Pharrell Williams has won best urban contemporary album at the Grammy awards on for his album G I R L. The pop superstar beat Jhené Aiko, Beyoncé, Chris Brown, and Mali Music to walk away with the award.
Williams’ album of tightly produced funk and pop centred on women, and his self-professed love for them. It features hit feelgood pop single Happy, a track originally recorded for the Despicable Me 2 soundtrack, and later named the most-downloaded track ever in the UK in September 2014 after going triple platinum in July.
G I R L was Williams’s first solo album since 2006’s In My Mind, and was released after the producer and musician enjoyed a hugely successful year in 2013, thanks to featured spots on Robin Thicke’s Blurred Lines and Get Lucky by Daft Punk.
As well as making headlines at last year’s Grammys with a wildly proportioned Vivienne Westwood hat, Williams picked up two awards for Get Lucky and won producer of the year. This year, G I R L was nominated for album of the year, and Williams also picked up nominations for Happy in the best music video and best solo performance categories.
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