Chic legend Nile Rodgers is among the latest musicians to give evidence to a DCMS committee on the impact of music streaming.Rodgers will address the committee next week (December 8), with his appearance coming weeks after Radiohead’s Ed O’Brien, Elbow’s Guy Garvey, Nadine Shah and Gomez‘ Tom Gray told MPs that streaming payments are “threatening the future of music”.In next week’s session, Rodgers will be joined by songwriter Fiona Bevan and jazz saxophonist Soweto Kinch – who are expected to address the adverse economic impact of streaming payments on artists.Garvey previously told the committee that the future of music is threatened if “musicians can’t afford to pay the rent”.Radiohead’s O’Brien went on to explain how the.
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