2018.10.14 尼罗-罗杰斯 格莱美奖的作曲家

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Nile Rodgers is a Grammy-winning composer, musician, and producer. With his own band, Chic, he's been enticing people on to the dance floor since the mid-1970s with hits like Le Freak and Good Times. With over 200 production credits to his name, he has worked on many highly successful albums from Sister Sledge’s We Are Family to David Bowie’s Let’s Dance and Madonna’s Like a Virgin.

Born in New York City in 1952 to a teenage mother, he spent his early life immersed in his parents’ bohemian, beatnik, and drug-dominated lifestyle. Drugs played a part in Nile's life too from an early age, and he took his first acid trip with Timothy Leary at the age of 15. After learning to play the guitar, he got his musical break touring with the Sesame Street stage show and playing in the house band of Harlem’s Apollo Theatre, where he met bassist Bernard Edwards with whom he developed a productive musical partnership and went on to found Chic.

Following the Disco Sucks movement of the late 1970s, Nile and Bernard turned to production, and sprinkled their magic dust on Sister Sledge and Diana Ross. When Nile and Bernard went their separate ways in the early 1980s, Nile forged ahead on his own, working with, among others, Madonna, Michael Jackson, David Bowie and Duran Duran.

Nile went into rehab in 1994 and has been clean and sober for the past 24 years and has received successful treatment for cancer twice. He won three Grammys for his 2013 collaboration with the French electronic music duo Daft Punk, and has recently released the first Chic album in 26 years.



尼罗-罗杰斯是一位获得格莱美奖的作曲家、音乐家和制作人。他与自己的乐队Chic一起，从70年代中期开始就以《Le Freak》和《Good Times》等名曲吸引人们进入舞池。他的名字中有200多个制作人的名字，他参与了许多非常成功的专辑，从斯里奇姐妹的《我们是一家人》到大卫-鲍伊的《让我们跳舞》和麦当娜的《像一个处女》。

1952年出生在纽约，母亲是青少年，他早年沉浸在他父母的波希米亚人、垮掉派和毒品主导的生活方式中。毒品在尼罗的生活中也从小就扮演了一个角色，他在15岁的时候和蒂莫西-李里一起进行了第一次酸液旅行。在学会弹吉他之后，他在音乐上得到了突破，与芝麻街的舞台表演一起巡演，并在哈林区阿波罗剧院的乐队中演出，在那里他遇到了贝斯手伯纳德-爱德华兹，并与他建立了富有成效的音乐伙伴关系，后来还创建了Chic。

在20世纪70年代末的Disco Sucks运动之后，尼罗和伯纳德转向制作，并在斯里奇姐妹和戴安娜-罗斯身上撒下了他们的魔粉。当尼罗和伯纳德在20世纪80年代初分道扬镳时，尼罗独自前进，与麦当娜、迈克尔-杰克逊、大卫-鲍伊和杜兰杜兰等人合作。

尼罗在1994年进入戒毒所，在过去的24年里一直保持着清洁和清醒，并两次成功地接受了癌症治疗。他在2013年与法国电子音乐二人组Daft Punk的合作赢得了三项格莱美奖，并在最近发行了26年来的第一张Chic专辑。