Nile Rodgers
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Year:
2017
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Inducted by:
Pharrell
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Category:
Award for Musical Excellence
Pharrell Williams Inducts Nile Rodgers
Pharrell Williams Inducts Nile Rodgers at the 2017 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony-
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Nile Rodgers Acceptance Speech00:05:23
Hall of Fame Essay
2017
Nile Rodgers’ influence on popular music over the past forty years is nearly unfathomable.
As a guitarist, songwriter, producer, arranger, and funkster extraordinaire, Rodgers has left his imprint on a stunningly wide array of genres including disco, R&B, rock, mainstream pop, hip-hop, and EDM.
Looking over the breadth of his career, a case could easily be made that no single individual has had a greater impact on the sound of pop, from the late 1970s to the present day.
Nile has taught me to value being one part of a whole - of sacrificing yourself for the song.
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