thompson, and worked and recorded as a funk rock band called The Boys, which played numerous gigs up and down the East Coast. New York City's one hit allowed them to tour extensively, opening for The Jackson 5 on the American leg of their first world tour in 1973. Together they formed The Big Apple Band, and worked as back-up musicians for the vocal group New York City (" I'm Doin' Fine Now"). Rodgers met bassist Bernard Edwards in 1970 while working as a touring musician for the Sesame Street stage show. Career 1970s: Formation of Chic, "Le Freak", Sister Sledge His cousin, trumpeter Robert "Spike" Mickens was a member of hitmakers Kool and the Gang from 1964 to 1986. He became a subsection leader of the Lower Manhattan branch of the New York Black Panther Party as a teenager. As a teenager, he played guitar with African, Persian, Latin, jazz and Boogaloo bands. īefore learning to play the guitar at 16, Rodgers played the flute and the clarinet. Glanzrock and Goodman were addicted to heroin, and Rodgers began using drugs at 13. In 1959, Goodman married Bobby Glanzrock, whom Rodgers described in his 2011 autobiography as a " beatnik PhD, whose observations had angles that would make Miles Davis contemplate his cool." Richard Pryor, Thelonious Monk, and Lenny Bruce often visited their home in Greenwich Village. – a traveling percussionist who specialized in Afro-Cuban beats – was rarely present as Rodgers grew up although influential in his life, Rodgers saw his father only a "handful" of times prior to his death in 1970. She gave birth to Rodgers when she was 14. Rodgers was born in the Lower East Side, New York City to Beverly Goodman. 2.5 2010s: Autobiography, Daft Punk, Songwriters Hall of Fame, It's About Time.2.4 2000s: Film and video game soundtracks, We Are Family Foundation.2.3 1990s: Production, reformed Chic and death of Edwards, Sumthing Else.2.2 1980s: Diana Ross, David Bowie, INXS, Madonna, Duran Duran.2.1 1970s: Formation of Chic, "Le Freak", Sister Sledge.In 2018, Rodgers co-founded Hipgnosis Songs Fund, a publicly-traded music IP investment company. He later worked with artists including The B-52s, Jeff Beck, Mick Jagger, Grace Jones, The Vaughan Brothers, Bryan Ferry, Christina Aguilera, Lady Gaga, and Daft Punk, winning three Grammy Awards in 2014 for his work on their album Random Access Memories. 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".
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Known for his " chucking" guitar style, Rolling Stone wrote in 2014 that "the full scope of Nile Rodgers' career is still hard to fathom". 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. 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. (born September 19, 1952) is an American guitarist, singer, songwriter, record producer, and arranger.
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