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- PHARRELL WILLIAMS TALKS GAY MARRIAGE ON 'ELLEN'
- PHARRELL, ELLEN ADDRS KIM BURRELL'S ANTI-GAY STATEMENTS
- PHARRELL AND ROB THICKE MT PAY MARV GAYE'S FAY $5 MILLN OVER 'BLURRED L': REPORTS
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HE HAS BEEN PART OF THE FAMO PRODUCTN DUO THE NEPTUN AND -FOUND AND SANG LEAD VOLS FOR THE ALT-ROCK/HIP-HOP BAND N.E.R.D. WILLIAMS ALSO PRODUCED SONGS FOR SOME OF THE BIGGT MIC STARS, CLUDG NELLY, JAY-Z, BRNEY SPEARS, BTA RHYM, P. DIDDY, SNOOP DOGG, NO DOUBT, USHER AND LIMP BIZK. HE’S WRTEN SR AND SONGS FOR MOVI, CLUDG THE ANIMATED DPIBLE ME AND S SEQUELS. HIS SONG “HAPPY,” WRTEN FOR DPIBLE ME 2, WAS A TOP BILLBOARD HOT 100 CHART H FOR 10 STRAIGHT WEEKS AND WAS NOMATED FOR AN AMY AWARD FOR BT ORIGAL SONG. “THAT SONG WOULD NEVER HAVE BEEN THE SAME SONG IF HAD BEEN FOR MY ALBUM,” HE SAID, “BUT BEE WAS FOR AN ANIMATN, THE ONLY THG I ULD DO WAS TO PUT PURE EMOTN TO —MAKE A SONG FOR A MAN JT WALKG DOWN THE STREET WH PURE HAPPS BEE HE FELL LOVE FOR THE FIRST TIME.” IN 2014, TIME MAGAZE NAMED HIM ONE OF THE 100 MOST INFLUENTIAL PEOPLE THE WORLD.EARLY YEARSPHARRELL WILLIAMS WAS BORN ON APRIL 5, 1973, TO PARENTS PHAROAH WILLIAMS AND CAROLE RANDALL WILLIAMS VIRGIA BEACH, VIRGIA. HE TOLD VANY FAIR THAT HIS EARLY FLUENC WERE “HIP-HOP, HAIR BAND MIC AND GNGE.”A PERCSNIST FOR HIS HIGH SCHOOL BAND, HE MET SAXOPHONIST CHAD HUGO AT BAND MP, AND THE TWO BEME IENDS THROUGH MIC, FORMG A BAND LLED THE NEPTUN. MIC PRODUCER TEDDY RILEY SIGNED THEM, AND THE NEPTUN EVENTUALLY BEME A PRODUCTN TEAM. IN 1994, THEY PRODUCED THE SONG “TONIGHT’S THE NIGHT” ON BLACKSTREET’S BUT ALBUM.N.E.R.D AND PRODUCTN CREDSTHE NEPTUN PRODUCED SONGS SUCH AS “STEAL AWAY” BY MARY J. BLIGE, “DROP IT LIKE IT’S HOT” BY SNOOP DOGG AND “ROCK YOUR BODY” BY JT TIMBERLAKE. THEY WERE DUCTED TO THE SONGWRERS HALL OF FAME 2022. WILLIAMS, HUGO AND DMMER SHAY HALEY FORMED THE BAND N.E.R.D, WHICH RELEASED S FIRST ALBUM, IN SEARCH OF…, 2001, FOLLOWED BY FLY OR DIE (2004), SEEG SOUNDS (2008) AND NOTHG (2010). THE BAND RNED 2017 WH THE ALBUM NO_ONE EVER REALLY DI, WHICH TOOK A MORE POLIL STANCE THAN THEIR PREV WORK.WILLIAMS WON A GRAMMY 2003 FOR PRODUCG TIMBERLAKE’S FIRST SOLO ALBUM, JTIFIED. TIMBERLAKE PRAISED THE PRODUCER, WRG A TRIBUTE TO WILLIAMS, “WHEN I CID TO WORK ON MY FIRST SOLO ALBUM 2002, PHARRELL WAS THE