Pink
Pink, at only 21, is the latest R&B/pop artist to emerge from the hugely successful LaFace / Arista Records camp. "From skateboarder to hip-hopper to rave child to lead singer of a rock band; I did it all, and all at the same time."

Looking at Pink, it’s easy to believe that she skillfully mastered each of her extremes, with a shock of pink hair, sharply focused blue eyes hinting of a rebellious streak and an abundance of self-confidence.

But, she is also a bewildered girl who is just now finding her place on this planet, a strong person with a million lessons to teach and even more to learn. She’s seen a lot, and now stands on the fault line between the angst of adolescence and the knowledge of adulthood.

And thus, Pink is filled with self-discovery. Having written over half of the dozen songs on her debut album, Can’t Take Me Home; Pink offers an insight into her tumultuous world where life is not always flowers and chocolate.

It was the emergence of Pink’s powerful soprano, which is capable of taking sharp dives and hairpin turns through multiple octaves. "I had gotten really good at emulating other people’s sounds, from singing at the clubs," she says.

"But the day we recorded, There You Go for Choice in the studio, that song just exploded. It just came out and shocked me."

Pink began writing songs to display her vocal ability and love for the pop side of R&B at a feverish pace. When she approached L.A. Reid with her songs, he was floored. "I kept playing him my songs and going, ‘What about this one? What about these?’", she remembers.

"And he was like, ‘Yeah, I like that one, yeah that’s a single. He looked at me as a self-contained unit, which he thought was interesting. It’s always been really cool with him." Reid signed Pink up as a solo artist and hooked her up with various writing partners – from Babyface to 112.

With the debut single, There You Go, reaching Gold status, the debut album surpassing Platinum and the second single Most Girls, sending radio stations crazy, Pink has undoubtedly placed herself on the map.