Nile Gregory Rodgers (born September 19, 1952 in New York City) is a musician, composer, arranger, guitarist and music producer, and co-founding member of the seminal multi-platinum hit R&B band
Chic, with influential bassist, the late
Bernard Edwards. Rodgers began his career as a session guitarist in New York, playing with the Sesame Street band in his teens, and then working in the house band at Harlem's renowned Apollo Theater, backing artists like
Aretha Franklin,
Ben E. King,
Nancy Wilson, and
Parliament Funkadelic. He met bassist
Bernard Edwards in 1970. They formed …
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