FIRST MICIAN I SPOKE TO. I WAS 21 AND READY TO SAY SOMETHG TO THE WORLD. BUT I NEED SOMEONE TO HELP ME TRANSLATE EXACTLY WHAT THAT SOMETHG WAS. I KNEW OM OUR FIRST NVERSATN THAT HE WAS THAT PERSON… HE MA ME FEARLS, AND I’VE RRIED THAT WH ME THE RT OF MY LIFE.”IN 2004, WILLIAMS WON A GRAMMY FOR PRODUCER OF THE YEAR, NON-CLASSIL, WHICH HE PPED OFF BY PLAYG DMS AT THE GRAMMYS A QUARTET FEATURG STG, DAVE MATTHEWS AND VCE GILL A VER TRIBUTE OF THE BEATL’ CLASSIC “I SAW HER STANDG THERE.” IN 2010, HE WAS NAMED BILLBOARD’S PRODUCER OF THE DE. THE DAFT PUNK SONG “GET LUCKY,” WHICH WILLIAMS SANG ON AND -WROTE, WON THE GRAMMY FOR BT POP DUO/GROUP PERFORMANCE AND RERD OF THE YEAR 2014.HE -WROTE AND PRODUCED ROB THICKE’S 2013 H SONG “BLURRED L,” BUT TWO YEARS LATER, A LOS ANGEL JURY FOUND THE SONG HAD GED ON THE PYRIGHT OF THE 1977 SONG "GOT TO GIVE IT UP” BY MARV GAYE. THE JURY AWARD $7.3 LN TO GAYE’S TATE, WHICH WAS LATER RCED TO AROUND $5 LN.MOVIWILLIAMS HAS ALSO BEEN ACTIVE TV AND MOVI. IN ADDN TO HIS WORK ON THE DPIBLE ME FILMS, HE LLABORATED ON THE SOUNDTRACK FOR THE 2014 MOVIE THE AMAZG SPIR-MAN 2. HE -PRODUCED THE MOVIE HIDN FIGUR, EARNG HIM AN OSR NOMATN 2017. WILLIAMS WAS A NARRATOR THE 2018 ANIMATED MOVIE THE GRCH AND APPEARED THE 2015 FILMS ENTOURAGE AND PCH PERFECT 2. AND OM 2014 TO 2016, HE WAS A ACH ON “THE VOICE,” THE REALY TV SGG PETN.IN DISNEY’S 2019 REMAKE OF THE LN KG, WILLIAMS PRODUCED FIVE SONGS. AND FOR NETFLIX’S THE BLACK GODFATHER, HE AND HUGO -WROTE AND -PRODUCED A SONG LLED "LETTER TO MY GODFATHER.”FASHN IN AND OTHER WORKIN 2005, ESQUIRE NAMED WILLIAMS THE WORLD’S BT-DRSED MAN, PRAISG HIM FOR "JECTG DRSED-UP LUXURY TO HIP-HOP STYLE." HE TOLD THE PUBLITN, "IT'S ABOUT FORT AND FLOW. IT'S NEVER ABOUT WHETHER I'M THE BT-DRSED GUY THE ROOM. I NEVER GO, 'OH, I'M KILL' EM TONIGHT!' THGS JT NEED TO F NATURALLY. FASHN'S MORE ABOUT FEEL THAN SCIENCE."ALONG WH JAPANE MIC PRODUCER NIGO WILLIAMS, HE STARTED THE CLOTHG L BILLNAIRE BOYS CLUB AND ICE CREAM. WILLIAMS IS ALSO ACTIVE THE HOSPALY BS WH SWAN, AN DOOR/OUTDOOR RTRANT MIAMI, AND THE GOODTIME HOTEL MIAMI BEACH.IN 2019, WILLIAMS LNCHED A MULTI-DAY MIC FTIVAL HIS HOMETOWN OF VIRGIA BEACH LLED SOMETHG THE WATER (SITW). HE MOVED THE EVENT TO WASHGTON, D.C. 2022, UPSET WH VIRGIA BEACH’S RPONSE TO THE FATAL SHOOTG OF HIS , DONOVAN LYNCH, BY POLICE 2021. BUT NOVEMBER 2022, WILLIAMS SAID THE