Billboard magazine also ranked the song 20th on their list of 100 Greatest Girls Group Songs of All Time. The song went gold and peaked at number 2 on the Billboard 100. The song was written in collaboration with Bernard Edwards and went on to see tremendous success on the charts. "We Are Family" was the first song Nile Rodgers wrote for anybody besides his own band CHIC. So the song was eventually recorded and became one of Madonna’s biggest hits.Ģ. After refusing to record the song for a few days Rodgers admitted that the song had gotten stuck in his head during that time. Rodgers said of their first meeting, “It's interesting because when I first met Madonna, I knew right away what she was all about.” Rodgers originally did not want to record “Like a Virgin” because he was not a fan of the hook. In 1984, Nile Rodgers met Madonna at the Power Station studios in New York. Below are 10 songs you might not have known Rodgers has his fingerprints on.
He has been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, won multiple Grammys, and is the chairman of the Songwriters Hall of Fame. Rodgers has worked with everybody from Mick Jagger and David Bowie, to Madonna and Daft Punk. As the co-founder of CHIC, he has written, produced, and performed on records that have cumulatively sold more than 500 million albums and 75 million singles worldwide. Nile Rodgers is a record producer, songwriter, musician, composer, arranger, and guitarist.
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