Nile Rodgers

2022 - 3 - 10

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Nile Rodgers: who is Chic band member, what songs is he famous ... (NationalWorld)

In the hour-long documentary, Rajan speaks to Chic guitarist and songwriter Nile Rodgers about his childhood, setting up the band with his musical partner, ...

NationalWorld is a new national news brand, produced by a team of journalists, editors, video producers and designers who live and work across the UK. Find out more about who’s who in the team, and our editorial values. The band broke up in 1983, but Rodgers went on to work with a number of different artists. We want to start a community among our readers, so please follow us on sign up to our newsletters and get a curated selection of our best reads to your inbox every day. In England, Scotland and Wales, the episode is on at 9:00pm. In the 1979 album, Risque, the song Good Times was a number one single on the pop and soul charts, and also became the most-sampled song of all time. In the hour-long documentary, Rajan speaks to Chic guitarist and songwriter Nile Rodgers about his childhood, setting up the band with his musical partner, and the racism that still troubles America.

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Nile Rodgers health: 'I didn't want to die' - singer on his 'shock ... (Daily Express)

LEGENDARY singer, songwriter and producer Nile Rodgers has worked on some of the biggest worldwide hits including David Bowie's Let's Dance and Madonna's ...

After the “shock” of his diagnosis, Rodgers also started to make changes to his lifestyle, to distract him from the possibility of the surgery failing. I started walking five miles a day and got stronger, then decided I’d work at an insane pace to keep the focus away from the prospect of the surgery not being successful.” Speaking back in 2019, Rodgers revealed that the one thing that came to disrupt his “happy-music universe” was his diagnosis with an aggressive form of prostate cancer. The NHS explains that treatment for prostate cancer depends on the individual’s condition. “This was a life or death decision and I had to choose which path was right for me. It is a type of cancer that usually affects the over 50s and typically develops slowly in the walnut-sized gland.

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Where does Nile Rodgers live and how rich is he? What the ... (Birmingham Live)

Nile Rodgers will be interviewed on BBC Two tonight at 9pm in a documentary-style hour special.

He is known for being a staple in funk music and for his guitarist skills. The back lawn also has a small bridge into the Bermuda Lagoon and Smith Beach Harbour that the Westport houses share. The musician reportedly has a net worth of $100 million, which is around £76.1 million. The now 69-year-old from New York wrote, produced and performed records that sold over 500 million albums and 75 million singles worldwide. Rodgers' mother was 13 years of age when she gave birth to him in 1952. Nile Rodgers Jr is a Grammy-winning record producer, musician and songwriter, composer and guitarist who is known for co-founding the 1970's duo CHIC. Rodgers was a guitarist with Bernard Edwards as the bassist in CHIC, who famously put out the songs Le Freak and Everybody Dance.

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