FTIVAL WOULD RETURN TO HIS HOMETOWN 2023, EXPLAG, “I NEED TO E BACK HOME. THERE IS A PERVASIVE FEELG BY ALMOST EVERYONE THAT THE FTIVAL BELONGS VIRGIA BEACH, AND THE TIME IS RIGHT TO BRG BACK.”WILLIAMS STARTED A NONPROF 2008 LLED ONE HAND TO ANOTHER, AIMED AT HELPG UNRSERVED YOUTH WH TNAL TOOLS NEED FOR FUTURE SUCCS.WIFE AND CHILDRENWILLIAMS IS MARRIED TO HELEN LASICHANH. THEY HAVE FOUR CHILDREN, CLUDG {BORR:0;BORR-BOTTOM:TH SOLID BLACK;MARG:1.875REM 0;CLEAR:BOTH;}QUICK FACTS
PHARRELL WILLIAMS TALKS GAY MARRIAGE ON 'ELLEN'
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Thursday's episo of The Ellen Show is a b different than origally sger Kim Burrell was origally schled to perform a song om the Hidn Figur soundtrack wh Pharrell Williams on the talk show, but her appearance was nceled after a vio of Burrell makg anti-gay statements at Hoton's Love & Liberty Fellowship Church went viral. In the vio Burrell lls homosexualy "perverted. "(Burrell) ma a statement, and she said some very not nice thgs about homosexuals, so I didn't feel that was good of me to have her on the show to give her a platform after she's sayg thgs about me, " the host explaed, before turng to Pharrell.
"Frank Ocean's mom wants to remove Kim Burrell om his album“Whenever you hear some sort of hate speech and you feel like don’t perta to you bee you may not have anythg to do wh that, all you got to do is put the word black that sentence, or put gay that sentence, or put transgenr that sentence, or put whe that sentence and all of the sudn starts to make sense to you, ” he ntued. The song was a huge h, but 2015 a feral jury held that Thicke and Williams had mted pyright gement by g parts of Marv Gaye’s “Got to Give It Up.
PHARRELL, ELLEN ADDRS KIM BURRELL'S ANTI-GAY STATEMENTS
After a five-year-long legal back-and-forth, a judge has termed that Pharrell Williams and Rob Thicke, the artists behd the 2013 mega h “Blurred L, ” mt pay the fay of the late Marv Gaye $5 ln, multiple outlets report. The pair was sued for pyright gement bee of the song’s siari to Gaye’s “Got to Give It Up” om 1977, CNN reports.
In 2015, a judge led Williams, 45, and Thicke, 41, owed Gaye’s tate $7 ln, but after they appealed, the judgment — om U.
PHARRELL AND ROB THICKE MT PAY MARV GAYE'S FAY $5 MILLN OVER 'BLURRED L': REPORTS
Gaye’s fay will also earn 50 percent of “Blurred L” royalti the future.
