This article originally appeared in the Spring 2025 Pink Issue of Showstopper Magazine.
Stepping into some people’s shoes about knowing their preferences or their routines. For pop royalty like P!nk, it’s about being completely engaged and committed to the idea or performance. Since she made her debut in 2000, P!nk has worked to fearlessly connect, share, and grow while the world watches.
Hands-On and Full-On
Performing at red carpet events and touring around the world have changed P!nk’s life over the last two decades. She shared with People that her life is often a cycle of touring, returning home to write an album, pre-tour prep, and repeat. But her life changes. She picks up new skills and connects with the people she meets on tour.
In fact, touring is one part of her routine that she finds therapeutic, despite the intense work that goes into it. “Shows are like group counseling. It’s like group therapy. We all come for the same exorcism.” P!nk explained the mental health benefits of touring on 60 Minutes. She says touring isn’t totally about her. She wants to be authentic and inspirational in her ability to encourage people to be themselves. “I am always the same person, but now I have to remember that I’m speaking to a larger group,” she told Zane Lowe in her Apple Music interview about Trustfall.
Defying Gravity
To put on a show, P!nk dives deep into creating an exciting performance that is “at the end of the day about the music,” as she told Zane Lowe, while incorporating incredible visuals that bring her ideas and energy to life. On her Trustfall Tour and her 2024 Summer Carnival, P!nk shows off her aerial skills.
Gravity-defying moments require a lot of work. P!nk did not formally train in acrobatics or dance as a child, but she is a dedicated learner as an adult. She trains with aerial coach Drey Weber saved my life in many ways because back then I was rock and roll, Janis Joplin…” P!nk explained on 60 Minutes Overtime. Her too-cool-for-school attitude wasn’t sustainable or compatible with death-defying stunts. “…Dreya said if I teach you this and pass this onto you, you can never ever ever drink again before a show ever. You can never ever ever not think about what you do and respect it for the craft that it is.” P!nk knows cool better than most, but she values artistry and safety.
Family Adventures
Day to day, P!nk might be a pop star, but she doesn’t place herself above anyone else. She regularly finds herself inspired by the skills and talents of others. This is obvious in the way she approaches her performances, learning choreography for dance, aerial silks, acrobatics, and roller skates. It is also clear in the ways she talks about the aspirations of her kids, Willow and Jameson.
In October 2024, P!nk went on a Broadway adventure with her daughter Willow who currently dreams of being a Broadway star. After seeing The Great Gatsby at the Broadway Theatre in New York City, they met the cast, including Gatsby himself, Jeremy Jordan. P!nk was inspired too. “I am so in awe of people that even want this,” she said. “It is such hard work, dedication, sacrifice…” P!nk knows skill and dedication when she sees it, and makes it a point to surround herself (and her family) with driven creatives.
Her Other Life
We know P!nk for her songs and live performances, but behind the scenes, she isn’t just writing music. In 2013, P!nk purchased an 18-acre vineyard. Now, time that isn’t spent on stage, in the studio, or with her family is spent farming, harvesting, and cultivating grapes for her brand Two Wolves.
Since purchasing the vineyard, the property has grown to 25 acres of organic-certified grapes. It has taken this time for P!nk to learn every step of the process. It seems the only thing she doesn’t like is the spiders. “There are a lot of spiders in our vineyard,” she told Food & Wine. “That’s the worst part. I was like, ‘Oh, I can’t wait to foot-stomp my own grape.’ But the first opportunity I had, my assistant winemaker was like, ‘Get in there,’ and there were so many spiders. So I was like, ‘I think maybe we’ll just let it sit in the press.’”
Trustfall
Coming up on her own, P!nk fought for her career and her brand. She says this determination helped her build a great touring and management team that she knows she can rely on. “We’re a small village, and we’re all different…” she said of her road team. “We love each other. We fight, we argue and we work hard and we play hard and we love each other. We’re family, and it works. It’s beautiful.”
Her 2023 album Trustfall is access to P!nk’s everyday feelings from loss to excitement to change. “I like to be uncomfortable. I like to sing,” she told Zane Lowe. Exploring emotion and being honest are just a day in P!nk’s life. They come naturally to her, and she encourages that exploration in others. You can see this in her genre-hopping collaborations on the album. “I think it’s awesome that I can be this pop star, the polarizing pop star, that then is like, ‘Hey Lumineers, do you guys wanna do a song?’ They’re like, ‘Yeah cool.’ I’m like, ‘Awesome!’ ‘Stapleton, you wanna sing a song?’ He’s like, ‘Absolutely.’ . . and Eminem and everything in between.”
Day to day, P!nk is simultaneously ordinary and anything but. She knows how to balance extreme training, passion, and a never-ending interest in the world with her own feelings. This makes people trust and admire her, and it makes her the truest embodiment of her own namesake, pink, a complicated color that changes meaning and impact from one shade to the next.