Nile Rodgers, Rosanne Cash, Esperanza Spalding Honored at Berklee College of Music Commencement
More than 1,000 graduates from 72 countries and 38 U.S. states received degrees today at Berklee’s 2018 commencement ceremony. Berklee President Roger H. Brown presented honorary doctor of music degrees to music legends Rosanne Cash, Nile Rodgers, and Esperanza Spalding. Spalding, a 2005 graduate of the college, delivered the commencement address to the graduating class and an estimated audience of nearly 7,000 guests at the Agganis Arena.
Nile Rogers: the grandaddy of funk is thriving in his new role at Abbey Road
Jane Hall Wallace meets Nile Rodgers, the grandaddy of funk and multiple award-winning producer, guitarist, arranger and composer who recently landed the role of chief creative advisor to Abbey Road studios
Nile Rodgers' influence stretches all over Coachella, beaming the sound of a better future
In the lobby of the upscale-gunslinger Driskill hotel last month, guitarist and producer Nile Rodgers was recounting everything from his great friendship with David Bowie to lost New York bohemia, suburban racism and dropping acid with Timothy Leary when a middle-aged British woman walked up to his table.
Nile Rodgers On Stormzy, Beating Cancer and Grenfell
Speaking to Another Man, the music icon lifts the lid on Chic’s long-awaited new album and his upcoming collaborations.
Nile Rodgers should be exhausted. Yesterday, fresh off the plane from from London where he’d packed in a BRIT Awards appearance and countless hours in the booth, the music icon immediately threw himself into all-night session with a group of friends. As he picks up the phone to Another Man, the sexagenarian Chic legend has got barely three hours’ sleep inside him, and yet it sounds like he’s bouncing off the walls.
WAFF 2018 Annual Celebration w Roger Daltrey and LL Cool J
We Are Family Foundation® to Honor Roger Daltrey CBE and LL Cool J at 2018 Celebration Gala in New York City at the Hammerstein Ballroom on Friday, April 27, 2018
Nile Rodgers Appointed Chief Creative Advisor for Abbey Road Studios
Symbolic of a new era at London’s historic Abbey Road Studios, multiple Grammy Award winning producer, guitarist, arranger and composer Nile Rodgers (of The CHIC Organization) has been appointed to the specially created role of Chief Creative Advisor at the Studios.
ANNOUNCING: CHIC ft Nile Rodgers + Earth, Wind & Fire Tour Dates! And more...
Check out the "2054: The Tour" dates for CHIC ft Nile Rodgers + Earth, Wind & Fire HERE
RockHall Musical Excellence Award 2017 Recipient, Nile Rodgers
Sonic innovator Nile Rodgers rocked beyond the boundaries of disco with inimitable guitar riffs fundamental to hip-hop, rock and EDM. He is this year's Musical Excellence award Inductee and is recognized for his contributions as a member of Chic and as a producer. Congratulations on your #RockHall2017 Induction! More here: bit.ly/NileRodgers2017