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HE HAS BEEN PART OF THE FAMO PRODUCTN DUO THE NEPTUN AND -FOUND AND SANG LEAD VOLS FOR THE ALT-ROCK/HIP-HOP BAND N.E.R.D. WILLIAMS ALSO PRODUCED SONGS FOR SOME OF THE BIGGT MIC STARS, CLUDG NELLY, JAY-Z, BRNEY SPEARS, BTA RHYM, P. DIDDY, SNOOP DOGG, NO DOUBT, USHER AND LIMP BIZK. HE’S WRTEN SR AND SONGS FOR MOVI, CLUDG THE ANIMATED DPIBLE ME AND S SEQUELS. HIS SONG “HAPPY,” WRTEN FOR DPIBLE ME 2, WAS A TOP BILLBOARD HOT 100 CHART H FOR 10 STRAIGHT WEEKS AND WAS NOMATED FOR AN AMY AWARD FOR BT ORIGAL SONG. “THAT SONG WOULD NEVER HAVE BEEN THE SAME SONG IF HAD BEEN FOR MY ALBUM,” HE SAID, “BUT BEE WAS FOR AN ANIMATN, THE ONLY THG I ULD DO WAS TO PUT PURE EMOTN TO —MAKE A SONG FOR A MAN JT WALKG DOWN THE STREET WH PURE HAPPS BEE HE FELL LOVE FOR THE FIRST TIME.” IN 2014, TIME MAGAZE NAMED HIM ONE OF THE 100 MOST INFLUENTIAL PEOPLE THE WORLD.EARLY YEARSPHARRELL WILLIAMS WAS BORN ON APRIL 5, 1973, TO PARENTS PHAROAH WILLIAMS AND CAROLE RANDALL WILLIAMS VIRGIA BEACH, VIRGIA. HE TOLD VANY FAIR THAT HIS EARLY FLUENC WERE “HIP-HOP, HAIR BAND MIC AND GNGE.”A PERCSNIST FOR HIS HIGH SCHOOL BAND, HE MET SAXOPHONIST CHAD HUGO AT BAND MP, AND THE TWO BEME IENDS THROUGH MIC, FORMG A BAND LLED THE NEPTUN. MIC PRODUCER TEDDY RILEY SIGNED THEM, AND THE NEPTUN EVENTUALLY BEME A PRODUCTN TEAM. IN 1994, THEY PRODUCED THE SONG “TONIGHT’S THE NIGHT” ON BLACKSTREET’S BUT ALBUM.N.E.R.D AND PRODUCTN CREDSTHE NEPTUN PRODUCED SONGS SUCH AS “STEAL AWAY” BY MARY J. BLIGE, “DROP IT LIKE IT’S HOT” BY SNOOP DOGG AND “ROCK YOUR BODY” BY JT TIMBERLAKE. THEY WERE DUCTED TO THE SONGWRERS HALL OF FAME 2022. WILLIAMS, HUGO AND DMMER SHAY HALEY FORMED THE BAND N.E.R.D, WHICH RELEASED S FIRST ALBUM, IN SEARCH OF…, 2001, FOLLOWED BY FLY OR DIE (2004), SEEG SOUNDS (2008) AND NOTHG (2010). THE BAND RNED 2017 WH THE ALBUM NO_ONE EVER REALLY DI, WHICH TOOK A MORE POLIL STANCE THAN THEIR PREV WORK.WILLIAMS WON A GRAMMY 2003 FOR PRODUCG TIMBERLAKE’S FIRST SOLO ALBUM, JTIFIED. TIMBERLAKE PRAISED THE PRODUCER, WRG A TRIBUTE TO WILLIAMS, “WHEN I CID TO WORK ON MY FIRST SOLO ALBUM 2002, PHARRELL WAS THE FIRST MICIAN I SPOKE TO. I WAS 21 AND READY TO SAY SOMETHG TO THE WORLD. BUT I NEED SOMEONE TO HELP ME TRANSLATE EXACTLY WHAT THAT SOMETHG WAS. I KNEW OM OUR FIRST NVERSATN THAT HE WAS THAT PERSON… HE MA ME FEARLS, AND I’VE RRIED THAT WH ME THE RT OF MY LIFE.”IN 2004, WILLIAMS WON A GRAMMY FOR PRODUCER OF THE YEAR, NON-CLASSIL, WHICH HE PPED OFF BY PLAYG DMS AT THE GRAMMYS A QUARTET FEATURG STG, DAVE MATTHEWS AND VCE GILL A VER TRIBUTE OF THE BEATL’ CLASSIC “I SAW HER STANDG THERE.” IN 2010, HE WAS NAMED BILLBOARD’S PRODUCER OF THE DE. THE DAFT PUNK SONG “GET LUCKY,” WHICH WILLIAMS SANG ON AND -WROTE, WON THE GRAMMY FOR BT POP DUO/GROUP PERFORMANCE