Nile Rodgers CHIC: Tiny Desk Concert

Sheldon Pearce, October 25, 2023 Before Nile Rodgers CHIC set the Tiny Desk off, the icon established a sort of mission statement for the group s sound: If we can funk in this, you know we can They surely can. In stints since 1972, CHIC has assured its position as funk ambassadors a position its members clearly relish and no space is resistant to their grooves. When Rodgers asks singer Kimberly Davis to show the audience how we do it in the CHIC organization, she launches into highpowered vocals that vaporize every note. And when he asks drummer Ralph Rolle to lead them to maximum funkocity, Rolle ignites callandresponse with an electrified crowd. As the ringleader of the CHIC experience, Rodgers crams a lifetime s worth of nightlife into every strum of his guitar. Rodgers career is epic in both scope and impact. The 1979 CHIC album Risqué was a disco milestone that became a hiphop cornerstone. Standing at inflection points f