Nile Rodgers: - My parents were both heroin addicts | SVT/TV 2/Skavlan

American record producer Nile Rodgers has lived a long life. From a bohemian upbringing with parents who were drug addicts, to producing Diana Ross' hit "I'm coming out", Nile Rodgers has done it all.
Also in the studio: Tom Daley and Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock
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[@colonialstraits1069]

The most important musician of the past 50 years. A true legend. I could listen to him talk, for hours.

[@tonymatthewaustin9597]

You gotta love him. What a gift to the human race and music.

[@THEFORGOTTENGRACE]

Thanks Tony !!!

[@NellieKAdaba]

Yes!

[@michaelkennedy8270]

If anyone has ever proven that music is not maths it's Nile Rodgers. It's the river component of the high-low-logical cycle, flowing out to an ocean that can absorb it's emotions.

[@dalefortneroregon]

@@michaelkennedy8270 - That is a fantastically cool observation.

[@2wayplebney]

Mr Rodgers has to be one of the most decent people on the planet.

[@eleanoresalvagio7126]

What a beautiful human and artist! Love him ❤

[@rk41gator]

“Art is responded to with emotion … and the best art is music - that’s the highest form of art. It’s completely abstract” Agnes Martin (American abstract artist)

[@sunshineal2245]

Wow! Nile Rogers!!! What a GREAT interview. What an amazing man he is. I wish I could meet him.

[@Aussie00]

I love Nial! Such a talented, humble & caring, genuine soul

[@pppexplorer]

This is one of the most eloquent, intelligent, and fascinating guests I've ever watched! As someone who is a super-fan of music, it was interesting to hear the back story of some of the greatest artists and songs in recent decades. I always wondered if Diana Ross and the songwriter(s) were aware of the other meaning of "I'm coming out" when it was released in 1980 -- a more conservative time when it took a lot more courage to play with that double entendre. Kudos to everyone involved! 👏👏👍👍

[@Bellasie1]

I think back then, most people didn't necessarily realize there was another meaning, outside of those concerned. It is actually confirmed here by the fact Diana Ross had to be told about it by the dj to inquire about the song's meaning. Artists were roughly the only community where gays could afford to be visible at the time. If she, who had already been close to that scene for so long, didn't register the second meaning at once, certainly the mass wouldn't either! For a couple of decades, that song was probably more like a secret code.

[@billybobkingston5604]

The only time I have not wanted Nile to pick up a guitar, great speaker and having a good interviewer helped

[@BennyTheBusker]

Wow! An amazing interview! Nile Rodgers has such an interesting background and an inspiring story about overcoming adversities and achieving incredible successes. Nile is exceptionally articulate as an interviewee and the Fredrik Skavlan is an expert at asking succinct, relevant questions, then allowing the guest to answer in their own time without the annoying interruptions that ruin so many other interviews. One of the best I've ever heard!

[@edgarmatias]

Smart people. We need more of them. Thank you Nile Rodgers.

[@lastnamefirst4035]

More smart people!

[@gilbosavannah]

used to work for him, He is every bit of a gentleman

[@DiandraStarShine]

he's the real deal and really DOES support young people & the creativity within them. including one project for kids from a close-kit small community - in a greater metro area - where I was raised..an ongoing project that nurtures talent in children & teens in every generation, ever since the project's inception..and Mr. Nile Rodgers has been so very generous with his time & financial support, god bless this very kind & compassionate man..for all he has been through, personally & survived & for all he's done for others.💟🎼🤗🎸💖

[@mickyeverton]

God Bless Nile Rodgers!! Peace From London. 💙💙

[@NellieKAdaba]

👍🏾

[@q8cornel]

i just love the questions from skavlan

[@lindas.martin2806]

Thank you for having Mr. Rodgers on the show, fantastic person and a real humane person, caring for others and especially children and their future. What a great role model. More, please!!

[@CHICtributecom]

Always great to see an interview with a master of his craft. Nile is such a music genius. CHIC is the soundtrack to my life!

[@richardcory5024]

Nile is so cool he even jammed with Jimi.

[@forgetmenot957]

Same

[@aynos629]

What a lovely guy!

[@paulwisham5943]

B-52s too? 🤩 He’s done it all!

[@RobertJamesChinneryH]

Greatest band ever...Chic

[@josephdorazio1531]

Nile: we all love you so much. Thank you for bringing such joy to our lives thru your music. God bless you, sir.

[@loonylinda]

what a lovely humble man Nile is

[@francescaruby1150]

I love the host, so deferential, lets everyone speak.

[@NellieKAdaba]

Love him too since this year.

[@krnstc]

What a great interview! Thanks for posting!!

[@lucywin8000]

Wonderful interview

[@DD__suggestions]

Nile has accomplished so much. Why not give this video a different title in that case ??

[@showmoke]

These are some of the best interviews that I have ever come across.

[@thesuncollective1475]

Love Niles, bought and read Le Freak...exceptional man

[@RebelBuddha1971]

What a cool guy in every respect. Massively talented. Deserves all of the carS he owns!

[@MariaCarabin]

Fantastic! All of the guests are amazing! Love Nile!

[@mel3948]

Gorgeous man Nile Rodgers...

[@marioct130]

He used to have a show on cable (vh1? not sure) One of his guests was Nick Lowe. They collaborated on a rocking 'What's so funny bout peace love and understanding.' Great experience!

[@alexandergallant6444]

Love Tom Daley I have been watching him dive for years. My son was diver for Indian River State College. Of course love Nile Rodgers.

