Top muso Pharrell Williams to tour SA later this year
MOMS and daughters will have a reason to party together when US musician Pharrell Williams comes to South Africa later this year.
Yesterday, Big Concerts announced the Grammy Award winner’s tour dates – September 21 in Cape Town and September 24 in Johannesburg.
Williams, whose creativity extends beyond music to include fashion and design, teamed up with Woolworths earlier this year as the style director for an educational and environmental sustainability campaign.
Williams is the creative brainchild behind hits like Daft Punk’s Get Lucky, Robin Thicke’s Blurred Lines, Nelly’s Hot in Here, Jay Z’s I Just Wanna Love U (Give It to Me), Britney Spears’s I’m a Slave 4 U and Justin Timberlake’s Like I Love You.
While some people were dancing to songs he produced nearly a decade ago, he also got young and old tapping to Happy, the Despicable Me soundtrack that was crowned 2014’s song of the year.
Big Concerts managing director Justin van Wyk said: “Pharrell Williams is a legend and he has a broad appeal so we are expecting those two dates to fill out quickly.”
Van Wyk said they were expecting anyone between 18 to 40 years old and mainly female to be lining up for tickets.
But not everyone is happy about the Woolies-William’s marriage, especially the human rights and Palestine solidarity organisation BDS South Africa.
BDS spokesman Kwara Kekana said: “Our problem is not with Pharrell, it is with Woolworths. We’re saying he should reconsider the collaboration with Woolworths until it respects human rights.”