According to Rodgers , the verses were mostly verbatim based on how Greenberg described Sister Sledge to them when first commissioning the work . Rodgers/Edwards then simply walked immediately to the studio , rearranged their notes from the meeting into lyrics , and wrote a song melody underneath them . The chorus ( and therefore the title ) makes reference to the fact that the group are the four sisters of a family . Artists who have covered the song include Dusty Springfield , Jump5 , The Goldman Girls , Jordan Pruitt , Spice Girls , The Corrs , Nobody 's Angel , Babes in Toyland and Lodovica Comello . Babes in Toyland 's version of the song was more rock oriented and it was a left field Dance club hit in the U.S . It peaked at number 22 on the Billboard Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart in 1995 . In addition , Rodgers organized a re-recording of the song in 2001 as a benefit record for the September 11 attacks . This in turn led to his co-creation of the We Are Family Foundation , a global charity named for the song and designed to inspire and educate young people to find solutions to problems such as hunger and illiteracy that impede world peace
September 11 attacks
September 11 attacks
We Are Family (song)