Nile Rodgers & CHIC will be at Umbria Jazz on July 20. They performed at the Festival in 2005. On that date, they proved, besides being a successful dance band, which was very popular in the disco era, that a rock heart would beat in that lucky formula. All this turned into an original and classic work.
Edwards’ dramatic death in 2006 and Thompson’s in 2003 left Nile Rodgers alone to carry on Chic. Rodgers succeeded and continued his career as a musician and producer, from David Bowie’s “Let’s Dance” to Madonna’s “Like a Virgin”, as well as INXS, Duran Duran, Thompson Twins, Jeff Beck, Grace Jones, the B52’s. After disbanding, then reuniting, then disbanding again, Rodgers is now bringing to life the glorious epic of a sound that belongs to the history of the best pop music, not only dance, of the last thirty years.
