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Victoria Beverley Walker (born 19 April 2001), known professionally as PinkPantheress, is a British singer-songwriter and record producer. She is known for her diaristic lyrics and eclectic mix of genres including alternative pop, drum and bass and UK garage, often sampling music from the 1990s and 2000s. She was named Producer of the Year by Billboard Women in Music in 2024, and received accolades such as nominations for three Brit Awards and two Grammy Awards.
PinkPantheress's debut studio album, Heaven Knows (2023), spawned the UK top-20 song "Nice to Meet You" and the remix single "Boy's a Liar Pt. 2" with American rapper Ice Spice, which peaked at number three on the Billboard Hot 100. Heaven Knows was accompanied by her headlining Capable of Love Tour the following year. Her second mixtape, Fancy That (2025), earned two Grammy nominations and spawned the UK top-40 singles "Tonight" and "Illegal".
Walker took piano lessons as a child, and, at age 12, sang "Stand by Me" by Ben E. King at a school talent show. When she was 14 years old, she became the lead singer in a rock band, which covered songs by My Chemical Romance, Paramore, and Green Day, and performed with them for the first time at a school fête.[15][18][20]
Walker started writing music in high school to help a friend before eventually writing music on her own.[13] At age 17, she began using GarageBand to produce instrumentals for her friend, fellow singer Mazz, and she later used GarageBand to record many of her early songs while lying down in her university hall late at night.[7][22][23] She started uploading original songs of hers to SoundCloud as PinkPantheress, where they received little attention.[citation needed] After a video posted to her personal TikTok account in December 2020 received over 500 thousand likes, she posted a snippet of her song "Just a Waste", which used the instrumental from Michael Jackson's song "Off the Wall", as PinkPantheress later that month in the hopes of reaching a wider audience; the snippet soon went viral on the platform.[16][20][24]
Two of PinkPantheress's songs, the Adam F-sampling "Break It Off" and the Sweet Female Attitude-sampling "Pain", went viral on TikTok in early 2021, with the latter peaking at number 35 on the UK Singles Chart in August of that year.[7][25][26] She was signed to Parlophone in April 2021. In June 2021, she was featured on GoldLink's song "Evian" from his studio album Haram! and signed to Elektra Records.[27][28][5] When a snippet of her song "Just for Me", produced by Mura Masa, gained attention on TikTok, she released it in August 2021, along with a music video co-directed by her and released the following month.[29] On the UK Singles Chart, it peaked at number 27, making it her highest entry on the UK Singles Chart at the time.[30][31] It earned PinkPantheress nominations for an iHeartRadio Music Award, an Ivor Novello Award, and two NME Awards.[32][33][34] In early October 2021, she announced the release date and title of her debut mixtape, To Hell with It, which was released on 15 October 2021 through Parlophone and Elektra Records and debuted at number 20 on the UK Albums Chart.[35][36] The mixtape was preceded by "Pain", "Break It Off", and "Just for Me" as singles, as well as "Passion", released in July 2021, and "I Must Apologise", released in October 2021.[2][4][37] PinkPantheress performed live for the first time in October and November 2021 in London.[38][39]
2022–2024: Heaven Knows and mainstream breakthrough
PinkPantheress performing on the Capable of Love Tour in 2024
In October 2023, PinkPantheress announced her debut album, Heaven Knows, which was released on 10 November 2023.[68] "Mosquito", the album's lead single, was released in September, followed by the singles "Capable of Love" and "Nice to Meet You" in October and November, respectively.[69][70] That same month, she announced the Capable of Love Tour for the UK and Europe, spanning from February to April 2024, with North American dates added later in November.[71][72] The North American leg was produced by Live Nation.[73][74] In February 2024, she was honored as Producer of the Year by Billboard Women in Music.[75] She performed as an opener on Olivia Rodrigo's Guts World Tour in the summer of 2024 until announcing the cancellation of all of her remaining live performances in August of that year, citing health reasons.[76][77] She was featured on a remix of K-pop group Le Sserafim's song "Crazy" released in September 2024.[78]
2025–present: Fancy That
In January 2025, PinkPantheress was featured on Shygirl's single "True Religion" alongside Isabella Lovestory.[79] Her first solo single of 2025, "Tonight", was released in April with a Regency–inspired music video.[80][81] Her second mixtape, Fancy That, was released on 9 May 2025, with "Tonight" as its lead single.[82] She was featured on Danny L Harle's song "Starlight" released 8 July 2025[83] and was featured on Yves's single "Soap" which released on 7 August 2025.[84] On 10 October 2025, she released the remix mixtape Fancy Some More?, which features several artists.[85][86] In November 2025, she received a nomination for the Grammy Award for Best Dance Pop Recording for "Illegal" and Best Dance Electronic Album for Fancy That.[87] That same month, she appeared on Benee's sophomore album Ur an Angel I'm Just Particles as a 'secret feature' on "Princess", which she also helped write.[88][89] It was announced by FKA Twigs that PinkPantheress would be featured in her album Eusexua Afterglow as a collaboration for 'Wild and Alone', which released on 14 November 2025.[90]
Artistry
Influences
PinkPantheress has called Paramore lead vocalist Hayley Williams (pictured) a "big influence" on her music and stated that she is "doing music because of ".
