How is nile rodgers health

The year-old was diagnosed with an aggressive form of prostate cancer in but got the all-clear in Since then, he said, he had "attacked life with gusto" and "worked at an insane level" with musicians including Daft Punk.

Rodgers said the new growth was discovered during a visit to hospital to treat a case of E. After performing in Brooklyn on 2 November, he flew to Rochester in upstate New York and had the carcinogenic mass removed the following day. After going through the procedure, Rodgers spent two days in the hospital and then started to follow through with treatments such as biofeedback, and others.

He also started taking walks around New York City, and although he had to return to the hospital once in a while, Rodgers kept working. He also wrote a memoir book and toured around the country signing books. He was treated for E.

During his brief stay at the hospital, doctors found something else: a rare growth in his kidney that looked like cancer. And it was, indeed, two different cancers within one mass. Rodgers confessed in his blog that, unlike the first time around, his reaction to the diagnosis was calmer and more focused.

He scheduled the next appointment and kept playing around the world, visiting South America, Dubai, Japan, and more. There was even a family snobbery about heroin. Bobby spent his final days in a Veterans Association home. He was admitted as an alcoholic, but rejected the label.

Today, we feel a long way from the Lower East Side of his childhood. We meet at the Serpentine Gallery in London, which is hosting its annual summer party. Rodgers is wearing a red velvet jacket, red trousers with more zips than stitches, a silver choker that a pitbull would be proud to own, and a black beret.

Few people could get away with it. But Rodgers, recently found to be clear of cancer for the second time, looks wonderful; from behind, with his tiny bottom and stick-like legs, he could pass for the teenager who studied classical music at school. Initially, Rodgers thought he would be a percussionist like Nile senior.

But the school orchestra needed a flautist. He then moved to the B-flat clarinet, before discovering jazz guitar. Not surprisingly, Rodgers was a precocious youngster.

By 13, he was sniffing glue, and by 15 he was sleeping in subways and had contracted gonorrhea. He rarely slept at the convalescent home, the abuser stalked the dormitory in the dark, and Rodgers learned to sleep between dawn and breakfast — a pattern that stuck.

Yet, like his parents, he remained fully functional. At 17, he met bass player Bernard Edwards. Rodgers was a bell-bottomed revolutionary hippy, Edwards a clean-living conservative young man. They became inseparable — and musical life partners. Rodgers also became a member of the Harlem chapter of the Black Panther party. What he loved about the Panthers was that new members were given responsibility immediately, to test them. Very first day! Just martial arts.

Last year, Rodgers helped out in the aftermath of the fire at Grenfell Tower in London. He says it reminded him of his Panther days — young people taking the lead, transforming the community. Man, those kids were so damn inspirational. What was his hope for the US when he was a Panther? Of course, it never happened. The closest thing that ever happened to it was disco! End of story. Rodgers has an astonishing mind, racing between stories. Within seconds, we lurch from the Panthers to the ghettoisation of Los Angeles where his family moved , the manicured lawns of Compton, and America as a nation built on slavery.

He blows a raspberry. Slavery a choice? Why were we so afraid of guns? The cancer that attacked my prostate was considered extremely aggressive. The rest of my day couldn't have been more perfect by my standards.

I went for a gourmet lunch, then saw two movies; the first of which was in a completely empty theater on a Monday afternoon in NYC, then took the subway home where I had a five-hour shiatsu massage. This was maybe the best gift of the day. Last week I'd had a minor car accident. When the airbag deployed it did some damage to my shoulder, chest and nose. My masseuse worked out all the tension and increased blood flow to every tendon, muscle and joint of my body. This therapeutic luxury caused me to have four hours of continuous sleep, a sort of record in this insomniacs world.

Today's pop music—genre-crossing, gender-bending, racially mixed, visually stylish, and dominated by dance music with global appeal—is the world that Nile Rodgers created.

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