Co-author of Sister Sledge song ‘about inclusion and diversity’ condemns move by rightwing SVP
The songwriter and musician Nile Rodgers has asked Switzerland’s rightwing populist Swiss People’s party (SVP) to cease and desist from using a “soundalike” version of Sister Sledge’s hit We Are Family in its election campaigns.
Ahead of Swiss parliamentary elections in October, the Eurosceptic and anti-immigration SVP on Monday released Das Isch d’SVP (That’s the SVP), a song whose chorus directly echoes that of the 1979 Sister Sledge hit composed by Rodgers and Bernard Edwards.
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