PinkPantheress's music has been described as R&B,[1]bedroom pop,[97][2]pop,[3]dance,[4]alt-pop,[98][9]drum and bass,[5]2-step,[6]jungle, and hyperpop,[7] and often uses samples of other songs, such as dance music from the 1990s and 2000s and jungle, funk, UK garage, and pop songs.[94][99][8] PinkPantheress uses topline writing to write her songs, which are frequently self-produced and short in length.[27][100] She has attributed the shorter length of her songs, which customarily range from two to three minutes long, to her belief that a song does not need to be longer than two minutes and thirty seconds or to have a bridge, a repeated verse, or an extended outro.[101] She has described her own music as alt-pop and "a form of D'n'B that's acceptable to listen to at home",[19] and has stated that she writes "sadder", "dark" lyrics to "appeal to the youth",[102] often to contrast them with her "happy instrumentals".[103] PinkPantheress has said that her lyrics are usually not based on personal experiences, stating, "A lot of it just comes because I really like storytelling."[20] Her views on music, including on song lengths and her stating that she does not listen to albums in full, have prompted criticism and discussion on social media.[104][105]
NPR's Vanessa Handy called breakbeat loops a "signature of work",[106] while Kieran Press-Reynolds of Insider also wrote that her songs regularly have "fast-paced breakbeats" and "ASMR-like refrains".[107]Rolling Stone's Keegan Brady described PinkPantheress's music as "alt-girl rap" and wrote that she uses "confessional, almost treacly rap-singing" and "dated production technology" in her songs which "tap into a deeply nostalgic sound that conjures the height of Nineties U.K. culture".[8]DIY's Georgia Evans called her "DIY aesthetic that started as GarageBand experimentation" a signature of her music.[93]
The Guardian's Michael Cragg described PinkPantheress's vocals as "sweet but unsettling",[3] while Jon Caramanica of The New York Times wrote that she "sounds like she's flirting and aching all at once."[108] Cat Zhang of Pitchfork called PinkPantheress's voice "angelic", "girlish", and "slight" and wrote that she was "one of the rare TikTok artists whose internet fame seems proportional to their potential".[99] Felicity Martin of Dazed called her lyrics "sad" and "wistful".[22] Writing for Nylon, Steffanee Wang called her music "a collage of sounds that fell simultaneously dated and contemporary", adding that listening to it "feels like being on the internet before social media was a thing".[109]Insider's Kieran Press-Reynolds wrote that PinkPantheress gave up-tempo electronic music genres like drum and bass an "introspective, romantic bedroom sound" with her "hushed" vocals.[107]
Personal life
Walker has discussed experiencing body dysmorphia from a young age.[52] She also suffers from hearing loss, which initially began as tinnitus, from exposure to loud microphone feedback. She reported being 80% deaf in her right ear in 2022 and has described voices as sounding "mostly like bass".[50][110][111] On 22 July 2025, Walker received an honorary doctorate in Music from the University of Kent.[112]
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