Marie Ledin, managing director of the prize, called Rodgers "a ground-breaking pioneer". Rodgers, 71, and Bernard Edwards, who made up the band Chic, co-wrote "Le Freak" about not getting into a 1977 ...

They say never meet your heroes. They may just cause you to “freak out.” That’s what roller skaters in London’s Hyde Park experienced last weekend while bopping to funk collective Chic’s ubiquitous ...

Nile Rodgers was turned away from Studio 54 when a friend didn't believe he was a friend of Grace Jones. Getty A Studio 54 miss turned into one of the disco era’s biggest hits. Famed guitarist and ...

If you own virtually any major album from the late 1970s until into the 1990s, chances are good that Nile Rodgers had something to do with it. The singer/guitarist ...

Alfa Anderson, who has died aged 78, was a singer with Chic, who took dance music to a new level in the late 1970s with such disco-funk masterpieces as Le Freak and Good Times; she went on to work ...

"Le Freak," out this week, chronicles the Chic singer and mega-producer's rags-to-riches rise with colorful anecdotes about David Bowie, Diana Ross, Michael Jackson and other stars of the time. By ...

Forget wine, women and song. Singer-songwriter Duncan Sheik is into gay men, politics and electronic music. OK, so he's still crazy about vino and the ladies, but things have started to change, at ...

Stockholm (AFP) – US disco legend Nile Rodgers, whose hits include "Le Freak" and "Good Times", won Sweden's 2024 Polar Music Prize with Finnish conductor and composer Esa-Pekka Salonen, the jury said ...

US disco legend Nile Rodgers, whose hits include “Le Freak” and “Good Times”, won Sweden’s 2024 Polar Music Prize. Finnish conductor and composer Esa-Pekka ...

US disco legend Nile Rodgers, whose hits include Le Freak and Good Times, won Sweden’s 2024 Polar Music Prize with Finnish conductor and composer Esa-Pekka Salonen, the jury said on Tuesday. Marie ...