PinkPantheress is an English singer, songwriter, and record producer, that her songs are frequently short in length.
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- Her real name is Victoria Beverley Walker.
- She is professionally known as PinkPantheress.
- She is an English singer, songwriter, and record producer.
- Her songs, which are frequently short in length and include samples of music from the 1990s and 2000s, span a number of genres, including bedroom pop, drum and bass, alt-pop, and 2-step garage.
- In 2021, while attending university in London, she posted several songs to TikTok that went viral.
- “Break It Off” was one of them.
- She subsequently signed to Parlophone and Elektra Records.
- Her singles “Just for Me” and “Pain” from her debut mixtape To Hell with It (2021) peaked in the top 40 of the UK Singles Chart.
- The singles were certified silver by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI).
- She won BBC’s Sound of 2022 poll.
- Her 2022 single “Boy’s a Liar” reached number two in the UK.
- Its 2023 remix with American rapper Ice Spice became her first entry on the Billboard Hot 100, peaking at number three.
- She released her debut album, Heaven Knows, in 2023.
- She was born in 2001 in Bath, Somerset.
- She was born to a Kenyan Luo mother from Kisumu, who works as a carer, and an English father, who works as a statistics professor.
- She has one older brother, who works as an audio engineer.
- When she was five years old, her family moved from Bath to Canterbury, Kent, where she grew up.
- Her father moved to the United States to work at a university in Austin, Texas when she was 12 years old, while she and her mother stayed in England.
- Walker took piano lessons as a child, and, at age 12, sang “Stand by Me” by Ben E. King at a school talent show.
- When she was 14 years old, she became the lead singer in a rock band, which covered songs by My Chemical Romance, Paramore, and Green Day.
- She performed with them for the first time at a school fete.
- She studied film at University of the Arts London until 2022, when she dropped out.
- PinkPantheress’s music has been described as pop, bedroom pop, dance, alt-pop, drum and bass, 2-step, jungle, and hyperpop.
- She often uses samples of other songs, such as dance music from the 1990s and 2000s and jungle, funk, UK garage, and pop songs.
- PinkPantheress uses topline writing to write her songs.
- Her songs are frequently self-produced and short in length.
- She has discussed experiencing body dysmorphia from a young age.
- She also suffers from gradual hearing loss from exposure to loud music and microphone feedback. She reported being 80% deaf in her right ear in 2022.
- Damage that began with early noticeable signs of tinnitus, or the sensation of ringing sounds in the ear.
- As a producer, Walker is not stopped by the condition though it has made her role as someone who listens to and crafts sound-as-music more difficult.
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