will.i.am
will.i.am
William Adams, known professionally as will.i.am, is an American hip hop recording artist, entrepreneur, actor, musician, DJ, record producer and philanthropist. He is best known as a founding member of the hip hop and R&B band The Black Eyed Peas, with whom he has received seven Grammy Awards, eight American Music Awards, a Billboard Music Award, a Teen Choice Award, two MTV Video Music Awards and three World Music Awards...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPop Singer
Date of Birth15 March 1975
CityLos Angeles, CA
CountryUnited States of America
I don't want to hope anymore. I don't think we should hope anymore. We hoped enough. Now we have to do. We all have to do now.
Eisenhower warned us about the military-industrial complex and the damage it could do to society.
I have a pro tools rig that I carry in my backpack.
We need creative people working with broadcasters, making smart content to inspire people to be geniuses.
As we develop and get quicker with technology in America, it's like we're downgrading if you look at the investment in education... that's the thing that worries me.
We have no control over the outcome of anything. Like the planet and global warming, we don't control that. If politicians want a war we don't control that. Acts of terrorism, we can't control them.
Disco is the first technology music. And what I mean is that 'disco' music is named after discs, because when technology grew to where they didn't need a band in the clubs, the DJ played it on a disc.
I've got all this stuff in my head at the same time as I'm doing stuff and I don't know how to stop or slow down.
We need to forge a whole new energy and American Dream.
If you have a vaccine or an antidote that people can benefit from, you're not going to want to keep it to yourself. You're going to want to spread that wisdom or whatever to as many people as you can, so everybody can benefit from it.
Most of these people who are celebrities now don't do anything to deserve it, so by that fact alone, I don't want to be one.
Most kids are not dreaming of being programmers, scientists or engineers.
Philanthropy is the thing that I am really excited about, and having success means I can do more.
What Autotune allows is for people like myself and Kanye West not to depend on the singer. Back in the Fifties, the songwriter was rendered invisible. Now the songwriter is there in the forefront.