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"We Are Family" is a song recorded by American vocal group Sister Sledge. Composed by Bernard Edwards and Nile Rodgers, they both offered the song to Atlantic Records; although the record label initially declined, the track was released in April 1979 as a single from the album of the same name (1979) [1] and began to gain club and radio play, eventually becoming the group's signature song.
We Are Family is one of two albums produced by Bernard Edwards and Nile Rodgers in 1979, the other being Chic's third album Risqué including hit singles "Good Times" and "My Forbidden Lover". Edwards and Rodgers would only show the songs to Sister Sledge once the sisters were in front of the studio microphones. [4]
The compilation was one of the first to be released on Compact Disc, and includes remixes of "We Are Family" and "Lost In Music" (by Bernard Edwards and Nile Rodgers themselves) and "Le Freak" (by Stock Aitken Waterman/PWL's Phil Harding). [1] [2]
The Very Best of Sister Sledge 1973–93 is a greatest hits album by American vocal group Sister Sledge, released in 1993.Featuring the biggest hit singles of Sister Sledge, the album also includes two new Sure Is Pure remixes of "We Are Family" and "Lost in Music", both released as singles in 1993 and reaching number five and 14 in the UK Singles Chart respectively.
Rodgers said he wrote 1979 hit to be ‘the ultimate song about inclusion and diversity’ Nile Rodgers condemns right-wing Swiss party for using ‘We Are Family’ ‘soundalike’ Skip to main ...
After releasing a series of smash hits with Chic, including the oft-sampled “Good Times” and “Le Freak,” Rodgers went on to cowrite Sister Sledge’s 1979 breakout hit “We Are Family.”
Rodgers was born on September 19, 1952, in the Lower East Side, New York City, to Beverly Goodman.She gave birth to Rodgers when she was 14. His biological father, Nile Rodgers Sr., was a travelling percussionist who specialized in Afro-Cuban beats and was rarely present as Rodgers grew up; although influential in his life, Rodgers saw his father only a "handful" of times prior to his death in ...
Alfa Anderson, a vocalist known for her work with the iconic 1970s disco band Chic, has died. She was 78. Niles Rodgers, founder of Chic, shared the news in an Instagram post on Dec. 17. “RIP ...