Biography
Date of Birth
8 December 1979, Doylestown, Pennsylvania, USA
Birth Name
Alecia Beth Moore
Height
5' 4" (1.63 m)
Mini Biography
Pink was born Alecia Beth Moore in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, and was later raised in Philadelphia. Her parents, Judith Moore (née Kugel), a nurse, and Jim Moore, a Vietnam veteran, divorced when she was very young. Her mother is from an Ashkenazi Jewish family, while her father has Irish, German, and English ancestry. As a child, all Pink wanted was to become a singer, and she was driven by the music of Madonna, Mary J. Blige, 4 Non Blondes, Janis Joplin, Billy Joel and Whitney Houston. She was a very unique teenager, and went through phases as a skateboarder, hip-hopper and gymnast.
Pink spent several years as part of the club scene in Philadelphia, singing guest spots and performing for talent shows. At the age of 13, she was asked by a local DJ to sing back-up for his rap group, Schools of Thought. A short time later, she was discovered by a record executive and joined a female R&B group, Choice. When that didn't work out, she signed with LaFace Records and began her solo career. In spring 2000, she released her debut, "Can't Take Me Home". She co-wrote many songs and watched it go multi-platinum by the year's end. Her debut included the Top 10 hit, "There You Go", which was certified a gold single.
Pink is now considered an icon in the world of pop music. For example, in 2019 she won the Brit Award for Outstanding Contribution to British Music, becoming the first non-British artist to have won the award since the Brit Awards began in 1977 (originally known as the BPI Awards). This was especially impressive as she was chosen ahead of the likes of Phil Collins, a British musician who has sold more records and had a longer career but never won the award.
Trivia
American singer-songwriter.
Grew up in Doylestown, Pennsylvania.
Her hit song "There You Go" was dubbed the "I Will Survive" for the new millennium by Teen People magazine.
Remade the Patti LaBelle classic "Lady Marmalade" along with Mya, Lil' Kim and Christina Aguilera for the Moulin Rouge! (2001) soundtrack.
Claims her name derives from the movie Reservoir Dogs (1992). while seeing the movie with friends, they all agreed that she resembled the character Mr. Pink, played by Steve Buscemi. They thought the name to be a great irony, as she was a tomboy.
Was the lead singer of the rock band Middleground before getting a record deal.
Attended and graduated from Central Bucks West High School (1997).
Sometimes writes her name: P!nk
Met her boyfriend, motocross superstar Carey Hart, at the 2001 X Games in Philadelphia.
She's a huge supporter of the animal-rights organization PETA.
She was voted one of Choice USA's "Top 30 Under 30" activists for reproductive freedom (2004).
Ranked #36 in Stuff magazine's "102 Sexiest Women in the World" (2002).
Is good friends with Avril Lavigne and Lisa Marie Presley.
Engaged to Carey Hart on June 26, 2005. They got married January 7, 2006.
She has a brother named Jason Moore.
Parodied Paris Hilton, Lindsay Lohan, Mary-Kate Olsen, Jessica Simpson, Hilary Duff, Nicole Richie and several other Hollywood celebrities on the music video for her single "Stupid Girls", in which she deplored the lack of good role models for girls. [February 2006]
Her first concert took place in Orlando, Florida.
Ranked #57 on VH1's 100 Sexiest Artists.
Announced that she and Carey Hart had separated, but remained good friends (19 February 2008).
Her father has English, German and Irish ancestry. Her mother is from an Ashkenazi Jewish family (from Bohemia, Russia and Lithuania).
Being a passionate campaigner for PETA, she once sent a letter to Prince William criticizing him for fox hunting and to Queen Elizabeth II protesting the use of real fur in bearskins of the Honourable Artillery Company and the Foot Guards.
Has won two Grammy Awards for "Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals" in 2002 ("Lady Marmalade") and "Best Female Rock Performance" in 2004 ("Trouble").
As of 2008, she has released four albums including "M!ssundaztood" (2001), which sold 13 million copies worldwide.
Once rented a yacht on the Mediterranean Sea; between seasickness and breaking a rib while diving, she described it later as "the stupidest, most expensive thing I've ever done".
Got back together with Carey Hart and they renewed their wedding vows with a ceremony at their California home in May 2009. [April 2009]
Brought her mother a copy of the lyrics to her song "Family Portrait", which told how she felt about her parents breaking up, before the record was released. Her mother was deeply upset by the lyrics at first, but it led to a heart-to-heart talk between the two, that changed their relationship for the better.
Dropped out of high school, but went back later and got a GED.
Daughter of Jim Moore and Judith Moore.
Former backup singer for Basic Instinct.
It has been frequently, but incorrectly, reported that Alecia is the cousin of Mandy Moore.