[@jancabri8291]

A pure genius! And what a great interview (again), Fredrik & team.

[@cheshireCatt]

He's one cool cat.

[@JunkieMonkey321]

legend

[@rambr0vids]

I saw Nile leaving 4th & Broadway (NYC) and getting into that Porsche. Good bloke.

[@hl2808]

Looooove this man!!!!

[@loonylinda]

great discussion

[@forgiveyourenemiesnow]

he inspires me!

[@arniewheeler4673]

what lovely chap Niles is

[@osweetdeath]

Anyone who likes music should watch this whole interview. None cooler that Nile Rodgers.

[@zackmccrea4731]

Nile rodgers is a cool dude

[@Andrewclovis]

Wow. Sir Nile

[@raulviera234]

I know graham. He was a cool co worker and he would tell me stories about his older brother Niles

[@Victor-dh6pt]

hope the avicii tracks can get the family’s blessing!

[@NellieKAdaba]

I agree and hope the same.

[@MojoVince]

Wow

[@debbiejohnson4034]

Niles Rogers is amazing! I’d volunteer to work for free just to be around him! What a privilege that would be.

[@Quilt3Angel]

No captions or subtitles for the Deaf 😞

[@EmmaVB82]

This is a terrible oversight for accessibility 😔 Subtitles are also useful for some neurodiversities involving processing language - while they’re not as crucial for me (someone with ADHD and ASD) as for Deaf people, I definitely find them helpful sometimes, and occasionally rely on them to a great extent. Some of the time I can get most of the same effect by stopping and replaying sections, but that’s not always easy or possible, and it doesn’t at all help people who don’t have that level of hearing to start with! Even the auto-generated version are better than nothing. Thomas Scott’s KZbin channel is a great example of subtitles done right - it’s a service he pays for to ensure his videos are more accessible to more people, and it’s greatly appreciated by his audience.

[@victoriachamness3359]

My bday too

[@Leftatalbuquerque]

Nile is a hero, and suffered through the whole bigoted Disco Backlash, when his records with CHIC (as well as most other acts at the time) stopped being played on radio. You never hear of any interviews with the members of The Knack.

[@tb-cg6vd]

Not a lot more to say than HERO!!!!!!!!

[@azynkron]

Funny, humble.. Epic musician.. What a guy. If I was gay, I would have such a crush on him.

[@lastnamefirst4035]

Heroin seemed to treat him better than it does most tho Im sure he wouldn't recommend it

[@iankennedy1441]

She could be the next David attenborougha

[@Bergstromoliver]

Skavlan.

[@DNortRyan]

Black people are similar to Irish. I'm Irish, we were slaves as well, treated like crap for a very long time, and so to this day many Irish feel what we call a generational trauma or ptsd, having the worst things happen to you and your family for an extremely long time -- these are the side effects of conflict. Suicide, depression, anxiety, psychiatric problems - Ireland had one of the highest incarcerations of any country, second to Soviet Union, but in asylums. So there are drugs, especially in Dublin, lots of problems with heroin and alcohol. Yet the drugs that could help humanity, if we used them responsibly of course, are illegal.

[@giulioluzzardi7632]

Nice-one Nile, Moby-dick and Treasure Island!

[@sebastianwrites]

I do really quite like Nile Rodgers... but then I don't understand how he can so easily maintain a friendship with Gene Simmons, when Simmons is a Trump supporter, which I really think is not much different from supporting Hitler! Then particularly as Rodgers is a black man, but then people make excuses for the things they did, and I wonder if Simmons would really support Trump if he knew the long history of racists abuse his family and the Republicans had committed and still are doing?

[@track1219]

Leave politics out of it, this is about music.

[@sebastianwrites]

@@track1219 See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil...? "Children "died" because of Trump's policies, on the Mexico border, put into cages, and just left. Unfortunately, I cannot send the link for this because @KZbin fails to live up to its responsibility to users? If it did, I would remove my ad-block and purchase the app?

[@sebastianwrites]

​@@track1219 And seriously "music" is more about politics than just about anything else! "Freeeeeeeeeeee, Nelsen Mandela!" kzbin.info/www/bejne/d5jGhamljM-NgLc

[@maxxmabemwe4859]

During the time period that Nile Rodgers was talking about his experience with Simmons, tRump was not the president or any other kind of political figure.

[@sebastianwrites]

@@maxxmabemwe4859 The interview is recent isn't it?

[@Mikishots]

Horrific interviewer. You'd think the man would be better prepared and do his homework. Awkward to watch.

[@gsmarin1]

Nile is fucking wonderful, the horrible interviewer is awful, yet Nile deals with him gracefully

[@EmmaVB82]

I love everything about all of this, and all of them 😍 20:30 such a well-timed comment, about music making her* want to cry, because this is precisely when I’d welled up at the mere concept of music being powerful and driving emotion! 🥲 * this is undoubtedly an oversight on my part, but until now I hadn’t knowingly heard of Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock (though she was involved with [UK] Robot Wars! The first robot winner for s1-2 were people in the year above me at my school, along with our design technology teacher 😃) - she’s immediately been added to my “hall of heroes”! Edit: In all my science-nerd-woman excitement, I forgot to mention Nile Rodgers! He’s obviously phenomenal, and an absolute legend in the music industry, and for the impact his work has had on wider society. I watched another KZbin video on him/Chic early this year, and I remain so impressed by his achievements 🤩