Updated on: 26 July, 2021 11:32 AM IST |
How Well do you Know the Happy Pharrell Williams?
He has named his son, Rocket Man Williams after the famous Elton John song.
Pharrell is an entrepreneur and a fashionista. He co-founded the clothing brands Billionaire Boys Club and Ice Cream Footwear.
In 2013, he broke the record for coming up with a 24-hour music video featuring Magic Johnson, Steve Carrell, Jimmy Kimmel, Jamie Foxx and Steve Martin.
His Blurred Lines collaboration with Robin Thicke was a best-selling single across 14 countries.
In 2003, The Neptunes had produced 43 of the songs that were played on the radio.
Pharrel was one half of the super successful duo, The Neptunes which was formed in 1992 alongwith Chad Hugo. They had met at a band camp.
Pharrell was discovered by famous musician and producer Teddy Riley, during his high school talent hunt.
Pharrell used to work in McDonalds. He was fired from three different outlets and when he applied at the fourth one, the management requested the recruiters to not hire him since he used to burn the burgers and steal the nuggets.
As a kid, his nickname was Skateboard P because his brother was a professional skateboarder.
Its quite puzzling as to how did Pharrell acquire musical genes as his mum was a teacher whereas his father was a handyman.
Speak of Pharrell Williams and people would throw statistics towards you. Did you know it was him who produced 50 of the music played on the radio? is just one of them. Producer-writer-musician, Pharrell Williams is responsible for every hit record in America and the UK over the past 20 years. But what is even more remarkable is that at the age of 40, while many of his contemporaries are considering hanging up their boots, Pharrell has gone stratospheric. He was behind the two biggest hits of 2013, Blurred Lines with Robin Thicke and Get Lucky with Daft Punk. On the mad hatters 43rd birthday, we list 10 strange-but-true facts about him that might surprise you.
