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.

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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.

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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

Among music legends, Nile Rodgers is truly exceptional. He amplifies his legacy as a Grammy-winning composer, producer, arranger, and guitarist by constantly traversing new musical terrain and successfully expanding the boundaries of popular music. As the co-founder of CHIC, Rodgers pioneered a musical language that sparked the advent of hip-hop with "Good Times," distinguished CHIC as the "most sampled band in history" (The Guardian, 2011), won CHIC nine Rock and Roll Hall of Fame nominations, and generated groundbreaking pop hits like "Le Freak," which was inducted into the 2015 Grammy Hall of Fame. His career-defining productions for David Bowie (Let's Dance), Madonna (Like A Virgin), Diana Ross (diana), and Sister Sledge (We Are Family), plus his work with artists like Duran Duran, INXS, Mick Jagger, Grace Jones, Steve Winwood, Peter Gabriel, The B-52s, and Michael Jackson, have sold over 200 million albums and 50 million singles worldwide while his innovative, trendsetting collaborations with Daft Punk, Avicii, Disclosure, and Sam Smith reflect the vanguard of contemporary music.

As a cultural icon and music innovator with more than 200 production credits to his name, Nile Rodgers transcends all styles of music across every generation. Signed to Warner Bros., he will release It's About Time in June 2015 — the first new CHIC album in nearly 25 years — and take CHIC on the road following the March 20 release of the album's first single "I'll Be There." In addition to headlining the world's most prestigious venues, Rodgers' many endeavors include serving as Chairman and Founder of the We Are Family Foundation (WAFF), giving keynote speeches at events for noted media companies like FremantleMedia as well as music conferences like the International Music Summit (IMS) in Ibiza, scoring music for blockbuster films, writing the critically acclaimed autobiography Le Freak: An Upside Down Story of Family, Disco and Destiny (2011), and distributing soundtracks for popular AAA video games via his national distribution company and record label Sumthing Distribution and Sumthing Else Music Works. "The full scope of Nile Rodgers' career is still hard to fathom, and it's not just ongoing, it's in overdrive," Rolling Stone recently remarked, naming Rodgers one of "the 50 Most Important People in EDM" (2014). Indeed, Rodgers' unrivaled track record is a mere glimpse of what's yet to come.

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