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Nile Rodgers said a new Chic album will be out during the year. Speaking on Sunday before his performance at the Mawazine Festival in the Moroccan capital of Rabat, the 64-year-old group leader and seminal pop producer said the album, It’s About Time, was born out of writing sessions with current big pop names. With the album being Chic’s first in 25 years, the aim of such collaborations was to make a timely record as opposed to one that retreats back into Chic’s former funk glories.
“I don’t want the album to be just a tribute to Chic. I still continued to grow and kept writing new music. Thank God I met people like Avicii, Lady Gaga, Daft Punk and Pharrell and we all keep writing music,” he said. “I also wrote the lyrics. You know, I don’t want to live in the past but it is a nice place to visit.” On that note, Rodgers is looking forward to Chic’s North American tour with Earth, Wind and Fire which kicks off in California on July 13.
The disco legend is just the seventh recipient of the Cleveland, Ohio institution’s Award for Musical Excellence. The ceremony took place on April 7 at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center. Williams and Rodgers’ ubiquitous collaboration with Daft Punk, ‘Get Lucky’, topped charts worldwide in 2013. The pair performed it together at the following year’s BRIT Awards in a medley with ‘Good Times’ and Pharrell’s ‘Happy’.
In December, Rodgers’ band Chic announced that they would release their first album in 25 years, It’s About Time, sometime in 2017. Chic were nominated but not chosen for Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction this year; instead, Rodgers was awarded the rare Award for Musical Excellence. The decision was widely seen to be a hangover of the “Disco Sucks” movement, and in response Rodgers described himself to Rolling Stone as “happy, but perplexed”. Check out Pharrell’s complete Speech for Nile Rodgers Lifetime Achievement Award below.
Pharrell With Paul Shaffer Nile Rodgers & David Letterman
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Pharrell With Nile Rodgers
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Pharrell With Nile Rodgers
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Pharrell & Nile Rodgers
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In the months following a ruling that determined Robin Thicke, T.I. and Pharrell Williams copied Marvin Gaye’s “Got To Give It Up” in their 2013 hit “Blurred Lines“, many have questioned how the case will affect future compositions. In speaking with The Financial Times in March, Williams said the decision “handicaps” any artist who makes something out of inspiration of a previous creation.
“If we lose our freedom to be inspired, we’re going to look up one day and the entertainment industry as we know it will be frozen in litigation,” he said. Last month, British music producer Mark Ronson added an additional five writing credits to his chart-topping hit “Uptown Funk” in response to The Gap Band claiming similarities between the track and their 1979 funk anthem “Oops, Up Side Your Head.” So has the “Blurred Lines” case forever altered the music business for musicians? The answer, according to legendary musician-producer Nile Rodgers, is no.
By Will Robinson. Nile Rodgers seems like the coolest guy ever, so it only makes sense he grabbed cool people to headline his music festival. The legendary songsmith posted on his Facebook page Tuesday night that he’ll be hosting a music festival at Martha Clara Vineyards in Riverhead, N.Y. called FreakOutLet’sDance (FOLD, if you will, as Rodgers wishes) on Aug. 4 and 5.
The announced lineup easily fits into Rodgers’ overwhelming ethos of awesome: Pharrell, Beck, Janelle Monae, Chaka Khan, Q-Tip, Eric B (With Rakim), Keith Urban, Paloma Faith, The Martinez Brothers, and more. That’s truly an eclectic mix, attractive to many demos. What if all of them get onstage together for a megajam?
Pharrell Williams has been killin ’em once again. Exactly a year ago, Pharrell won 4 Grammy awards out of 5, and this time around, he managed to do the same once again. He won three possible Grammy Awards out of Four Nominations, thats pretty much amazing. He won the Grammy’s for ‘Best Music Video‘ and ‘Best Pop Solo Performance‘ with ‘Happy’, and he also won the ‘Best Urban Contemporary Album‘ for ‘G I R L‘, congrats from the whole Neptunes community Pharrell, keep killin’ ’em!
Best Music Video
– DJ Snake feat. Lil’ John – Turn Down For What
– Arcade Fire – We Exist
– Sia – Chandelier
– Pharrell Williams – Happy (Won)
– Woodkid feat. Max Richter – The Golden Age
Best Urban Contemporary Album
– Jhené Aiko – Sail Out
– Beyoncé – Beyoncé
– Chris Brown – X
– Mali Music – Mali Is
– Pharrell Williams – G I R L (Won)
Best Pop Solo Performance
– John Legend – All Of Me (Live Version)
– Sia – Chandelier
– Sam Smith – Stay With Me
– Taylor Swift – Shake It Off
– Pharrell Williams – Happy (Won)
Album Of The Year
– Beck – Morning Phase (Won)
– Beyoncé – Beyoncé
– Ed Sheeran – X
– Pharrell Williams – G I R L
– Sam Smith – In The Lonely Hour
Pharrell Williams – Happy feat. Lang Lang & Hans Zimmer (Live) (15′)
Tony Bennett & Pharrell
Pharrell & Paul McCartney
Pharrell, Jay-Z & Kanye West
Tal Wilkenfeld, Lang Lang, Hans Zimmer & Pharrell Williams
Smokey Robinson, Jay-Z & Pharrell
Mick & Pharrell
Pharrell & Co. At The Pre-Grammy Party
Martin Bandier, Pharrell Williams, Nile Rodgers, Sia & Erik Anders Lang
Pharrell & Ciara
Pharrell & Common
Pharrell & Helen
Pharrell & Clive Davis
Pharrell & T.I.
Pharrell & Ed Sheeran
Tal Wilkenfeld, Lang Lang, Hans Zimmer & Pharrell Williams
Snoop Dogg, Pharrell Williams & Arch Bishop Don Magic Juan
Snoop Dogg & Pharrell Williams
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