Nile Rodgers for Girard-Perregaux Supermix

<b>Fonzi Thornton - "I Work For A Living" (Nile Rodgers Un-Extended Edit)</b>


My life is Crazy... but if my life wasn't Crazy, it wouldn't be my life.

For the last few weeks I've been recording a new CHIC album, but what's Crazy is: most of the songs are made from unreleased demos and outtake recordings I cut with Bernard Edwards and Tony Thompson, who were my original bandmates. Both 'Nard and Tony (Dip), passed away many, many years ago.

The source materials range from demos for my 1st solo album, to songs I would have submitted to 'Nard for CHIC... but we got dropped from the label and the songs were never developed.

Read the full blog at: http://j.mp/NRWOPC569

Fonzi Thornton - "I Work For A Living" :: a version that I found

"I'll Be There" Written & Produced by: Bernard Edwards and Nile Rodgers, for The CHIC Organization.

Pre-order the new single #IllBeThere, out on 3/20: http://smartutl.it/illbethere 

I'll Be There [Teaser]

Listent to the 'I'll B There' (AVAN LANA Remix).

Watch the 'I'll Be There' official music video, the new song by CHIC feat. Nile Rodgers! Video stars super model Karlie Kloss and directed by Inez and Vinoodh:  https://youtu.be/2OXoSLANXIY

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Directed by: Inez and Vinoodh
Starring: Karlie Kloss
Featuring: Stephen Galloway
Lighting Director: Jodokus Driessen
Edited by: Otto Arsenault
Executive Producer: theCollectiveShift

I'll Be There (AVAN LAVA Remix)

[WOPC-329] The Best Things In Life

Every year around Christmas season something extraordinary always seems to happen to me. Last year I was attacked by aggressive prostate cancer. The pathology lab results were pointing towards an uncertain future. It was pretty bad but I seem to be slowly recovering.

This Christmas, one of my big surprises came from film director John Landis. He's the man who did Michael Jackson's amazing long-form video for the song "Thriller." He's also done a number of successful groundbreaking films, one of which was Eddie Murphy's Coming to America, a film that I scored. John sent me a gift that really knocked me off my feet - a poster advertising Sexual Chocolate featuring Mr. Randy Watson, the hilarious inept artist that performed a song in the film.

If that weren't enough, I accidentally stumbled upon an old cassette tape that I've not heard since 1987. It was the tape that I made while conducting the orchestra when I was recording the score. I can't tell you how shocked I was to find this tape on the same day that I opened John Landis' gift.

They say, "The Best Things in Life are free!" True. The way I see it love, people, music, art and life itself are The Best Things in Life.

Read the complete post here:
http://nilerodgers.com/blogs/planet-c-in-english/656-the-best-things-in-life


T-00099 5 - King's Motorcade (Actual)

[WOPC-330] The Engagement Party

Yesterday I shared one of the most unique Christmas gifts I've ever received, an original poster from the movie Coming to America, starring Eddie Murphy and Arsenio Hall. It was sent to me by the film's brilliant director John Landis. John taught me a lot about storytelling during the making of Coming to America, which was my first major orchestral film score. 

Tomorrow I'll take about some of the comedic music, "Soul-Glo," "She's Your Queen to Be," and "The Royal Penis is Clean," but today I want to share what Landis taught me about storytelling through music: Completely know the characters and the reasons for their actions because the music must heighten the story's emotional reality. This is the story of a fictional African prince who goes to America to seek his perfect bride.

When scoring the film I always had to consider our main character's Africanism - but also understood that most people's idea of a royal ceremony is based on English pomp. The music had to be both familiar and unique. When the "Engagement Party Guests" arrive I treat them as though they're going to Buckingham Palace. The guest look elegant and refined - sophisticated and comfortable - even though the palace was is the middle of the Zamundan jungle instead of central London. This is What I Came up With.

Read the complete post here:
http://nilerodgers.com/blogs/planet-c-in-english/664-the-engagement-party

T-00099 1 6 - Engagement Party

Nile Rodgers on collaborating with Daft Punk on number one hit Get Lucky.

BBC Radio5 - Nile Rodgers "thrilled" with Daft Punk number one hit

Nile Rodgers is a Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee, Songwriters Hall of Fame inductee and a multiple Grammy Award winning songwriter, composer, producer, arranger, and guitarist.

In 2023 he became the first creator to be awarded a Lifetime Achievement Grammy for his legacy in the same year as being awarded a Grammy for his new work with Beyoncé on the smash hit “Cuff It”.

As the Co-founder of CHIC, Nile pioneered a musical language that generated chart-topping hits like “Le Freak”, the biggest selling single in the history of Atlantic Records and sparked the advent of hip-hop with “Good Times” and “Rapper’s Delight”.

His work in The CHIC Organization, including “We Are Family” for Sister Sledge and “I’m Coming Out” for Diana Ross, and his productions for artists such as David Bowie (“Let’s Dance”), Madonna (“Like A Virgin”) and Duran Duran (“The Reflex”), have sold more than 500 million albums and 100 million singles worldwide, while his innovative, trendsetting collaborations with Daft Punk, Daddy Yankee, LE SSERAFIM and Beyoncé reflect the vanguard of contemporary hits.

Nile is the first, and only Producer In Residence at Apple Music and helms the award-winning Apple Music 1’s “Deep Hidden Meaning” radio show celebrating the work of great songwriters. Nile served as the first-ever Chief Creative Advisor for the incomparable Abbey Road Studios and is the Chairman of the Songwriters Hall of Fame as well as Co-founder of Hipgnosis Songs, the multi-billion-dollar investment fund listed on the London Stock Exchange’s FTSE 250.

In 2001 in the wake of 9/11 Nile co-founded the We Are Family Foundation (WAFF) at first to bring everyone together following the tragedy to start the healing process. It quickly evolved into an organization dedicated to the vision of a global family by creating and supporting programs that promote cultural diversity while nurturing, mentoring, and amplifying the vision, talents and ideas of young people who are positively changing the world.

WAFF is focused on empowering young people globally through its acclaimed youth leadership, storytelling and mentoring program, Three Dot Dash; Youth To The Front Fund, designed to support BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color), youth at the forefront of fighting systemic racism, inequality and injustice; and Youth To The Table, bringing youth voices to decision making tables that are shaping humanity’s future.

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