PinkPantheress (born 2001) is an English singer, songwriter, and record producer. In 2021, while attending university in London, she posted several songs to TikTok that went viral, including "Break It Off", and she subsequently signed to Parlophone and Elektra Records. Her singles "Pain" and "Just for Me" peaked in the top 40 of the UK Singles Chart. Her debut mixtape, To Hell with It (2021) debuted at number 20 on the UK Albums Chart. 　　Early life 　　PinkPantheress was born in 2001 in Bath, England, to a Kenyan mother, who works as a carer, and a white English father, who works as a statistic professor. She has one older brother, who works as an audio engineer. When she was five years old, her family moved from Bath to Kent, where she grew up.Her father moved to the United States to work at a university in Austin, Texas when she was 12 years old, while she and her mother stayed in England. She took piano lessons as a child, and, at age 12, sang "Stand by Me" by Ben E. King at a school talent show. In her early teens, she was 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.She began working at around age 13, taking jobs at Marks & Spencer, Claire's, and the Co-op as a teenager. She studied film at University of the Arts London until 2022, when she dropped out. 　　Career 　　While attending secondary school in Kent, she started writing music to help a friend before eventually writing music on her own. 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. She started uploading original songs of hers to SoundCloud, where they received little attention. After a video posted to her personal TikTok account received over 500,000 likes, she began posting her songs on the platform as PinkPantheress in the hopes of reaching a wider audience. 　　A snippet of her song "Just a Waste", posted in December 2020, went viral on TikTok. In January 2021, her single "Pain" gained attention on TikTok, and later peaked at number 35 on the UK Singles Chart. Her breakout single "Break It Off" went viral on TikTok, and she was subsequently signed to Parlophone Records and Elektra Records. She released her song "Passion" in February 2021.She was featured on GoldLink's song "Evian" from his studio album Haram! in June 2021.After a snippet of her song "Just for Me" went viral on TikTok, she released it in August 2021. It peaked at number 27 on the UK Singles Chart, making it her second top-40 and her highest entry on the chart. A music video for the song was released in September 2021 and co-directed by PinkPantheress.In early October 2021, she announced the release date and title of her debut mixtape, To Hell with It. Her song "I Must Apologise" was also released in October 2021.To Hell With It was released on October 15, 2021 through Parlophone and Elektra Records. It debuted at number 20 on the UK Albums Chart. 　　PinkPantheress appeared on Billboard's 21 Under 21 list for 2021. In October 2021, she modeled for Marc Jacobs's Heaven collection and starred in the short documentary film Feast on This as part of Spotify's Radar series. She also performed live for the first time as PinkPantheress in October and November 2021 at three shows throughout London. In January 2022, she was announced as the winner of BBC's Sound of 2022 poll. In January 2022, she released a remix album of To Hell with It.She was nominated for the Brit Award for Song of the Year at the 42nd Brit Awards for "Obsessed With You" by Central Cee, which sampled her song "Just for Me", and performed a virtual concert in Roblox for the Brit Awards. She appeared on the song "Bbycakes" with Mura Masa, Lil Uzi Vert, and Shygirl in February 2022. 　　In April 2022, PinkPantheress will go on a European tour in support of To Hell with It. She will be featured on "Tinkerbell is Overrated", a song from Beabadoobee's upcoming sophomore album, Beatopia, scheduled for release in July 2022. She is also scheduled to perform as an opening act on Halsey's upcoming Love and Power Tour throughout the spring of 2022.