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his album, "Girl," at the Galerie Perrotin in Paris, France. The
show included 37 artists including Takashi Murakami, JR, Daniel
Arsham, and Marina Abramovic among others." Comme des
Garçons developed a unisex fragrance with Williams scheduled for
release in late 2014. Artist KAWS designed the bottle.
In January 2015, Williams and Al Gore announced that they are
teaming up to create a 7-continent "Live Earth" concert on June 18
to raise awareness about and pressure governments to act on
climate change. He is the musical director. On February 8, 2015,
Williams made a cameo in an episode of The Simpsons entitled
"Walking Big & Tall" where he comes to Springfield to write a new
anthem for the town. Williams recently made three songs for the
soundtrack to the animated film The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out
of Water. He also recorded a song "Shine" with Gwen Stefani for
the Paddingtonmovie. At the 2015 Grammy Awards Williams
performed an orchestral rendition of "Happy" with composer Hans
Zimmerand pianist Lang Lang that included a tribute to the Black
Lives Matter "Hands Up, Don't Shoot" movement inspired by Eric
Garner's death and the events in Ferguson, Missouri. In 2015, a
unanimous jury determined that Williams's 2013 hit song "Blurred
Lines" was an infringement of the 1977 Marvin Gaye song "Got to
Give It Up". The jury awarded the Gaye family $7.4 million in
damages for the copyright infringement based on profits generated.
In October 2015, the Tisch School of the Arts at New York
University named Williams as their artist-in-residence.
Also in October 2015, Williams announced that he will perform with
a gospel choir on Sunday, November 1, at Emanuel AME Church in
Charleston, South Carolina, where nine black parishioners were
shot and killed on June 17, allegedly by a young white man who is
awaiting trial. This is part of a program on race relations being
produced by A+E Networks and iHeartMedia. Williams plans to
speak with community leaders and others affected by the shooting,
which dominated the U.S. news media for several days. The twohour Shining a Light: A Concert for Progress on Race in
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