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Alecia Beth Moore (born September 8, 1979),[1]
known professionally as Pink (often stylized as P!nk), is a two-time
Grammy-winning American singer-songwriter who gained prominence in 2000. Pink
released her first record, the R&B-oriented Can't Take Me Home, in 2000 via
LaFace Records. Her pop rock-based second studio album, M!ssundaztood, was
released in 2001 and is her biggest seller to date. Her third album, 2003's Try
This, failed to match the success of M!ssundaztood. After taking a break, Pink
released her fourth studio album, I'm Not Dead (2006), which was successful
worldwide. Pink has so far sold over 25 million albums worldwide. Her upcoming
album, Funhouse, will be released in October 2008, and has been preceded by her
first solo number one ever on the Billboard Hot 100, "So What."[2]
****
Background information
Birth name Alecia Beth Moore
Born September 8, 1979 (1979-09-08) (age 29)
Doylestown, Pennsylvania, United States
Genre(s) Pop, pop rock, punk pop, dance-pop, R&B
Occupation(s) Singer-songwriter, record producer,
actress
Instrument(s) Vocals, guitar, keyboards, drums
Years active 1996–present
Label(s) LaFace (2000–2001, 2006–present)
Arista (2001–2005)
****
Childhood and discovery
Pink was born in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, the
daughter of Judy, a nurse, and James Moore, Jr., a Vietnam veteran.[3][4] Her
father is Catholic and her mother Jewish,[5] and her ancestors immigrated from
Ireland, Germany and Lithuania.[6][7] She grew up in Doylestown, where she
attended Central Bucks West High School. Her father played guitar and sang songs
for her, and from an early age she aspired to be a rock star. When in high
school, Pink joined her first band called Middleground, which never gained
popularity beyond local status. According to Pink, her biggest influences are
Janis Joplin, Steven Tyler, Bad Religion, Mary J. Blige, Bob Marley, Billy Joel,
Indigo Girls, Don McLean, 2Pac and The Notorious B.I.G..[8]
Pink developed her voice early in life.[9] Although
a healthy baby at birth, she quickly developed asthma that plagued her through
her early years.[10] When she was a young teenager, Pink wrote lyrics as an
outlet for her feelings, and her mother commented, "Her initial writings were
always very introspective. Some of it was very black, and very deep, almost
worrisome."[10] She began performing in Philadelphia clubs when she was fourteen
years old. At sixteen, she joined the R&B Atlanta-based trio Choice, which
included Chrissy Conway of the Christian girl group ZOEgirl. The group signed
with LaFace Records and contributed "Key to My Heart" to the soundtrack of the
1996 film Kazaam. Choice eventually disbanded after recording an unreleased
album; Pink remained at LaFace as a solo act under the stage name P!nk. Daryl
Simmons took her to recordings where she sang backing vocals for artists such as
Diana Ross, 98 Degrees, Kenny Lattimore and Tevin Campbell.
Musical
career
2000–2001: Can't Take Me Home
Main article: Can't Take Me Home
When Pink was in high school, a black male friend
of hers said he had never seen a white girl's anatomy. She showed him and he
proclaimed, "It's pink!" Thus she was nicknamed Pink, according to a statement
she made in an interview on THS. This later became her musical name. Pink
co-produced her debut album, Can't Take Me Home, with Babyface and Steve Rhythm,
and released it in April 2000. A substantial success, it went double platinum in
the U.S., sold 5 million copies worldwide and produced two U.S. top ten singles:
"There You Go" and "Most Girls" (which reached number one in Australia). The
album's third single, "You Make Me Sick", became a smaller U.S. top forty hit
and UK top ten hit in early 2001 and was featured in the film Save the Last
Dance. Pink later acknowledged, with regard to Can't Take Me Home, that she
chose to relinquish creative control to her record label and that she did not
like the music she made at this time or her image,[11] which included bright
pink hair.
