  Pink was born Alecia Moore on
September 8, 1979 and grew up surrounded by
music, although it wasn't the dance-edged
music she eventually would embrace. Early
into her teens, Pink was spreading her love
of dance music into the clubs of
Philadelphia. By age 13, Pink was joining a
friend's rap group, 'Schools Of Thought'
providing background vocals. Pink eventually
made it into the front of the microphone and
began writing her own music. Her ambition led
to a MCA Records request to join a group
named 'Basic Instinct' which didn't last long
but led to another female trio, 'Choice.' The
group didn't stay together long either, but
had Pink ready for a solo career and a place
at LaFace Records.
 # 7
Singles Artist of the Year
 Pink hit the Top 40 with "There
U Go."
The single "There
U Go"
was certified gold.
Pink released her debut LP, Can't
Take Me Home.
Can't
Take Me Home was certified gold.
 Pink hit the Top
10
with with "There
U Go."
Pink hit the Top 40 with her 2nd
hit "Most
Girls."
Can't
Take Me Home was certified platinum.
Pink was nominated for a MTV Video Music
Award for Best New Artist ("There
U Go").
 Pink said of her next LP:
"I'm writing now... Annie
Lennox meets Method Man."
The LP is planned for a summer release after
Pink enters the recording studio early next
year.
"Most
Girls"
topped the Billboard Maxi-Singles Sales chart
for 4 weeks.
Can't
Take Me Home was certified 2x platinum.
 # 10
Singles Artist of the Year
 Pink hit the Top 40 with "You Make Me Sick."
Pink was nominated for an American Music
Award for Favorite
Soul/R&B New Artist and performed "Most
Girls"
at the ceremony.
Pink hit the Top 10 with "You Make Me Sick" by the end of
the month.
 Pink won a Blockbuster
Entertainment Award for Favorite Female - New
Artist.
Pink hit the Top 40 (with Christina
Aguilera, Lil' Kim, & Mya) with the remake of
"Lady Marmalade" from the film
Moulin
Rouge.
Pink was nominated for a Kids'
Choice Award for Favorite Female Singer.
Pink hit the Top 10 and then #1 with "Lady Marmalade" where it sat for
9 weeks.
"Lady Marmalade" topped the
Billboard Top 40 Tracks chart for 9 weeks.
 Pink topped the Billboard Hot
100 for 5 weeks and the Hot 100 Airplay chart
for 6 weeks with "Lady Marmalade" The track also
topped the UK charts by month's end.
"Lady Marmalade" topped the MTV
Video Countdown for 3 weeks.
Pink topped the UK singles chart
for a week with "Lady Marmalade."
Pink won a Teen Choice
Award for Choice Song of the Summer ("Lady Marmalade").
Pink's collaborative video for
"Lady Marmalade" won 2 MTV Video Music
Awards including Video of the Year and Best Video from a Film, and was also
nominated for Best Dance Video, Best Pop Video, Best Choreography (Tina Landon), and Best Art Direction (Bernadette Dus).
Pink hit the Top 40 with "Get The Party Started."
 Pink hit the Top 10 with "Get The Party Started."
Pink will release her next LP - Missundaztood. Pink said of the LP's
title: "I say the wrong things. I tell
the truth, which tends to get me in trouble
and I'm a very eclectic person, so I feel
that's misunderstood as well." Pink
described Missundaztood as "...more
versatile, it's a lost less contrived, it's a
lot more me."
Pink was nominated for a MTV
Europe Music Award for Best Song ("Lady Marmalade").
Missundaztood was certified
platinum.
Pink (along with Christina
Aguilera, Lil' Kim, & Mya) topped The ARC Weekly
Top 40 Year-End Top 100 for 2001 with
"Lady Marmalade."
Pink won 2 My VH1 Awards for
Favorite Video and Is It Hot In Her Or Is It
Just My Video for "Lady Marmalade."
 # 1
Singles Artist of the Year (# 1
Female Artist of the Year)
 Pink hit #1 with "Get The Party Started."
Pink topped the Billboard Top 40
Tracks chart for a week with "Get The Party Started."
Pink topped the Billboard Dance
Music Club Play chart for a week with "Get The Party Started."
Missundaztood was certified 2x
platinum.
