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PinkPantheress (born 2001) is an English singer, songwriter, and record producer. PinkPantheress's 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
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,
drum and bass
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,
alt-pop
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, and
2-step garage
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. In 2021, while attending university in London, she posted several songs to
TikTok
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TikTok is an international version ...
that went viral, including "
Break It Off
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", and she subsequently signed to
Parlophone
Parlophone Records Limited (also known as Parlophone Records and Parlophone) is a German–British record label founded in Germany in 1896 by the Carl Lindström Company as Parlophon. The British branch of the label was founded on 8 August 192 ...
and
Elektra Records
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. Her singles "
Just for Me
"Just for Me" (stylised in sentence case) is a song by English singer PinkPantheress. It was produced by Mura Masa and released on 13 August 2021 through Parlophone and Elektra as the fourth single from her debut mixtape ''To Hell with It''. ...
" and "
Pain
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" from her debut mixtape ''
To Hell with It
''To Hell with It'' (stylised in all lowercase) is the debut mixtape by English musician PinkPantheress, released through Parlophone and Elektra Records on 15 October 2021. The mixtape, which runs for slightly over 18 minutes, features productio ...
'' (2021) peaked in the top 40 of the
UK Singles Chart
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and were certified silver by the
British Phonographic Industry
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(BPI). She won
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's
Sound of 2022 poll and has been nominated for three
NME Awards
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.
Early life
PinkPantheress was born in 2001 in
Bath, England, to a Kenyan mother, who works as a carer, and a white English father, who works as a statistic professor.
She has one older brother, who works as an
audio engineer
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.
When she was five years old, her family moved from Bath to
Kent
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, where she grew up.
Her father moved to the United States to work at a university in
Austin, Texas
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when she was 12 years old, while she and her mother stayed in England.
She took piano lessons as a child, and, at age 12, sang "
Stand by Me" by
Ben E. King
Benjamin Earl King (né Nelson; September 28, 1938 – April 30, 2015) was an American soul and R&B singer and record producer. He is best known as the singer and co-composer of " Stand by Me"—a US Top 10 hit, both in 1961 and later i ...
at a school talent show. When she was 14 years old, she became the lead singer in a
rock
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* Rock music, a genre of popular music
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band, which covered songs by
My Chemical Romance
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, Paramore, and
Green Day
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, and performed with them for the first time at a school
fête
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.
She began working at around age 13, taking jobs at
Marks & Spencer
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,
Claire's
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girls. It was founded in 1961 and is based in Hoffman E ...
, and the
Co-op
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as a teenager. She studied film at
University of the Arts London
University of the Arts London is a collegiate university in London, England, specialising in arts, design, fashion and the performing arts. It is a federation of six arts colleges: Camberwell College of Arts, Central Saint Martins, Chelsea Coll ...
until 2022, when she dropped out.
Career
PinkPantheress started writing music in high school to help a friend before eventually writing music on her own.
At age 17, she began using
GarageBand
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to produce instrumentals for her friend, fellow singer Mazz, and she later used GarageBand to record many of her early songs while lying down in her university hall late at night.
She started uploading original songs of hers to
SoundCloud
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, where they received little attention. After a video posted to her personal
TikTok
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TikTok is an international version ...
account in December 2020 received over 500,000 likes, she posted a snippet of her song "Just a Waste" as PinkPantheress that same month in the hopes of reaching a wider audience; the snippet soon went viral on the platform.
PinkPantheress's song "
Pain
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" went viral on TikTok in January 2021 and peaked at number 35 on the
UK Singles Chart
The UK Singles Chart (currently titled Official Singles Chart, with the upper section more commonly known as the Official UK Top 40) is compiled by the Official Charts Company (OCC), on behalf of the British record industry, listing the top-s ...
in August 2021.
Her breakout single "
Break It Off
"Break It Off" is a song by Barbadian singer Rihanna from her second studio album '' A Girl like Me'' (2006), and features guest vocals from Sean Paul. It was written by Donovan Bennett, Paul, K. Ford and Rihanna, while production was handled b ...
" also went viral on TikTok in early 2021. She released her song "
Passion" in February 2021, and she was signed to
Parlophone
Parlophone Records Limited (also known as Parlophone Records and Parlophone) is a German–British record label founded in Germany in 1896 by the Carl Lindström Company as Parlophon. The British branch of the label was founded on 8 August 192 ...
in April 2021.
She was featured on
GoldLink
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's song "Evian" from his studio album ''Haram!'' and signed to
Elektra Records
Elektra Records (or Elektra Entertainment) is an American record label owned by Warner Music Group, founded in 1950 by Jac Holzman and Paul Rickolt. It played an important role in the development of contemporary folk and rock music between the 1 ...
in June 2021.
Also that month, a visual for her song "Break It Off" was released.
After a snippet of her song "
Just for Me
"Just for Me" (stylised in sentence case) is a song by English singer PinkPantheress. It was produced by Mura Masa and released on 13 August 2021 through Parlophone and Elektra as the fourth single from her debut mixtape ''To Hell with It''. ...
" gained attention on TikTok, she released it in August 2021, along with a music video co-directed by her released the following month. It was her second top-40 and highest entry on the UK Singles Chart. In early October 2021, she announced the release date and title of her debut mixtape, ''
To Hell with It
''To Hell with It'' (stylised in all lowercase) is the debut mixtape by English musician PinkPantheress, released through Parlophone and Elektra Records on 15 October 2021. The mixtape, which runs for slightly over 18 minutes, features productio ...
'' and released her song "I Must Apologise".
''To Hell With It'' was released on 15 October 2021 through Parlophone and Elektra Records, debuting at number 20 on the
UK Albums Chart
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.
PinkPantheress performed live for the first time in October and November 2021 in London. In January 2022, she was announced as the winner of
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