By Eunice Charles
FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS
Alecia Beth Moore-Hart (born September 8, 1979), known professionally as Pink (stylized as P!NK), is an American singer and songwriter. She is known for her acrobatic stage presence and activism.
At the age of 15, Pink formed the short-lived girl group Choice, who signed with LaFace Records in 1995, although they disbanded without any major releases. Her first solo studio album, Can’t Take Me Home (2000), was released to commercial success and received double platinum certification by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). Produced by label boss Babyface and influenced by contemporary R&B, the album spawned two US Billboard Hot 100-top ten singles: “There You Go” and “Most Girls“. Pink gained further recognition for her 2001 collaborative single “Lady Marmalade” from the soundtrack of Moulin Rouge!, which peaked atop 13 international charts, including the US, and earned her first Grammy Award for Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals. Pink shifted to pop rock with her second studio album, Missundaztood (2001), which sold over 13 million copies worldwide and yielded three top ten singles: “Get the Party Started“, “Don’t Let Me Get Me“, and “Just Like a Pill“.
Pink’s third studio album, Try This (2003), sold significantly less than her second studio album, but earned her second Grammy for Best Female Rock Performance. Her fourth and fifth studio albums, I’m Not Dead (2006) and Funhouse (2008), saw a commercial rebound and spawned the top-ten singles “Who Knew” and “U + Ur Hand“, as well as the US number-one single “So What“. She scored her third and fourth US number-ones with “Raise Your Glass“, as well as “Just Give Me a Reason” from her sixth album, The Truth About Love (2012), which became her first to top the US Billboard 200. In 2014, Pink formed the collaborative folk duo You+Me with Canadian musician Dallas Green, who released the album Rose Ave. in October of that year. Her following albums, Beautiful Trauma (2017) and Hurts 2B Human (2019), saw continued success and debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart, with the former becoming the third best-selling album of that year worldwide. Her ninth and latest studio album, Trustfall (2023), peaked at number two on the chart.
Pink has sold over 135 million records worldwide (60 million albums and 75 million singles), making her one of the world’s best-selling music artists. Pink is also the most-played female solo artist in the United Kingdom during the 21st century, while Billboard named Pink the Pop Songs Artist of the 2000s Decade. Her accolades include three Grammy Awards, two Brit Awards (including Outstanding Contribution to Music), a Daytime Emmy Award and seven MTV Video Music Awards (including the Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award) and two MTV Europe Music Awards. At the 63rd annual BMI Pop Awards, she received the BMI President’s Award for “her outstanding achievement in songwriting and global impact on pop culture and the entertainment industry”, and she was honored with the People’s Champion Award, the iHeartRadio Music Award Icon Award. Billboard also named Pink the 2013 Woman of the Year at the Billboard Women in Music and honored her with the Billboard Icon Award and the Billboard Legend of Live. VH1 ranked her 10th on its list of the 100 Greatest Women in Music.
Alecia Beth Moore was born on September 8, 1979, in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, to emergency room nurse Judith Moore (née Kugel) and insurance salesman James Moore. She has described herself as an “Irish–German–Lithuanian Jew“, and her mother is Jewish. Although a healthy baby, she developed asthma that plagued her through her early years. When Pink was a toddler, her parents began having marital problems; they divorced before she was 10.
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Born
- King Richard I of England (the Lion-Hearted) –
- Antonin Dvorak (composer) –
- Siegfried Sassoon (poet) –
- Euell Gibbons (author) –
- Sid Caesar (comedian & actor) –
- Peter Sellers (actor) –
- Patsy Cline (country music singer) –
- Henry Thomas (actor) –
- David Arquette (actor) –
- Martin Freeman (actor) –
- Pink (singer) –
- Jonathan Taylor Thomas (actor) –
Died
- Ann Lee (Shaker leader) –
- Richard Strauss (composer) –
- Dorothy Dandridge (actress) –
- Roy Wilkins (civil rights leader) –
- Rich Cronin (singer) –
Events
- Michelangelo’s David statue was unveiled in Florence, Italy –
- The first permanent settlement in what is now the United States was established at St. Augustine, Florida, by Don Pedro Menendez de Aviles –
- Don Pedro Menéndez de Avilés founded what became St. Augustine, Florida –
- The steamer Lady Elgin collided with the schooner Augusta on Lake Michigan –
- The eastern and western lines of the Northern Pacific Railway were joined in Gold Creek, Montana –
- Francis Bellamy’s Pledge of Allegiance first published, in The Youth’s Companion –
- Margaret Gorman of Washington, D.C., became the first Miss America –
- Cruise ship S.S. Morro Castle burned near Asbury Park, New Jersey –
- Percy Saltzman became the first meteorologist to appear on Canadian television. Known for his entertaining presentations, Percy wrote vigorously on a chalkboard map while reporting on air and ended each broadcast by tossing and catching his chalk. –
- Original Star Trek series debuted on television –
- John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts made its public debut, Washington, D.C. –
- Stunt motorcyclist Evel Knievel made a failed attempt to jump the Snake River canyon in Idaho. He was propelled by a red, white and blue rocket-powered motorcycle, designed by rocket scientist Robert Truax. –
- The Genesis return capsule, which had collected solar wind atoms in fragile disks, crashed in the desert after its parachutes failed to deploy –
- A rare black rhino was born in Pittsburgh Zoo, Pennsylvania –
Weather
- The deadliest hurricane in U.S. history, with a 15-foot storm surge, inundated the city of Galveston, Texas, killing an estimated 8,000 people –
- A hurricane hit Key West and later struck Texas: 284 dead and $20 million in damages –
- Roanoke, Virginia, reported a low temperature of 42 degrees F –
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