70 Fun Facts About Pink

What is Pink's real first name?

She was born Alecia Beth Moore in 1979 and has used her childhood nickname as her stage name since performing in Philadelphia clubs as a teenager.

Pink was born in which Pennsylvania town?

Her mother was an emergency room nurse and her father an insurance salesman; the family split before she turned ten.

Pink's 2001 hit "Lady Marmalade" was recorded for the soundtrack of which film?

The cover became the most successful airplay-only single in US history at the time and gave her a first Hot 100 No. 1.

Which rapper joined Pink, Christina Aguilera and Mýa on "Lady Marmalade"?

The single's video won the MTV Video Music Award for Video of the Year, and the song won Pink her first Grammy.

Pink is married to Carey Hart, a professional in which sport?

Hart was the first rider to attempt a backflip on a 250cc bike in competition and later moved into off-road truck racing.

What are the names of Pink and Carey Hart's two children?

Both kids appeared with her on the cover of People's 2018 "Most Beautiful" issue.

Which 2008 single became Pink's second Hot 100 No. 1 and her first as a solo artist?

The track leaked online in August 2008 and Australian radio put it into heavy rotation within hours.

Which acrobatic discipline did Pink start studying after watching a Cher farewell-tour show in 2004?

Cher returned the favour years later by playing God in the video for "All I Know So Far".

Which singer duetted with Pink on the 2013 chart-topper "Just Give Me a Reason"?

Ruess only recorded a demo at first and took months of persuading before agreeing to sing the finished duet.

Pink sang the US national anthem before which Super Bowl, despite having the flu?

It fulfilled a childhood dream sparked by watching Whitney Houston sing the anthem at Super Bowl XXV in 1991.

In which country did Pink and Carey Hart marry in January 2006?

The ceremony was held at a Four Seasons resort about seven months after her pit-board proposal.

What was the title of Pink's debut solo single, released in 2000?

It reached No. 7 on the Hot 100 and its video debuted on The Box in late 1999.

How many Grammy Awards has Pink won?

They came for "Lady Marmalade", the rock vocal on "Trouble", and a collaborative "Imagine" on Herbie Hancock's The Imagine Project.

Which boy band did Pink open for on a North American tour in the summer of 2000?

That same year she won Female New Artist of the Year at the Billboard Music Awards.

Which streaming service released the 2021 documentary Pink: All I Know So Far?

The film follows her on tour as she juggles performing with parenting, and premiered at the Hollywood Bowl.

Pink's 2021 song "Cover Me in Sunshine" was a duet with whom?

It arrived in February 2021, two months before her duet with Rag'n'Bone Man, "Anywhere Away from Here".

Which Pink album's title reflected her belief that the public had a wrong image of her?

Released in November 2001, it remains her best-selling record with well over ten million copies sold.

Linda Perry, Pink's key collaborator on her second album, had fronted which band?

Pink found Perry's number in her makeup artist's phone book and left a ten-minute answering-machine message.

At 15, Pink formed an R&B girl group that signed to LaFace but never released an album. What was it called?

Their song "Key to My Heart" did surface on the soundtrack to the 1996 Shaquille O'Neal film Kazaam.

Which record executive gave teenage Pink the ultimatum "go solo or go home"?

He delivered it at a Christmas party; the group disbanded in 1998 and she signed a solo deal with LaFace.

Which rock frontman duetted with Pink on a blues-rock ballad from her second album?

The song even features a guitar solo by Bon Jovi's Richie Sambora, so two rock camps got a look-in.

Which song about her parents' divorce began as a poem Pink wrote at age nine?

She recorded it with Scott Storch and later said the process helped release feelings she had carried since childhood.

Which single from Pink's second album became her second UK No. 1?

Carey Hart makes a cameo in its video, the first of many appearances in her clips.

Eight tracks on Try This were co-written with the frontman of which punk band?

Tim Armstrong and Pink wrote ten songs together in a single week while Transplants were touring with Foo Fighters.

Which Try This single won Pink the Grammy for Best Female Rock Vocal Performance?

Armstrong originally wrote the song for his own band, and it later turned up in White Chicks and the Tangled trailer.

Which duo featured on the I'm Not Dead track "Dear Mr. President"?

Pink refused to release it as a US single so it would not look like a publicity stunt, though it hit No. 1 in Belgium.

Which album did Pink originally want to title Heartbreak Is a Motherfucker?

The label balked at the profanity, and she settled on a name reflecting her view that carnivals are fun but also creepy.

Which song did Pink perform suspended above the stage at the 2010 Grammys?

Billboard later ranked it the best Grammy performance between 2000 and 2012.

Which single from Greatest Hits... So Far!!! became Pink's third Hot 100 No. 1?

She dedicated the song to fans who had stuck with her through a decade of solo work.

Which record was Pink's first to debut at No. 1 on the Billboard 200?

It opened with 281,000 copies and became the world's sixth best-selling album of 2012.

Which British singer guests on Pink's 2013 single "True Love"?

The ska-flavoured track was one of six singles from her sixth album.

Pink's folk duo You+Me paired her with the lead singer of which Canadian act?

Their album Rose Ave. debuted at No. 4 on the Billboard 200 and topped the US Folk Albums chart.

Which was the first of Pink's albums to carry a Parental Advisory label?

She later called its promotional campaign an awful time and said she wrote it in a week to spite the label.

For The Greatest Showman: Reimagined, Pink recorded which song with her eldest child?

Pink's own full version came out in October 2018 on the reworked soundtrack.

Which country star duets with Pink on "Love Me Anyway" from Hurts 2B Human?

She travelled to Nashville to write it after being inspired by Lee Ann Womack's "I Hope You Dance".

At the 2022 American Music Awards, Pink performed "Never Gonna Not Dance Again" while doing what?

