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| Birth Name(s) : Alecia Moore |
Date of Birth: September 8, 1979 |
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Pink, at only the age of 20, is a young woman with the experience of many lifetimes, "I'm a very extreme person. I went through a lot of phases growing up, and for every one, I was extreme," confides Pink, the latest R&B/pop artist to emerge from the hugely successful, LaFace Records camp. "From skateboarder to hip-hopper to rave child to lead singer of a rock band – I did it all, and all at the same time."
Looking at Pink, it's easy to believe that she skillfully mastered each of her extremes. With a shock of pink hair, sharply focused blue eyes hinting of a rebellious streak and an abundance of self-confidence, but she is also a bewildered girl who is just now finding her place on this planet, a strong person with a million lessons to teach and even more to learn. She's seen a lot, done a lot, and she now stands on the fault line between the angst of adolescence and the knowledge of adulthood.
And thus, Pink is filled with self-discovery, having written over half of the dozen songs on her self-titled album herself, Pink offers insight into her tumultuous world where life is not always flowers and chocolate.
Calling upon Mary, Janis Joplin, the Supremes, Shirley Murdock, Donna Hathaway and Madonna for inspiration, Pink laid down her first self-written song at fourteen. But she really got her groove on not in the studio, but in clubs. "I went regularly on Friday nights to Club Fever, where the DJ gave me a guest spotlight," Pink laughs. "My little five minutes on Friday night was all I wanted out of life. I loved the thrill of being on stage. It was the only place that I felt like, okay, I'm cool now." Being heckled only boosted Pink's ambitions
One late Friday night, a rep from MCA came round the club, looking for a singer to fill out her new R&B group. She liked Pink's sound, and asked her to audition for a group called Basic Instinct. She got the gig practically on the spot, but the group fizzled quickly. "I didn't fit in," quips Pink. "But I didn't care. You have to laugh at stuff like that. And anyway, I don't see myself as belonging to any group."
Nonetheless, another group instantly snapped up Pink as one of three female leads. This one, named Choice, made a ten-cent demo and was immediately signed to LaFace. The group didn't last – one wanted to sing Broadway tunes, the other wanted to make alternative records and Pink wanted to do it all – but Pink's place in the LaFace stable was solidified. In fact, it was during studio time with Choice in Atlanta that Pink rediscovered her writing abilities and hooked up Darryl Simmons. He asked me to write the bridge for 'Just to be Loving You' "I thought that was so cool, because no one had even asked me if I wrote. So I just closed my eyes and out it came. I wrote that, and it was the beginning of my career."
It was also the emergence of Pink's powerful soprano, which is capable of taking sharp dives and hairpin turns through multiple octaves. "I had gotten really good at emulating other people's sounds, from singing at the clubs," she says. "But the day we recorded 'Just to Be Loving You' for Choice in the studio, that song was so beautiful, I just sang. I didn't care what I sounded like. It just came out and shocked me."
Pink began writing songs to display her vocal ability and love of the pop side of R&B at a feverish pace. When she approached L.A. Reid with her songs, he was floored. "I kept playing him my songs and going, 'What about this one? What about these?'" she remembers. "And he was like, 'yeah, I like that one, yeah that's a single'. He looked at me as a self-contained unit, which he thought was interesting. It's always been really cool with him." Reid signed Pink up as a solo artist and hooked her up with various writing partners – from She'kspeare to, Babyface and 112. |
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Additional Pink Biography
The use of the word pink as a color first occurred in the 17th century to describe the light red flowers of pinks, flowering plants in the genus Dianthus. The color pink itself is a combination of red and white. Other tints of pink may be combinations of rose and white, magenta and white, or orange and white.
Roseus is a Latin word meaning "rosy" or "pink." Lucretius used the word to describe the dawn in his epic poem On the Nature of Things (De Rerum Natura). The word is also used in the binomial names of several species, such as the Rosy Starling (Sturnus roseus) and Catharanthus roseus.Pink tulips.
At right is displayed the color Pastel pink. Pastel Pink is used to symbolize baby girls just as baby blue is often used to symbolize baby boys.
