This week, will.i.am  received an Honorary Award for his work as a Musician, Content Creator, Entrepreneur & Philanthropist at the 2013 CLIO Awards at American Museum of Natural History. His award was presented by Bea Perez, Chief Sustainability Officer for Coca-Cola.

The CLIO Awards is the world’s most recognized international awards competition for advertising, design, interactive and communications. CLIO maintains its original commitment to celebrate and reward creative excellence, while continuing to evolve with the industry to acknowledge the most current, breakthrough work.

We also spoke with Miguel on the red carpet at the event and he explained how #Beautiful came about with Mariah Carey.

Miguel performed “Adorn” at the after-party and DJ Kiss kept the party going, too.

-Tammy Bender (@withlovetammyb)