In 2001, she recorded a cover of Labelle's 1975
single "Lady Marmalade" with Christina Aguilera, rapper Lil' Kim and Mýa for the
soundtrack of the film Moulin Rouge!. Produced by hip-hop producers Rockwilder
and Missy Elliott, the song topped the charts in countries including New
Zealand, the UK, Australia and the U.S., where it became the most successful
airplay-only single in history.[12] The success of the single was helped by its
music video, which was popular on music channels[13] and won the MTV Video Music
Award for Video of the Year.[14] The song won a Grammy Award — Pink's first —
for Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals, and provided a boost for the four
performers' careers.[15]
2001–2002: M!ssundaztood
Main article: M!ssundaztood
Tired of being marketed as another cookie-cutter
pop act and eager to become a more serious songwriter and musician, Pink took
her sound in a new direction and sought more creative control during the
recording of her second album.[11] She recruited former 4 Non Blondes vocalist
Linda Perry, who said Pink opened up to her: "In the beginning I just said:
"What do you feel?", and she [Pink] would just sit behind the piano and
sing".[15] Perry co-wrote and co-produced the album with Dallas Austin and Scott
Storch, and according to VH1 Driven, Antonio "LA" Reid of LaFace Records wasn't
initially content with the new music Pink was making.[15] The album, named
M!ssundaztood because of Pink's belief that people had a wrong image of her,[16]
was released in November 2001.
Its lead single, "Get the Party Started" (written
and produced by Perry), went top five in the U.S. and many other countries, and
number one in Australia. At the 2002 MTV Video Music Awards, the music video won
in the categories of Best Female Video and Best Dance Video. The album's other
singles—"Don't Let Me Get Me", the Dallas Austin-produced "Just like a Pill",
and "Family Portrait"—were also radio and chart successes, with "Just like a
Pill" becoming Pink's first solo UK number-one hit. The singles were substantial
hits on adult Top 40 radio and the United World Chart, and "Family Portrait"
became a theme song for many children whose parents were divorced (according to
MTV Diary). M!ssundaztood was certified gold or platinum status in more than
twenty countries,[17] with worldwide sales of 16 million.[18] It was the
second-best-selling album in the UK during 2002, and Pink was the best-selling
female artist globally.[19] M!ssundaztood and "Get the Party Started" earned
nominations at the 2003 Grammy Awards for Best Pop Vocal Album and Best Female
Pop Vocal Performance, respectively.
The 2002 Faith Hill album, Cry, features a song
co-written by Pink and Perry. In 2002, after opening for 'N Sync on their
American tour, Pink started a headlining American, European and Australian tour,
the Party Tour; later, she became a supporting act for Lenny Kravitz's American
tour.
2003–2005: Try This
Main article: Try This
In mid-2003, Pink contributed the song "Feel Good
Time" to the soundtrack of the film Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle, in which
she had a cameo appearance as a motorcross race ramp owner/promoter. "Feel Good
Time" was co-written by singer Beck, produced by electronic music artist William
Orbit and based on the song "Fresh Garbage" by the band Spirit. It became Pink's
first single to miss the top forty on Billboard's Hot 100 chart, although it was
a hit in Europe and Australia. During the same period, a song Pink co-wrote with
Damon Elliott was released on Mýa's album Moodring.
"Feel Good Time" was included on non-U.S. editions
of Pink's third album, Try This, which was released on November 11, 2003. Eight
of the thirteen tracks were co-written with Tim Armstrong of the band Rancid,
and Linda Perry was featured on the album as a writer and musician. Though Try
This reached the top ten on album charts in the U.S., Canada, the UK and
Australia, sales were considerably lower than those of M!ssundaztood; it went
platinum in the U.S. and sold over 3 million copies worldwide, a commercial flop
compared to its predecessor.[20] The singles "Trouble" and "God Is a DJ" did not
reach the U.S. top forty but went top ten in other countries, and "Last to Know"
was released as a single outside North America. "Trouble" earned Pink her second
Grammy Award (for Best Female Rock Vocal Performance) at the 2004 Grammy Awards,
and "Feel Good Time" was nominated in the category of Best Pop Collaboration
with Vocals. She toured extensively on the Try This Tour through Europe and
Australia, where the album was better received. In 2005 she collaborated with
her good friend Lisa Marie Presley on the track Shine, on Presley's sophomore
album Now What.
2006–2007: I'm Not Dead
Main article: I'm Not Dead
Pink took a break to write the songs for her fourth
album, I'm Not Dead, which she said she titled as such because "It's about being
alive and feisty and not sitting down and shutting up even though people would
like you to."[21] Pink worked with producers Max Martin, Billy Mann, Christopher
Rojas, Butch Walker, Lukasz Gottwald and Josh Abraham on the album.