Alcoholism
- Seeing pink elephants is a euphemism for drunken hallucinations caused by delirium tremens.
Calendars
- In Thailand, pink is associated with Tuesday on the Thai solar calendar. Anyone may wear pink on Tuesdays, and anyone born on a Tuesday may adopt pink as their color.
Chromatics
- Pink is used to describe a range of colors (shown above), from shades of red or orange to the more popularly used shades of pink that are shades of rose or magenta.
Film
- Softcore adult films in Japan are often called pink movies because the color cherry blossom pink (shown above) is associated in Japan with the vagina.
- The Pink Panther is a popular cartoon character.
- Pink Cadillac was a 1989 movie starring Clint Eastwood.
- Pink Ladies was the name of Betty Rizzo's (Stockard Channing) gang in the film, Grease (film).
Finance
- Since 1893 the London Financial Times newspaper has used a distinctive salmon pink color for its newsprint, mainly as a way to distinguish itself from competitors. In other countries, the salmon press identifies economic newspapers or economics sections in "white" newspapers.
Gender
- The color pink is often used to represent women (See discussion above in section on Pink in gender).
K-12 Education
- At the Miraloma Elementary School in San Francisco, California, on 6 September 2007, the principal, Ron Machado, got a pink Mohawk haircut (as he had agreed to do) if the students raised the school’s Academic Performance Index by at least 55 points. They raised it by 67 points.
Parapsychology
- It has been asserted that people with pink auras are those who are interested in romantic relationships.
Politics
- Pink, being a 'watered-down' red, is sometimes used in a derogatory way to describe a person with mild communist or socialist beliefs (see Pinko).
- In maps of political parties in Portugal, pink is used to represent the Socialist Party
- Code Pink is an anti-war organization co-founded in 2002 by anti-corporate globalization activist Medea Benjamin of the NGO Global Exchange in San Francisco.
- The Pink House is the residence of the President of Argentina.
Religion
- In Catholicism, pink (called rose by the Catholic Church) symbolizes joy and happiness. It is used for the Third Sunday of Advent and the Fourth Sunday of Lent to mark the halfway point in these seasons of penance. However, in some Protestant denominations, the pink candle is sometimes lit on the Fourth Sunday of Advent, the Sunday of Love.
- Pink is the color most associated with Indian spirtual leader Meher Baba, who often were pink coats to please his closest female follower, Mehera Irani, and today pink remains an important color, symbolizing love, to Baba's followers.
Sexuality
- The color pink is often used to represent homosexuality (See discussion above in section on Pink in sexuality).
- In Japan the color Cherry Blossom Pink is associated with a woman's vagina, and therefore, in Japan, softcore pornographic films are called pink movies.
- In the bandana code of the gay leather subculture, wearing a pink bandana means that one is into the fetish of playing with dildos. Wearing a dark pink bandana means that one is into tit torture.
Sports
- Pink can mean the scarlet coat worn in fox hunting (a.k.a. "riding to hounds"). One legend about the origin of this meaning refers to a tailor named Pink (or Pinke, or Pinque).
- The leader in the Giro d'Italia cycle race wears pink.
- The University of Iowa's Kinnick Stadium visitors' locker room is painted pink. The decor has sparked controversy, perceived by some people as suggesting sexism and homophobia.
Video Games
- In the Sonic the Hedgehog series Amy Rose is depicted as a pink hedgehog and often referred to as "Pinky".
- In the Sonic the Hedgehog series Rouge the Bat is often seen wearing pink embellishments on her clothing and lip gloss.
- In Final Fantasy X the character Yuna's design was based around blue, white, and pink and carried over to Final Fantasy X-2 which represented her girlish side.
- Kingdom Hearts main character Kairi's secondary design for Kingdom Hearts 2 was composed primarily of pink.
- Aerith from Final Fantasy 7 is almost always displayed in a pink dress with dark pink/red complimentary colors which represent her innocence and heart despite growing up in the dark city of Midgar.
- Elena from Threads of Fate is the only character to have pink hair. |
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