70 Fun Facts About Pink

What is Pink's real first name?

Alecia Beth Moore has told more than one story about the nickname: that she blushed easily as a child, and that friends likened her to Mr. Pink in Reservoir Dogs.

Pink was born in which Pennsylvania town?

Doylestown sits just outside Philadelphia, and by her early teens Pink was already a regular on the city's club scene, singing and dancing in its nightclubs.

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

Moulin Rouge!: the remake outdid the original, holding No. 1 on the Hot 100 for five weeks where Labelle's 1975 version had managed one.

Which rapper performs the rap verse on "Lady Marmalade" with Pink, Christina Aguilera and Mýa?

Lil' Kim's rap verse was the remake's most obvious new addition, while Missy Elliott co-produced the track and acts as its master of ceremonies.

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

Motocross: Pink proposed in 2005 in the middle of one of Carey Hart's races, holding up a sign that asked him to marry her as he rode by.

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

Willow and Jameson: Willow Sage arrived in 2011 and Jameson Moon in 2016, a name Pink had picked years earlier because, she said, "we like whiskey".

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

So What: she wrote it about her separation from Carey Hart, who still agreed to appear in its video, and the pair were back together within about a year.

Which acrobatic discipline did Pink begin studying in 2004 after watching performers at another star's farewell-tour concert?

Aerial silks: she trained with the aerialist from that show, and went on to make singing live while spinning high above the crowd a fixture of her own concerts.

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

Nate Ruess, the fun. frontman, meant only to sing on the demo because he was wary of duets, and Pink says she tricked him into staying on the record.

Pink sang the national anthem at the 2018 Super Bowl despite being ill with what?

The flu came from her two small children, she said; she spat out a throat lozenge just before singing, and the night ended with the Eagles, her home-state team, winning their first Super Bowl.

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

Costa Rica: two years after the wedding the couple separated, but they were back together about a year later after going to marriage counselling.

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

There You Go: she co-wrote it with Kandi Burruss of Xscape about an ex who would not let her move on, and later said she was still angry with him.

Which awards did Pink host in 2026?

Tony Awards: she flew in as Peter Pan and, though she had never performed on Broadway, led a lavish opening number set to a customised "Lady Marmalade".

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

NSYNC's tour put her in front of huge crowds, but she feared being lumped in with pop's other young singers and pushed for a rawer, rockier sound on her next record.

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

Prime Video released it in May 2021, two weeks after the title song, which Pink wrote as a letter of life advice to her firstborn and then set to a melody.

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

Her daughter, then nine, first sang a snippet of it on TikTok; Pink said they recorded it at home and put it out simply because it made them happy.

Which album, for which Pink swapped R&B for a rawer pop-rock sound, became her best-seller?

Missundaztood: the title is her own spelling of "misunderstood", which is how she felt the public saw her, and it went on to sell more than ten million copies.

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

4 Non Blondes were a teenage favourite of Pink's: she found Perry's number in her makeup artist's phone book and left a ten-minute message on her answering machine.

Pink first signed to LaFace Records as a teenage member of which R&B girl trio?

Choice spent about two years on the label without releasing an album; when the trio folded in 1998, LaFace kept Pink on as a solo act.

Which record executive signed Pink's teenage girl group to LaFace and then pushed her to go solo?

L.A. Reid decided she had a better chance alone once the trio stalled, and the bet paid off when her solo debut went double platinum in 2000.

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

Steven Tyler, the Aerosmith singer, clicked with her as soon as they met, and the two made plans to record a song together.

Which song began as a poem Pink wrote at age nine?

Family Portrait, about her parents' divorce, sat as a childhood poem for over a decade before she recorded it; her mother cried for four days when she heard it.

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

Just Like a Pill compares a painful relationship to a bad drug trip, something Pink said she knew first-hand from her wild teenage years.

Most of Pink's album Try This was co-written with the frontman of which punk band?

Rancid's Tim Armstrong wrote ten songs with Pink within two weeks, and he went on to produce most of the album as well.

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

Trouble began as a song her co-writer wrote for his own punk band's 2003 album; when the band left it off, the two of them reworked it for her.

