
Person in history
PinkPantheress
PinkPantheress, British singer-songwriter and record producer
Life at a glance
- Born
- 2001 · April 19
- Age this year
- 25No death recorded in our data
- Known as
- songwriter, record producer, singer, musician, and singer-songwriter. Citizenship: United Kingdom
- Born
- 25th anniversary of their birth this year
Their story
Who they were
Personal life Walker has discussed experiencing body dysmorphia from a young age. [ 1 ] She also has 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". [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Walker has spoken about her struggles with OCD . She has been diagnosed with primarily obsessional obsessive–compulsive disorder . [ 5 ] ^ Campbell,
Victoria Beverley Walker, known professionally as PinkPantheress, is a British singer-songwriter and record producer. Her music blends styles such as R&B, drum and bass, UK garage, house, and alternative pop, often sampling music from the 1990s and 2000s and featuring affable stream-of-consciousness lyrics. She has been honored with several accolades, making history as the youngest person and first woman to be awarded Brit Award for British Producer of the Year.
Early life
Early life and education Victoria Beverley Walker [ 1 ] was born on 19 April 2001 [ 2 ] [ 3 ] in Bath, Somerset, [ 4 ] to a Luo mother from Kisumu , Kenya, [ 5 ] who works as a carer , and an English father, a statistics professor. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] She has a brother who works as an audio engineer . [ 8 ] Walker is the niece of English chess player Susan Lalic . [ 9 ] Walker has said that her "family are all chess players",
Path and career
Career 2019–2021: To Hell with It Walker started writing music in secondary school to help a friend before eventually writing music on her own. [ 1 ] 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. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] She started uploading original songs of hers to SoundCloud as PinkPantheress.
Why this date
PinkPantheress appears on our April 19 calendar for 2001 as a birth entry.
The world when they were born
Other entries we record for 2001.
- September 15Championship Auto Racing Teams
- September 17New York Stock Exchange
- September 18Anthrax
- September 17George W. Bush
- November 1Turkey
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Sources
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“PinkPantheress”, What's On This Date, https://whatsonthisdate.com/app/people/pinkpantheress, accessed October 28, 2026.
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Questions about PinkPantheress
When was PinkPantheress born?
April 19 2001.
How old would PinkPantheress be today?
25 this year, based on the birth year we hold. We have no death record for them in our data, which is not proof either way.
Who else was born on April 19?
Lise Klaveness, Joe Hart, Ali Wong and others — the list is on this page and on the date page.
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