 Pink won a Grammy Award for Best Pop Collaboration with
Vocals
for ("Lady Marmalade" with Christina
Aguilera, Lil' Kim, & Mya which they performed
at the ceremony.
Pink hit the Top 40 with "Don't Let Me Get Me" and the Top 10 by the end of the
month.
 Pink won 2 Nickelodeon Kids'
Choice Awards for Favorite Female Singer and
Favorite Song ("Get The Party Started").
Pink hit #1 for 4 weeks with
"Don't Let Me Get Me."
Pink began a North American
tour.
Missundaztood was certified 3x
platinum.
 Pink hit the Top 40 with "Just Like A Pill."
Pink hit the Top 10 with "Just Like A Pill."
 Pink's video
for "Get The Party Started" won 2 MTV Video Music
Awards including Best Female Video and Best Dance Video, and was also
nominated for Best Pop Video. Pink accepted 1 award
saying "I wasn't expecting this. I'm too
drunk for this." Pink also performed at
the ceremony.
Pink ranked #
57 on VH1: 100
Sexiest Artists.
Missundaztood was certified 4x
platinum.
 Pink topped the UK Singles chart
for a week with "Just Like A Pill."
Pink hit the Top 40 with "Family Portrait."
Pink won a MTV Video Music Award
Latin America for Best Pop Artist,
International.
Pink won a MTV Europe Music
Award for Best Song ("Get The Party Started").
Pink hit the Top 10 with "Family Portrait."
 Missundaztood ended the
year as the 6th biggest selling LP of the
year with over 3.1 million copies sold in the
US.
Pink topped the Billboard
Year-End Charts as the Top Billboard
200 Album Artist - Female and Top Hot Top 40
Artist.
 # 26
Singles Artist of the Year
Pink was
nominated for 2 American Music
Awards for Favorite Pop/Rock Female
Artist and Favorite Pop/Rock Album.
 Pink won a Brit
Awards for Best International Female Artist.
Pink was
nominated for 2 Grammy Awards for Best Female Pop Vocal
Performance ("Get The Party Started") and Best Pop Vocal Album (Missundaztood).
Pink hit the Top 40 with "Feel Good Time" from the
soundtrack for Charlie's
Angels: Full Throttle - Pink made a cameo
appearance in the film.
 Pink hit the Top 40 with "Trouble."
Pink won a World Music
Award for Best American Pop/Rock Female
Artist.
Missundaztood was certified 5x
platinum.
 Pink performed at the American Music
Awards.
Pink released her next LP Try
This.
Pink hit the Top 40 with "God Is A DJ."
Pink performed on Saturday
Night Live.
Try
This was certified platinum.
 # 108
Singles Artist of the Year
 Pink won a Grammy Award for Best Rock Vocal
Performance - Female ("Trouble") and was
nominated for Best Pop Collaboration with
Vocals ("Feel Good Time" with William
Orbit).
 As debate over gay marriage
began, Pink told The
Advocate: "If you want to marry
'Joe Millionaire,' go ahead. If you're a
celebrity and you want to marry your high
school sweetheart for hours, go right ahead.
If you're J.Lo and you want to marry 18
people for six days each, hey go right on
ahead! But if you happen to be reasonably
minded and have fallen in love and want to
marry your soul mate and make a life of it -
and you just so happen to be the same sex -
then, no, how dare you! You demon creatures!
We'd rather you just buy gasoline and support
our war and continue to consume and fear in
our country so we can make money off you. But
do us a favor: Don't hold hands in
public."
 # 42 on the Top Pop Artists
of the Past 25 Years chart.
 # 45
Singles Artist of the Year
 Pink married motorcross racer
Carey Hart.
Pink hit the Top 40 with "Stupid Girls."
Pink released I'm
Not Dead.
 Pink hit the Top 40 with "Who Knew."
The video for "Stupid Girls" won a MTV Video Music
Award for Best Pop Video.
Pink hit the Top 40 with "U & Ur Hand."
 # 8
Singles Artist of the Year
 Pink topped the Billboard Hot
Dance Airplay chart with "U & Ur Hand."
Pink was
nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Pop Vocal Performance -
Female
("Stupid Girls").
Pink hit the Top 10 with "U & Ur Hand."
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