Pink, born Alecia Beth Moore on September 8, 1979, has been making music since childhood.
By 14 she was writing her own songs.
By the late 90s, still in her teens, she was signed to her first label.
In 2000, her debut solo album,Can’t Take Me Home,was released.
It went double-platinum and catapulted her to fame.
Since then, her career has been unstoppable.
She started smokingat 9 years old.
“I was the s***head.
No one wanted their kid anywhere near me.
Since then, she has turned her life around and hasn’t touched drugs since her near-death experience.
“I can’t imagine having to go through stuff with the world looking at you.”
The singer has been transparent about her relationship, and how it has influenced her music.
“He’s a good man.
… And then I’ll look at him and go: I’ve never liked you.
There’s nothing I like about you.
We have nothing in common.
… Then two weeks later I’m like, things are going so good.
… Then you’ll go through times when you haven’t had sex in a year.
… Do I want him?
Does he want me?”
At the end of the day, Pink believes relationships are what you put into them.
“Monogamy is work!”
“But you do the work and it’s good again.”
“I’ve never felt the need to,” she told theAdvocate.
“I still don’t.
It’s just like how everyone’s like, ‘Well, what kind of music do you do?’
And I’m like, ‘I don’t.
I just do it.’
The singer had several girlfriends in her 20s.
“I wasn’t gay, but all my girlfriends were.”
She’s raising her kids with the same ambivalence about labels.
“We are a very label-less household,” she said inThe People(viaMirror).
“Last week Willow told me she is going to marry an African woman.
I was like: ‘Great, can you teach me how to make African food?'”
“She mutters it when she thinks no one’s looking,” said Pink.
The singer is more amused than anything.
“But it’s so cute,” she said.
There’s still hope for you @POTUS.
It’s what the world needs.”
“I have seen people come back from heroin addiction,” she said.
“I’ve seen people come back from the worst kind of alcoholism.
I’ve seen people that were abusive stop being abusive.
I’ve seen change.
Her political views shape her work
Trump isn’t the first president Pink has publicly reacted against.
In 2006, she directed the anti-war song, “Dear Mr. President,” to George W. Bush.
“I was booed on stage,” she later toldThe Guardian.
“I had everything but tomatoes thrown at me.”
Political activism is in her bones, heavily influenced by her father, a Vietnam veteran.
As outspoken she is, Pink still thinks she could be doing better.
“My dad’s nickname is Mr.
Cause,” she toldNPR.
“I grew up listening to rock and roll and, you know, protest music.
It’s very clear who I am and what I believe in.
I’ve been marching and protesting.
And, yes, I could do so much more.
Honestly, I could do so much more.”
But Pink actually dyes her hair to match her stage name.
It stuck after the filmReservoir Dogscame out.
She and her friends dubbed each other characters from the movie, and “they picked me for Mr. She explained, “Mr.
Pink is like the smart sassy kind of guy with the attitude.”
She also spoke out against Harvey Weinstein after the wave of sexual assault allegations brought against him in 2017.
“But I should be able to believe it.
I love when women support each other and I love how much support people are getting now.
Every time a new name comes out I just cringe.
It’s hard to believe, it’s sad.
Karma’s a b****.”
I never back down.
I’m never not gonna say what I actually think.
Pink has always done her best to do everythingon her own terms.
Early in her career, her edginess got her dubbed “the anti-Britney.”
People give me s***.
But it’s okay, give me s***.”
As a child, she trained as a gymnast for years, with her eyes set on the Olympics.
“I was an a**,” she toldThe Telegraph.
“I was really competitive.
I wouldn’t clap if I didn’t win first place.”
As we all know, the end of her Olympic dreams brought Pink down another path.
“I was like, ‘F*** you,'” she said.
“‘I’m out of here, I’m going to be a rock star instead."’
To Pink, that’s just one more thing to not care about.
“Beautiful has never been my goal.
It’s about joy.
And there’s such joy now.”
Pink, being Pink, kept hounding him.
“I’ve never stopped asking.
He always says no he’s kind, but he’s firm,” she said.
He eventually agreed to “try it,” but the results were not what Pink had dreamed of.
“The problem is he’s too good for me,” she said.
“I clammed up.
But we’re gonna keep trying.”
