Chic

Chic is an African American disco and R&B band that was organized during 1976 by guitarist Nile Rodgers and bassist Bernard Edwards. It is known best for its commercially successful disco songs, including "Dance, Dance, Dance (Yowsah, Yowsah, Yowsah)", "Everybody Dance", "Le Freak", "I Want Your Love", "Good Times", and "My Forbidden Lover".

During late 1978, the band released the album C'est Chic, containing one of its best-known tracks, "Le Freak." The single was a great success, scoring #1 on the US charts and selling more than 6 million copies. It was the best selling single album ever for Warner Music until it was replaced by Madonna's Vogue in 1990.

The next year, the group released the Risqué album and the lead track "Good Times", one of the most influential songs of the era. The track was the basis of Grandmaster Flash's "Adventures on the Wheels of Steel" and the Sugarhill Gang's breakthrough hip-hop music single, "Rapper's Delight", and it has been sampled since by many dance and hip-hop acts, as well as being the inspiration for Queen's "Another One Bites the Dust", Blondie's "Rapture", and the bass line for Daft Punk "Around the World".

At the same time, Edwards and Rodgers composed, arranged, performed, and produced many influential disco and Rhythm & Blues records for various artists, including Sister Sledge's albums We Are Family and Love Somebody Today; Sheila and B. Devotion's "Spacer"; Diana Ross's 1980 album Diana, which included the successful singles "Upside Down", "I'm Coming Out" and "My Old Piano"; Carly Simon's "Why"; and Debbie Harry's debut solo album KooKoo.

After the anti-disco reaction of the 70s, the band struggled to obtain both airplay and sales, and during the early 1980s they disbanded. After a 1989 birthday party where Rodgers, Edwards, Paul Shaffer, and Anton Fig played old Chic songs, Rodgers and Edwards organized a reunion of the old band. They recorded a single, "Chic Mystique" and the subsequent album Chic-Ism.

Chic has released four new albums during the 2000s: The Very Best of Chic, Good Times: The Very Best of the Hits & the Remixes, A Night in Amsterdam, and The Definitive Groove Collection. A box set, Nile Rodgers Presents The Chic Organisation, Vol.1: Savoir Faire was released in 2010, covering Rodgers and Edwards' productions both for Chic and for other artists up to the original break-up of the partnership in 1983.

Chic has been nominated for inclusion in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame seven times since 2003. Rodgers and Chic continue to perform to major audiences worldwide.

Music Videos

 * Good Times
 * Le Freak
 * Your Love