{"id":2445086,"date":"2019-06-07T11:29:48","date_gmt":"2019-06-07T17:29:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=845600"},"modified":"2019-06-07T11:29:48","modified_gmt":"2019-06-07T17:29:48","slug":"pharrell-williams-pays-tribute-to-clarence-avant-on-new-song-letter-to-my-godfather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/music-news\/pharrell-williams-pays-tribute-to-clarence-avant-on-new-song-letter-to-my-godfather\/","title":{"rendered":"Pharrell Williams Pays Tribute to Clarence Avant on New Song \u2018Letter To My Godfather\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/pharrell-new-song.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/pharrell\/\" id=\"auto-tag_pharrell\" data-tag=\"pharrell\">Pharrell<\/a> Williams pays tribute to influential music executive Clarence Avant in the producer-singer\u2019s new track \u201cLetter to My Godfather,\u201d a song from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/netflix-the-black-godfather-the-clarence-avant-story-839119\/\">the Netflix documentary <em>The Black Godfather<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cClarence Avant connects us all through his incredible impact since before I was born up until now,\u201d Williams said in a statement. \u201cHe\u2019s the godfather to so many of us \u2013 and not just African Americans, most of the industry.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have to love him now \/ While he\u2019s still here \/ For all that he\u2019s done \/ Before the moment disappears,\u201d Williams sings on the track, which he co-wrote with his Neptunes cohort Chad Hugo. \u201cWhen the darkness comes \/ He\u2019s our chandelier \/ To bring the light.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>The Black Godfather<\/em>, directed by Reginald Hudlin, hit Netflix and select theaters today. The film tells the story of Avant, who is credited with signing Bill Withers, launching Avant Garde Broadcasting and producing films like <em>Save the Children<\/em>. For his work in the industry, Avant was dubbed \u201cthe Godfather of Black Music.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMusic. Power. Respect. Clarence Avant used them to empower people of all colors to change the world,\u201d Netflix said of the documentary. \u201cWitness the exceptional and unlikely rise of Clarence Avant, a music executive who influenced legends such as Bill Withers, Snoop Dogg, Quincy Jones, Muhammad Ali, Hank Aaron, Presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton and so many more.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As Obama said of Avant, \u201cClarence is the bridge from a time when there was no opportunity to a time when doors began to open.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/pharrell-williams-clarence-avant-new-song-letter-to-my-godfather-845600\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pharrell Williams pays tribute to influential music executive Clarence Avant in the producer-singer\u2019s new track \u201cLetter to My Godfather,\u201d a song from the Netflix documentary The Black Godfather. \u201cClarence Avant connects us all through his incredible impact since before I was born up until now,\u201d Williams said in a statement. \u201cHe\u2019s the godfather to so [&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":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2445086","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-20 12:36:14","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":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2445086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2445086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2445086\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2445086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2445086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2445086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}