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

Indigo Girls shared the politics of the song, an open letter to George W. Bush; Pink kept it from being a US single so it would not look like a publicity stunt.

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

Funhouse: the label feared the swearing would hurt sales, so she chose a name for her view that carnivals are supposed to be fun but are really kind of creepy.

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

Glitter in the Air: she refused to mime even while spinning upside down, and her label sent the song to radio as a single before the broadcast had ended.

Which single from Pink's 2010 greatest-hits album became her third Hot 100 No. 1?

Raise Your Glass came after two years on the road without writing: she wanted a song about underdogs and called it a celebration and a thank-you to her fans.

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

The Truth About Love was her first album as a mother: she recorded it on weekday shifts, with breaks built in to nurse her baby and eat dinner.

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

Lily Allen appears on it as Lily Rose Cooper, her married name and the first time she had recorded under it; she went back to Allen for her next album.

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

City and Colour is the name Dallas Green records under; once he and Pink got into a studio together, they wrote and recorded almost the whole album in about a week.

What did Pink hand out free at two Florida concerts in 2023 as a protest?

Banned books: with the free-speech group PEN America she gave away 2,000 copies of four titles pulled from school shelves, among them Toni Morrison's Beloved and Amanda Gorman's inauguration poem.

On The Greatest Showman: Reimagined, Pink sang which song, with her eldest child performing its reprise?

A Million Dreams: its writers, Benj Pasek and Justin Paul, went on to work with Pink herself, co-writing the title song of her 2021 documentary.

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

Chris Stapleton sings on it but had no hand in writing it: Pink wrote it with Nashville's Allen Shamblin and Tom Douglas, then performed it with him at the 2019 CMA Awards.

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

Roller skating got her through the crowd and onto the stage to open the show; later that night she returned to sing a tribute to Olivia Newton-John.

As a young teenager, Pink joined an R&B vocal group that shared its name with which 1992 thriller?

Basic Instinct had a record deal with MCA and plenty of studio time, but the group fell apart within about two years without releasing anything.

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

Most Girls was written and produced by Babyface, her label's co-founder; Pink had little say over that debut album and fought for control of the next one.

Pink had a cameo in which 2003 film, whose theme song "Feel Good Time" she also sang?

Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle got a song that Beck had co-written with William Orbit as a track of his own, before it passed to Pink for the film.

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

Her father, Jim Moore, wrote it while serving in Vietnam; as a girl she sang it with him at veterans' centres, and it was the first song she ever learned.

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

I Hate Myself for Loving You was reworked as the theme Pink sang for the 2006 season before Faith Hill took over; in 2019 Joan Jett herself joined Carrie Underwood to perform it.

Which 2006 Pink video has her playing both an angel and a demon fighting over a child's future?

Stupid Girls mocked celebrity culture: Pink parodies stars such as Lindsay Lohan in it, and the girl at its centre ends up choosing a football and a keyboard over a set of dolls.

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

Whataya Want from Me was cut because Pink felt it did not fit her album's theme; it earned Adam Lambert a Grammy nomination, and she released her own version in 2010.

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

Misery has an obsessed fan holding her favourite author captive; in the video Pink nurses her boyfriend after his fall down the stairs, then takes a golf club to his leg to keep him there.

On her 2009 Australian tour, which city did Pink play more often than any other?

Melbourne: Australian demand for tickets was so strong that shows kept being added at Rod Laver Arena until she had played seventeen nights there.

Which rapper featured Pink on his 2010 track "Won't Back Down"?

Eminem recorded his own parts first and then decided Pink would "smash this record"; his producer said a different guest had been on the song until then.

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

Thanks for Sharing casts her as Dede, a member of a recovery group who befriends a struggling newcomer, helps him clean up his home and burns his porn with him.

Which 2017 single did Pink write as a protest song addressed to those in power?

What About Us went on to top Billboard's Adult Pop chart, though Pink said her label had warned her that radio probably would not play a female pop star over 35.

Which album opened with 408,000 US units in 2017, Pink's biggest first week to that point?