It was released in April 2006 through LaFace
Records was a substantial success throughout the world, particularly in
Australia. The album reached the top ten in the U.S., the top five in the UK,
number one in Germany, and sat at number one in Australia for two
non-consecutive weeks,[22] though it was Pink's lowest seller in the U.S. until
the success of the single "U + Ur Hand" in early 2007. Worldwide, the album was
the tenth biggest selling album of 2006. The album ranked 96th in the USA during
2007. [1][23]
Lead single "Stupid Girls" was Pink's biggest U.S.
hit since 2002 and earned a Grammy Award nomination for Best Female Pop Vocal
Performance. Its music video, in which she parodies celebrities such as Lindsay
Lohan, Jessica Simpson and Paris Hilton,[24] won the MTV Video Music Award for
Best Pop Video. Subsequent singles "Who Knew" and "U + Ur Hand" were substantial
hits in Australia and Europe, and they later became top ten singles in the U.S.
in 2007. The non-U.S. singles were "Nobody Knows", a minor hit in the UK,
Australia and Germany; "Dear Mr. President", an open letter to American
President George W. Bush featuring the Indigo Girls and a top five hit in
Germany, Australia and other countries; "Leave Me Alone (I'm Lonely)", a UK top
forty and Australian top five entry; and "'Cuz I Can".
The album has sold over 1.1 million copies in the
U.S., over 630,000 in Australia, and over 6 million worldwide. Proving very
popular in Australia, with 6 top five singles, and a record breaking 62 weeks in
the top 10, so far the album has gone 9 times platinum. Even as of June 2008 the
I'm Not Dead album returned to the Australian Top 40 ARIA charts and remained
there in July 2008 - a total of 100 weeks in the Australian top 40 to date.[25]
In support of the album, Pink embarked on the world
I'm Not Dead Tour, for which ticket sales in Australia were particularly
high—she sold approximately 307,000 tickets in Australia, giving her the record
for the biggest concert attendance for an arena tour by a female artist.[26] One
of the London shows on the tour was taped and released as a DVD, Pink: Live from
Wembley Arena. In 2006, Pink was chosen to sing the theme song for NBC Sunday
Night Football, "Waiting All Day for Sunday Night", which is a take on "I Hate
Myself for Lovin' You" by Joan Jett. She contributed a cover of Rufus's "Tell Me
Something Good" to the soundtrack of the film Happy Feet, and lent her name to
PlayStation to promote the PSP, a special pink edition of which was
released.[27]
Pink collaborated with several other artists in
2006 and 2007, when she opened for Justin Timberlake on the American leg of his
FutureSex/LoveShow Tour. She sang on the Indigo Girls album Despite Our
Differences. She was featured on a remix of India.Arie's song "I Am Not My Hair"
featured in the Lifetime Television film Why I Wore Lipstick to My Mastectomy.
She wrote a song ("I Will") for Natalia's third album, Everything & More.
"Outside of You", another song she co-wrote, was recorded by dance-pop singer
Hilary Duff and released on her 2007 album Dignity. Pink recorded a song with
Annie Lennox and twenty-two other female acts for Lennox's fourth solo studio
album, Songs of Mass Destruction. Titled "Sing", it was written as an anthem for
HIV/AIDS, according to Lennox's official site.[28]
In December 2007, a special edition Pink Box, which
comprises her second to fourth albums and the DVD Live in Europe, was released
in Australia and reached the top twenty on the albums chart and was credited
gold (35,000+).[29]
2008:
Funhouse
****
On February 20, 2008, Pink posted a message on her
website discussing her separation from her husband Carey Hart and to confirm
that she is working on a new album.[30]
On March 31, 2008, a Dutch music store published an
album and DVD release list on their website, stating that in October 2008 a new
album from Pink will be released in stores.[31]
On June 16, 2008 Pink's Manager confirmed that Pink
was in fact working on her album and was due to release it in October if all
goes well. This story is taken from Late News Channel Ten in Australia. Also
during June, producer Danja wrote in a MySpace bulletin that he was working on
tracks for Pink as well as other artists.
On July 15, 2008 the official Pink website posted
behind the scenes photos of the singer in the studio. The black and white
pictures show Pink recording her new album.[32] Later that month, it was
announced that the new album will be released in America on October 28,
2008[33],and on October 25 in Australia.[34]
On August 18, 2008, Pink's single, "So What",
officially went for radio adds,[35] however on August 7, 2008, it was leaked
online, and radio stations across Australia were quick to give it massive
airplay. Within less than 6 hours from the leak, "So What" was immediately voted
#1 on Nova 100 Melbourne and shot to #1 on the Today Network's national radio
Hot30 Countdown.[36] It also shot straight to number 1 on the official
Australian iTunes single downloads chart.
