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Pharrell to be honoured by Clive Davis for songwriting

Last Updated Aug 24, 2016 at 10:21 am MDT

FILE- In this Feb. 21, 2016, file photo, Pharrell Williams attends the 2016 ABFF Awards: A Celebration of Hollywood held at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, Calif. Clive Davis is honoring the "Happy" and "Freedom" singer-songwriter with his Legend in Songwriting Award. Pharrell is scheduled to receive the honor Sept. 15 from the veteran music executive at the 12th annual Songs of Hope event. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP, File)

LOS ANGELES, Calif. – Pharrell has a new reason to be “Happy.”

Clive Davis is honouring the “Happy” and “Freedom” singer-songwriter with his Legend in Songwriting Award.

Pharrell is scheduled to receive the honour from the veteran music executive at the 12th annual Songs of Hope event on Sept. 15. The annual event benefits the City of Hope, a research and treatment centre for cancer, diabetes and other life-threatening diseases in Duarte, California.

Other award recipients will include singer-songwriter Mike Posner and “The Jungle Book” and “Mother’s Day” composer John Debney.

Burt Bacharach, Lukasz “Dr. Luke” Gottwald and Kenneth “Babyface” Edmonds are among the previous winners of Davis’ Legend in Songwriting Award.