PinkPantheress

Victoria Beverley Walker (born 19 April 2001), known professionally as PinkPantheress, is a British singer-songwriter and record producer. Her songs are known for their use of samples and their diaristic lyrics.

Born in Bath, Somerset, and raised in Kent, PinkPantheress began her musical career in 2021 while attending university in London, where she produced songs using GarageBand and posted them on SoundCloud and TikTok. Several of them, including "Break It Off", became popular on TikTok, and she signed to Parlophone and Elektra Records and released her debut mixtape To Hell with It later that year. She won BBC's Sound of 2022 poll after the singles "Just for Me" and "Pain" peaked in the top 40 of the UK Singles Chart. Her 2022 single "Boy's a Liar" reached number two in the UK.

PinkPantheress's debut studio album, Heaven Knows (2023), spawned the UK top-20 song "Nice to Meet You" and the single "Boy's a Liar Pt. 2"—a remix of 2022's "Boy's a Liar" 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), spawned the UK top-40 singles "Tonight" and "Illegal" .

PinkPantheress has been nominated for three Brit Awards and was named Producer of the Year by Billboard Women in Music in 2024. Her songs, which are frequently short in length and include samples of music from the 1990s and 2000s, span a number of genres, including alt-pop, bedroom pop, drum and bass, and 2-step garage.

Early life
Victoria Beverley Walker was born on 19 April 2001 in Bath, Somerset, to a Kenyan Luo mother from Kisumu, who works as a carer, and an English father, who works as a professor of statistics. She has one older brother, who works as an audio engineer. She is related to English chess player Susan Lalic, with her mentioning that "my family are all chess players." When she was five years old, her family moved from Bath to Canterbury, 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 the United Kingdom.

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.

She studied film at the University of the Arts London until 2022, when she dropped out.

Career
2019–2021: Career beginnings and To Hell with It
Walker started writing music in high school 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 as PinkPantheress, where they received little attention. 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.

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. 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. After 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. On the UK Singles Chart, it peaked at number 27, making it her highest entry on the UK Singles Chart at the time. It earned PinkPantheress nominations for an iHeartRadio Music Award, an Ivor Novello Award, and two NME Awards. 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. 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. PinkPantheress performed live for the first time in October and November 2021 in London.

2022–present: Breakthrough, Heaven Knows, and Fancy That

In January 2022, PinkPantheress was announced as the winner of BBC's Sound of 2022 poll. That same month, she released a remix album for 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 gave a virtual performance on Roblox for the Brit Awards. She appeared on the song "Bbycakes" with Mura Masa, Lil Uzi Vert, and Shygirl in February 2022, and released her song "Where You Are" featuring Willow in April 2022. That same month, PinkPantheress went on a European tour in support of To Hell with It. She was featured on "Tinkerbell is Overrated", a song from Beabadoobee's second album, Beatopia, released in July 2022. She performed as an opening act on Halsey's Love and Power Tour throughout the spring of 2022 on the American leg. In June 2022, she cancelled her scheduled appearance at the Primavera Sound festival in Barcelona due to hearing loss.

PinkPantheress's single "Picture in My Mind" featuring Sam Gellaitry was released in August 2022. Her extended play Take Me Home was released in December 2022, featuring the singles "Boy's a Liar" and "Do You Miss Me", both released a month prior, and the title track. "Way Back", her collaborative single with Skrillex and Trippie Redd, was released in January 2023 and included on Skrillex's album Don't Get Too Close the following month. In February 2023, she released a remix of "Boy's a Liar", "Boy's a Liar Pt. 2", with American rapper Ice Spice. After becoming popular on TikTok, the remix debuted at number 14 on the Billboard Hot 100, becoming her first song to appear on the chart, and later peaked at number three. It also peaked at number two on the UK Singles Chart, where it became her highest-charting single. It was certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), marking her first RIAA certification, and was nominated for two BET Awards, an MTV EMA, and a Streamy Award. "Angel", her addition to the soundtrack for the Greta Gerwig–directed 2023 film Barbie, was released as a single in June 2023. Her collaborative single "Turn Your Phone Off" with Destroy Lonely was released in July 2023, and she was featured alongside Hyunjin of the K-pop group Stray Kids on a remix of the Troye Sivan song "Rush" in August 2023.

In October 2023, PinkPantheress announced her debut album, Heaven Knows, which was released on 10 November 2023. The lead single from the album, "Mosquito", was released in September, followed by the singles "Capable of Love" and "Nice to Meet You" in October and November, respectively. That same month, she announced the Capable of Love Tour for the United Kingdom and Europe, spanning from February–April 2024, with North American dates added later on in November. The North American leg was produced by Live Nation. In February 2024, she was honored as Producer of the Year by Billboard Women in Music. 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. She was featured on a remix of K-pop group Le Sserafim's song "Crazy" released in September 2024.

In January 2025, PinkPantheress was featured on Shygirl's single "True Religion" alongside Isabella Lovestory. Her first solo single of 2025, "Tonight", was released in April with a Regency–inspired music video. Her second mixtape, Fancy That, was released on 9 May 2025, with "Tonight" as its lead single. She was featured on Danny L Harle's song "Starlight" released 8 July 2025 and was featured on Yves's single "Soap" which released on August 7, 2025.