On August 20, Pink's official website announced the
title of her upcoming album to be 'Funhouse'.[37]
On August 22, Pink announced a new track titled
Crystal Ball. The song is about not knowing what the future holds and liking it
that way.[38]
On about August 24, 2008, Pink spoke about her new
album 'Funhouse' in an interview with Kyle Sandilands from Australian radio (for
selected stations on the Austereo Radio Network eg. 2DayFM / B105 FM / Fox FM
from the Today Network). This interview was then aired on Austereo radio on
Monday August 25, and Pink stated she now has a fairly busy schedule booked
right up till 2010, including touring again in Australia and elsewhere.[39]
On September 18, 2008, "So What" became the first
solo number one of her career on the Billboard Hot 100. The track has also
reached number one in Australia, New Zealand and Canada.
On September 29, 2008, she performed on The Paul
O'Grady Show.
Filmography
Year Title Role
2002 Rollerball Rock singer
2003 Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle Coal bowl
starter
2007 Catacombs Carolyn
2009 Get Him to the Greek
Personal life
Marriage and divorce
Pink met Carey Hart at the 2001 X Games in
Philadelphia. Pink proposed to Hart in 2005 by doing his pit boarding and then
asking him to marry her during one of his races in Mammoth Lakes, California by
holding up a sign saying the classic phrase "Will you marry me?". On the other
side was written "I'm Serious!" After Hart read the sign, he almost caused an
accident.[40] They married in Costa Rica on January 7, 2006 at sunset.[41] After
months of speculation, Pink's publicist, Michele Schweitzer, told PEOPLE
magazine on February 19, 2008, that the singer and Carey Hart had separated.[42]
"This decision was made by best friends with a huge amount of love and respect
for one another," Schweitzer said.[43] She is currently single and lives in Los
Angeles, California. The video for her current hit "So What", in which Hart
appears, deals with her separation and pending divorce.
PETA
See also: Kentucky Fried Cruelty Campaign
Pink is a prominent campaigner for PETA,
contributing her voice towards causes such as a protest against KFC. She sent a
letter to Prince William criticizing him for fox hunting and one to Queen
Elizabeth II protesting the use of real fur in the bearskins of the Foot Guards
and the Honourable Artillery Company. In November 2006, Pink mentioned in the
News of the World that she was disgusted with fellow singer Beyoncé for wearing
fur. In conjunction with PETA, she criticized the Australian wool industry over
its use of mulesing. In January 2007, she stated that she had been misled by
PETA about mulesing and that she had not done enough research before lending her
name to the campaign.[44] Her campaigning led to a headlining concert in
Cardiff, Wales on August 21, 2007 called PAW (Party for Animals Worldwide). This
highlighted her involvement with animal cruelty problems, as well as her
unswerving commitment to contributing her voice towards such causes.
Image
The musician was voted #36 on Stuff's "102 Sexiest
Women in the World" list.[citation needed]
Charity
work
Pink is involved with many charities including
"Phoenix vert" (www.phoenixvert.com), Human Rights Campaign, ONE Campaign,
Princes Trust, Run For The Cure Foundation, Save the Children, Take Back the
Night, UNICEF and World Society for the Protection of Animals.[45] As of May
2008 Pink has been officially recognised as an advocate for the RSPCA in
Australia.
Discography
Main article: Pink discography
Studio
albums
2000: Can't Take Me Home
2001: M!ssundaztood
2003: Try This
2006: I'm Not Dead
2008: Funhouse
DVDs
2006: Pink: Live in Europe
2007: Pink: Live from Wembley Arena
Tours
Headlining
2002: Party Tour
2004: Try This Tour
2006–2007: I'm Not Dead Tour
2007: I'm Not Dead Summer Tour
2009: TBA
As
supporting act
2001: 'N Sync / No Strings Attached Tour
2002: Lenny Kravitz
2002: Janet Jackson / All for You Tour 1
2007: Justin Timberlake / FutureSex/LoveShow
1 Support with Janet Jackson was cancelled because
of the 9/11 attacks.
Awards
Main article: List of Pink awards
Source: Grammy official site
Year Category Recording Result
Grammy
Awards
2001 Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals "Lady
Marmalade" (with Christina Aguilera, Lil' Kim and Mýa) Won
2003 Best Female Pop Vocal Performance "Get the
Party Started" Nominated
Best Pop Vocal Album M!ssundaztood Nominated
2004 Best Female Rock Vocal Performance "Trouble"
Won
Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals "Feel Good Time"
Nominated
2007 Best Female Pop Vocal Performance "Stupid
Girls" Nominated
BRIT
Awards
2003 Best International Female Artist — Won
2007 Best International Female Artist — Nominated
MTV Australia Music Awards
2008 Best Live Performer "I'm Not Dead Tour" Won
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****
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