PinkPantheress makes history by winning Brit Award for best producer
The pop star is the first woman to be named best producer since the award was created in 1977.
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PinkPantheress makes history by winning Brit Award for best producer 12 minutes ago Share Save Mark Savage Music correspondent Share Save Pop star PinkPantheress has been named producer of the year by the Brit Awards ahead of this weekend's ceremony. The 24-year-old, whose hits include Illegal, Stateside and Boy's A Liar, is the first woman to be given the prize since its inception in 1977. "I guess it's bittersweet that I'm the first one, the first woman, to get it," she told BBC News. "As young as I am, it feels almost a bit crazy. Like, I'm not really legendary enough to be receiving it - but you know, I will definitely take it!" Previous winners of the prize include the Beatles' producer Sir George Martin, Trevor Horn, Brian Eno, the Eurythmics' David Stewart, Calvin Harris and Chase & Status. Until now, Kate Bush was the only other female producer to have been nominated, for her 1989 album The Sensual World. "That's not great," said PinkPantheress, describing the lack of former female winners as "crazy". The musician is also the youngest ever recipient of the prize, which comes just five years after she posted the lo-fi breakout tracks Break it Off and Pain on TikTok. Written in the dead of night in her university room, they were rooted in the sounds of UK garage and drum and bass, and the buzz earned her the BBC's Sound of 2022 award . Since then, she's racked up over one billion streams and scored a major worldwide hit with 2023's Boy's a Liar, Pt. 2 . Last year's punchy, sample-heavy mixtape Fancy That became her first top 10 album and was nominated for the Mercury Prize. Unusually, her unique production style, full of skittering breakbeats and sugar strand melodies, is entirely self-taught. "When I was 17, I was at a girl's school and I had a friend who was a singer, and she wanted someone to produce for her. And I was like, 'I'll do it'," she recalls. She learned the basics by watching YouTube tutorials, taking inspiration from female artists such as Nia A...
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