Alecia Moore is not the first Pennsylvania-born celebrity to go by the nickname Pink. The same sobriquet was briefly used by Elizabeth Cochrane (or Cochran, 1864-1922), who later became known as Nellie Bly. Cochran(e)/Bly famously broke gender barriers as a whistle-blowing journalist, travel writer, industrialist, war correspondent, and philanthropist in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. She is best known for her world-circumnavigating voyage in the winter of 1889-90, wherein she became the first person to prove the plausibility of the Jules Verne novel "80 Days Around the World", i.e. that someone could make such a journey in such a time span.
Revealed in a radio interview that she purposely flubs her songs when performing live to show she does not lip sync.
Teamed up with Dallas Green from City and Colour to write an album together. The duo wrote and recorded their debut album for You+Me in six days. [2014]
Confirmed after much speculation that she was 3 months pregnant with her first child, by husband Carey Hart, on The Ellen DeGeneres Show (2003). She also revealed that she had been scared to confirm her pregnancy due to having suffered a miscarriage to previous year (17 November 2010).
Had her first miscarriage when she was 17 and said she has had "several" others since.
Mother, with husband Carey Hart, of daughter Willow Hart (Willow Sage Hart; June 2, 2011) and son Jameson Hart (Jameson Moon Hart; b. December 26, 2016).
She was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Recording at 6801 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California on February 5, 2019.
She is mentioned in the song "Do It with Madonna" by the rock band The Androids.
Trademarks:
Pink colors sometimes appear in her hair
Her many tattoos
Spells her name with an exclamation mark instead of an 'i'.
Platinum blonde hair, often short
Often performs aerial dancing.
Quotes
My dad raised me with some good advice: "Always tell the truth. Always shoot from the hip. You might not have many friends, but you'll never have enemies, because people will always know where you're coming from."
I'm about to make people forget about Madonna.
I decided at 15 that I didn't want to be one of those artists that gets up and sings love songs they don't mean. I decided that I was going to be me to the fullest extent, that my songs were going to reflect relationships I've had, things I've been through, and even the stuff I'm embarrassed about.
When I was in seventh grade my mom caught me smoking cigarettes and punished me by making me smoke the entire carton. All it did was piss me off because I was out of cigarettes.
I appreciate being a girl more now than ever. There's a struggle involved in it, but it's so rewarding when you prove to all men that you might have something up on 'em.
I have to speak for myself. As far as videos go--casting, the artwork, everything--I'm completely hands-on. You have to be if you want your points across.
I've always loved to prove people wrong. I want to be able to cross color lines, because in music, there really is no barrier.
I would win on Survivor (2000) as long as I didn't have to eat bugs.
It takes a lot of people years to turn a negative into a positive. It takes me, like, an album.
There's not a lot of people out there that are as honest as I am.
Just read that I'm bisexual. So 1991. Good thing people write articles about me so I can get my facts straight. Can't wait for the day when people stop talking about sexual preference or that a woman is a CEO and actually start making the world liveable.
[Graham Norton shows Pink a picture of her playing Rumpleteaser from Cats] Ha! Give that here or I'll kick your ass!
I think I did a good job of raising my parents.
I don't want love to destroy me like it did my family.
What about us? What about all the times you said you knew the answer? What about us? What about all the broken happy ever afters?
I guess I just lost my husband / I don't know where he went / So I'm gonna drink my money / I'm not gonna pay his rent (nope) / I got a brand new attitude and / I'm gonna wear it tonight / I wanna get in trouble / I wanna start a fight
Never win first place, I don't support the team / I can't take direction, and my socks are never clean / Teachers dated me / My parents hated me / I was always in a fight / 'Cause I can't do nothin' right / Everyday I fight a war against the mirror / I can't take the person starin' back at me / I'm a hazard to myself / Don't let me get me / I'm my own worst enemy / It's bad when you annoy yourself / So irritating / Don't wanna be my friend no more / I wanna be somebody else
I don't believe Adam and Eve / Spent every goddamn day together / If you give me some room there will be room enough for two / Tonight / Leave me alone I'm lonely / Alone I'm lonely / I'm tired / Leave me alone I'm lonely / Alone I'm lonely tonight / I don't wanna wake up with another / But I don't wanna always wake up with you either / No you can't hop into my shower / All I ask for is one ***kin' hour / You taste so sweet / But I can't eat the same thing every day / Cuttin' off the phone / Leave me the ***k alone / Tomorrow I'll be beggin' you to come home
When the spark has gone and the candles are out / And the song is done and there's no more sound / Whispers turn to yelling and I'm thinking / How do we get so mean? How do we just move on? / How do you feel in the morning / When it comes and everything's undone? / Is it 'cause we wanna be free? Well that's not me / Normally I'm so strong / I just can't wake up on the floor / Like a thousand times before / Knowing that forever won't be
