About Nile Rodgers
Influential guitarist, songwriter and producer, born 19 September 1952 in New York City.
A leading light of the disco scene in the late 1970s, he recorded as part of [[artist:Chic]] and with bandmate [[artist:Bernard Edwards]] produced many of the most popular and memorable disco hits of the 1970s and 1980s. You can take a look at the entry [[artist:Bernard Edwards & Nile Rodgers]] for a more complete list of their works together.
Rodgers produced artists like [[artist:Sister Sledge]], [[artist:Diana Ross]], [[artist:David Bowie]], [[artist:Madonna]], [[artist:Duran Duran]], [[artist:Mick Jagger]], [[artist:INXS]], [[artist:Thompson Twins]], [[artist:Grace Jones]], [[artist:The B-52's]] and [[artist:Beavis & Butt-Head]] and is responsible as either artist, producer or writer of songs that have accounted for sales of over 100,000,000 records.
Rodgers is also the first African-American to own his own national music distribution company [[label:Sumthing Else MusicWorks, Inc.]], which is a leader in the distribution of video game soundtracks.