AND RERD OF THE YEAR 2014.HE -WROTE AND PRODUCED ROB THICKE’S 2013 H SONG “BLURRED L,” BUT TWO YEARS LATER, A LOS ANGEL JURY FOUND THE SONG HAD GED ON THE PYRIGHT OF THE 1977 SONG "GOT TO GIVE IT UP” BY MARV GAYE. THE JURY AWARD $7.3 LN TO GAYE’S TATE, WHICH WAS LATER RCED TO AROUND $5 LN.MOVIWILLIAMS HAS ALSO BEEN ACTIVE TV AND MOVI. IN ADDN TO HIS WORK ON THE DPIBLE ME FILMS, HE LLABORATED ON THE SOUNDTRACK FOR THE 2014 MOVIE THE AMAZG SPIR-MAN 2. HE -PRODUCED THE MOVIE HIDN FIGUR, EARNG HIM AN OSR NOMATN 2017. WILLIAMS WAS A NARRATOR THE 2018 ANIMATED MOVIE THE GRCH AND APPEARED THE 2015 FILMS ENTOURAGE AND PCH PERFECT 2. AND OM 2014 TO 2016, HE WAS A ACH ON “THE VOICE,” THE REALY TV SGG PETN.IN DISNEY’S 2019 REMAKE OF THE LN KG, WILLIAMS PRODUCED FIVE SONGS. AND FOR NETFLIX’S THE BLACK GODFATHER, HE AND HUGO -WROTE AND -PRODUCED A SONG LLED "LETTER TO MY GODFATHER.”FASHN IN AND OTHER WORKIN 2005, ESQUIRE NAMED WILLIAMS THE WORLD’S BT-DRSED MAN, PRAISG HIM FOR "JECTG DRSED-UP LUXURY TO HIP-HOP STYLE." HE TOLD THE PUBLITN, "IT'S ABOUT FORT AND FLOW. IT'S NEVER ABOUT WHETHER I'M THE BT-DRSED GUY THE ROOM. I NEVER GO, 'OH, I'M KILL' EM TONIGHT!' THGS JT NEED TO F NATURALLY. FASHN'S MORE ABOUT FEEL THAN SCIENCE."ALONG WH JAPANE MIC PRODUCER NIGO WILLIAMS, HE STARTED THE CLOTHG L BILLNAIRE BOYS CLUB AND ICE CREAM. WILLIAMS IS ALSO ACTIVE THE HOSPALY BS WH SWAN, AN DOOR/OUTDOOR RTRANT MIAMI, AND THE GOODTIME HOTEL MIAMI BEACH.IN 2019, WILLIAMS LNCHED A MULTI-DAY MIC FTIVAL HIS HOMETOWN OF VIRGIA BEACH LLED SOMETHG THE WATER (SITW). HE MOVED THE EVENT TO WASHGTON, D.C. 2022, UPSET WH VIRGIA BEACH’S RPONSE TO THE FATAL SHOOTG OF HIS , DONOVAN LYNCH, BY POLICE 2021. BUT NOVEMBER 2022, WILLIAMS SAID THE FTIVAL WOULD RETURN TO HIS HOMETOWN 2023, EXPLAG, “I NEED TO E BACK HOME. THERE IS A PERVASIVE FEELG BY ALMOST EVERYONE THAT THE FTIVAL BELONGS VIRGIA BEACH, AND THE TIME IS RIGHT TO BRG BACK.”WILLIAMS STARTED A NONPROF 2008 LLED ONE HAND TO ANOTHER, AIMED AT HELPG UNRSERVED YOUTH WH TNAL TOOLS NEED FOR FUTURE SUCCS.WIFE AND CHILDRENWILLIAMS IS MARRIED TO HELEN LASICHANH. THEY HAVE FOUR CHILDREN, CLUDG {BORR:0;BORR-BOTTOM:TH SOLID BLACK;MARG:1.875REM 0;CLEAR:BOTH;}QUICK FACTS
In 2015, a judge first led that Williams and Thicke pied Gaye’s song. “No one n claim they own the style or the genre of Marv Gaye, ” attorney Howard Kg said at the time, acrdg to the Associated Prs. The Daft Punk song “Get Lucky, ” which Williams sang on and -wrote, won the Grammy for bt pop duo/group performance and Rerd of the Year -wrote and produced Rob Thicke’s 2013 h song “Blurred L, ” but two years later, a Los Angel jury found the song had ged on the pyright of the 1977 song "Got to Give It Up” by Marv Gaye.
3 ln to Gaye’s tate, which was later rced to around $5 ln.