In our family portrait we look pretty happy / Let's play pretend, let's act like it comes naturally / I don't wanna have to split the holidays / I don't want two addresses / I don't want a step-brother anyways / And I don't want my mom to have to change her last name / In our family portrait we look pretty happy / We look pretty normal, let's go back to that / In our family portrait we look pretty happy / Let's play pretend, act like it goes naturally
I don't wanna be the girl who laughs the loudest / Or the girl who never wants to be alone / I don't wanna be that call at 4 o'clock in the morning / 'Cause I'm the only one you know in the world that won't be home / Ah the sun is blinding / I stayed up again / Oh, I am finding / That's not the way I want my story to end / I'm safe up high / Nothing can touch me / But why do I feel this party's over? / No pain inside You're my protection / But how do I feel this good sober? / I don't wanna be the girl who has to fill the silence / The quiet scares me 'cause it screams the truth / Please don't tell me that we had that conversation (I know we hadn't) / I won't remember, save your breath, 'cause what's the use? / Ah, the night is calling / And it whispers to me softly come and play / Ah, I am falling / And if I let myself go I'm the only one to blame
When someone said count your blessings now / 'fore they're long gone / I guess I just didn't know how / I was all wrong / They knew better / Still you said forever / And ever / Who knew / Yeah yeah / I'll keep you locked in my head / Until we meet again / Until we / Until we meet again / And I won't forget you my friend / What happened / If someone said three years from now / You'd be long gone / I'd stand up and punch them out/ 'cause they're all wrong and / That last kiss / I'll cherish / Until we meet again / And time makes / It harder / I wish I could remember / But I keep / Your memory / You visit me in my sleep / My darling / Who knew
I'm lyin' here on the floor where you left me / I think I took too much / I'm crying here, what have you done? / I thought it would be fun / I can't stay on your life support / There's a shortage in the switch / I can't stay on your morphine / 'Cause it's making me itch / I said I tried to call the nurse again / But she's being a little bitch / I think I'll get outta here, where I can / Run just as fast as I can / To the middle of nowhere / To the middle of my frustrated fears / And I swear you're just like a pill / Instead of makin' me better / You keep makin' me ill
I don't know if I can yell any louder / How many times have I kicked you out of here / Or said something insulting? / I can be so mean when I wanna be / I am capable of really anything / I can cut you into pieces / When my heart is broken
I think I've finally had enough, I think I maybe think too much / I think this might be it for us (blow me one last kiss) / You think I'm just too serious, I think you're full of shit / My head is spinning so (blow me one last kiss)
Disease's growing, it's epidemic / I'm scared that there ain't a cure / The world believes it and I'm going crazy / I cannot take any more / I'm so glad that I'll never fit in / That will never be me / Outcasts and girls with ambition / That's what I wanna see / Disasters all around / World despaired / Your only concern / Will it fuck up my hair
My mom caught me with a pack of cigarettes when I was in the seventh grade. She made me smoke the whole packet in front of her, thinking that would make me so sick I'd quit. I did feel sick but her plan didn't work.
Willow is very literal, she's got a scientific brain, she's really funny, really sassy, little too smart, she's gonna set the world on fire. Jameson loves attention, he's not shy at all, he's the most social baby I've ever met in my life. I'm trying to say 'Stranger danger!' and he's like 'What? Strangers are only strangers until they're your friends'.
[about 'There You Go'] My first video, I think this is the prettiest I've ever looked and will ever look. I was 19 when I shot this video, I'd just started riding motorcycles, I almost crashed 85 times.
I wish somebody would've told me when I was 13 that all these sucky people weren't going to be around me forever, and that my green hair and my braces and my freckles all over my face and my attitude, it was going to work for me one day. And my God, has it ever. And now I have really nice teeth, except for that one right there, because I didn't wear my retainer. So wear your retainer, fly your flag, and screw everybody.
[about 'Stupid Girls'] I really enjoy making fun of other people, but I also enjoy making fun of myself, and this was a lot of that. It was so much fun, falling off the car.
[Variety, 2019] I am an R&B singer. I am also a gospel singer. I'm a punk-rock singer. A pop singer. A soul singer. All of that is me. I was a little girl that loved Debbie Gibson. Mary J. Blige was the first cassette I bought. I liked 2 Live Crew. I liked Green Day. I loved Les Miserables and Phantom of the Opera. I liked everything and I think my music reflects that... if you want to blur lines, make people uncomfortable and question what they believe in just by looking at you, then you've got to take risks - you've got to be bold and go all out.
I was a very defensive kid 'cause I was really sensitive underneath and didn't want people to know. So I came off as very tough and very angry.
I always wrote poetry as a teenager and it was always so dark, but it made me feel good to get it out.
