Pharrell Williams

Grammy award-winning musician Pharrell Williams has called for a federal investigation into the fatal police shooting of his cousin along the Virginia coast

Pharrell Williams is speaking out after his cousin was killed in a string of shootings in Virginia Beach on Friday.

Icy Park, the third installment of Beyoncé’s Ivy Park x Adidas collaboration, is set to drop this afternoon. The multi-platinum artist teased the new line over the last month via her social media posts, which featured celebrities like Hailey Bieber, Gucci Mane and Kaash Paige.

Jay-Z and Pharrell Williams have teamed up to release a new song about Black ambition titled “Entrepreneur.”

Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam announced Tuesday that he will propose making Juneteenth — a day that commemorates the end of slavery in the U.S. — an official holiday in a state that was once home to the capital of the Confederacy. Musician Pharrell Williams, a Virginia native, joined him at a news conference. “This is our chance to lead, to…

Jimmy Fallon checks in on Pharrell Williams, who talks about the misconceptions surrounding race and the coronavirus, and the One World: Together at Home special.

To show that Katy Perry and the team that wrote her 2013 hit “Dark Horse” may have heard his song and stole from it, Christian rapper Marcus Gray’s primary evidence was that his 2009 song, “Joyful Noise” had plays in the millions on YouTube and Spotify. Plaintiffs in copyright cases like Gray, who won a $2.78 million victory over Perry...

Hoda Kotb’s newest co-host has developed a huge fan base with her authenticity and humor

The Recording Academy’s Task Force on Diversity and Inclusion is launching a new initiative to create and expand more opportunities to female music producers and engineers. The academy on Friday announced the Producer & Engineer Inclusion Initiative, which asks that musicians, record labels and others consider at least two female producers or engineers when working on a project, whether it’s...

Stevie Wonder wants to raise money through his benefit concert for California fire victims impacted by the catastrophic wildfires.

Rihanna and Axl Rose over the weekend joined a growing number of musicians who have denounced President Donald Trump’s use of their music at his events.

Pharrell Williams has sent a cease and desist letter and threatened to sue President Donald Trump on Monday after the President played his 2013 hit “Happy” at a rally in Indiana this past Saturday. The National FFA Organization rally was held the same day as the “mass murder of 11 human beings at the hands of a deranged “nationalist,” the...

Beyonce and Jay-Z will headline a special Global Citizen Festival in honor of Nelson Mandela in South Africa late this year.

English singer and songwriter Ed Sheeran faces a $100 million suit for allegedly copying large parts of Marvin Gaye’s “Let’s Get it On,” for his own hit, “Thinking Out Loud,” Reuters reported. Structured Asset Sales LLC, owned by an investment banker, filed the complaint against Sheeran on Thursday in Manhattan federal court. Other defendants include Sony/ATV Music Publishing and the...

After a shaky start and a wave of negative press, the AIDS relief charity amfAR attempted Thursday to focus the spotlight on its work instead of the stain left by one of its biggest benefactors Harvey Weinstein.

A federal appeals court on Wednesday upheld a copyright infringement verdict against Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams over the 2013 hit song “Blurred Lines,” agreeing with lower courts that it illegally copied from Marvin Gaye’s “Got to Give it Up.” In a split decision from a three-judge panel, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the family of...

Pharrell Williams is using music to sound the warning about climate change. The Grammy-winning musician appeared in Shanghai this week to debut a song titled “100 Years,” which he described as “a postcard, a sarcastic one, to the people who should be ashamed to call themselves scientists and politicians.” The song addresses those who deny climate change. “I thought, ‘Let...

Rihanna, Amal Clooney and Donatella Versace will host next year’s star-studded costume gala held annually by the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Thousands of people have packed a stadium in Charlottesville for a concert intended to raise money for charity and promote unity in the aftermath of this summer’s white nationalist rallies. Dave Matthews, whose band got its start in the Virginia college town, hosted the Sunday show and thanked the attendees and performers for coming together on short notice. He introduced...