Nile Rodgers

Quick Facts

Full Name	Nile Rodgers
Occupation	Music Producer
Date Of Birth	Sep 19, 1952(1952-09-19)
Age	72
Birthplace	New York
Country	United States
Horoscope	Virgo

Nile Rodgers Biography

Nile Rodgers is one of the most popular and richest Music Producer who was born on September 19, 1952 in New York, United States. Producer and musician who was a member of the group CHIC as well as The Honeydrippers.

He produced the self-titled album of He helped produce the self-titled album for Diana Ross and also worked with David Bowie, Duran Duran, and Madonna. and also collaborated alongside David Bowie, Duran Duran as well as Madonna.

Nile Gregory Rodgers Jr. (born September 19, 1952) is an American guitarist, singer-songwriter, record producer, arranger and composer. The co-founder of Chic, Rodgers has written, produced, and performed on albums that have cumulatively sold more than 500 million units 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”.

Rodgers plays a 1960 Fender Stratocaster with a 1959 neck, nicknamed the Hitmaker, which he acquired as a trade-in at a shop in Miami Beach, Florida. Exceptionally light, it has a maple fingerboard and a worn white finish. Rodgers claims it has a unique sound. After Rodgers purchased the guitar, Edwards taught him how to play it in a chop chord style, which he called “chucking”. In his autobiography, Rodgers wrote: “He fingered the chords with his left hand, and his right hand would continuously play sixteen notes to the bar while accenting the main parts of the rhythm … One lesson was all I needed. For the next few nights straight, while my roommate pursued all manner of trysts, I was having a love affair in the bathroom with my new ax. In just a few days, I’d emerge as a chucking funk guitarist who knew more jazz chord inversions than most of my R&B counterparts.”

He got married to Nancy Hunt.

Nile Rodgers Net Worth

Nile Rodgers is one of the richest Music Producer from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Nile Rodgers 's net worth $100 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

He played as a session guitarist with different bands, and also tour as a member of the Sesame Street group.

He was a part of American Idol success He worked with American Idol success Adam Lambert..

Rodgers was born in the Lower East Side, New York City, on September 19, 1952, to Beverly Goodman. She gave birth to Rodgers when she was 13. His biological father, Nile Rodgers Sr. – 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. In 1959, Goodman married Bobby Glanzrock, who 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. Glanzrock and Goodman were addicted to heroin, and Rodgers began using drugs at 13.

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Who is Nile Rodgers Dating?

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As the Big Apple Band, Rodgers and Edwards worked with Ashford & Simpson, Luther Vandross, and many others. Since another New York artist, Walter Murphy, had a band also called The Big Apple Band, Rodgers and Edwards were forced to change their band’s name to avoid confusion. Thus, in 1977 the band was renamed as Chic.

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Nile Ranked on the list of most popular Music Producer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Nile Rodgers celebrates birthday on September 19 of every year.

The 1979 disco backlash derailed Chic, and Edwards retreated from work, while Rodgers’ drug use accelerated. Rodgers and Edwards delivered their final Atlantic album under contract, Believer, in 1982. They completed one of their last projects together in 1980, writing and producing the album Diana for Diana Ross, which yielded the hits “Upside Down” and “I’m Coming Out”. They also produced Deborah Harry’s 1981 solo album, Koo Koo, and produced the hit “Spacer” for the French disco act Sheila and B. Devotion. During the same time period, Chic’s song “Good Times” was sampled on The Sugarhill Gang’s “Rapper’s Delight”, the first multiple-platinum hip hop single. The song continued to influence the sounds of others, including Queen, (with the 1980 hit “Another One Bites the Dust”) and Blondie, who had a #1 hit with “Rapture.” Following Chic’s breakup, Rodgers released his first solo album, Adventures in the Land of the Good Groove.

What is Nile Rodgers famous for?

Nile Rodgers is a record producer, songwriter, musician, composer, arranger, and guitarist. As the co-founder of CHIC, he has written, produced, and performed on records that have cumulatively sold more than 500 million albums and 75 million singles worldwide.

Is Nile Rodgers a billionaire?

Nile Rodgers is an American producer, songwriter, and singer who has a net worth of $200 million. Nile has made an astounding contribution to the world of music as a performer, writer, and producer.

How much is Nile Rodgers guitar worth?

The Christie’s sale includes a range of instruments from all aspects of Rodgers’ career, notably a 1956 Fender Stratocaster solid-body electric guitar, estimated to realize between US$30,000 and US$40,000.

Has Nile Rodgers children?

Who is Nile Rodgers’ wife? Nile Rodgers isn’t married, but has been with his current partner, former magazine editor Nancy Hunt, for over 20 years. According to the Guardian, they both didn’t want children. Rodgers has said that he spent too much of his life looking after his own family to have his own.

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