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Pharrell Williams

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Pharrell Williams was already one of the most important and influential producers, writers, rappers of his generation when he had one of the biggest hits of the modern era with the impossibly infectious and feel-good song Happy. The eldest of three sons raised in Virginia Beach, Virginia, he was already playing keyboards and drums and a member of a marching band when he met Chad Hugo, a tenor sax player and conductor, at a seventh grade summer band camp. Together they formed the R&B group The Neptunes with Shay Haley and Mike Etheridge and, after entering a school talent show, we...