*Broadcast Music, Inc.® (BMI®), the global leader in music rights management will present the Icon Award to Nile Rodgers at the 2015 BMI R&B/Hip-Hop Awards.
BMI’s 2015 R&B/Hip-Hop Awards celebrate the songwriters, producers and publishers of the most-performed R&B/Hip-Hop songs of the previous year.
BMI Icon Award recipients are selected for their unique and indelible influence on generations of music makers.
BMI’s 2015 R&B/Hip-Hop Awards will also present honors in the following categories: Most Performed R&B/Hip-Hop Songs of the Past Year, R&B/Hip-Hop Producer of the Year, Top BMI R&B/Hip-Hop Producers, R&B/Hip-Hop Publisher of the Year, R&B/Hip-Hop Song of the Year, R&B/Hip-Hop Songwriter of the Year and Social Star Award.
As the 2015 honoree, Nile Rodgers will join esteemed ranks that include James Brown, Mariah Carey, the Jacksons, Snoop Dogg, Cash Money’s Bryan “Birdman” Williams and Ronald “Slim” Williams, George Clinton, Isaac Hayes, Little Richard, and Al Green, among others.
BMI President and CEO Mike O’Neill and Vice President, Writer/Publisher Relations, Atlanta, Catherine Brewton will share the evening’s hosting duties.
Friday, August 28, 2015 at the Saban Theatre. 8440 Wilshire Blvd, Beverly Hills, CA 90211
For more information on the BMI R&B/Hip-Hop Awards and other BMI R&B/Hip-Hop events, visithttps://www.bmi.com/genres/rb_hiphop. To join the conversation about the Awards, use hashtag#BMIRnBHHAwards.
About Nile Rodgers
Among music legends, Nile Rodgers is truly exceptional. As a cultural icon and music innovator with more than 200 production credits to his name, Rodgers amplifies his legacy as a Grammy-winning composer, producer, arranger, and guitarist by constantly traversing new musical terrain and successfully expanding the boundaries of popular music.
As the co-founder of CHIC, Rodgers pioneered a musical language that sparked the advent of hip-hop with “Good Times,” distinguished CHIC as the “most sampled band in history” (The Guardian, 2011), won CHIC nine Rock and Roll Hall of Fame nominations, and generated groundbreaking pop hits like “Le Freak,” which was inducted into the 2015 Grammy Hall of Fame.
His career-defining productions for David Bowie (Let’s Dance), Madonna (Like A Virgin), Diana Ross (diana), and Sister Sledge (We Are Family), plus his work with artists like Duran Duran, INXS, Mick Jagger, Grace Jones, Steve Winwood, Peter Gabriel, The B-52s, and Michael Jackson, have sold over 200 million albums and 50 million singles worldwide while his innovative, trendsetting collaborations with Daft Punk, Avicii, Disclosure, and Sam Smith reflect the vanguard of contemporary music.
source:
Marlene Meraz
mmeraz@bmi.com
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