Beautiful Trauma got a lift from her tour: the price of the CD was bundled into every ticket sold online for her US and Canadian dates.

Which folk-rock band joins Pink on the Trustfall track "Long Way to Go"?

The Lumineers' singer Wesley Schultz shares the lead vocal with her on the ballad, from an album Pink made while mourning a death in her family.

Pink topped the country chart in 2016 as the guest on "Setting the World on Fire" by which star?

Kenny Chesney pushed his album back from July to October 2016, two days before it was due out, so that the duet with her could go on it.

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

Dolly Parton had at first turned the nomination down, believing the hall was for rock musicians, then agreed to accept; Pink did the honours at the ceremony.

Pink's "Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken" was originally written for which 2015 film?

Suffragette, about British women's fight for the vote, was the film she wrote it for; she later sang it at the 2018 Grammys beside a sign-language interpreter.

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

Gymnastics filled eight years of her childhood and fed her Olympic fantasies, until, she says, she was kicked out for having a "nonteamlike attitude".

The first released recording by Pink, made with her teenage trio, was on the soundtrack of which 1996 family comedy?

Kazaam starred Shaquille O'Neal as a genie; its soundtrack carried "Key to My Heart", which outlived the trio, whose own album never came out.

Which Pink single flopped in the US in 2006 but went top ten on its re-release?

Who Knew mourns a friend she lost to a drug overdose in her teens; US radio only came round to it after "U + Ur Hand" became a hit.

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

Logic adds a rap to the remake, which opens the album and has Elton John himself joining in on a tribute to his own song.

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

Herbie Hancock made the song the centrepiece of his album The Imagine Project, in a version inspired by the Congolese group Konono No. 1.

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

Mean Girls plays it over a montage of Cady getting ready for the Mathletes final while the others dress up for the Spring Fling dance.

Which 1960s rock singer does Pink name as a major influence, saluting her in the song "Unwind"?

Janis Joplin was a fellow rebel outsider: Pink said "Unwind" is about being tough on the outside and vulnerable on the inside, and that she was describing herself too.

Pink's documentary All I Know So Far builds to her shows at which stadium?

Wembley Stadium is where the film's road leads: Pink toured Europe's stadiums with her two young children in tow. The Greatest Showman's Michael Gracey directed the film.

Pink named her wine label after a parable about which pair of animals?

Two Wolves comes from a tale, often told as a Cherokee legend, in which the wolf that wins is 'the one you feed'. Pink is the estate's own winemaker, having studied the craft at UC Davis.

Which star appears in the sky above Pink in the music video for 'All I Know So Far'?

Cher and Pink had history: Pink wrote two songs for Cher's 2013 album Closer to the Truth and sang backing vocals on one of them.

Pink won her first talent show singing 'Oh Father', a ballad by which pop star?

Madonna loomed so large that Pink says she went a year without speaking to her mother, convinced she had been adopted and was really Madonna's child.

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

The X Games in Philadelphia brought them together in 2001. Four years later it was Pink who did the proposing, in the middle of one of Hart's races.

When Carey Hart rode past Pink's pit-board marriage proposal, her second message said she was what?

Serious! was the gist of her second message, reported as 'I'm serious!'. Hart pulled off the track in the middle of a final, letting his rivals pass, and picked her up.

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

Tell Me Something Good was only her first visit to the franchise: for Happy Feet Two, Pink took over the voice of Gloria from the late Brittany Murphy and sang the film's theme.

Which royal did Pink scold over hunting in a 2003 letter about his 21st birthday party?

Prince William was asked to tell her why he hunted animals at all. She later wrote to his grandmother too, asking the Queen to stop the Guards wearing real bearskin caps.

Before UNICEF named her an ambassador in 2015, Pink saw its malnutrition work in which country?

Haiti is where she watched packets of therapeutic food treat severely malnourished children. On her 2023 US tour, every merchandise stand carried a code for donating to UNICEF.

A 2002 Bally gym class was named after which Pink hit?

Get the Party Started became 'Get Your Body Started' in Bally's gyms. The chain also sponsored her tour and ran dance contests at in-club 'Pink Parties'.