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 travelling 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. was born on Septemin the Lower East Side, New York City to Beverly Goodman. In 2018, Rodgers co-founded Hipgnosis Songs Fund, a publicly traded music intellectual property 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, 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.
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