Pharrell Williams

Pharrell Williams
General information
Born	April 5, 1973 (age 52)
Gender	Male
Genres	R&B, Soul, Hip-Hop, Pop
Occupation	Singer

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" (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)
• "Sex" (producer, writer; 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]".
• It was confirmed that Pharrell made many references prior to meeting and given them Grande. Some demos are as old as 2012-2014.

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