{"id":974278,"date":"2020-01-07T04:00:08","date_gmt":"2020-01-07T11:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=934328"},"modified":"2020-01-07T04:00:08","modified_gmt":"2020-01-07T11:00:08","slug":"watch-pharrell-williams-perform-letter-to-my-godfather-on-kimmel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/music-news\/watch-pharrell-williams-perform-letter-to-my-godfather-on-kimmel\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Pharrell Williams Perform \u2018Letter To My Godfather\u2019 on \u2018Kimmel\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Screen-Shot-2020-01-07-at-10.27.55-AM.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/pharrell-williams\/\" id=\"auto-tag_pharrell-williams\" data-tag=\"pharrell-williams\">Pharrell Williams<\/a> took the stage at <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/jimmy-kimmel-live\/\" id=\"auto-tag_jimmy-kimmel-live\" data-tag=\"jimmy-kimmel-live\">Jimmy Kimmel Live<\/a><\/em> to perform his song <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/pharrell-williams-clarence-avant-new-song-letter-to-my-godfather-845600\/\">\u201cLetter To My Godfather,\u201d<\/a> which he released last summer. The singer was joined by a choir for an emotional rendition of the track.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLetter To My Godfather\u201d pays tribute to influential music executive Clarence Avant and appeared in the Netflix documentary <em>The Black Godfather, <\/em>directed by Reginald Hudlin.&nbsp;\u201cClarence Avant connects us all through his incredible impact since before I was born up until now,\u201d Williams said in a statement around the song\u2019s release. \u201cHe\u2019s the godfather to so many of us \u2013 and not just African Americans, most of the industry.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Williams recently appeared on Kaytranada\u2019s second album, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/kaytranada-pharrell-tinashe-new-album-bubba-924526\/\"><em>Bubba<\/em><\/a>, which dropped in December. The singer joined Kaytranada on \u201cMidsection,\u201d the album\u2019s closing track. Williams also recently announced the lineup for his second annual <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/clipse-foo-fighters-post-malone-pharrell-something-in-the-water-fest-926158\/\">Something in the Water Festival<\/a>, set to take place in Virginia Beach, Virginia on April 24th through 26th. Foo Fighters, Post Malone, Chance the Rapper and a reunion of the hip-hop duo Clipse lead the lineup for the festival. Tickets for the event are currently on sale.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/pharrell-williams-letter-to-my-godfather-kimmel-934328\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pharrell Williams took the stage at Jimmy Kimmel Live to perform his song \u201cLetter To My Godfather,\u201d which he released last summer. The singer was joined by a choir for an emotional rendition of the track. \u201cLetter To My Godfather\u201d pays tribute to influential music executive Clarence Avant and appeared in the Netflix documentary The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-974278","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-27 10:35:56","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KFMU Solar Powered Radio","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=974278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974278\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=974278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=974278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=974278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}