The same night she paid tribute to Olivia Newton-John with "Hopelessly Devoted to You".

At age 14 Pink joined an all-female group named after a 1992 thriller. What was it called?

Like Choice after it, the group broke up without releasing any material.

Which was the first of Pink's singles to become a No. 1 hit in Australia?

It peaked at No. 4 in the US and remained her highest-charting solo single there until "So What" in 2008.

In which 2003 film did Pink cameo as a race ramp owner and contribute the song "Feel Good Time"?

The William Orbit collaboration was her first single to miss the US Top 40, though it charted well in Europe and Australia.

Which relative of Pink wrote and features on 'I Have Seen the Rain', hidden on I'm Not Dead?

James T. Moore wrote it as a soldier in Vietnam, and Pink learned to harmonise with him to finally record it.

Pink's NBC Sunday Night Football theme "Waiting All Day for Sunday Night" reworks which Joan Jett song?

The theme ran from 2006 until 2016, when Carrie Underwood took it over.

In 2010 a flywire malfunction pulled Pink offstage during a concert in which German city?

Her left flywire fired before the right one was attached to her harness; a hospital check found no serious injuries.

Which song, recorded with Max Martin for her fifth album, was instead given to Adam Lambert?

Pink eventually released her own version on the Australian edition of Greatest Hits... So Far!!!.

The video for "Please Don't Leave Me" drew on which Stephen King-based film?

Director Dave Meyers also borrowed from Cujo, The Shining and What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?.

On her 2009 Australian tour, which city hosted seventeen sold-out shows, more than any other?

She played 58 shows across the country to more than 600,000 fans between May and August 2009.

Which rapper featured Pink on "Won't Back Down" from his 2010 album Recovery?

He said he included her because he felt she would smash the record; they reunited on "Revenge" in 2017.

In which 2012 film did Pink, credited under her legal name, play a sex addict alongside Gwyneth Paltrow?

Her role as Dede won strong notices, with rogerebert.com calling her the best actor in the film.

'What About Us' gave Pink a record ninth No. 1 on which Billboard chart?

The lead single from her seventh album also topped the charts in Australia.

Which album gave Pink her highest first-week US sales, with 408,000 units?

It went on to become the third best-selling album of 2017 worldwide.

Which frontman shares lead vocals with Pink on the Trustfall track "Long Way to Go"?

The Lumineers singer joins her over moody piano chords and military-style drums.

Pink's 2023 Summer Carnival stadium tour opened in which English town?

It became her eighth concert tour, later spawning a US arena leg and Australian dates in 2024.

Whom did Pink induct into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in November 2022?

It came a day after she released "Never Gonna Not Dance Again", the lead single from her ninth album.

Pink's 2018 song "Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken" was originally written for which film?

The track was inspired by the early 20th-century women's voting movement and released in support of it.

Which competitive sport did Pink train in between the ages of 4 and 12?

The background shows in her aerial routines; she also has asthma that troubled her early years.

The 1996 film Kazaam featured a song by Pink's teenage group. What was the song called?

L.A. Reid overheard the demo at LaFace and flew the trio to Atlanta; the girls' parents had to cosign the contract.

"Who Knew" only entered the Hot 100 in 2007 after being used to promote which ABC series?

It was re-released in June 2007 and eventually peaked at No. 9.

On Elton John's 2018 tribute album Revamp, Pink sang "Bennie and the Jets" with Elton and which rapper?

That same spring she launched a world tour across North America and Oceania.

Pink's third Grammy came from a version of 'Imagine' on a 2010 album by which jazz musician?

The Imagine Project also had her sing Peter Gabriel's "Don't Give Up" with John Legend.

Which 2004 teen comedy featured Pink's single "God Is a DJ"?

The single reached No. 11 in the UK but failed to chart on the Hot 100.

Pink's 2007 animal-welfare benefit concert PAW (Party for Animals Worldwide) was held in which city?

She had earlier declined to play Prince William's 21st birthday over the royal family's stance on hunting.

How many countries did the tour documented in Pink: All I Know So Far visit?

The 156-show run grossed more than $390 million, at the time the second-highest gross for a tour by a female artist.

Which name did Pink give her wine brand, launched in 2018 from her Santa Barbara County vineyard?

A high-school dropout, she took online Wine and Spirit Education Trust courses and studied viticulture at UCLA and UC Davis.

Which star plays God in the music video for Pink's 'All I Know So Far'?

Pink took up aerial silks after seeing Cher's 2004 farewell tour, so the cameo closed a circle.

Which Madonna song did Pink sing to win her first talent show?

As a child she was so devoted to Madonna she claims she stopped speaking to her mother for a year, convinced she was adopted.

At which event did Pink first meet her future husband Carey Hart in 2001?

She proposed in 2005 by holding up a pit board reading 'Will U Marry Me?' during one of his motocross races.

What word did Pink add to her pit-board proposal when Carey Hart rode past without stopping?

He pulled off the track to accept, and she then made him finish the race.

Which Rufus song did Pink cover for the Happy Feet soundtrack?

In the same period she opened for Justin Timberlake's FutureSex/LoveShow tour and sang on an Indigo Girls album.

In 2003 Pink declined to perform at whose 21st birthday over the Royal Family's stance on hunting?

A longtime PETA campaigner, she later asked Queen Elizabeth II why the Guards' bearskin caps hadn't gone synthetic.

Pink was appointed a UNICEF Ambassador in December 2015 and travelled with the agency to which country?

There she saw the effect of therapeutic food on malnourished children; she later promoted UNICEF on her Summer Carnival tour.

Which gym chain's 2002 deal with Pink included a hip-hop aerobics class called 'Get Your Body Started'?

The company sponsored The Party Tour and hosted 'Pink Parties' with dance contests.