Chic (band)
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Chic is an American band that was organized in 1972 by guitarist Nile Rodgers and bassist Bernard Edwards. It recorded many commercially successful disco songs, including "Dance, Dance, Dance (Yowsah, Yowsah, Yowsah)" (1977), "Everybody Dance" (1977), "Le Freak" (1978), "I Want Your Love" (1978), "Good Times" (1979), and "My Forbidden Lover" (1979). The group regarded themselves as a rock band for the disco movement "that made good on hippie peace, love and freedom". In 2017, Chic was nominated for induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for the eleventh time.
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Members
- Original line-up
- Nile Rodgers – guitar, vocals
- Bernard Edwards – bass, vocals
- Tony Thompson – drums
- Norma Jean Wright – lead vocals
- Luci Martin – lead vocals
- Tom Coppola – keyboards
- Current line-up
- Nile Rodgers – guitar, vocals
- Jerry Barnes – bass, vocals
- Ralph Rolle – drums, vocals
- Kimberly Davis – lead vocals
- Folami – lead vocals
- Richard Hilton – keyboards
- Russell Graham – keyboards
Brandon Wright - horns
- Bill Holloman – horns
- Curt Ramm – horns
- Former members
- Alfa Anderson – vocals
- Karen Milne – strings
- Marianne Carroll – strings
- Valerie Haywood – strings
- Cheryl Hong – strings
- Karen Karlsrud – strings
- Gene Orloff – strings
- Fonzi Thornton – vocals
- Michele Cobbs – vocals
- Ullanda McCullough – vocals
- Luther Vandross – vocals
- Jocelyn Brown – vocals
- Sylver Logan Sharp – vocals
- Jill Jones – vocals
- Jessica Wagner – vocals
- David Lasley – vocals
- Cherie Mitchell – vocals, keyboards
- Raymond Jones – keyboards
- Robert Sabino – keyboards
- Andy Schwartz – keyboards
- Nathaniel S. Hardy, Jr. – keyboards
- Selan Lerner – keyboards
- Sammy Figueroa – percussion
- Gerardo Velez – percussion
- Don Harris – horns
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Discography
- Chic (1977)
- C'est Chic (1978)
- Risqué (1979)
- Real People (1980)
- Take It Off (1981)
- Tongue in Chic (1982)
- Believer (1983)
- Chic-ism (1992)
- It's About Time (2018)
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