Editing Nile Rodgers (section)

==Early life==
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 [[Percussion instrument|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 1970.<ref name="t">{{Cite news|url=https://tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/09/07/mr-rodgerss-neighborhood/|title=Mr. Rodgers's Neighborhood|last=Rodgers|first=Nile|work=[[The New York Times]] Magazine|date=September 7, 2011 |access-date=September 19, 2018}}</ref> In 1959, Goodman married Bobby Glanzrock. Rodgers described Glanzrock in his 2011 autobiography as a "[[beatnik]] PhD, whose observations had angles that would make [[Miles Davis]] contemplate his cool."<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.ft.com/content/c046acd2-f8cb-11e0-ad8f-00144feab49a |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221210/https://www.ft.com/content/c046acd2-f8cb-11e0-ad8f-00144feab49a |archive-date=December 10, 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=Chic to Chic|last=Hobart|first=Mike|date=October 23, 2011|work=Financial Times|access-date=October 4, 2018}}</ref> [[Richard Pryor]], [[Thelonious Monk]], and [[Lenny Bruce]] often visited their home in [[Greenwich Village]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/06/fashion/mens-style/nile-rodgers-still-chic-after-all-these-years.html|title=Nile Rodgers: Still Chic After All These Years|work=The New York Times |date=November 6, 2015 |access-date=August 14, 2018|language=en|last1=Bernstein |first1=Jacob }}</ref> Glanzrock and Goodman were addicted to [[heroin]], and Rodgers began using drugs at 13.<ref name="The Guardian">{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/jun/22/nile-rodgers-my-family-were-high-functioning-addicts-i-inherited-that-gene|title=Nile Rodgers: 'My family were high-functioning addicts. I inherited that gene'|last=Hattenstone|first=Simon|date=June 22, 2018|website=The Guardian|access-date=August 14, 2018}}</ref>

Before learning to play the guitar at 16, Rodgers played the [[flute]] and the [[clarinet]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.vulture.com/2014/03/nile-rodgers-on-studio-54-le-freak.html|title=Nile Rodgers on Writing 'Le Freak,' Grace Jones, and the Disco Backlash|work=Vulture|access-date=October 7, 2018}}</ref> As a teenager, he played guitar with African, Persian, Latin, jazz and [[Boogaloo]] bands.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/20/arts/music/nile-rodgerss-new-music-memoir-is-le-freak.html|title=Nile Rodgers's New Music Memoir Is 'Le Freak'|last=Ratliff|first=Ben|work=The New York Times |date=October 19, 2011 |access-date=September 28, 2018}}</ref> He became a subsection leader of the [[Lower Manhattan]] branch of the New York [[Black Panther Party]].<ref name="Guardian 2011">{{Cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2011/apr/08/nile-rodgers-chic|title=Nile Rodgers: 'Your music is your soul'|last=Lester|first=Paul|date=April 8, 2011|website=The Guardian|access-date=September 28, 2018}}</ref>  He was raised as a [[Catholic Church|Catholic]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Baltin |first=Steve |title=Who I Am Part 1: Nile Rodgers On The Beatles, Frank Sinatra And Timothy Leary |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevebaltin/2019/08/04/who-i-am-part-1-nile-rodgers-on-the-beatles-frank-sinatra-and-timothy-leary/ |access-date=2023-01-27 |website=Forbes}}</ref>

Rodgers' cousin, trumpeter Robert "Spike" Mickens, was a member of [[Kool & the Gang]] from 1964 to 1986.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-chics-good-times-launched-rap-1485691201|title=How Chic's 'Good Times' Launched Rap|first=Marc|last=Myers|date=January 29, 2017|access-date=August 5, 2020|website=Wsj.com}}</ref>