PinkPantheress Trivia | 30 facts about the young singer

PinkPantheress is an English singer, songwriter, and record producer, that her songs are frequently short in length.

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1. Her real name is Victoria Beverley Walker.
2. She is professionally known as PinkPantheress.
3. She is an English singer, songwriter, and record producer.
4. 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.
5. In 2021, while attending university in London, she posted several songs to TikTok that went viral.
6. “Break It Off” was one of them.
7. She subsequently signed to Parlophone and Elektra Records.
8. 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.
9. The singles were certified silver by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI).
10. She won BBC’s Sound of 2022 poll.
11. Her 2022 single “Boy’s a Liar” reached number two in the UK.
12. Its 2023 remix with American rapper Ice Spice became her first entry on the Billboard Hot 100, peaking at number three.
13. She released her debut album, Heaven Knows, in 2023.
14. She was born in 2001 in Bath, Somerset.
15. 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.
16. She has one older brother, who works as an audio engineer.
17. When she was five years old, her family moved from Bath to Canterbury, Kent, where she grew up.
18. 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.
19. Walker took piano lessons as a child, and, at age 12, sang “Stand by Me” by Ben E. King at a school talent show.
20. 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.
21. She performed with them for the first time at a school fete.
22. She studied film at University of the Arts London until 2022, when she dropped out.
23. PinkPantheress’s music has been described as pop, bedroom pop, dance, alt-pop, drum and bass, 2-step, jungle, and hyperpop.
24. She often uses samples of other songs, such as dance music from the 1990s and 2000s and jungle, funk, UK garage, and pop songs.
25. PinkPantheress uses topline writing to write her songs.
26. Her songs are frequently self-produced and short in length.
27. She has discussed experiencing body dysmorphia from a young age.
28. 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.
29. Damage that began with early noticeable signs of tinnitus, or the sensation of ringing sounds in the ear.
30. 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.