D. lead singer Pharrell Williams and featuring Ciara, is part of the awards show.
' I remember phoning Pharrell and him saying, 'I'm right in the middle of producing the Beyonce album in Miami.
And rapper producer Pharrell Williams proved even mundane tasks like e-mail could be blinged out when he showed off his gold-plated BlackBerry.
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The "Saturday Night Live" commercials, three at last count, are also minimal, featuring only the Daft Punk logo, the album's title or a disco-flavored performance of "Get Lucky" featuring Pharrell Williams and Nile Rodgers.
The ad with Mr. Williams, who is known as Pharrell, debuted at Coachella music festival, stirring up attendees' hopes for a surprise performance by the French duo and sending the rumor mill into overdrive.
Next morning, there's Pharrell, looking a little bleary-eyed.
The ceremony featured performances from the Beastie Boys, who entered the stage on bicycles and skateboards, No Doubt singer Gwen Stefani being lowered from a giant clock and Nelly doing a duet with Pharrell Williams.
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You'll be in a building that has maybe three other studios, and you'll see Pharrell walking through the hallway, and maybe he'll pop in and something random will happen that'll wind up being on the album.
That year rapper Pharrell Williams invested a "high six-figure" amount for a 30% equity stake in the company--enough to hire graphic designers to create slick brochures and a new website with color diagrams on Bionic's manufacturing process.
Diddy, Tinie Tempah, Jay-Z and Pharrell Williams.
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Over the course of a 16-hour day in Los Angeles, he records four songs and also works on the score for the Oscars. (He was chosen by composer Hans Zimmer to help produce the show.) In the studio, Pharrell's concentration is unyielding.
Sonically, this treatment of America comes across via a grouping of pedal steel guitars (instead of the usual string section), banging titanium and steel sculptures, and organizing "a who's who of drummers" in a 12-member drum circle, including Jason Bonham, Sheila E. and Pharrell Williams.
In the last few months the company has worked with creators including Counting Crows, DJ Shadow, Chester French and Pharrell Williams, and most recently skateboarding legends Tony Hawk and Stacy Peralta, who released the cult 80s skateboarding film The Search for Animal Chin via BitTorrent last week.
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