Pharrell Williams is an American singer-songwriter, rapper, record producer, and film producer.
Williams and Chad Hugo make up the record production duo The Neptunes, producing soul, hip hop and R&B music.
He’s also good friends of Ariana Grande and he helped produce most of her fourth studio album, Sweetener. In 2019, he won a Grammy Award for Producer of the Year for his work on, Sweetener.
Collaborations[]
- "Heatstroke" (Calvin Harris featuring Young Thug, Pharrell Williams and Ariana Grande)
- "Arturo Sandoval" (Arturo Sandoval & Pharrell Williams featuring Ariana Grande)
- "Blazed" (Official release, Sweetener, 2016)
- "Man Of Steel" (Unreleased, Sweetener, 2017)
- "100" (Unreleased, Sweetener, 2017)
- "Pretty Girls Like Trap Music" (Unreleased, Sweetener, 2017)
Production Credits[]
Sweetener[]
- "Blazed" (producer, writer, additional background vocals, vocalist, vocal producer)
- "The Light Is Coming" (producer, writer)
- "The Light Is Coming (Skepta Demo)" (producer, writer; unreleased)
- "The Light Is Coming (Nicki Minaj Demo)" (producer, writer; unreleased)
- "R.E.M." (additional background vocals, vocal producer, vocalist, producer, writer)
- "R.E.M (Quavo Demo)" (additional background vocals, vocal producer, producer, writer; unreleased)
- "Sweetener" (additional background vocals, producer, writer)
- "Successful" (producer, writer)
- "Borderline" (producer, writer)
- "Get Well Soon" (producer, writer)
- "Rush Delivery" (producer, writer; unreleased)
- "Clarity" (producer, writer; unreleased)
- "On Top Of Everything" (producer, writer; unreleased)
- "Clouds" (producer, writer; unreleased)
- "Shnack (Final)" (producer, writer, additional background vocals, vocalist; unreleased)
- "More (Final)" (producer, writer, additional background vocals; unreleased)
- "More (Demo)" (producer, writer; unreleased)
- "Daydream On Occasion" (producer, writer, additional background vocals; unreleased)
- "Treadmill" (producer, writer; unreleased)
- "Ever Been (Final and Reworked Final)" (producer, writer, additional background vocalist, vocalist, vocal producer; unreleased)
- "Cocoon" (producer, writer, additional background vocals; unreleased)
- "100" (producer, writer, additional background vocals, vocalist; unreleased)
- "Pretty Girls Like Trap Music" (producer, writer, vocalist, additional background vocals; unreleased)
- "Man of Steel" (producer, writer, vocalist; unreleased)
Other[]
- "Arturo Sandoval" (Arturo Sandoval & Pharrell Williams featuring Ariana Grande/producer, writer)
Trivia[]
- He performed on the Manchester benefit concert and performed his 2014 hit "Happy" with Miley Cyrus.
- On May 19, 2018, Ariana uploaded on her Instagram stories a screenshot of Pharrell's song with Camila Cabello, "Sangria Wine", with: "wifey [Cabello] x my best friend P [Williams]".